SAN FRANCISCO—Google announced on Wednesday that Kansas City, Kansas, had been selected as the site for its first super-fast broadband Internet network. Nearly 1,100 US towns and cities had competed to be Google’s testbed for the ultra high-speed fiber optic network which will move data 100 times faster than what is available in the United [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—A video of a pair of diaper-clad babies seemingly engaged in an animated conversation in a home kitchen was a fast-spreading YouTube sensation on Wednesday. The two-minute snippet of the lively exchange between twin brothers barely old enough to stand has been watched more than 2.2 million times since it was uploaded to the [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—Google on Wednesday began letting people tip off friends to which Internet search results or online ads they think are “pretty cool.” The world’s most popular online search service started adding “+1″ icons that people can click to recommend the resource to others. The endorsements will start appearing in Google search results, product manager [...]
SYDNEY – An Australian man was jailed for a year on Friday for defacing online tributes to two dead children with child pornography and offensive comments. Bradley Paul Hampson vandalised the Facebook pages dedicated to two Queensland children who died in February 2010 – a 12-year-old boy who was stabbed in the schoolyard and an [...]
SYDNEY– Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith Friday apologized to his Afghan counterpart for racist comments and videos posted by troops, saying they could result in some soldiers being sent home. The military is investigating remarks aired on social networking site Facebook which reportedly disparage Afghans as “sand niggaz”, “dune coons” and “smelly locals”. Other Facebook [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—Hackers from Iran are suspected of swiping authentication data from a US computer security firm in an attempt to impersonate popular Google or Yahoo! sites. “The incident got close to, but was not quite, an Internet-wide security meltdown,” Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff technologist Peter Eckersley said in a message posted at the group’s [...]
WASHINGTON—Journalism Online, a company started two years ago to help newspapers and magazines collect revenue from online readers, was sold on Thursday to Chicago-based printing firm RR Donnelley. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Journalism Online was launched in April 2009 by three veteran US media executives with the goal of helping news [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—A group that advocates “curing” gays of same-sex attractions said Wednesday that its iPhone application had been yanked from Apple’s online iTunes shop. “We are extremely disappointed to learn of Apple’s decision to deny equal representation in the public square,” Exodus International president Alan Chambers said in a release. Exodus described itself as a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—A senior executive behind Macintosh computer software is leaving Apple as the culture-changing company rushes into a “post PC Era” in which iPads and iPhones supplant desktop computers. Bertrand Serlet is ceding his position as senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering to Apple executive Craig Federighi, who will report directly to chief executive [...]
WASHINGTON—A key US Senate panel announced Tuesday it will hold a March 29 hearing on the economic costs of cyberattacks and cyber crimes like identity theft and hacker strikes on government computers. The US Senate Commerce Committee said it “will explore how cyber attacks imperil America’s economy, as well as examine the private sector’s role [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Cloud computing? We all keep hearing about this for quite some time now. Viewed a few years back as one of those technologies that will change the way businesses operate in the coming years, cloud computing still remains an enigma for some. “The concept of cloud computing may be shrouded in fear of insecurity. [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Reinforcing its foothold and seeking to capture demand growth in the markets of Southeast Asia, Oceania and Taiwan, Samsung recently presented to the media and regional dealers a wide array of gadgets and home appliances belonging to what it calls “Smarter Life” portfolio. During the Samsung 2011 Regional Forum held two weeks ago, the [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Television has become super-slim and -light. You can even mount it on a wall. Another technology is out to change the TV yet again. With a smart processor, the TV will acquire some PC functions, like superb graphics-laden user-interface and quick access to the Internet. Yes, the slim LED TV can now be your [...]
