To keep up with evolving computer viruses, top consumer information technology security companies are now relying more and more on “cloud” technology that can deliver real-time protection for clients. Recently, Kaspersky Labs unveiled its new Internet Security application for 2012. The company said the new version of its flagship home-user product features a ground-breaking innovation [...]
SEOUL – South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, the world’s second-largest mobile phone maker after Nokia, said Sunday it had sold 10 million Galaxy S II smartphones worldwide since the device debuted in April. Sales of the new model, an upgraded version of the firm’s flagship smartphone, had doubled in two months after hitting the five-million mark [...]
It’s been a day of missed, dropped and failed calls for AT&T wireless customers in Southern California, and the night may be the same.
A decommissioned NASA satellite, the biggest piece of US space junk to fall in 30 years, has crash-landed but the precise location is not yet known, the US space agency said early Saturday.
NEW YORK – Yahoo! is fielding inquiries from “multiple parties” who have expressed an interest in the struggling Internet company, officials said Friday in a memo sent to employees and obtained by Agence France-Presse. The board of directors of the Sunnyvale, California-based firm is carrying out a “strategic review” in order to “help return the [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Groupon revealed on Friday that the startup’s chief operating officer was leaving after just five months for a job at her former employer — Google. Margo Georgiadis quit for a post as president of the Americas for the California-based Internet giant. Georgiadis was vice president of global sales at Google before leaving [...]
Hewlett-Packard on Thursday named former eBay chief Meg Whitman its new president and chief executive officer, replacing Leo Apotheker at the helm of the world’s biggest computer maker.
WASHINGTON—NASA on Thursday refined the crash course of a six-ton defunct satellite, saying it is likely to miss North America, though its exact landing spot remains unknown. The careening space junk, which NASA insists poses little risk of hurting someone, is orbiting Earth every hour and a half, and is expected to fall sometime on [...]
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, told lawmakers Thursday that the end of the space shuttle era has left the American human spaceflight program in an “embarrassing” state.
PARIS—Physicists reported Thursday that sub-atomic particles called neutrinos can travel faster than light, a finding that — if verified — would blast a hole in Einstein’s theory of relativity. In experiments conducted between the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland and a laboratory in Italy, the tiny particles were clocked at 300,006 kilometers [...]
It is one of the world’s most iconic sights. But for local residents, the huge “Hollywood” sign on their hillside overlooking Los Angeles is a source of growing anger.
The Walt Disney Co. has used mobile games to promote its movies, but now it’s trying something new: launching a cuddly character in a game in the hope he makes it to the big screen someday.
Facebook users on Wednesday took to complaining about changes intended to make it easier to manage the torrents of updates from friends at the world’s largest social network.
