If you didn't get an email warning this week that your name and email address were part of a database that was breached, consider yourself lucky, and unique.CNET From ACM News | April 6, 2011
There's no doubt the latest crop of stable browsers from Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are the best the companies have ever produced. But how do they perform...CNET From ACM News | March 29, 2011
While changes in the ancient market-share rivalry between chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices were unremarkable in 2010, the emergence of Apple as a force...CNET From ACM News | March 25, 2011
After a security problem derailed it last year, a technology to open a high-speed browser communications link is getting back on track again.CNET From ACM News | March 22, 2011
While the secret for Apple's success seems patently obvious to most&meash;as obvious as the form and function of the iPhone 4—a more subtle reason is the company's...CNET From ACM Opinion | January 24, 2011
George Mason University researchers were scheduled to demonstrate a computer device attack using a USB cable at the Black Hat DC conference. CNet From ACM TechNews | January 21, 2011
Wolfram Research, a software company with deep mathematical and scientific expertise, is expanding to the broad education market with a range of mobile apps.CNET From ACM News | January 18, 2011
The U.S. Senate judiciary committee will renew its effort to pass the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act this spring, which would give the government...CNet From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2011
Consumer electronics companies used to tout the energy efficiency of individual gadgets. Now many want to make your whole house more efficient.CNET From ACM News | January 10, 2011
As smartphones using Google's Android operating system become mainstream, James Steele and Nelson To are in a pretty good position.CNET From ACM Opinion | December 30, 2010
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology researchers have developed a method to preserve the world's treasures in three-dimensional life-like models using...CNet Asia From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2010
The easiest way to sum up the Web in 2010 is that it was a year of growth. The big got bigger and smaller companies came out of the woodwork with new plays on...CNET From ACM News | December 21, 2010
Apple has decided to use Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge processors in its MacBook line, a transition that will occur in 2011, squeezing out Nvidia's graphics processors...CNET From ACM News | December 10, 2010
As its operations have come under increasing financial and political pressure, WikiLeaks has quietly bolstered its electronic defenses in an attempt to become...CNET From ACM News | December 8, 2010
Behind the fly-off-the-shelf popularity of products like Apple's iPad and iPhone are hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs—mostly overseas. Is it possible...CNET From ACM News | December 6, 2010
U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski recently previewed new Net neutrality rules designed to preserve the Web "as a platform...CNet From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2010
IBM has achieved a major milestone in making the dream of silicon photonics, in which computer chips send signals of light rather than electricity, into reality...CNET From ACM News | December 1, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered clandestine surveillance of United Nations leadership, including obtaining "security measures, passwords, personalWikiLeaks...CNET From ACM News | November 29, 2010