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Bioengineering researchers at Stanford University have created a computational model of an entire organism, according to a report published in Cell. ...

NTP, the patent-holding company that won US$612.5 million in a 2006 case against RIM, announced Monday it has reached a settlement with 13 of the biggest players in the tech industry. Since NTP held eight U.S. patents relating to wireless email delivery, it battled most of the major smartphone manufacturers, vendors and the providers that transfer...

The 16 GB Nexus 7 tablet has sold out at Google Play and there is no indication when Google will have more of the devices in stock Shoppers who visit the Google Play store seeking to buy the tablet are invited to leave their email address so they can be notified when the product becomes available....

Former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson will be the new leader of ShopRunner, taking over the e-commerce site about two months after he left Yahoo amid a scandal ShopRunner announced the hire on Monday; former CEO Mike Golden will remain at the company as president....

U.S. government agencies are trying to meet fast-track goals to improve the acquisition and management of information technology resources. In a government setting that inherently involves myriad checkpoints, protocols, policies, and an exasperating budget process, change does not come easily or quickly One exception could be the Environmental Pro...

When Mary-Jane Mehlenbacher left the corporate world to have her daughter, she didn't realize she would be leaving behind network marketing software that worked. Mehlenbacher had decided to form her own home-based network marketing company but couldn't find an appropriate CRM software application that fit her needs and single-proprietor company size. So she decided to build her own application and sell that instead...

Most security professionals are probably very comfortable with using open source tools to implementtechnical security functionality. From nikto to snort to openssh -- there are literally hundreds of well-known, sophisticated, open source tools that perform useful and critical security functions. There are a number of advantages: Besides the obviou...

Amazon is looking to expand its mobileplatform with a line of tablet devices, with up to five or six SKUs(stock-keeping units). On Monday, reports surfaced that the retailer --which is marketing its own tablets as a way to help sell more digitalcontent including movies, music, apps and games -- would likely beavailable in multiple sizes This move c...

Digg is being rebuilt from the bottom up and will launch again on Aug. 1, just six weeks after Betaworks bought the social news aggregator A team of 10 engineers, designers and editors from Betaworks' News.me aggregation app said they're hard at work in an "adrenaline and caffeine-fueled six weeks" to redesign the site and restore it as an online s...

Moscow resident Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, 25, suspected of launching two denial-of-service attacks against Amazon in 2008, has been arrested in Cyprus via an international warrant Amazon experienced a sharp drop in orders during the attacks as legitimate customers were unable to complete their transactions, according to the Department of Justice in...

Google has acquired Sparrow, the maker of an email client available for various platforms, including Apple's iOS and Mac OS X The news comes one week after Sparrow announced that its product is ready for Mac OS X Mountain Lion and for Apple's Retina Display technology....

Microsoft security researcher Terry Zink pulled the pin on a virtual grenade when he aired his belief that he'd discovered a botnet manned by Android zombies After examining some spam, Zink found suggestions that the junk mail was being generated from Android smartphones with access to Yahoo mail accounts....

Every time people post an update, "like" a page, or otherwise engage with social media, their movements are tracked, followed and recorded. For businesses, this data is a gold mine of information about consumer thinking, preferences and opinions "Businesses should view social media as a treasure trove of data and insights that can virtually impact ...

I've been watching the battle for the White House with some trepidation, largely because I believe that given how dysfunctional Congress is, even a god would be ineffective as president. I voted for and have largely been disappointed in Obama who has so far repeated most of Jimmy Carter's mistakes. I haven't yet been a supporter of Romney, who ap...

Patents can be one of the most lucrative pieces of intellectual property a company can own, particularlyfor any business in the technology sector. However, they are also one of the most costly and expensiveforms of intellectual property available. For complicated patents, the application process can runupwards of US$10,000, filing fees can be upwards of $3,000 per country, and regular maintenance fees willcost hundreds of dollars a year over the life of the patent.

DirecTV subscribers will soon be able to get their MTV, as well as their daily fix of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, plus Nickelodeon and the 14 channels owned by Viacom, under a new agreement the two companies announced on Friday While terms of the deal were not disclosed, it appears that Viacom will receive more than US$600 million a year in...

Some of us have never heard of 3D printing. The fact is, this type of "printing" will revolutionize manufacturing and change where, how fast, and at what cost products will be produced Let's imagine for a moment a manufacturer's utopia -- being able to produce a tailor-made product at an unbelievably low cost and being able to make these products i...

The quarter ending June 30, 2012, was a solid three-month period for Google, despite the global economic turmoil and despite the costs associated with the Motorola acquisition, which closed in May The company reported a 35 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to reach US$12.2 billion. Net income reached $2.79 billion, compared with $2.51 billio...

Microsoft reported its first loss in more than two decades Thursday as an accounting adjustment and low PC sales hurt the software maker's numbers. However, the company remained optimistic that consumer demand will regain momentum when various upcoming products hit the market later this year. Before the company released its quarterly earnings Thur...

The Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law met on Wednesday to discuss the promise and pitfalls of facial recognition technology. Led by its chair, U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., the committee questioned privacy advocates as well as representatives of the FBI, the Federal Trade Commission and Facebook, about how the technology is being used and what privacy issues it raises.