As robots seek to mimic humans' ability to see and hear, they have a secret weapon in Microsoft's Kinect game motion-sensing controller.CNET From ACM News | December 7, 2011
A team of Stanford University researchers has bad news to report about Captchas, those often unreadable, always annoying distorted letters that you're required...CNET From ACM News | November 3, 2011
Say what you will about Microsoft's execution in developing cool products and services consumers want, where rivals such as Apple and Google have stolen a beat...CNET From ACM News | October 28, 2011
Security researchers Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong will demonstrate an attack that compromises Transport Layer Security 1.0 at the Ekoparty conference in Argentina...CNET From ACM TechNews | September 22, 2011
Eric Schmidt cut a confident figure today prior to his testimony before U.S. lawmakers, who later appeared determined to find out if Google abuses its supremacy...CNET From ACM News | September 22, 2011
The notion of Big Brother has been around for decades, but technology has long lagged behind the Orwellian imagination. Not any more; in the era of smartphones...CNET From ACM News | September 21, 2011
Much has been said about how the newly passed patent reform legislation, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, benefits large corporations. While that argument...CNET From ACM News | September 19, 2011
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Microsoft Research found that wireless operators may unknowingly be degrading performance on their networks as the...CNet From ACM TechNews | September 19, 2011
OpenDNS, Google, and Verisign have built new technology into their Internet operations that is designed to accelerate the delivery of data worldwide. CNET From ACM TechNews | September 1, 2011
Most people in the Western world walk around with a powerful computer in their pocket or purse, otherwise known as a smartphone. It's not unusual to see someone...CNET From ACM News | August 15, 2011
Hackers today are testing mobile devices ever more strenuously, but the work often stands on shaky legal ground, according to Jennifer Granick, an attorney for...CNET From ACM News | August 8, 2011
Researcher Don A. Bailey will be showing at the Black Hat security conference how easy it is to open and even start a car remotely by hacking the cellular network...CNET From ACM News | August 1, 2011
It's typical for Microsoft to show off its latest wares at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, if only to amp up partners' enthusiasm for hawking the software...CNET From ACM News | July 20, 2011
British tabloid News of the World said it is closing down over a phone hacking scandal in which workers for the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper allegedly snooped...CNET From ACM News | July 11, 2011
Thirty years ago, Andy Hertzfeld was a young computer engineer working at Apple Computer on the first Macintosh under the leadership of Steve Jobs. As Jobs had...CNET From ACM Opinion | July 7, 2011
Apple picked up a patent Tuesday that could come in very handy in today's thicket of smartphone-related intellectual property litigation.CNET From ACM News | June 23, 2011
For several months, hackers have been having a heyday taking down Web sites and leaking data from compromised servers with victims ranging from the CIA and U.S...CNET From ACM News | June 22, 2011