Feb 17 - By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
A smiling former Goldman Sachs computer programmer was freed from prison Friday after a surprise ruling from a federal appeals court reversed his conviction on charges he stole computer code.
Feb 17 - By Associated Press
Clearwire Corp., which runs a wireless data network used mainly by Sprint customers, says it may need to raise more money because it doesn't know how much revenue it will be able to pull in from a fourth-generation mobile broadband network that it's building and from its existing mobile WiMAX Internet network after 2013.
Feb 16 - By Associated Press
A digital publisher being sued by HarperCollins over an electronic edition of Jean Craighead George's award-winning "Julie of the Wolves" has filed a statement in federal court saying it had "secured all necessary e-book rights."
Feb 16 - By Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer
Online review service Yelp rated its own business Thursday, setting an IPO target of $12 to $14 per share that could value the 7-year-old company as high as $840 million.
Feb 16 - By Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer
Buying ads on Twitter is about to get easier for small businesses as the online messaging service adds a key piece to its moneymaking model.
Feb 16 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Congressional negotiators have agreed on a $144 billion package that extends three major programs through the end of the year: a 2 percentage-point reduction in the Social Security payroll tax, federal unemployment benefits for the long-time unemployed and avoidance of a 27 percent cut in reimbursements for doctors treating Medicare patients.
Feb 16 - By Associated Press
Apple has asked online retailer Amazon.com to stop selling the iPad in China, according to a published report.
Feb 16 - By Anick Jesdanun, AP Technology Writer
My approach to tracking my spending has traditionally been to wait for credit card bills to come, then (hopefully) pay them off. Three new online services promise to help you do a better job of tracking as you buy.
Feb 16 - By Associated Press
Two businessmen have pleaded guilty in the illegal export of computer equipment to Iran.
Feb 16 - By Rodrique Ngowi, Associated Press
The FBI and Massachusetts police are trying to figure out who "hijacked" Facebook photos of teenage girls from more than a dozen high schools in the state and posted them on a website police say features child pornography.
Feb 16 - By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press
Cybersecurity experts urged senators Thursday to close loopholes in legislation to give the government more power to force critical industries to make their computer networks more secure.
Feb 16 - By Sandra Chereb, Associated Press
Nevada is envisioning a day when taxicabs might shuttle fares without a driver, or people with medical conditions that make them ineligible for a license could get around with a virtual chauffeur.
Feb 16 - By Joan Lowy, Associated Press
Auto dashboards are becoming an arcade of text messages, GPS images, phone calls and web surfing, the government says, and it's asking carmakers to curb those distractions when vehicles are moving.
Feb 16 - By Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer
Apple Inc. on Thursday released a developer preview of an update for the Mac operating system, dubbed "Mountain Lion," that will copy more features and apps from the iPhone and iPad to the Mac.
Feb 16 - By Don Melvin, Associated Press
A European Union court ruled Thursday that social networking sites cannot be compelled to install general filters to prevent the illegal trading of music and other copyrighted material.
Feb 15 - By Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer
Microsoft is hooking up MSN.com with a hipper sidekick to broaden its appeal and stay on top of the Internet's hottest topics.
Source: rdmag.com
Swiss scientists said Wednesday they plan to launch a "janitor satellite" specially designed to get rid of orbiting debris known as space junk. The 10-million-franc ($11-million) satellite called CleanSpace One...is being built by the Swiss Space Center at the Swiss Federal Inst …
Source: Gawker
Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, is pissed at Facebook. Last year he spent a few weeks training to screen illicit Facebook content through an outsourcing firm, for which he was paid a measly $1 an hour. He's still fuming over it. "It's humiliating.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Study challenges view that video games are bad for sight and suggests the brain can be trained to overcome some conditions.
Source: flightglobal.com
The first major evolution of the F-15 Eagle occurred in the late 1970s, when the US Air Force started looking for a replacement for the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark. McDonnell Douglas and Hughes teamed up to convert an F-15B two-seater...into the world's most effective strike …
Source: Reuters
A Japanese humanoid named "Geminoid F" makes her storefront debut in Japan. This is really cool... and creepy!
Source: The Register (UK)
In a legal rewrite pushed out Friday, Apple has made its iBooks publishing agreement sound slightly less evil by clarifying just what you can do with the content you create on its iBook Author software. Yes, all iBooks are locked to the iBook store but you can export those fil …
Source: ZDNet
For the second time in a week, Mozilla patches a “critical” vulnerability that could be remotely exploitable and can lead to arbitrary code execution.
Source: CNET.com
The makers of Firefox say that a popular McAfee security add-on is causing enormous performance problems. Now Mozilla is strongly considering forcibly blocking it.
Source: Techdirt
A very good read on just how out of touch or corrupt politcians are when it comes to the internet.
Source: DailyTech.com
No more torrents will help more content to be shared, render "copyright watchdogs" more toothless The Pirate Bay has long been synonymous with one thing -- torrents.
Source: Truthdig
The Wall Street Journal: The companies used special computer code that tricks Apple’s Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users.
Source: News at Nature
Technology that its parent company says will sequence a human genome in just 15 minutes opened its first data run to scrutiny today.
Source: Science Daily
Microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic energy that starts as light and propagates via "dark plasmons," according to researchers at Rice University.
Source: TorrentFreak
The Pirate Bay is not happy with a recent article published by the RIAA, where the torrent site is portrayed as the prime example of why tougher anti-piracy laws are necessary.
Source: Telegraph
Google tracked the web-browsing habits of millions of iPhone users without their consent, it has been revealed.
Source: All Things D
At a press conference in Beijing on Friday, Li Su, chairman of Hejun Vanguard Group, a consulting company representing Proview’s creditors, said the company is gearing up to sue Apple in the U.S. to collect what it feels it’s owed.
Saw this article posted via Pinterest: wondering why Newsvine was nowhere to be se …
Source: AllThingsD
If you’ve gotten used to the idea that you can watch March Madness on the Web, for free, without breaking the law, you may be in for a surprise next month. Some of the college basketball tourney’s games will only be available to Web users whose cable providers hav …