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- Data sorting world record falls: Computer scientists break terabyte sort barrier in 60 seconds. Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke "the terabyte barrier" -- and a world record -- when they sorted more than one terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) in just 60 seconds. During this 2010 "Sort...
- Who gives a tweet? Nuanced feedback for microbloggers. Researchers are launching a study to understand what aspects of Twitter content are considered valuable, and how that impacts presentation and perception of online identity.
- Invention enables people with disabilities communicate and steer a wheelchair by sniffing. Neurobiologists and electrical engineers have invented a new technology that lets the severely disabled communicate or steer a wheelchair by sniffing. Sniffing is a precise motor skill that is controlled, in part, by the soft palate -- the flexible d...
- More accurate than Heisenberg allows? Uncertainty in the presence of a quantum memory. Quantum cryptography is the safest way to encrypt data. It utilizes the fact that transmitted information can only be measured with a strictly limited degree of precision. Scientists have now discovered how the use of a quantum memory affects this un...
- Radical new computer memory? Emergent resistance network suggests mechanism for colossal magnetoresistance. Research has revealed new clues on the microscopic processes by which resistance in certain materials is dramatically altered by the presence of magnetic fields. The discovery provides fundamental insights toward the development of radically new memo...
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- Position-based quantum cryptography: New method for securing location-sensitive data. Computer scientists have proved that cryptography, the practice and study of hiding information, based solely on location is possible by using quantum mechanics. This allows one to encrypt and decrypt data without pre-sharing any cryptographic keys t...
- Organic nanoelectronics a step closer. Scientists have effectively discovered a way to order the molecules in the PEDOT, the single most industrially important conducting polymer.
- Virtual reality gives insight on protein structures. To understand a protein, it helps to get inside of it, and a professor has now figured out a way to do so. A new computer software program and projection system lets a person look at larger-than-life, 3-D structures of proteins in virtual reality. Th...
- Supercomputer reproduces a cyclone's birth, may boost forecasting. Scientists have employed NASA's Pleiades supercomputer and atmospheric data to simulate tropical cyclone Nargis -- with the first model to replicate the formation of the tropical cyclone five days in advance.
- Data mining made faster: New method eases analysis of 'multidimensional' information. To many big companies, you aren't just a customer, but are described by multiple "dimensions" of information within a computer database. Now, a computer scientist has devised a new method for simpler, faster "data mining," or extracting and analyzing...
Whats new in Computer Science News PCWorld Technology News
PCWorld Technology News
- DHS Exec Takes Hard Questions on Cybersecurity. Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute took some tough questions at the Black Hat conference Wednesday. BlackHat - United States Department of Homeland Security - Las Vegas Nevada - Black Hat conference - hack
- Dell Seeks Services Boost With New Security Offerings. Dell is introducing new security services, which it hopes to use in an effort to engage customers in long-term services contracts. Dell - Security - Business - Consultants - General and Freelance
- IPhone Developers Can Now Advertise Their Apps via IAd. Apple began rolling out its iAd program earlier this month, but by all accounts the ad spots themselves were fairly limited. On Wednesday, however, Apple... Apple - IPhone - Smartphones - Handhelds - iPhone 3G
- Blu-ray 3D, More TV Models Boosting 3D TV Shipments. 3D TV shipments are on the rise, driven by availability of more TV models and 3D content, research firm DisplaySearch said on Wednesday. 3D television - Blu-ray Disc - DisplaySearch - Television - Business
- Study: Verizon Smartphones Use More Data Than IPhones. The iPhone was as much of a revolution to carrier networks as it was to consumers--it was the first phone that gave users a reason to wirelessly gobble data, and... IPhone - Smartphone - Verizon - Handhelds - Apple
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- Vulkano Placeshifting DVR Now Available for Pre-order. Monsoon Multimedia wants to change the way you watch your TV. The company is now accepting pre-orders for the Vulkano, its next-generation live-TV placeshifting... MonsoonMultimedia - Vulkano - Netflix - YouTube - IPhone
- India Tightens Security Rules for Telecom. India modifies its license agreement with telecom service providers to include new security conditions. License - Service provider - India - Security - Business
- Video Previews Microsoft's Office 2011 Plans. Microsoft has started rolling out more details about Office 2011, the upcoming upgrade of its productivity suite. On Wednesday, the company posted a brief video... MicrosoftOffice - Microsoft - Office suite - Office 2011 - Macint...
- Cracked.com Releases IPad App. If you casually surf the Internet for chuckles, you've probably come across at least one Cracked.com article. Born out of the now defunct Cracked magazine, the... Sports - United States - Law - Stadium - Barack Obama
- Could Facebook Be the Next AOL?. Open source developers work to build standards-based social networking tools. Facebook - Open source - Social network - Articles - Google
Whats new in Computer Science News CNET News
CNET News
- Plastic-bottle boat completes voyage across Pacific. Plastiki, constructed of more than 12,000 discarded soft-drink bottles, arrives in Australia after an 11,000-mile journey.
- Wikileaks releases massive set of Afghan war files. Document-leaking group releases tens of thousands of classified files to newspapers including the U.K. Guardian, which calls it a "devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan."
