February 1, 2012
At least 80 people have died from a severe cold snap in central Europe saw temperatures drop as low as -22F (-30C) In Ukraine on Wednesday the emergency ministry said that death toll had now reached 43 after 13 people died overnight. Most of the victims so far have been homeless people who froze to ...
August 11, 2011
Checking Facebook messages on your phone is now one-tap easy. Facebook has published a new free app for iPhone and Android, Facebook Messenger, that unbundles its private message service from the all-in-one Facebook app. Rather than trying to combine your entire online life into one app, it goes the other way: Messenger, when started, goes ...
February 17, 2011
By Peter Burrows It’s been a big couple of weeks in mobile. Verizon Wireless finally got the iPhone. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) unveiled the first fruits of its Palm purchase last year. Nokia (NOK), the world’s biggest handset maker, abandoned its once-dominant Symbian mobile software system and demoted itself to a kind of glorified contract manufacturer of ...
October 26, 2010
By Patricia Cecil-Reed In today’s uncertain economy, job security is more important than ever. While it’s always important to have a job you enjoy, it’s also critical to land a job you can hope to keep even when the economy fluctuates. That’s why career changers of all ages are choosing to pursue degree programs and ...
October 16, 2010
Google is increasingly facing its share of controversies in both China and India – two countries that are also competing head-to-head on the IT, IT services and outsourcing fronts. To recap recent events: An investigation by Google official found that the company in mid-December had been hit with major cyber attacks it believes originated from ...
August 25, 2010
After the bloody hostage taking that took place in Manila, Philippines last August 23, 2010, a young boy from Samar, Philippines posted a letter to the world at CNN’s iReport site. “As you are reading this letter, I bet that you have seen/heard about what happened earlier in our country. Tourists were hostages of a ...
August 23, 2010
Apple applied for a new patent that can disable any jailbroken phones.
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Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device