A U.S. government computer vulnerability database and several other websites at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been down for nearly a week after workers there found malware on two Web servers. NIST's National ...
Scientists have taken the next step in the evolution of the computer chip, developing self-healing integrated chips. A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology) said they now can envision smartphone and computer chips ...
Tags: smartphones, computers, Self Healing Chips
Big Fish, the world's largest producer of casual games, today announced that "Match-Up! by Big Fish" is now available for free on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. "Match-Up! by Big Fish" is a real-time tournament game platform ...
Tags: casual games, games, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
Two researchers from security firm Imperva have devised new techniques that could allow attackers to extract sensitive information from users' encrypted Web traffic. The new methods build on those used in an attack called CRIME revealed ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
USA - Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden's new King Animal tour has hit the road with a grandMA2 full-size console supplied by Upstsaging. The national tour is in support of the rockers' sixth studio album, also called King Animal, which ...
Tags: media servers, LED, light source
If you're not sure about the purpose behind Daiyuu Nobori's online thesis project, perhaps the large picture of the collapse of the Berlin Wall will help. Nobori created VPN Gate to help individuals in countries that restrict Internet use ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Lovers of the soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader have vented anger over the decision to pull the plug on the RSS service and are petitioning to keep it alive. A "Keep Google Reader Running" petition at change.org had racked up more than ...
Tags: Google Reader, RSS service, Google
The vast majority of 3G and 4G USB modems handed out by mobile operators to their customers are manufactured by a handful of companies and run insecure software, according to two security researchers from Russia. Researchers Nikita ...
Tags: Usb Modems, Computer Products
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its Elastic Beanstalk to include Node.js, in an effort to make it easier to deploy and manage application development on its cloud. Elastic Beanstalk allows developers to upload an application and ...
Weekly classified magazine Auto Trader's shift to digital-only has been helped by its switch to a TelecityGroup datacentre, according to Tim Jones, the CIO of Trader Media Group (TMG), which owns the title. In an interview with Computing, ...
Tags: Auto Trader, site, internet connectivity
UK - Lighting and visuals rental company HSL is supplying all lighting equipment to the current series of the Googoosh Music Academy, which features a spectacular lighting design by Steffan Jones. The show, produced by Manoto TV is ...
Burger King saw a surprising upside after its Twitter stream was recently compromised: Tens of thousands of people began following its account. The company had about 50,000 followers before the hack, but that number shot up to more than ...
Tags: Twitter, Burger King
Until late January, Apple's App Store servers did not encrypt all communications with iOS clients, which exposed users to several potential attacks, according to a Google security researcher. "The Apple App Store and associated ...
Tags: iOS App Store, iOS clients, Apple
IT spending remained broadly strong throughout a difficult end to 2012, as business confidence waned in the shadow of the "fiscal cliff," economic growth declined in much of Europe, and economies in Asia/Pacific struggled to cope with ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, IT
In an effort to assure concerned users and investors that it is working to put past distractions aside, struggling Hewlett-Packard has taken several steps this year to bolster its full product line. This has come hand-in-hand with a ...
Tags: Whitman, HP, full product line