HomeDevelopment

Development

Repurposed iRobot Military ‘PackBots’ Enter Damaged Japanese Nuclear Plant

A pair of 60-pound military robots originally designed for such tasks as disarming bombs and combat zone surveillance have entered reactor buildings at the...

Sophos Demands Facebook Make Security, Privacy Default Settings

Web security firm Sophos has posted an open letter to Facebook taking the social networking giant to task for its ongoing safety and privacy...

Apple Sued by Dad over In-App Purchases Policy

Apple is being sued by Pennsylvania man Garen Meguerian, whose 9-year-old daughter, using an iPod Touch, racked up $200 in fees playing "Zombie Caf??«,"...

Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Update, IE10, Big Patch Tuesday: Microsoft’s Week

Microsoft's week involved two conferences, featuring executives who detailed plans for the cloud and products such as Windows Phone 7.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking...

RIM PlayBook: An Early Look

Research In Motion has high hopes for the PlayBook. Not only will its proprietary QNX operating system eventually power the company's smartphones, but RIM...

Microsoft to Push IE9 to Windows Users This Week

Microsoft plans to start pushing Internet Explorer 9 to Windows 7 and Windows Vista users via Windows Update, in a likely bid to rapidly...

RIM Playbook, BlackBerry Could Use Better Spokesmen than Lazardis, Balsillie

Things have been tough recently at the Waterloo, Ontario, headquarters of Research In Motion. At the start of the week of April 10, RIM...

Adobe Swiftly Patches Critical Zero-Day Flash Bug

As promised, Adobe has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player that criminals were already exploiting with malicious Word and Excel documents.The new version...

Apple TV Service Could Rival Google TV in Cloud

New life was breathed into the old rumor that Apple could release an Web-fueled TV set by an analyst who believes such as launch...

Verizon iPhone Boosts iOS Ads vs. Android: Millennial

Verizon Wireless's iPhone 4 helped boost ad impressions for Apple's iOS to 31 percent through March from 27 percent in February.iOS' gain helped trim...