A saxophone apparently autographed by former president Bill Clinton is one of the highlights of a massive collectables auction being held by the US Marshals Service starting Friday.
It's clear by the increasing use of analytics software that companies are struggling to get their hands around the huge amounts of data it takes to run a successful business. But developing social, mobile, cloud computing and other applications are also driving the need for new technical...
Almost seven of 10 households in the United States subscribe to broadband service while 68% of American households used broadband Internet in 2010, up from 64% in 2009 and only 3% of households still rely on dial-up access to the Internet in 2010, down from 5 percent in 2009.Those were but a few of the...
If you needed any more evidence the mobile world is just exploding look no further than an IBM study out this week that says during this year's holiday season an unprecedented 15% of people in the US logging onto a retailer's Web site are expected to do so through a mobile device.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is embarking on a tour of three major universities that will take him to Harvard on Nov. 7, the school where he created the famous web site then dropped out of and moved the operation to Silicon Valley in 2004.
IBM is taking its Watson supercomputer on the road and its first stop will be Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management where some of the country's brightest upcoming business minds will take their shots at the smart Big Blue computer.
When I think if the United States Air Force I don't typically think of it worrying too much about the human psyche. But in this case, the Air Force says it wants to begin studies that look at the psychological, neurological, or contextual elements of human reliance on autonomous systems....
ORLANDO -- As much as 50% of company Web sales will come through social and mobile applications by 2015, according to Gartner.The increase will come as e-commerce vendors offer new context-aware, mobile-based applications. Online sales increases will also be partly as companies move aggressively...
Research out of the UK today says that perhaps as many as 200,00 people in that country have been victims of online romance scams and the same study says over 1 million people personally know someone who has been scammed by one of these heartless fraudsters.
After arguing in court over privacy concerns from the sale of bankrupt Borders customer loyalty database to Barnes & Nobel, the lawyers in the case agreed to email customers and give them 15 days to opt out of the system.
NASA today said it would host an open source-based application competition that it hopes will deliver a new generation of software that can address space, weather and economic issues.NASA said it will coordinate with other interested space agencies around the world on an International...
It may be one the oldest, most basic components of software code but the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want to develop what they call revolutionary technologies for analyzing, identifying, and slicing binary executable components.
In its 90th year of existence, the famed White Castle fast-food restaurant has moved online with an Internet-based ordering system for cities in New York and New Jersey to Illinois. The company has 400 locations in seven states.
When it comes to protecting personal privacy on the Internet the United States and European Union have often clashed. And it's likely the future won't be much better. But officials from both sides of the ocean say they are now committed to fixing the problems that have kept the two worlds - which some...
An aggressive debt collection agency that took money from customer accounts without permision, used abusive language when it called and falsely claimed that consumers would be sued, arrested, or have their property seized for nonpayment of their debt has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $2.8 million...
With the advent of a host of new or advanced technologies ranging from mobile communications to online data management, available to debt collection companies, the Federal Trade Commission is out to make sure those companies aren't abusing their place in the business world.
When it comes to protecting the US family jewels - high-tech data on everything from aeronautics, information systems and electronics to lasers and unmanned aerial vehicles -- parts of the government tasked with protecting those assets need to do a way better job.
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