The lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system says that he believes that a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project "was probably contracted to write backdoors," which would grant secret access to encrypted communications.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an information investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mark Hurd's departure from Hewlett-Packard, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

A jövő év a gyorsabb és nagyobb grafikus memóriával rendelkező processzorok éve lehet a Nokiánál.

A New York Times szerint a CES alkalmával bemutatandó táblagépek némelyikén már a Windows 8 előzetes változata fut majd.

At next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft will demonstrate a number of new Windows-run tablets and possibly even an early version of the next generation Windows 8 operating system, according to reports.

Lapértesülés szerint iPad riválisokkal készül a Microsoft a CES-re. A Windows 8 is előkerülhet.

Google opened its Web application store for Chrome browser users on Tuesday, offering highly interactive, graphically rich applications from a variety of sources, including National Public Radio, Amazon.com, Electronic Arts and Sports Illustrated.

Az Nvidia szerint a kétmagos chipek már jövőre a tabletek és okostelefonok ?alapfelszereltségéhez? tartozhatnak. A cég szerint a többmagos processzorok használata a teljesítmény fokozása mellett az üzemidő meghosszabbítását is lehetővé tenné.

Retailers in Japan began accepting reservations for Sharp's new Galapagos media tablet on Friday ahead of its launch next week. Sharp hopes to sell a million of the devices and in doing so take the lead in Japan from competitors like Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle.

The European Commission is investigating allegations that Google has abused its dominant position in online search to promote its other services, such as price comparators, the Commission announced Tuesday.

A Live Spaces szolgáltatásról eddig több mint 500 ezer felhasználót tereltek át a Wordpress.com-ra.

While many Oracle customers are interested in running IT services on private clouds, most are still in the early stages of development, a new study from the Independent Oracle Users Group has found.

China will investigate and prosecute Google next July if the search engine company does not acquire the necessary state license to operate its Google Maps service in the country, according to the government.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

Three men found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law for their part in running The Pirate Bay have lost their appeal, while a fourth man still awaits trial.

Research In Motion has not agreed to turn over corporate data sent to and from BlackBerry devices to the Indian government, contrary to reports that surfaced on Wednesday, RIM said.

When it comes to power-efficient computing, CPUs are weighed down by too many legacy features to outperform GPUs (graphics processing units) in executing common tasks in parallel, said the chief scientist for the GPU vendor Nvidia.

Az Intel együttműködésbe kezdett néhány iparági szakértő céggel, hogy javítson az amerikai futball sisakok biztonságán. Legújabb ötletük nyomán Atom processzorokra alapuló mérőrendszereket építenek a sisakokba, hogy azok valós idejű adatokat szolgáltathassanak az egészségügyi személyzet számára arról, hogy épp milyen hatások érték a játékosokat.

Intel has been working with several industry experts to improve the safety of football helmets, including an idea to put its tiny Atom microprocessors inside football helmets to measure and feed real-time impact data to medical personnel on the sidelines of a game.

Misys is buying fellow financial services software vendor Sophis for ?435 million (US$595 million), creating a company with products for both buy-side and sell-side purposes, the company announced Friday. The deal is expected to close before the end of February.