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Asus Revs Up a Lean, Mean Transformer 2 Tablet

Asus offered the world a sneak peek at the company's upcoming Transformer 2 tablet at the AsiaD conference in Hong Kong earlier this week, laying to rest speculation that the device's launch might be delayed More details on the device will be formally announced Nov. 9, Chairman Jonney Shih told AllThingsD....

T-Mobile and the $200K Phone Bill: What's Wireless Data Worth?

A woman in Florida was floored recently by a T-Mobile cellphone bill that totaled nearly a quarter of a million dollars, according to Miami TV station WSVN After intervention on the part of the TV station's news department, though, the carrier slashed Celina Aarons' bill from US$200,000 down to $2,500....

Google Serves Up Ice Cream Sandwich With a Nexus on the Side

Google unveiled Android 4.0, aka "Ice Cream Sandwich," in Hong Kong on Wednesday. The presentation was accompanied by Samsung's announcement of the Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone running Ice Cream Sandwich ...

Motorola's New Razr: Cutting-Edge or Just Another Droid?

Motorola Mobility on Tuesday announced its latest smartphone, confirming many of the rumors and spec leaks that had already begun to surround the handset ...

SCIENCE

And Now for Something Completely Different: Nanostuff Lets Computers Remake Themselves

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomaterial that can reconfigure itself by directing the flow of current This could lead to computers that can reconfigure their internal circuitry as needed....

New App Aims to Make Energy Use Top of Mind for Facebook Users

A new partnership plans to create a Facebook app that will leverage social networking to improve consumer awareness about energy consumption The partnership consists of the social networking giant, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and energy information software creator Opower....

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

October's Scary Security Surprises

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month -- so says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which asserts Americans have a shared responsibility in increasing the resiliency of the nation and its online infrastructure Perhaps other federal bodies and departments should visit that website, beginning with the United States Air Force (USAF...

RIM's Apology Gift Bag Gets Mixed Reactions

Battered by customer outrage worldwide over its BlackBerry network failures last week, as well as strong sales of the iPhone 4S from rival Apple, Research In Motion on Monday announced a slew of free gifts in an attempt to remedy the situation Consumers who own BlackBerries will get premium apps worth more than US$100 for free, while enterprise cus...

Specs on Motorola's Droid 'Razr' Dribble In

Motorola and Verizon Wireless are reportedly about to unveil a Droid challenger to the highly touted Apple iPhone 4S The two have invited the press to an event to be held Oct. 18....

AMD Breaks New Ground With FX Bulldozer Processors

Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled its FX Series family of processors, which includes two it heralds as the first eight-core desktop CPUs These are the first processors available in retail that use AMD's new Bulldozer multicore architecture....

Sneaky App Masquerades as Netflix in Latest Android Malware Scare

A fake Netflix app for Android that steals users' data has popped up in an Android user forum, according to Symantec. [*Correction - Oct. 13, 2011] The security vendor has named it "Android.Fakeneflic." The app consists of a splash screen followed by a log-in screen, which captures the victim's information and posts it to an outside server....

HP Teetering on PC Spinoff Gambit

Newly minted HP CEO Meg Whitman is rethinking the company's decision to spin off its PC division, the Wall Street Journal has reported Fresh analyses apparently indicate the cost of a spinoff might outweigh its benefits....

BlackBerry's Thorny Problem Chokes Service in North America

Research In Motion's continuing BlackBerry service disruptions hit customers in North America Wednesday This makes the disruptions, which first emerged in Europe, the Middle East and Africa on Monday, a worldwide phenomenon....

Feds Secretly Fish Through Suspects' Online Lives

The United States Department of Justice recently used a secret court order to get information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to the Wall Street Journal The DoJ reportedly put the squeeze on Google and Sonic.net, a small Internet service provider (ISP), to turn over the email addresses of the people with wh...

Titan Starts Training for Supercomputing's World Cup

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded U.S. supercomputer manufacturer Cray a contract to upgrade its existing Jaguar supercomputer The contract, which Cray pegs as worth US$97 million, will cover a multi-phase process scheduled for completion in 2013....

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Malware in the Office, in the Sky and on the Phone

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and it's being rung in for federal agencies with a couple of slaps to the head and a kick or two to the shins First, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report that stated 24 major federal agencies have inadequate IT security. I...

Acer's Ultrabook Muscles Into Tablet Territory

Acer released its Aspire S3 ultrabook in the U.S. on Monday ...

SCIENCE

Physicists: If There Is a God Particle, We'll Find It Soon

The long search for the fabled Higgs boson may be drawing to its end ...

Oracle Brews a Stronger Cup of Java

Oracle this week made a slew of announcements around the programming language and computing platform Java, which it acquired when it purchased Sun Microsystems in 2009 At the JavaOne conference, Oracle disclosed a road map for Java Standard Edition (SE) on Mac OS X....

Teens Grapple With Cyberethics in the Digital Age

Adolescents growing up in a digital, highly mobile world are increasingly coming to grips with questions of ethics and behavior, with mixed results On the one hand, cyberpranking and cyberharrassment have increased. On the other, more kids are willing to intervene when they see cyberharrassment....

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