The service isn't live yet...but the offer is.
TheInfoPro study finds Cisco and Juniper down, Check Point and Palo Alto up in a firewall popularity contest.
Floppy drives may be all but obsolete, but they may have a second life as music instruments. Read on to see what we're talking about.
Apple has removed a tethering app for the iPhone that let users share the smartphone's cellular connection to the Internet with a Mac or Windows notebook.
Here's a preliminary look at WordAds, which gives bloggers with free Wordpress.com blogs a chance to earn ad dollars.
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) today announced a brand new set of enterprise mobility tools, called BlackBerry Mobile Fusion.
When you set up a Wi-Fi network, whether using access points (base stations) from Apple or another vendor, you're usually playing a guessing game.
You can now try Windows Phone 7 from the comfort of your iPhone or Android phone, thanks to a new demo site from Microsoft.
The netbook market may be dwindling, but it's not dead yet.
Privacy and technology groups generally applauded a wide-ranging settlement between Facebook and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the social-networking...
No company wants to be the subject of the next headline about a cybersecurity attack or critical data loss.
A speedy successor to PCI data transfer protocols used in PCs and interconnects like Intel's Thunderbolt is being designed with tablets in mind, a...
Thanks to a settlement with the FTC, Facebook has agreed to go on privacy probation.
At Lifetime Products, Apple products breached a long-time Microsoft stronghold, disrupted a conservative IT culture and tested the CIO's mettle to inspire his troops and embrace the consumerization of IT.
A would-be Epicor customer is taking the ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor to court over a "big mess" of a software project that it says ended up...
Cloud computing offers a wide range of benefits, no matter what size of business you operate.
Nokia Siemens Networks plans to sell its WiMax infrastructure business to NewNet Communication Technologies for an undisclosed sum.
A hacker roots the Nokia N900 to run Ice Cream Sandwich, but the phone gets a little bit of brain freeze in the process.
Spotify is now open to anyone and iCloud and iTunes Match are on their way, leaving other music service competitors scrambling to compete.
Customers aren't so lucky: A California supermarket chain found compromised card readers in twenty of their stores.
Interest in tablets with Microsoft's Windows 8 is plummeting, Forrester Research said in a study released on Tuesday.
Facebook has agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers "on numerous occasions" by telling them they could keep their...
Mint's new default search engine shows an anti-open source bias, some have charged.
Disoriented at Minneapolis' Mall of America? Confused at Tokyo's Narita airport? Can't find the bathrooms at your local Ikea store? The Google Maps application...
Rumors that claim the next Kinect will be able to read lips and track facial expressions for your emotional state.
The story, "Google Maps app for Android adds indoor floorplans," which posted Tuesday, has been removed from the wire because it remains under embargo. Online...
BlackBerry Mobile Fusion will cover BlackBerrys and PlayBook tablets, and support competing mobile OSes, including Apple iOS and Google Android.
Disoriented at Minneapolis' Mall of America? Confused at Tokyo's Narita airport? Can't find the bathrooms at your local Ikea store? The Google Maps application...
To make it simpler for businesses to comply with the multiplicity of data protection regimes across Europe, Viviane Reding envisages letting European Union...
Office 365, Microsoft's cloud collaboration and communication suite for organizations, is selling eight times faster than its predecessor.
WatchGuard's latest security appliance, the XTM 330, allows business travelers from small enterprises to use their iPads or iPhones to communicate securely with...
Two University of Maryland professors are collaborating to get into the heads of would-be cyber criminals to better predict their behavior and develop better network and computer defenses.
New European Commission proposals could prove a boon to online shoppers.
Mobile telecom trade group CTIA and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) will roll out a rating system for mobile applications similar to ratings on...
Facebook's community forum was flooded during the Thanksgiving weekend with spam messages that advertised live streaming links for various sporting events.
Bethesda patches Skyrim, fixes Xbox 360 texturing and PS3 performance issues, and tweaks the PC interface.
Apple released iOS 5.1 beta to developers, who already unearthed reference codes for the next-generation Apple TV, as well the next iPhone and two new iPad models.
With broadband speeds generally on the rise, why do some Web pages load so slowly?
An iPhone tethering app called iTether has landed in the App Store, promising to turn iPhones into portable modems with no monthly fees or jailbreaks required.
A pair of researchers from Dartmouth University have devised a metric for quantifying how much a digital photograph has been altered by digital photo-editing...
The functionalities of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright according to the European Court of Justice’s senior...
Free software activists have released a new peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others.
As shoppers eagerly take advantage of Cyber Monday deals, a new poll shows that nearly three out of 10 Americans will do most of their holiday shopping online...
A new report indicates that video calling will explode by 600 percent between 2010 and 2015, bringing face-to-face calls to the mainstream for both consumers and businesses.
Senator Ron Wyden threatens filibuster to stop the Stop Online Piracy Act.
WikiLeaks has postponed the launch of its new secure submission system due to recent security compromises that seriously affected the credibility of the SSL...
Lenovo unveiled three new tablets and a smartphone for the Chinese market on Tuesday and said it will launch a smart TV product in the first quarter of next...
NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier, said Tuesday it will strongly back a new TV service for smartphones to launch next year, and will work to promote the...
Japanese component maker Rohm said it has developed an experimental chip that can send and receive signals at terahertz-range frequencies, which can carry data...
