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Just days away from Research In Motion's Jan. 30 launch of the BlackBerry 10 platform, which includes a new operating system and a fresh lineup of phones, the advertising machine has yet to churn into action. That doesn't mean RIM isn't busy building buzz, however. Several press releases have fueled news stories, tweets and mentions across social ...

Leap Motion, which makes a 3D controller that can track movements smaller than the tip of a pin, on Wednesday announced that it has entered a limited exclusive agreement with Best Buy The deal will see Best Buy build endcaps in the 1,056 stores it has in the United States to display Leap's controllers, as well as devices that run them and associat...

So now we know why Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg have been so busy recruitingformer Google big brains: They coveted their mastery of algorithms, their sure-footedness in navigating mountains of Web-based data The result? Facebook Graph Search, announced Tuesday by Zuckerberg. Those whowere quick to ask for invites will soon get to play with the beta...

Finding anything on Facebook has been a difficult exercise for years, but that's about to change After a year of intense, secret development, the social network on Tuesday rolled out its new search technology called "Graph Search."

Video games strive to be realistic, but this was probably too real Two game developers from the Czech Republic were released on bail after being jailed for taking photos and videos of military bases and installations in Greece, according to the BBC....

Users of the Internet and electronic gear are vulnerable to criminals near and far, but we don't always hear about what happens at court and whether the alleged criminals are convicted or acquitted Here is an update on some those crimes for consideration....

Xvidcap is a small tool to capture whatever goes on within the borders of an X-Windows display. It lets you capture what you do either as individual frames or as an MPEG video. ...

Just which are the best apps out there enabling us to make the most of our phones, tabletsand computers? Over the last few weeks, TechNewsWorld's All Things Appy has beentaking a hard look at these newfangled software program disrupters This week, All Things Appy looks at must-have, 21st century business-orientedtools in the Chrome Web browser envi...

Investors sent Dell stock soaring Monday when reports surfaced that the struggling PC maker is in discussions to go private. Representatives from the third-largest PC maker are in talks with TPG Capital and Silver Lake about a private-equity investment that would give Dell breathing room to regroup outside the public eye, according to a report fro...

Cnet tech reporter Greg Sandoval resigned Monday, protesting parent company CBS' ban on the publication's planned review of Dish's Hopper DVR service. CBS no doubt found itself in a maddening position: The Dish service is equipped with its Auto Hop ad-skipping technology. CBS and several other broadcasters filed suit against Dish last spring, alle...

Fresh off his trip to North Korea -- and right behind Apple CEO Tim Cook's trip to China -- Google chairman Eric Schmidt joined a panel discussion at the "Geek Park" conference in Beijing, according to Tencent Tech Schmidt reportedly reminded the developers in attendance that despite Apple's popularity in China -- the iPhone 5 sold more than 2 mill...

Data brokers are watching your every move online. They track the sitesyou visit, articles you read, purchases you make, and even the names ofyour children. To cut through the red tape of monitoring and removingstored information, online privacy company Abine is offering a mobile version of its DeleteMe monitoring service, which is available for devices running iOS...

Kaspersky Lab on Monday announced the discovery of a massive cyberespionage operation that has been active for at least five years and has infiltrated computer networks at diplomatic, governmental and scientific research organizations in Europe, North America and Central Asia The campaign, which the company has named "Red October," is still active ...

For IT vendors in the federal market, the saga of the 2011 Budget Control Act presents some slight benefits in the very short run, even though reduced federal spending may have a longer-term impact The BCA set the stage for a 10-year program to control the rate of federal spending and reduce the national deficit that included a sequestration mechan...

2013: The Year of Mobile CRM, Part 1 2013 is just two weeks old, but executives in the mobile CRM space have a clear idea of how they hope the rest of it will unfold. What they want, in a word, is more: more mobile CRM functionality; availability on more devices; more vendors supplying applications....

The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly EverythingBy Olivier Lecarme and Karine Delvare No Starch PressJanuary 2013, 676 pp.US$49.95 print book with free e-book$39.95 e-book (PDF, Mobi, ePub)The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything combines a step-by-step approach to learning how to use this epic graphic image manipulation prog...

Sometimes you can do everything right and still run into trouble. To see this in action, pay attention the next time you're driving at dusk -- for example during an evening commute, if you have one If you do this, chances are good that you'll notice at least one person with their headlights turned off. It's not that they're doing anything malicious...

PC sales sank in the fourth quarter of 2012 due to increased competition from smartphones and tablet devices, Gartner said in a report released Monday Shipments totaled some 90.3 million units -- a 4.9 percent decline from the fourth quarter a year earlier, the firm found. In the U.S. market, PC shipments fell 2.1 percent from the year prior to 17....

Oracle released a fix over the weekend for two serious vulnerabilitiesin Java, but this doesn't seem to have improved matters much Thevulnerabilities, which affect Web browsers using Java 7 plugins, letattackers remotely exploit target systems without needing a username orpassword....

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday weighed in on a dispute between video game company GameFly and the U.S. Postal Service, siding with GameFly's position that the post office has been practicing price discrimination among its customers GameFly's original suit alleged that USPS was providing better terms of serv...