Getting a series of small satellites to communicate and act as one unit in space while taking commands from Earth-bound command centers is a gargantuan wireless task. But the researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are looking for technology that does just that.
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.
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...
ORLANDO - When you start off with this bit of information from Gartner: By 2015, 80% of newly installed wireless networks will be obsolete because of a lack of proper planning - you understand the challenges enterprises face in ramping up mobile environments.
In an agreement announced today with the Federal Trade Commission, peer-to-peer file-sharing developer Frostwire can no longer use default settings that share consumers' files, provide a free upgrade its software to correct unintended sharing and bars the firm from misrepresenting what files its applications...
Botnets are indeed one of the scourges of the Internet and the government in conjunction with public and private companies want to work together to wipe them out.The US departments of Commerce and Homeland Security (DHS) today discussed with other federal agencies and information technology-based private-sector...
Researchers says they have created a system that can boost battery life by 54% by better managing idle-"listening" times on smartphones or other wireless devices.
Talk about going extremely viral. Reports today from a number of outlets has Nigerian officials trying to quell public concern that by answering a certain phone number, cell phone users are killed.
It's not the first time we've heard this but it's always a little disconcerting especially from some one so closely involved with the security realm: A destructive attack from cyberspace "is coming, in my opinion. It is a question of time. What we don't know is how far out it is," and whether it will...
The US government and the National Science Foundation have announced a plan they say will go a long way toward building applications that can take advantage of ultrafast broadband networks.
The Federal Trade Commission today settled cases with two mobile companies who claimed their IPhone and Android smartphone apps could treat acne. The cases are the first the FTC says it has brought targeting mobile app health claims.
If you remember the "Dirty Harry" movie "Dead Pool" where a radio controlled corvette model car containing a bomb chases Harry around the streets of San Francisco and eventually detonates under his car destroying it, then you have the general idea of the technology a retired 66-year-old mechanical engineer...
The classic video game Doom can now be bought and played in Germany after a 17-year ban on the program.The German government agency that controls such things, the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons (Bundesprufstelle) had banned the video game 1994 saying it was "likely to harm youth."...
Researchers are touting a wireless skin-thin, microelectronic tattoo as an alternative to hard-wired electrodes for healthcare tests or monitoring and ultimately new applications such as electronic bandages.
The FBI said today it had arrested three mall cell phone kiosk workers for buying stolen iPhones and other Apple products and selling them for profit.The FBI said the arrests were based on an investigation of a large number of mobile devices stolen from riders of the region's mass transportation system,...
As cars and other forms of transportation increasingly rely on online systems for everything from safety to onboard entertainment, the cybersecurity threat from those who would exploit such electronic control packages has also
Given the current level of disarray and ineptitude of the elected officials in Washington DC right now this news probably shouldn't be all that shocking: Apple with its $76 billion in the bank has more cash than the US with its almost $74 billion.The news has prompted a variety of reactions.More...
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