Water-pump failure in Illinois wasn't cyberattack after all
A water-pump failure in Illinois that appeared to be the first foreign cyberattack on a public utility in the United States was in fact caused by a plant contractor traveling in Russia, according to a...
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
In November 1, 2008, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin. None of the list...
IBM: Black Friday Online Retail Spending Up 24.3 Percent
Thanksgiving brought record online retail sales for the holiday, with spending up 39.3 percent over Thanksgiving 2010. And today, IBM Coremetrics data shows a 24.3 percent growth in online sales on B...
Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns
MAIDEN, N.C. — Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment is rampant …
IPCom (patent holding firm) to relentlessly enforce 3G-essential patent against HTC's German business
Based on an in-depth conversation with a source close to the proceedings, I am now able to explain the background and the economic impact of today's big wireless patent announcement …
Apple ahead in mobile loyalty: Gfk research firm
(Reuters) - Apple is well ahead of rivals in building brand loyalty among its users in a mobile market where the key brands are rushing to build as large a foothold as possible, a study by research fi...
Chrome Getting Native Gamepad, Webcam, And WebRTC Support In Early 2012
It's not always easy to tell when Chrome has been updated, and at any rate the changes aren't always significant enough to even wonder about it. But a pair of features worth caring about are user-bou...
Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986
A startup sentiment sandwich from the master chef, or why “reality distortion” helps sales but hurts design. — In 1985, shortly after being fired from Apple, Steve Jobs founded NeXT, the somewhat sh...
Is Samsung giving up on netbooks next year?
An email sent by Samsung to its trading partners appears to shut down any prospect of the manufacturer producing new netbooks after the first quarter of 2012. The email is quoted by French site Bloge...
‘Twine’ Foreshadows A Future Where All Objects Talk To The Internet
Want to be notified to turn on the AC when a room reaches a certain temperature? Or when your laundry's done? Well MIT Media Lab alumni Supermechanical have built Twine, a sleek 2.5″ rubber square w...