New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission has presented proposals that would prohibit cabbies from using an array of new communications technologies.
While Symantec and other antivirus firms may make gibes at Microsoft's free Security Essentials antivirus, Microsoft reportedly offered the product in order to increase AV coverage in regions where people can't afford to pay for one. At least, that's the reason they gave, and at first glance it appears MSE is making some headway.
OnThursday, Google announced it will be launching an e-Book store called "Google Editions" in the first half of 2010. We first wrote about this possibility in June.
Earlier this year, Microsoft released the .NET Framework 3.5 update. At the same time, as an added bonus, end users would get an extra Firefox extension, the "Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant (ClickOnce)," without being asked. That's bad enough, but at the same time the extension made Firefox vulnerable to attack.
Richard Heene and his family have never been afraid of the spotlight as they made a name for themselves chasing down storms, starring in a reality TV show and experimenting with a series of unusual inventions including hovercraft, a weather-gathering flying saucer and a rocket launcher.
Acer President Gianfranco Lanci is either prescient, or he knew what IDC was going to report. On Wednesday, Lanci said Acer would pass Dell in PC sales rankings "very soon." Later the same day, IDC confirmed that.
It is no secret that America's three separate electrical grids are inefficient, both in terms of carbon output and reliability. But how can they be fixed?
THE exciting world of storage and databases has just gotten more interesting as Oracle supremo Larry Ellison has escalated a handbags at dawn fight with IBM.
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake that killed 63 people and caused nearly $6 billion worth of damage, the state of California is set to hold the largest earthquake disaster drill in US history.
A bright ribbon of hydrogen atoms marks the edge of the solar system, where the Sun's wind meets emissions from the rest of the galaxy, US researchers report.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. lost money in the third quarter but said Thursday that sales were stronger than expected, adding to mounting evidence that consumer spending is fueling a turnaround in the personal computer market.
On Thursday, Amazon.com announced a new service designed to remove as much delay as possible to anyone's order on their website: same-day shipping, with caveats. The new service, called Local Express Delivery, will debut at first in seven areas: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Baltimore, Las Vegas and Seattle, with Chicago, Indianapolis and Phoenix to come soon.
