On Tuesday, May 10, 2011, Microsoft announced that it had purchased the Skype internet voice and video communication company for $8.5 billion, with the intention of improving its ability to compete with the world’s movement away from the desktop computer. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, held a news conference in San Francisco, where he provided [...]
Whitehat hackers have successfully broken into Google Chrome, as well as the Chrome sandbox, effectively opening the door for potential attackers to copy the attack in order to plant malware into the computers of victims. Vupen Security researchers in France made the discovery and posted their results on a blog as well as a video [...]
New York City has announced that the “Taxi of Tomorrow” design submitted by Nissan will become the redesigned yellow cab starting in 2013. This purpose-built vehicle will be produced by the Japanese automaker in a style closer to a minivan. The announcement was made by David Yassky, the commissioner for Taxi and Limousine, who said [...]
Canadian researchers at Queen’s University have created the first ultrathin, flexible smartphone. Nicknamed the PaperPhone, the current prototype may change the way smartphones will be manufactured in the future. Roel Vertegaal, the creator of the device, believes that this and other flexible display technologies will be commonplace in tomorrow’s machines. He stated that “There have [...]
Scientists in Japan have created a device that is meant to mimic the sensation of French kissing, when connected to a computer and used remotely with another user’s device. The purpose of this machine is to give long-distance couples more than just text and video. This “kiss transmission device” is attracting a great deal of [...]
For the first time, Mac users have received a warning regarding search engine results that they receive, as the first “scareware” – fake antivirus app – targets that platform. It has been labeled the OSX/MacDefender, and has been shown to be not only a cross-platform threat with a target for a few additional victims, but [...]
Fig Card, a start-up company for mobile payments that uses smartphones to replace credit cards, has been acquired by online payment service giant, PayPal According to a PayPal blog post, the Fig Card service, based in Boston, allows customers to download the Fig Card app in order to use their smartphone cellular devices to pay [...]
A statement of apology was issued by Amazon.com on Friday, April 29, when its servers outages caused access to several websites to be unavailable over a number of days. As Amazon provides the web services for websites other than its own retail business, these server downtimes, which started on April 21and continued through the 24th, [...]
The entirely electric Nissan Leaf and the electric hybrid Chevy Volt (GM), are not only helping owners to save on the rising prices of fuel, but recent crash testing has shown that the weight and size of their batteries also provides significant protection to their drivers and passengers, as well. Chief administrative officer, Joe Nolan, [...]
Monday, April 25, Facebook launched its new “send” button in order to better the Groups functionality and to replace the old “email to a friend” button that had previously been available. They have deliberately made “send” similar in the look and feel of the highly popular “like” button. To use the feature, the button is [...]
Google specifically targeted by Facebook with smear campaign
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