- Mimicking Apple an imperative for PC makers. PC makers are imitating Apple as fast as they can--and for good reason.
- At 3,000 miles, Road Trip 2010 hits New Hampshire. Road Trip 2010: On the east coast, the mileage comes slower, what with the density of the region, and longer stays in places like New York and Boston. Still, Road Trip 2010 has now gone far enough to cross the country.
- Road Trip Pic of the Day, 7/25: What is this?. If you know what this is and where it's located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge.
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- China questions review of controversial carbon program. Government fund tells U.N. it supports developers that have earned billions under carbon-offset program, as decision whether to review the program looms. Some say developers produce more greenhouse gas to win more credits.
- BP plagued by storm delay, claims concerns, Lockerbie query. Work to permanently seal BP's blown-out well may be pushed back a week. Meanwhile, some say BP is stalling on payments to economic victims, and Congress is examining whether company's Libyan oil interests influenced plane bomber's release.
- Survey: Most iPhone users happy with AT&T. A survey by The Yankee Group finds that 73 percent of iPhone users are "very happy" with the service they get from AT&T.
- Apple attacks Droid X antenna. In a new video on its Web site, Apple shows what it says is the Droid X suffering from an antenna problem, with signal bars dropping in the throes of the so-called Death Grip.
- Road Trip Pic of the Day, 7/24: What is this?. If you know what this is and where it's located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge.
Whats new in Computer Science News Maximum PC News
Maximum PC News
- Comcast Cracks Down on Customers with a ZERO Balance. Yep, you read the title correctly. Comcast, the seemingly masochist ISP that gets repeatedly beat up in the press, is again taking a flogging, this time for billing a customer with a $0.00 balance and demanding remittance. "To avoid an interruption o...
- Russian Dude Shows Off Awesome CPU Collection. Remember that scaled down replica of Helsinki, Finland constructed entirely of motherboards we showed you two months ago? This Russian guy's "humble collection" of CPUs, as he describes them in a forum post, might just have the motherboard city beat....
- eBook Reader Shipments Fall Far Short of Expectations. The eBook reader market expanded by 1.35 million units in the second quarter of 2010, and while that might sound like an impressive amount of mobile readers for such a short time span, it's 33.2 percent less than the 2.02 million analysts were expect...
- Motorola Launches Second Volley in iPhone Antenna Assault. Apple is doing everything it can to deflect attention away from the iPhone 4's janky antenna design, like calling out other smartphone makers for supposedly being in the same boat, including Motorola and the Droid X. To be fair, Motorola (and Verizon...
- HP Squeezes Fermi-Based Quadro 5000M into 17-Inch EliteBook. Hot on the heels of Nvidia's announcement that it would soon begin shipping its Fermi-based Quadro workstation cards, HP has come out and said it will cram the new Quadro 5000M into its EliteBook 8740w mobile workstations. The 8740w is a 17-inch note...
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- LG Jumps on the Windows Phone 7 Bandwagon. Those of you not employed by Microsoft are on your own when it comes to tracking down a Windows Phone 7 device, and when the holiday shopping season rolls around, you can add LG to the list of potential suitors. "We have a deep relationship with Micr...
- EverQuest II Extends into Free-to-Play Market. In the future, old fogeys are gonna get all manner of shrugs and weird looks when they wrap up their “back in my day” speeches with a quick 45-minute bit about subscription fees and MMOs. And if things keep up at their current pace, that “fu...
- Safari 5.0.1 Brings Third-party Extensions. Safari 5 first became available for download last month. Even though that major update introduced several new features, Apple held back a major feature until the release of version 5.0.1. The latest Safari update adds support for third-party browse...
- Wicked Laser Spyder III Arctic: Our First Photos. If you read yesterday’s article, you already know that Wicked Laser was kind enough to send us its new Spyder III Arctic laser. In the coming days, we’ll be testing the laser’s strength and other attributes at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories. Bu...
- New Amazon Kindle Announced, Available August 27. Remember yesterday when everyone noticed the Kindle was out of stock? Well now we know why. Amazon has announced new Kindle, but we kind of expected this one. The new model is just being called the Kindle, and brings a few improvements over the older...
Whats new in Computer Science News Infoworld News
Infoworld News
- SAP gives NetWeaver portal an iGoogle-style upgrade. SAP is sprucing up its NetWeaver portal with an upcoming add-on, Enterprise Workspaces, which will provide an iGoogle-like way for users to work with content. The software is now in a "ramp-up" release mode and set for general availability toward the...
- Microsoft to push harder for cloud. Microsoft is shifting its strategy away from pitching itself as a company that can offer companies a choice of software or hosted services, toward pushing the cloud, an executive said on Thursday at the software giant's annual financial analyst meeti...
- Zend offers PHP software packages. In a change to its software licensing model, Zend Technologies has begun offering its PHP Web application deployment solutions as part of a package available through an annual subscription.
- 'Unhackable' Android can be hacked. Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010.
- How to make your business videos searchable. For some enterprises, online video has become a vital tool for training, security, sales, marketing, and other functions. And along with that growth in the use of video comes increased demand for users to be able to find exactly what they need.
