Microsoft on Thursday revealed new details about Windows on ARM (WOA) on the company’s development blog. Both Windows 8 for x86 PCs and WOA are still under development, however both will be available... Read more

In 1991, Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs was considered for a sensitive position in the Bush Administration, according to a recently released FBI dossier. The 191-page file reveals a background investigation... Read more

The recent federal takedown of notorious file-sharing service Megaupload was initially seen as a huge victory for owners of copyrighted music and movies, but new research shows this may not be the case.... Read more

Airline industry representatives and a US transportation official told members of Congress yesterday that LightSquared's planned 4G LTE network would interfere with a GPS-based... Read more

Airline industry representatives and a US transportation official told members of Congress yesterday that LightSquared’s planned 4G LTE network would interfere with a GPS-based navigation system that government and industry has invested $8 billion in.

The Federal Aviation Administration and industry “have invested as much as $8 billion into NextGen,” which is designed to “transform America’s air traffic control system from the aging groundbased system of today to a satellite-based system of the future,” US Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary John Porcari said in testimony given at a Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee hearing. 

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The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple on Thursday that reveals a 3D eye-tracking-based interface that could be used for gaming, digital photography and videography... Read more

HTC announced on Thursday that an Ice Cream Sandwich update will be available for select devices by the end of March. The announcement came through the company’s Facebook page and states that the... Read more

When new CEO Thorsten Henis took the reins at Research In Motion, he immediately pointed to the smartphone vendor’s marketing strategy as an area the company needed to focus on if it hoped to regain... Read more

Hackers protesting harsh working conditions at iPhone manufacturer Foxconn dumped what they said were megabytes of private data belonging to the outsourcing giant. "Note: The passwords... Read more

Hackers protesting harsh working conditions at iPhone manufacturer Foxconn dumped what they said were megabytes of private data belonging to the outsourcing giant.

“Note: The passwords inside these files could allow individuals to make fraudulent orders under big companies like Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Intel, and Dell,” a group calling itself Swagg Security wrote in a message posted to Pastebin. “Be careful.” The purported contents were made available in a torrent on The Pirate Bay.

The group said Foxconn’s network was protected by “an appropriate firewall, but fortunately to our intent, we were able to bypass it almost flawlessly.” Over several days, the hackers claimed, they were able to access most data of significance. It didn’t take long after the dump for images such as this one to circulate that suggested Foxconn systems were configured in ways that revealed key information about its internal topology.

Several Foxconn servers were reportedly taken offline over the past day.

The stunt coincided with protests planned at a half-dozen of Apple retail stores around the world by demonstrators opposing the conditions of workers who manufacture iPhones and other Apple hardware. A recent series carried by The New York Times documented long hours, low pay, and an explosion that killed several workers at Foxconn, which also makes hardware for Cisco, Dell, Sony, HP, and others.

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Rumors of Google launching a cloud storage service known as "GDrive" have been coming and going for years, with no actual product ever making its way to consumers. But the Wall Street... Read more

Rumors of Google launching a cloud storage service known as “GDrive” have been coming and going for years, with no actual product ever making its way to consumers. But the Wall Street Journal says Google is, finally, perhaps only weeks away from launching the service, now simply called “Drive.”

Drive could have been pretty revolutionary, especially if it had launched back in 2007 when the Journal also said it was ready to be unveiled within a few months. Now, Google will have to compete against Dropbox and other well-established storage services. Still, Google could make an impact simply by redirecting its existing users to the new service, and undercutting the competition in price.

Google Docs already offers free storage for any type of file, with each user given up to 1GB of free space, compared to 2GB from Dropbox. But Google Docs users can purchase an extra 20GB of storage for a mere $5 a year, or 80GB for $20 a year, considerably cheaper than Dropbox rates of $9.99 per month for 50GB and $19.99 per month for 100GB. Presumably, Google Drive would be far more convenient to use than Google Docs storage, but an article in ExtremeTech speculates that Google will use similar pricing in Drive to attract users.

But given that the actual service’s existence has been rumored for years without coming to fruition, it’s still all speculation until Google confirms it.

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It’s a turbulent time in the world of content distribution. Despite a successful protest against overly restrictive anti-piracy legislation, law enforcement has demonstrated... Read more

It’s a turbulent time in the world of content distribution. Despite a successful protest against overly restrictive anti-piracy legislation, law enforcement has demonstrated its already considerable power to take copyright-infringing websites offline, and several hosting and torrent sites have gone dark voluntarily to evade prosecution.

In the middle of all these warring groups—or perhaps more accurately, completely removed from them—stands BitTorrent, Inc., a company whose technological innovation gave the Internet important new capabilities, making it easier for everyone to share files, both legally and illegally. Although the word “BitTorrent” is often used in context with the word “piracy,” the company itself has steered clear of legal problems by avoiding any distribution of unlicensed content, and narrowing its focus to delivering the best Internet file-sharing technology it’s capable of building.

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