Amazon's Kindle can read books aloud, but if you're blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup.
A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers.The construction would include 120m- (400ft-) tall mesh towers and a series of interconnected plastic bubbles that can be used to di …
Nothing has ever changed the world as quickly as the Internet has. Less than a decade ago, "60 Minutes" went to the Pentagon to do a story on something called information warfare, or cyber war as some people called it. It involved using computers and the Internet as weapons.
Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.
Fitch Ratings lowered its outlook for Sun Microsystems Inc. to "evolving" from "positive" on Tuesday after European regulators objected to Oracle Corp.'s plans to take over the company.
A free Wi-Fi service said to be used by hundreds of people has been completely disabled after a complaint was made to the operating ISP by Sony Pictures.
Intel Corp. will release a $120 solid-state disk (SSD) drive positioned as a server "boot drive" with only 40GB of capacity, but the drive could also be used in low-end laptops PCs and netbooks.
Google on Tuesday said it was putting into the open source realm an experimental programming language called Go, which attempts to combine the development speed of a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++.
The government has approved 10 sites in England and Wales for new nuclear power stations, most of them in locations where there are already plants.It has rejected only one proposed site - in Dungeness, Kent - as being unsuitable on environmental grounds.
Talk about horrifying: A growing trend in the computer malware world involves viruses and other exploits that turn your PC into an unwitting haven for child pornography.
Sleek and sinister-looking, the latest weapon against piracy could have flown directly out of a science fiction film.The US military has deployed its Reaper unmanned drones to scour the Indian Ocean with their all-seeing, infra-red eye.
