Mozilla and Google today said that they had struck a new search deal that will provide "significant revenue" to the maker of Firefox.
While Sony hasn't released official sales figures yet, Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain estimates 321,407 PlayStation Vita units were sold last weekend. While the new game system looks great, many early adopters complain the device is confusing and unstable.
The folks at Yamaha have figured out a way to get Siri to tickle the ivory and play a piano.
The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing a proposed US$3.6 billion spectrum purchase by Verizon Wireless, a spokeswoman there said Tuesday.
IBM today issued its sixth annual look at what Big Blue thinks will be the five biggest technologies for the next five years.
A hearing to debate and amend the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives has been delayed, likely until early next year.
No need to park yourself in front of the TV for Super Bowl 46 -- NBC and the NFL will be streaming the game live over the Web.
Being first to the market is always important, and LG's voice-controlled remote control is officially out of the gate.
Oracle's net income for the second quarter ended Nov. 30 rose 17 percent to US$2.2 billion, with software sales rising but hardware-related revenue falling, the...
Twitter plans to open source some of the Android security products built by the developers behind Whisper Systems, which Twitter acquired last month.
Consolidating the rapidly growing market for voice recognition systems and services, Nuance Communications is in the process of acquiring Vlingo, a provider of...
The Archos 70b is just $199.99, and it runs Android 3.2.
SAP and Google executives on Tuesday provided a preview of the companies' plans to tie their respective cloud-based business applications together, but a number...
NASA has discovered two new rocky planets that are very similar to Earth in size, but expect to find life on them.
Scientists finally produced a solar cell that outputs more energy than it receives, but there's already a war brewing between the U.S. and China over the breakthrough.
T-Mobile USA will receive spectrum licenses in 128 U.S. markets and a seven-year roaming agreement that will expand its reach by 50 million potential...
Listen in as the PCWorld team talks about gaining early access to The Old Republic and discusses the future of online commerice after playing the beta version of Diablo 3.
Adversaries are allies in case involving South Park parody video.
Notch, the creator of Minecraft, makes his new game, Minicraft, in 48 hours for the Ludum Dare game developer competition.
In what may be the ultimate in useless automation, but this gumball machine gives you candy when you tweet for it.
Built to be as much as 30 percent faster than Firefox 8, the release also brings Mac OS X Lion support and an Android version that's optimized for tablets.
Unconfirmed reports seem to suggest that Google is happy to reinvest some of its search revenue into pie-in-the-sky ideas.
Lady Gaga's Twitter and Facebook accounts are hacked and fans fall for age-old 'Free iPad' scam.
The prevalence with which hackers are handing out headaches to IT security pros will have a big upside for vendors in the coming year, according to new figures...
Groupon's Buy Local program will give members a $10 credit, but only the first 150,000 shoppers who purchase something before Christmas Eve will receive the credit.
Google has paid US$94 million for a stake in four photovoltaic power generation projects around Sacramento, California, bringing its total investment in...
Watch out World of Warcraft, EA and Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic has your storytelling savoir faire (or lack thereof) in its crosshairs.
Google and Oracle continue to differ over when their lawsuit over alleged Java intellectual property violations in the Android mobile OS should begin, according...
Turns out people are most likely to "friend" people on Facebook they know in real life. Surprise, surprise.
Google has high-end aspirations, so its tablet has to deliver on screen resolution, processor power, storage capacity, and camera capability.
The European Commission’s plan to lower access prices to copper networks in order to boost next generation networks is flawed, say Europe’s leading telecoms...
With the year drawing to a close, one thing seems abundantly clear: There are still an awful lot of ERP and other software projects running off the rails out...
Data downloads and Web browsing on new LTE-ready smartphones were slightly faster on AT&T's new 4G LTE network, according to a study by Metrico Wireless.
A popular Android application for Muslim users has been curiously hacked to commemorate the memory of a Tunisian produce vendor whose suicide kicked off...
Ransomware Trojans detected recently in the wild display bogus messages from law enforcement agencies in Europe and ask users to pay nonexistent fines, Microsoft...
Samsung also announced that most of its Galaxy-branded devices would get the Android 4.0 update some time next year.
Wolfram Alpha and Apple's Siri make a perfect match to search Best Buy for tech using your voice on iPhones.
Microsoft intends to ask the court to dismiss a Novell antitrust lawsuit, after a hung jury in Utah could not come to an accord on the case last week.
Seagate Technology said Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after it recently received...
The smartphone, called the Streak Pro, is the first handset that uses the Baidu Yi mobile platform, which is compatible with Android apps, but localized with products for Chinese users.
The multi-billion dollar AT&T takeover of T-Mobile is canceled. In a mobile market that already lacks competition, the merger would have meant higher prices for T-Mobile customers and mobile users in general.
See a hack that offers a helping hand to a disabled kid, and other stories we didn't have a chance to cover. It's GeekBytes for December 19, 2011.
Two U.S. senators on Monday urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google for possible antitrust violations.
Forget the T-shirts and mugs. Here are five gift ideas sure to please the Linux geek on your holiday list, plus three more for gift-giving in 2012.
Verizon is working on a fix for a problem that some users say seems to slow down data access.
The annual Steam Holiday Sale has begun! Now you can win prizes for participating, and we have the scoop on the coolest Grand Prize imaginable.
Corporations and nonprofits fear they'll have to fight many more squatters using their trademarked names on domains like .hotel or .paris.
The U.S. International Trade Commission will block the importation of some HTC products starting next April 19 after it found that the company infringed Apple...
YouHaveDownloaded exposes the sins of many; TorrentFreak finds RIAA and DHS are among the 'many'.
Business logons require increasingly higher security, and mobile devices present new challenges. Windows 8's Picture Password takes a fresh approach.
A ruling that will ban some HTC smartphones from the U.S. market has strengthened Apple’s case against Android
Startups pitch alternatives to the squiggly lines sites use at log-in
The implosion of AT&T’s bid to buy T-Mobile USA leaves the No. 2 mobile carrier with no easy options to acquire spectrum for smooth network expansion
Oracle Corp., the world’s second- largest software maker, reported quarterly sales and profit that missed analysts’ estimates as customers held off on purchasing database and applications software. Shares fell in late trading.
Apple Inc., which on Dec. 9 lost a bid to keep Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy 10.1 tablet out of Australia, claims the case for the device and cases for Samsung phones infringe its patents and registered design.
Olympus Corp. snapped a four-day, 33 percent stock slump on reports it may replenish a $1.3 billion hole left in its balance sheet after an accounting fraud by selling shares to a strategic investor.
An explosion at a Shanghai supplier to Apple Inc. injured 61 workers after aluminum dust produced by polishing cases for iPads ignited, China Labor Watch said.