Yahoo has filed suit against unnamed “lottery spammers” who tried to fool people into thinking that they won a prize from Yahoo so they’d share passwords, credit card numbers, or other sensitive information.
The Internet company on Tuesday said it filed the suit in the U.S. District Court …
AeroVironment is set to design and build a 3-inch nano air vehicle for DARPA.
(Credit: AeroVironment)
Unmanned aerial vehicles are becoming a big deal for the armed forces, even when they’re really small.
AeroVironment said Tuesday that it has gotten the go-ahead, in the form of a Phase II …
Google is expected to update its Google Web Toolkit (GWT) this week at its new developer conference, according to eWeek.
GWT is designed to help programmers write richer Internet applications using a beefed-up JavaScript programming technique called Ajax; the project was released as open-source software in 2006 with version 1….
Chip designer Via Technologies unveiled its VIA OpenBook Mini-Note reference design Monday, in a move to throw in some open source into its core business of developing chips for super small mobile devices.
The OpenBook reference design aims to aide PC makers in creating ultra-small portable notebooks based on VIA’…
Just because Google so obviously loves the idea of cloud computing, don’t think the company doesn’t care about what happens at the other end of the network connection, too.
As former President Bill Clinton used to say, there’s a third way: Google wants to improve technology on …
Since I tend to reopen files repeatedly, I like Microsoft Office’s list of recently used files that appears at the bottom of the File menu in Office 2003 apps, and on the right side of the window that opens when you click the Office button in their 2007 counterparts. (…
Wolfgang Ziebart
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The CEO of German chipmaker Infineon Technologies will step down next week, the company said Monday.
Wolfgang Ziebart, who has run the company since 2004, is leaving on June 1 “due to different opinions on the future strategic orientation of the company,” Infineon said in a …
Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information” over the Web, YouTube parent Google said in a legal response to the suit.
The response, reported by the Associated Press, was filed late Friday in U.S. District Court …
Advanced Micro Devices’ ATI graphics chip unit doesn’t want to build “huge” chips like rival Nvidia, an executive says.
But an Nvidia exec says smaller isn’t always better or more efficient.
Such statements will help define how the two chip giants do battle at the high end of …
The Mars Phoenix Lander parachutes down to Mars on Sunday, in this image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona )
The first images from the Phoenix Mars Lander have confirmed that the solar panels needed for its energy supply unfolded as planned and …