Security researchers on Thursday said they discovered a new computer virus that infected about 2,500 computers across the Middle East and appeared to target banks in Lebanon. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab, a Russian security firm, said the virus began infecting computers last September, but they did not discover it until two months ago. The servers [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is creating an information bridge between its influential Internet search engine and its widely used Gmail service in its latest attempt to deliver more personal responses more quickly. The experimental feature unveiled Wednesday will enable Google’s search engine to mine the correspondence stored within a user’s Gmail account for any [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Emily Langmead was hesitant when she first heard of free Wi-Fi in the subway. Like many New Yorkers, she wondered what the catch was. But now, she says, she uses it all the time. One month in to wireless service being provided in six New York City subway stations, commuters like [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offered its first free online course this spring, Ashwith Rego jumped at the chance to learn from some of the world’s leading researchers — without leaving his home in India. “I never imagined that I would be taught by professors from MIT, let alone for [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge on Friday denied Apple Inc.’s demands for an immediate victory in a multibillion-dollar patent trial. Apple sought the long-shot bid as punishment for Samsung Electronics Inc.’s decision to issue a controversial press release on the first day of testimony. Samsung attorney John Quinn authorized the release Tuesday, which [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA has picked three aerospace companies to build small rocketships to take astronauts to the International Space Station. This is the third phase of NASA’s efforts to get private space companies to take over the job of the now-retired space shuttle. The space agency is giving them more than $1.1 billion. Once [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators want to update rules aimed at protecting children’s online privacy to account for newer developments such as Facebook and mobile games. A 1998 law requires websites to obtain parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13. But the digital world has changed greatly since then. The proposed [...]
It was another poor showing for Facebook last week as its stock price hit a new low Friday, dispiriting shareholders already frustrated by lower-than-anticpated profits. Billions in shareholder value was erased as the market value of Mark Zuckerberg’s flagship fell to nearly half of the $104 billion target set in May when the company went public, the Mercury Newsreports. [...]
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Imagine being the only driver on a two-lane asphalt highway as the stark desolation of Death Valley National park passes on each side and the crystal blue sky stretches up from the horizon. Or picture a tight left turn on Yosemite’s Glacier Point Road where in the east iconic Half Dome [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd take their battle for mobile supremacy to court on Monday in one of the biggest-ever technology patent trials, a case with the potential to reshape a fast-evolving market they now dominate. The tech titans will lock horns in a federal courtroom in San Jose, [...]
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