Satellite Smart Phone

Courtesy of AT&TDuring the 1990s, many believed satellite phones were the future of mobile communications. Rapidly expanding terrestrial cellular networks gobbled up most of the market instead. Still, satellite phones retained some technical advantages over cellular ones, principally in remote or rugged areas that are difficult to cover economically with cell towers....

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Google Gives a First Look at the Chrome OS

Google gave the first demonstration of its Chrome operating system today, at the same time opening the source code to the public. The company highlighted features that have grown out of what vice president of product management Sundar Pichai called "a fundamentally different model of computing." Unlike other operating systems, which merely incorporate the Internet, Chrome...

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Scrutinizing Facebook Spam

 A study that involved downloading more than three million Facebook profiles has provided the largest-ever snapshot of the methods used by spammers on the world's biggest online social network. The study, led by researchers at Northwestern University, turned up hundreds of thousands of spam messages, most of which were sent by compromised user accounts in coordinated...

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Thinking Outside the In-box

 Search the Internet, and you'll find hundreds of applications designed to help you collaborate with other people more effectively. But examine your own habits, and you'll most likely find that you use just one piece of software for that purpose: an e-mail client. You're not alone. A recent Forrester Research study found that 83 percent of business users typically send...

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Bendable Memory Made from Nanowire Transistors

Memory flexing: Nanowire transistors that switch between four different conductance states can be made on plastic substrates. Credit: Junginn Sohn, Cambridge Nanoscience Center ComputingBendable Memory Made from Nanowire Transistors A new type of device could ultimately hold more data than flash memory.Wednesday, October 20, 2010 By Prachi...

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iOS 4.2 Pours iPad a Strong, Smooth Shot of New Features

With iOS 4.2, iPads get a new Folders feature that lets users group app icons together. Change can stoke conflicted emotions in a computer user. There's the thrill of the new. Then there's the dread of problems that may erupt when the old meets the new. Admittedly, I felt those qualms when I prepared to upgrade my iPad to the latest version of its operating system, iOS...

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