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23 hours ago | News
According
to recent data released by Google, the search engine giant has logged
more than 2.5 million requests in the last 11 months to remove links
believed to be violating Microsoft’s copyrights. This exceeded the
number of complaints about material produced by entertainment companies
pushing for tougher online piracy laws.
May 25 | News
As malware threats expand into new domains and increasingly focus on industrial espionage, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are launching a new weapon to help battle the threats: A malware intelligence system that will help corporate and government security officials share information about the attacks they are fighting.
May 18 | News
The
search engine giant has spent the past two years poring through online
encyclopedia Wikipedia, the CIA Factbook and other sources to expand a
database of 12 million items that it picked up as part of its 2010
acquisition of Metaweb. On Wednesday it used this massive database to
launch a new feature that provides a summary of vital information
alongside main search results.
May 18 | News
The
U.S. government has been pushing doctors to e-prescribe, in part
because it can be safer for patients. Now, more than a third of the
nation's prescriptions now are electronic, and starting this year,
holdouts will start to see cuts in their Medicare payments.
May 11 | News
Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. Department of Energy have released a new tool to help utilities, developers, and regulators identify the energy storage options that best meet their needs. Partnering with DNV KEMA, Sandia is releasing Energy Storage Select, or ES-Select, software under a public license to the company.
May 9 | News
The
organization behind a major expansion of Internet address suffixes is
offering full refunds to companies and organizations affected by a
weeks-long delay in taking proposals.
May 9 | News
It’s
a situation we’ve all probably encountered: a coffee shop full of
laptop users and no place to sit. According to recent studies at Boston
College, “plugged-in” customers are increasingly grabbing extra seats
counter space and table tops by using cell phones, laptops, and cups of
steaming hot coffee to shield others from seemingly public spaces
May 9 | News
A
federal jury failed to agree on a pivotal issue in Oracle's
copyright-infringement case against Google, blunting the impact of its
finding that Google relied on another company's technology to build its
popular Android software for mobile devices. The impasse reached Monday
in San Francisco hobbles Oracle Corp.'s attempt to extract hundreds of
millions of dollars from Google on grounds that the Internet search
leader pirated parts of Android from Oracle's Java programming system.
May 8 | News
Three
weeks ago, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
abruptly shut down a system for letting companies and organizations
propose new suffixes, after it discovered a software glitch that exposed
some private data. At the time, ICANN planned to reopen the system
within four business days. But the system remains suspended.
May 7 | News
Many
U.S. Internet service providers have fallen in line with their
international counterparts in capping monthly residential broadband
usage. But according to a recent study conducted with the help of
Microsoft Research, these pricing models offer few tools for consumers
to manage their data usage, and lead to uninformed decisions.
