There isnt even an official standard for DDR4, the next generation of computer memory technology. But memory manufacturers are already shipping samples of the first DDR4 memory units, and preparing t...
Five years ago, the social gaming company Zynga was cruising along with a fairly standard IT infrastructure. Servers were racked and stacked in a retail data center where Zynga rented space. Customer...
A recent report from the Congressional Research Office (PDF) suggests that Chinas restrictive policy on rare earth mineral exports isnt going to change anytime soon. The report comes on the...
This summer, Microsoft is launching a new green energy initiative in which all of the companys direct operations, "including data centers, software development labs, air travel, and office buildi...
The federal judge hearing a Massachusetts file-sharing case has struck down a proposal to send all defendants a notice urging them to contact the plaintiff to work out a settlement. The move is yet a...
Many in and around the video game industry have long been concerned with the way many social games seem designed to encourage compulsive spending on digital gewgaws rather than strategic gameplay dec...
Twitter has asked a New York state judge to throw out a court order requiring it to turn over three months worth of messages posted by an Occupy Wall Street protester being prosecuted for disorderly ...
Dell has launched an experimental project called Sputnik to produce a Linux laptop that is tailored to meet the needs of software developers. The first stage of the project is a six-month exploratory...
Dajaz1, the hip hop blog whose domain was seized and then held for a year by the United States government before being returned without any charges filed, came out swinging against the government and...
The second phase of the Oracle v. Google trial got into full swing today, following yesterdays verdict, which left Oracle with a partial and inconclusive victory over Google. The subject matter has m...
Myspace has agreed to settle charges that it misled users about sharing their personal information with advertisers, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday. The FTC alleges that Myspace allow...
A US-based advertising firm has promised to stop bombarding Facebook users with fraudulent messages in exchange for Washington State officials dropping a lawsuit that claimed the practice violated a ...
Facebook users spend more time on the social network on their mobile phones, where monetization and revenue is far weaker than on the desktop site. According to digital analytics firm comScore, Faceb...
When race cars whiz around a track at 200 miles per hour, driving ability isn’t the only factor that determines who wins the race. Behind the scenes, in mobile data centers tucked into semis an...
Apple and Samsung have both filed motions offering to cut the number of asserted patent claims in half. The purpose of cutting the claims was to keep a proposed July 30 trial date for the companies f...
The iOS 5.1.1 update released on Monday doesnt just fix a handful of feature bugs—it also patches a security flaw that allowed an attacker to display the URL of one site in Mobile Safari while ...
AT&T has started to embrace the idea of shared family data plans, Ralph de la Vega, President and CEO of AT&T Mobility, told CNET on Tuesday. With this new interest, the company is playi...
The world inhabited by dinosaurs was typically a hot one, with high levels of greenhouse gasses, lots of water vapor, and no permanent ice sheets. And, according to a new estimate published in the jo...
An industry group that aims to make WiFi access from smartphones and other devices as simple as connecting to a cellular network will begin certifying WiFi network equipment and end-user devices for ...
Nine months ago, a tremendous controversy began with a simple e-mail: "Gentlemen, The BART Police require the M-Line wireless from the Trans Bay Tube Portal to the Balboa Park Station, to be shut...
It looks like the analysts were right in their suspicions that EA and Biowares The Old Republic MMO is already losing subscribers just a few months after its late 2011 launch. In an earnings report i...
On Monday, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles approved Google’s license application to test autonomous vehicles on the state’s roads. The state had approved such laws back in Februar...
A huge number of websites around the world are endangered by an unpatched vulnerability in the PHP scripting language that attackers are already trying to exploit to remotely take control of underlyi...
Prior to this spring, the Heartland Institute was a relatively obscure think tank that was primarily known for organizing an annual conference of people who take issue with mainstream climate science...
A security flaw in the most recent version of OS X Lion, 10.7.3, can allow anyone with access to system logs to gather passwords to decrypt legacy FileVault home directories or access remote home dir...
When we first heard rumors last week that Microsoft was planning to offer a cheap Xbox 360 and Kinect bundle to customers who committed to two years of a new monthly online service, we thought it had...
Say what you will about Kim Dotcom, but if there’s something that we (and the Feds) can probably agree on, it’s that he’s entertaining. After all, what other target of an internatio...
In what could be a major blow to Android, Googles mobile operating system, a San Francisco jury issued a verdict today that the company broke copyright laws when it used Java APIs to design the syste...
Another year, another complaint from Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) against Comcast and its merger with NBC Universal that was approved last year. Just as he did before, the senator—now in a lette...
Apple has released an update to iOS that fixes a number of minor (but annoying) bugs within the operating system. The update was just released on Monday afternoon (at least for those of us on the eas...
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