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San Francisco - US President Barack Obama is to get an ultra-secure smartphone so that he can keep up with emails on the go, according to a report Thursday in Atlantic magazine.
Obama has been an avid user of a Blackberry RIM for years, but security concerns meant that he could not keep a standard smartphone as president for fear that...
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Software giant Microsoft announced Thursday plans to slash up to 5,000 jobs as the company absorbs the effects of the world economic crisis.
It would be the first job reductions ever in the company's history.
The Seattle, Washington-based firm, in making the announcement, also said that its profits in the second quarter of its...
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Yahoo is to name Carol Bartz, the former chief executive of software company Autodesk, as its new CEO, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
The report comes after a two-month search for a replacement for company founder Jerry Yang, who was widely blamed for botching merger talks with Microsoft that would have proved highly...
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 Intel has always tried to go out of the microprocessor market, and has tried its hand in several other realms, but only as a sort of tourist who ends up making his bags and eventually heading back to his home market. Andy Grove, the well-known charismatic co-founder of the company, former chairman and CEO, has a brand new semi-unofficial...
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San Francisco - Social networking site Facebook has won an 873-million-dollar damages award against a spammer who inundated users of the site with millions of unwanted messages, the company said Monday.
In a blog posting, the company's director of security Max Kelly said the award by the US District Court in San Jose was the largest...
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 SanDisk announced on Wednesday a technology that the company describes
as being able to boost the speed of solid-state drives significantly,
called ExtremFFS. The technology avoids tying the location of data to
physical space by altering its position on the drive to the place where
it will be most efficient. Unfortunately, no release...
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 Cisco Systems announced today that it has significantly increased the performance and capabilities of its cutting-edge routing platform, ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Router. From now on, the Cisco ASR 1000 Series 20 Gbps Embedded Services Processor (ESP) will double the service processing rate and deliver software enhancements...
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 In order to explain polls and other election events, the Cable News Network (CNN) used holograms. On Tuesday, the news station used a hologram technology that allowed the company to virtually “beam” a person from a distant location into the studio to talk with Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper. The first people to test the technology were...
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 Dell announced today that is has released a new class of portable in the form of the Inspiron Mini 12. The system uses the Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and 80GB storage of a higher-end notebook, but has the profile of an ultraportable: it carries a 12-inch display, it weighs 2.7 pounds and it’s thicker with one inch. It seems that it’s...
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 NASCAR driver David Gilliland got off to a rocky start when a late-race accident on Sunday caused him to finish 32nd out of an original 43-car field. He is sponsored by the FCC and the crash almost ruined his DTV Transition Ford. FCC gave him a $350,000 sponsorship in three short-track races. In a race summary on his Web site, Gilliland...
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