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How big is the U.S. government? It's big enough that federal agencies transmit 1.89 billion email messages every day -- an average of 47.3 million daily emails per agency. How confident are the agencies about protecting the sensitive content of those messages? In a recent survey, federal email managers and IT security experts expressed mixed views ...

Astronomers have wondered for centuries about the possibility of Earth-like planets in the neighboring Alpha Centauri star system, but only just recently did their ongoing search bear fruit. Specifically, in an announcement made last week, European astronomers said they have discovered a planet with about the mass of Earth orbiting a star in Alpha Centauri...

In its ongoing effort to create the perfect map of the world at ground level, Google took a trek into the Grand Canyon this week. Although this is part of its Google Maps Street View project, there are of course no streets in the national park ...

Some 1,000 people gathered in New York City to see the long-ballyhooed Windows 8 unveiling on Thursday, and countless others watched a live stream from the Microsoft website. "Windows 8 shatters perceptions of what a PC really is," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the audience. "We've truly reimagined Windows."

AT&T added fewer new subscribers than expected in its most recent quarter, blaming iPhone 5 supply constraints for the relatively flat growth The company added 151,000 customers to long-term service contracts during the past quarter. Rival Verizon, the country's largest wireless carrier, reported last week it signed on 1.5 million net new customers...

AT&T added fewer new subscribers than expected in its most recent quarter, blaming iPhone 5 supply constraints for the relatively flat growth The company added 151,000 customers to long-term service contracts during the past quarter. Rival Verizon, the country's largest wireless carrier, reported last week it signed on 1.5 million net new customers...

It is that time of year again -- namely, prediction-making season. Gartner is the first out of the gate with its top 10 strategic tech trends for 2013 and a few years beyond, released this week at its Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla Following is a summary of Gartner's take on the trends to watch....

Goophone, a Chinese company best known for cloning Apple products, will release its iPad mini doppelganger in November According to GizmoChina, the "GooPad mini," which already appears on posters, will sell for US$99, while Apple's iPad mini will cost $329 but won't be sold right away in China....

If Sprint Nextel closes its deal with Japan-based Softbank, then more of the good old-fashioned American wireless telephone industry will be subject to foreign control -- three out of the top four wireless carriers in the U.S., in fact, will have their headquarters overseas. Is that a good thing or bad thing? It's all about branding. I'm not sure ...

"It is a good thing to follow the first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging." It was only 1988 when this nugget of wisdom was first recorded, according to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs It's one of my favorites, because it has so many applications in the business world. Unfortunately, the glib so-and-so who first uttered this turn of ...

At a recent search-and-rescue boot camp I attended, it was clear during unscientific tests I performed that a standalone, dedicated Global Positioning System device wasmore accurate navigating to waypoints than a smartphone with GPS chip -- but it was only by a few feet A dedicated GPS device that a buddy operated was spot-on when predeployed marke...

Asus unveiled its slew of new products Tuesday, showing off touch-capable PCs, hybrids, tablets and convertible Ultrabooks optimized to run on Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system. Windows is getting a radical redesign, and many of Asus' new products follow suit, featuring dramatic differences from previous PC and tablet models. One example ...

Microsoft's new Surface RT tablet won't officially go on sale until Friday, and the early reviews have praised the design and even the interface, but some critics have taken aim at a slow operating system and, notably, the shortage of applications ...

Facebook delivered a double whammy with its third-quarter earnings report: It came in slightly above Wall Street analysts' expectations, and it illustrated that, yes, it can deliver on its mobile promise Although it recorded a net loss of $59 million, revenue reached $1.26 billion, a 32 percent year-over-year increase. Best of all, though, was its ...

Huawei has offered Australian authorities unfettered access to its software code in an effort to combat the perception that it is a security risk, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp In March, Huawei was barred from participating in the construction of Australia's National Broadband Network because of security concerns. More recently, the...

Apple made it official Tuesday and unveiled its new iPad mini tablet along with a new iMac and MacBook Pro The MacBook Pro features a 2.6 GHz Intel processor, high-resolution Retina display and solid-state drive. The new MacBook, which will be 20 percent thinner than the previous generation, will start at US$1,700, while the new iMac -- a razor-thi...

The organisms that survive longest are those that most successfully adapt to shiftingenvironments and circumstances. That's a core concept behind the evolution ofbiological entities, and it also applies directly to business organizations, including ITvendors Supporting evidence, both historical and contemporary, is abundant. The vendors that work h...

Darhon Finance is a comprehensive personal finance program packed with features to manage finances and bank accounts, track credit cards and investments and plan for expenses. It goes far beyond serving as a typical electronic check or bank book register. That leap to being full financial package puts it in the realm of database functionality. Tha...

The Federal Trade Commission hopes to nip facial-recognition problems in the bud before things go too far. The agency offered guidelines for companies developing the technology in a staff report released this week The purposes for using facial recognition tools range from identifying a criminal or fugitive to displaying a highly customized ad that ...

Compete has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it used its Web-tracking software to collect personal data without disclosing the extent of its information-gathering activities, and failed to honor promises it made to protect the personal data it collected Under the settlement, Compete must obtain consumers' express consent befo...