Microsoft said on Tuesday it will license the protocols for many of its enterprise systems to a company that will develop compatible applications for...
Didn't catch director Tsui Hark's award-winning wuxia epic in theaters? Share your love of Asian martial-arts cinema and you could score a copy of and an awesome poster.
This week, Yahoo's board reviews bids from a range of buyers for a minority stake in the company, including various private equity companies and a consortium that includes Microsoft. But none of these candidates has been able to say publicly what they would do to transform Yahoo.
Driving off after leaving a drink on your car's roof is a messy bummer. Doing the same with your smartphone or tablet is downright traumatizing. If you're prone to absent-mindedness, iPad casemakers Sofshell may have a solution for you: An iPad case that can survive a 60 mph trip down the road.
Rumors of Google?s next-generation Nexus smartphone have been floating in the ether for months. As we approach the phone?s imminent release, only a fortunate few have been able to get their hands on one, including not only we at WIRED, but also the gadget tinkerers at iFixit, who just posted a full teardown of what lies beneath the Nexus hood.
Research in Motion (RIM) is losing its grip on the world's businesses, but it won't go down without a fight. On Tuesday, the Canadian mobile device maker announced that in March of next year, it will release a software tool designed to manage not only its own Blackberry phones, but also Apple iPhones and Google Android devices.
Pick up an object that's close to hand. Throw it at something, or even someone (but gently, of course!) You've just reenacted what appears to be a pivotal stage in human evolution, when a propensity for projectiles shaped cognitive powers that later became language and symbolic thought.
Here is the best thing about : This time, Nintendo didn't screw it up.
Steve Ballmer says Microsoft is "winning, winning, winning, winning, winning" in the fight with Google and other competitors to move businesses into the proverbial cloud. But the story is, well, more nuanced than that.
The White House quietly ordered a widespread review of government counterterrorism training materials last month, following Danger Room's reports that officials at the FBI, military and Justice Department taught their colleagues that "mainstream" Muslims embrace violence and compared the Islamic religion to the Death Star.
While city officials have actively communicated their positions about the Occupy movements, the response from the federal government has been muted, at best. But maybe the situation's different online? Twitter is much more casual and conversational, and social media-savvy federal agencies often respond directly to queries and complaints from their followers. It's possible that federal employees are addressing questions and concerns about Occupy on Twitter instead. I decided to find out.
Chewing gum boosts mental focus, but the effect dies after about 20 minutes. Frontal Cortex blogger Jonah Lehrer explores the neuroscience behind this strange relationship.
Apple began seeding iOS 5.1 beta to developers Monday. The update should address a number of bugs, but deep within the code are references to two highly anticipated iOS devices: iterations of Apple's iPad and iPhone.
In this deleted scene from indie sci-fi hit , Rhoda's mother and father grill her about her choice of careers and she cracks wise about her future. Should it have stayed in the film?
Thanks to a diet of ever-richer JavaScript files and more sophisticated CSS, web pages are fatter than ever. If bandwidth speeds and browser improvements can't keep pace tomorrow's web may end up slower than today's.
Technologists will become the next drug dealers, administering narcotics through brain stimulation, according to one researcher.
Facebook is settling government charges it ?deceived? users that their information would be kept private, although it was ?repeatedly? shared with the public, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday.
Marvel Girl, who in 1963 made her debut with the original X-Men, was the first of many problem children among Marvel's extended family of genetic anomalies.
Defense contractor BAE Systems hired Sgt. Dakota Meyer, in part because he was one of America's most decorated war heroes. But when he called BS on the company's proposed sales of high-tech sniper scopes to Pakistan, a new lawsuit alleges, BAE executives started calling Meyer "mentally unstable" and a drunk.
Google Maps 6.0 for Android launched Tuesday with a bold initiative: indoor mapping. Partnering at launch with a selection of businesses and public service structures, the new mobile Maps version allows users to see the entire layout of a mapped building, switch between floor plans if the structure has multiple levels, and locate indoor points of interest like retail stores, bathrooms and ATMs.
The W3C's ARIA specification gives web developers a way to annotate pages, assigning "roles" to HTML elements. Now that screen readers actually support ARIA, roles offer an easy way to create a more accessible web.
Biologists can categorize whale songs, yet the content of their communication is poorly understood. A new web-based citizen science project, however, allows visitors to analyze the watery leviathans' language.
Toyota and Yamaha create commuter concepts that integrate e-bikes and e-scooters to an existing electric vehicle communications network.
NFL football player Scott Fujita seemed to push Jerome Simpson after an altercation in a pile. But did he shove with enough energy, or was the flop faked? Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain investigates.
If fire was the beginning of civilization, was the appearance of the beginning of the videogame age? A case can be made.
The National Science Foundation applies the Facebook "friends" concept to solve one of entomology's great mysteries.
High tech additions to equipment give visually impaired athletes, in sports from b-ball to bowling and even to shooting, what they need to rock it.
You can have your 3-D piranhas and ridiculous refresh rates. At the end of the day, nothing beats a big-ass HDTV.
Who needs a physical contraption to revisit the past? The historical tourism industry makes it easy to drink like a colonist or run with the raptors.
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What can you do with a chair? If you're Charles and Ray Eames, you build a design legacy, transform consumer culture, and use a piece of furniture to embody a love affair characterized by collaboration, competition and conflict. A new documentary digs into the duo's charmed legacy.