Nathan Eddy

Online retailer Amazon€™s low-cost Kindle Fire shook up the tablet market upon its release in November 2011, and now it looks to be going after Apple€™s best-selling iPhone smartphone with a handset of its own, according to a report from Bloomberg, which quoted two unnamed sources with knowledge of the plans. According to one of […]

It€™s been a litigious week in the technology world, with Nokia telling Google and Asus to pay up for patents, Toshiba receiving an $87 million fine for price-fixing LCD panels and Yahoo and Facebook dropping patent litigation in favor of a new alliance. Now Apple is joining the roster of companies hit with patent suits […]

From confidential customer information, to intellectual property, to financial transactions, organizations possess massive amounts of information that must be collected, retained and analyzed to keep the business competitive, but it comes at a huge cost, according to security specialist Symantec€™s “State of Information Survey.” Digital information costs businesses worldwide $1.1 trillion annually, the report found, […]

Finding Higgs Rolf Heuer, director-general of CERN, and CMS experiment spokesman Joe Incandela share a laugh before the start of a press conference announcing the latest findings in the search for the Higgs Boson particle. Photo credit: CERN Proton Collision This graphic portrays a proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment producing two high-energy photons […]

Mobile phone maker Motorola is reaching into the business-oriented smartphone market with the release of the touch-screen Atrix HD, which sports a bevy of security and productivity features and a DuPont Kevlar fiber casing for enhanced strength and durability. A large 4.5-inch HD ColorBoost display, made of scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass, graces the front, and […]

Mobile and cloud security specialist Cummings Engineering announced the release of its flagship mobile security platform, SecureMobile, which features the company€™s Secure Agile Interoperable Framework for the Enterprise (SAIFE) technology. SAIFE enables users to achieve mobile security and information sharing across any network and any device. The technology leverages military grade encryption, known as the […]

Demand for safe, authenticated access to enterprise applications in an era of bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives is growing€”and so is the cost of implementing authentication strategies, according to a report from authentication specialists Encap. The study found enterprises with around 3,000 employees could save more than $165,000 by shifting to smart device-based software […]

Online retailer and maker of the popular 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon, has ordered 2 million units of the forthcoming next-generation version of the device from Quanta Computer, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware, according to a report in the China Times that was picked up by the technology blog UnwiredView. […]

The team of physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on the outskirts of Geneva said the organization€™s latest experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV (gigaelectronvolt, a unit of energy equal to billion electron volts), which could be the long-sought-after Higgs particle, commonly referred to as the […]

Consumer electronics and technology giant Toshiba has been fined $87 million by the US District Court in San Francisco for collaborating with other liquid crystal display (LCD) screen manufacturers to keep prices of the panels artificially high. LCD panels are used in a wide variety of devices, including televisions, computers and mobile devices such as […]

Software developers in general€”as well as Java, mobile software and Microsoft .Net developers in particular€”are in short supply today. Those fields represent four of the top five most difficult positions IT managers are looking to fill, according to a survey of 866 technology-focused hiring managers and recruiters by Web-based IT jobs site Dice.com. The fifth […]

As more and more tablet devices enter the marketplace€”Google and Microsoft are the latest to unveil tablets in an ever-expanding field€”users are growing more accustomed to them as part of their daily routine, with checking email and reading the news as the top two activities, according to a survey from IT research firm Gartner of […]