Reports

The most famous quote from the Facebook movie The Social Network—A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars—has become a phrase born in fiction that has nevertheless resonated through mainstream cultures as the company’s raison d’être. But the web site’s real foreign money is lively customers and, except cash concerns, that [...]
Microsoft nowadays launched so-called “Fix It” software so as to protect home windows customers from a vital internet Explorer hole being exploited in attacks until the company releases a cumulative replace for IE on Friday. The Fix It tool “is an easy, one-click solution that will help protect your computer right away. It will not [...]
For at least the second year in a row, Fort Lauderdale has grabbed first place among the top 50 destinations in the United States for the lowest combined travel-related taxes, according to a report released Monday. Chicago had the highest travel tax burden with $40.31 in combined single-day travel taxes, making it 81 percent more [...]
After spending most of the business day offline, services are restored for Go Daddy customers, company says. Web sites serviced by Web hosting and domain registrar Go Daddy were back online early this evening after being down for much of the work day, a company spokeswoman told CNET. All services are restored and at no [...]
Chip giant will talk about a new series of mainstream chips next week that are much more power efficient than today’s processors. Intel will disclose a new series of ultra-power-efficient chips aimed at tablets and convertibles at the Intel Developer Forum next week. The Intel 4th Generation Core chips, codenamed “Haswell,” will come close to [...]
Months after Hewlett-Packard originally announced the open-source version of WebOS, the beta version of the platform is on its way out the door. Today’s release includes two environments for developers. The first is the laptop construct, which is alleged to give you the ideal development atmosphere for designing the WebOS user experience with more features [...]
Are the deepest secrets of your mind safe? Could thieves trick you into revealing your bank card PIN or computer passwords just by thinking about them? Theoretically, it could happen. Ivan Martinovic of the University of Oxford and colleagues at the University of Geneva and University of California at Berkeley describe research into that question [...]
Slow network speeds got you down? On Monday, computing experts will announce they’re tackling the next speed bump for the venerable Ethernet standard. But don’t expect to find the new speed option on your next computer’s feature list. The same old, to be produced by way of the Institute of electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), [...]
SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage service, has gotten a ‘more modern’ make-over. Microsoft officials took the wraps off the contemporary update to SkyDrive on August 14, the day before Microsoft is ready to begin rolling out the official home windows 8 RTM bits to builders, IT execs and extent licensees.The changes to SkyDrive.com were detailed in [...]
Live Mesh users, read the Windows Essentials 2012 fine print. Microsoft is doing what some had feared in latest services bundle — replacing it with SkyDrive, which still doesn’t offer the same set of features. Microsoft yesterday released a new bundle of free services meant to complement Windows 7 and Windows 8. Now known as [...]