Kindle Paperwhite review
Amazon's fastest, most feature-packed e-reader hits a crowded market with a few new moves under its belt — I was looking forward to the review of the Kindle Paperwhite for one simple reason: I would...
Larry Ellison Just Took On Amazon With A New Cloud Service
Larry Ellison just announced that Oracle was launching a brand new cloud computing service. — Oracle will now be offering “infrastructure as a service” as the industry calls it, or “hardware as a se...
Nokia Seals Mapping Deal With Oracle
Nokia Corp., looking to increase use of its mapping software, will unveil a new deal with Oracle Corp. intended to give Oracle's stable of customers access to Nokia's growing vault of map data and loc...
How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system
In 1972, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) got a new chief judge named Thomas Markey. At Markey's investiture ceremony, patent attorney Donald Drunner spoke of the “anguish of the patent...
Unannounced Slingbox 350 & 500 Hit Best Buy
Whoa! I hit Best Buy looking for this unannounced Logitech Harmony Touch... but, instead, stumbled upon a pair of unannounced Slingboxes. To put these new products in perspective, the last significa...
PlaceRaider: The Military Smartphone Malware Designed to Steal Your Life
The US Naval Surface Warfare Center has created an Android app that secretly records your environment and reconstructs it as a 3D virtual model for a malicious user to browse — The power of modern s...
Microsoft: 'To fill 6,000 jobs, we'll pay $10K per visa'
Plus $15K for green cards - other companies could buy in, as well — Microsoft has entered the US immigration debate with a novel proposal for expanding the number of visas available for foreign tech...
As Apple and Samsung dominate, Japan's tech giants are in a free fall
TOKYO — While electronics giants Apple and Samsung fight each other for market dominance, with hotly competitive product releases and tit-for-tat patent lawsuits, Japan's consumer electronics makers f...