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- IBM acquires storage compression company. IBM on Thursday said it had agreed to acquire data compression technology company Storwize for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of this year, IBM said in a release.
- Dell, HP to resell rival Oracle's operating systems on x86 servers. Oracle said Thursday that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems as well as Oracle VM on their x86 se
- Data breaches exploit configuration errors, not software vulnerabilities. Hackers appear to be increasingly counting on configuration problems and programming errors rather than software vulnerabilities in order to steal information from computer systems, according to a new study from Verizon.
- TSMC sales, profit hit all-time highs in second quarter. Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported its best quarterly net profit and sales ever in the second quarter, and predicted the third quarter will be even better.
- Malware tools openly available in China, security researchers say. LAS VEGAS -- China's rapid emergence as a hotspot for criminal hacking activities is enabled by the open and unfettered availability of sophisticated hacking tools, according to security researchers attending the Black Hat conference here this week. ...
Whats new in Computer Science News Computerworld News
Computerworld News
- Mozilla patches 9 Firefox bugs, adds plug-in crash protection. Firefox versions 3.6.4 and 3.5.10 fixed nine flaws but Mozilla instead emphasized the addition of plug-in crash protection over the security fixes.
- Fiberlink aims to cut costs with cloud patch management. Fiberlink Communications thinks it can cut patch management costs for IT departments with a new cloud-based service.
- Education, training key to widespread broadband adoption. The U.S. needs local education and training programs and better computer reuse programs to overcome a large broadband adoption gap, speakers at a broadband adoption forum said Tuesday.
- U.K. researchers building 'fat-free' cloud programming framework. Researchers in the U.K. are developing a lean-and-mean programming framework called Mirage that is designed specifically to support applications running on cloud infrastructure platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.
- Trustwave buys application firewall maker. Trustwave has acquired Breach Security for an undisclosed sum, an acquisition that the company said would bring Breach Security's Web application firewall together with Trustwave's own enterprise security tools.
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- More than a quarter of iPhones break within 2 years. More than one in four Apple iPhones break or fail within two years, a company that provides after-sale warranties said today.
- Apple iPad passes 3M sales in under three months. Apple announced that iPad sales have surpassed three million less than three months after the tablet computer launched
- Google lifts restrictions on Google Voice access. The Google Voice telephony management system is now open to all U.S. residents; invitations to sign up no longer needed.
- Apple leaves iPad vulnerable after monster iPhone patch job. As part of Monday's iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. But Apple's iPad isn't slated to get the iOS 4 update until this fall.
- WiMax carrier Clearwire offering raises $290M. WiMax service provider Clearwire has raised more than $290 million in a rights offering, part of a continuing effort to build up its war chest as it deploys a national 4G network.
Whats new in Computer Science News Apple Hot News
Apple Hot News
- Apple Updates iMac Line. Apple today updated its all-in-one iMac line, widely praised as the world’s best desktop computers, with the latest Intel Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 processors and powerful new graphics. Apple also introduced the new Magic Trackpad — available...
- New Mac Pro With Up to 12 Processing Cores. Apple’s new Mac Pro line comes with up to 12 processing cores and up to 50 percent greater performance than the previous generation. Featuring the latest quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors, all-new ATI graphics, and the option for up to fou...
- Apple Unveils New 27-inch LED Cinema Display. Apple unveiled a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display with stunning 2560 x 1440 resolution and 60 percent more screen real estate than the 24-inch LED Cinema Display. Featuring a built-in iSight video camera, microphone and speakers, powered USB 2.0 hub, a...
- iPhone 4 Arrives in 17 More Countries This Friday. Beginning this Friday, July 30, customers can purchase iPhone 4 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. iPhone 4 wil...
- Apple Reports Third Quarter Results. Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 third quarter ended June 26, 2010. The Company posted record revenue of $15.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share. “It was a phenomenal quarter th...
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- FileMaker Unveils New FileMaker Go for iPhone and iPad. FileMaker, Inc. today announced FileMaker Go for iPhone and FileMaker Go for iPad, two highly anticipated new apps — now available from the App Store — that let users easily view, edit, and search for information in FileMaker Pro databases on the...
- iPad Available in Nine More Countries This Friday. Apple today announced that iPad will be available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Singapore this Friday, July 23. iPad allows users to connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, ...
- iPhone and Apps for Good Health. Novartis, a leading manufacturer of vaccines and pharmaceutical products, turned to iPhone and a mix of custom and commercial apps to streamline communications among its 100,000 global employees. Now the company has developed a consumer iPhone app, V...
- iPad Apps Entertain Kids on the Road. To silence the “dreaded ‘are we there yet’ whine” that can accompany summer travel with children, USA Today columnist Jinny Gudmundsen recommends iPad apps. Her picks include multiplayer board games, art apps, visual puzzles, and a “just fo...
- 15 Must-Have Games for iPad. Peter Cohen (Loopinsight.com) presents a selection of standout iPad games — ranging from action to strategy to multi-player crossword — with mini-reviews that detail how each app’s gameplay is enhanced on iPad.