Indrani Medhi, a software engineer, has designed a software that permits illiterate people to access a computer...

China's monopoly on the global supply of elements critical for production of computer hard disc drives, hybrid-electric cars, military weapons, and other key products - and its increasingly strict limits on exports - is setting the stage for a crisis in the United...

Submarines need to probe ocean depths, and that too without being visible to enemies at times - both properties that they can now implement using new nanotube...

A technology that improves voice clarity on mobile phones by filtering out unwanted sounds is on...

A physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has helped NASA scientists observe a "hidden" layer of the Sun where violent space weather can originate, by positioning a crucial UV sensor inside a space-borne...

China has installed the country's first domestically-made supercomputer capable of doing 1,000 trillion operations per...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a miniature device that can make complex viscosity measurements on sample sizes as small as a few...

Indian animated movie maker Compact Disc India and software company Micro Technologies continue to members of Forbes Asia's "Best Under A Billion" list, even as 151 new companies have made their maiden appearance on the list this...

Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Sachin Pilot said there would be no compromise with national security concerns in resolving the critical deadlock between Canada-based BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) and the...

Internet giant Google has been cleared of gathering personal wireless internet data during its street view operation in New...

Soon, scientists could be introducing a technique that detects fake medicines - a problem that is plaguing developing countries, especially Africa, where half of the malaria medication sold could be ineffective or even...

Scientists have discovered a new infrared technology to look deeper into the guts of cells, potentially opening up a new frontier in the fight against cancer and many other...

BOFI ) ("BofI"), parent of Bank of Internet USA (the "Bank"), today announced the hiring of Tom Constantine as Executive Vice President, Chief Credit Officer and Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer and...

NileGuide today announced the hiring of two technology leaders to their team, VP of Engineering Peter Alley and Director of Software Development Nick Atkins. Peter takes the reins of NileGuide's...

SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - September 2, 2010) - Widevine, a provider of digital entertainment solutions, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed...

RGBL ) through its wholly owned subsidiary SET IP Holdings, on August 27, 2010 acquired a 15% interest in World Environmental Solutions Pty Ltd (WES Pty Ltd) of Brisbane, Australia, and acquired WES...

A new co-working office space for technology- and creative-related entrepreneurs has opened in Fort Lauderdale. White Table Foundation -- also known as WTF -- is located at 1109 Las Olas Blvd. The...

NSM toolset enables IT departments to remotely manage, monitor and report on the availability and performance of any device on a distributed network, including desktops, laptops, servers, printers,...

ReputationDefender , the global leader in online privacy and reputation management, today was named a Technology Pioneer 2011 by the World Economic Forum. This prestigious award recognizes...

VRSN ), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, announced that Mark McLaughlin, president and chief executive officer, and Brian Robins, executive vice...

A new medical school training undergraduate doctors in Singapore and awarding joint Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) degrees is to be established by 2013, it was...

Go Pro HD Hero camera looks like a toy you would find inside a carton of cereal; it’s a tiny little box, just a couple of inches square in every direction. But as soon as you turn it on and...

A mother and daughter who had their home and barn torn apart by hurricane Juan in 2003 look back on the serious storm and share how the Atlantic region is preparing for the possibility of being...

webcast: “Where to Focus Your In-House E-Discovery Efforts and Why ” with featured Vice President Distinguished Analyst Debra Logan from Gartner, Inc., and an opinion leader from...

Researchers claim to have successfully cracked the quantum cryptography equipment used to cloak high-sensitive communications by banks and defense...

Mobile phone users in China are now being asked to provide identification when they set up a new account, and those with existing accounts will eventually need to provide ID, according to reports. ...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- AOL says Google will continue to offer up search results on its websites under a new 5-year deal the companies signed this week. The agreement largely reinforces...

RUSTON, La. (AP) — Louisiana Tech is adding BYU to its 2011 and 2012 schedules as a part of the Western Athletic Conference's scheduling agreement with BYU. Louisiana Tech will host BYU in 2011...

About 72 percent of adult mobile phone users say they text, up from 65 percent last year And about 87 percent of teens say they use their phones to text, a new survey says Teens text five times more,...

Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, announced on Thursday it would discontinue its popular mobile file-sharing service called Ovi Files as of October 1.Nokia spokesman Tapani Kaskinen said...

Samsung unveiled on Thursday what the South Korean electronics giant hopes will be the first major rival to Apple's highly successful iPad tablet PC.The Galaxy Tab, presented at the IFA consumer...

William Hague has said that he and his wife decided to go public with intimate details about their private life because they had "had enough" of untrue allegations circulating on the...

was out in force in London today, reiterating their support for more regulations to protect the creative industries against all those nasty filesharers. According to industry chiefs gathered at...

Among the wonders shown at the 1964 New York World’s Fair was the AT&T Picturephone, a system that allowed two people in video-telephone booths to make phone calls while peering at each...

Swype has found its way onto the Symbian mobile phone operating system. The software allows one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard to input text, which means you can input...

to pay software licensing fees can now get their mitts on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 (WP7), as the Vole has released its redesigned mobile operating system to manufacturing. The Vole announced that...

and see and hear Thomas Richter, Samsung telecommunications Europe portfolio management head, detail the features of the Galaxy Tab tablet. Launched at IFA 2010, the 380g Galaxy Tab has features such...

Duracel has started flogging its Mygrid wireless charging pad in Blighty. The product allows drop-and-go charging for up to four devices at once, and prevents the need for lots of cords when you are...

Globalfoundries and Freescale Semiconductor are planning to create a new class of thin film storage (TFS) flash memory using 90nm process technology. Apparently it will be bunged into Freescale...

Nokia has decided to pull the plug on its Ovi Files Connector service. According to its website Nokia will shut down the service on 1 October, and users should uninstall the Ovi Files Connector...

that it is to close its Ovi Files service from the 1st of October. In a statement sent to Ovi users the Finnish mobile behemoth told customers about the demise of the remote file storage service and...

want to exchange their tablet for Samsung's Galaxy Tab that has more features including a 3MP camera enabled augmented reality enhancment for navigation services. Launched here at IFA 2010 the Tab...

Apple - Prapple? - hacks and hackettes. ReadWriteWeb has been looking at the promo page and discovered that the Jobs Mob decided to leave out some interesting Tweets from Apple-friendly pop hit Lady...

smartphone popularity worldwide. In the first half of 2010, ZTE had shipped 17 million handsets to markets outside of China, making up 60 percent of total shipments. It said this was an increase of...

modified radio-controlled helicopter . The aircraft carried photovoltaic cells optimised for the laser wavelength, which converted about half the laser power reaching them to generate a few watts of...

VMware CEO Paul Maritz's argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in the IT world. Maritz didn't actually predict that operating systems are doomed, but he did argue in...

Hurricane Earl today continues to threaten the east coast of the U.S. in the midst of what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts will be...

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs speaks on stage showing the size difference of the redesigned Apple TV box at Apple's music-themed September media event in San Francisco, California September 1,...

This audience of boys and girls aged 8 to 11 has game publishers launching new games like Disney Online's "World of Cars Online" and Sony Online Entertainment's "Star Wars: Clone Wars...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. communications regulators on Wednesday put off a controversial decision on Internet traffic rules, giving industry and consumer groups a chance to forge a compromise while...