McBacon writes with this excerpt from Wired.co.uk: "Often dismissed as a failed venture, the Xbox Indie Games programme has earned successful man-and-his-dog developers tens of thousands of pounds from sales of their homebrew games. Wired explores the success stories o...

Cheesehead of the decade Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is no stranger to adulation. Recent honors include Fortune's CEO of the Decade, the Harvard Business Review's world's best-performing CEO, and the Wall Street Journal's Person of the Decade. But a new trio of tri...

HTC plans to "fully defend itself" against the patent lawsuit filed by Apple.

A video, created originally for educational publisher Dorling Kindersley, offers a brilliant argument for why books, whether on the iPad or other format, have a future.

An auto center employee, having been laid off, allegedly hacks into a Web-based vehicle-immobilization system and interferes with more than 100 cars sold by the dealership.

In recent years the US has begun to lag in education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and a number of efforts are underway to address this issue. We know that giving kids hands-on experience is one of the best ways to...

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on have released research detailing how molecules in chips can self-assemble, potentially reducing manufacturing costs. The researchers have developed a technique in which polymers auto...

The consensus at the Cloud Connect conference seems to be that cloud will begin to dominate as early as 2013. Looking over the agenda for a seminar discussing the law and cloud computing, I wonder if that's music to your lawyer's ears.

Apple is pulling screen protectors from its online and retail stores -- because screen protectors stink.

IBM and insurer Assurant Solutions have come up with a program that matches callers with the call center agent best suited to handle their issue.

Developers can implement their own clipboards within apps, but Microsoft favors contextual tapping instead.

In the heyday of high-temperature superconductor research, thousands of physicists converge in New York for an impromptu session on superconductivity that lasts into the wee hours of the night.

The agency's plan for a $16 billion nationwide wireless network for emergency responders will cost less than $1 monthly.

Users of popular micro-blogging service Twitter have been unable to access the site since just after 3am GMT Wednesday.

Really does keep going and going "It keeps going and going and going" may be the slogan coined for Energizer batteries, but the same holds true for a nasty trojan backdoor that mysteriously slipped into software used to monitor rechargeable versions of the product.?The ...

Open source is being subsumed into the clouds. Virtualization is paving the way and Red Hat thinks they can put up a fight against VMware.

Complaints to a Japanese Internet watchdog regarding illegal content almost doubled in 2009, led by reports about child pornography and illegal drugs.

Google is working with Intel, Sony and others on Google TV, a service aimed at putting the Internet in living rooms, the New York Times says.

"Everyone in the United States today should have access to broadband services supporting a basic set of applications that include sending and receiving e-mail, downloading Web pages, photos and video, and using simple video conferencing," opens ...

Kilrah_il writes "The linked article provides a short summary of the problems scientists have with statistics. As an intern, I see it many times: Doctors do lots of research but don't have a clue when it comes to statistics — and in the social science area, it's e...

Cheap knockoffs aren't limited to Ray-Bans and Rolexes. Read on for a look at an imitation iPad, a pirated Palm Pre, and more low-budget copies of popular tech products--often with features not found in the originals.

VirnetX, a software corporation founded in 2005, has prevailed in a patent-infringement lawsuit accusing Microsoft of willfully infringing on two patents for automatic and secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology. The Texas jury recommended an award of $1...

Jerome York, a 13-year-veteran of Apple's board of directors, has been hospitalized after suffering a brain aneurysm, according to a Wall Street Journal report...

The Atari ST series premiered on the PC stage 25 years ago. In honor of that important line's silver anniversary, we dissected its most prominent model.

Mobile computing has taken over as the main driver of growth in PC sales for the past year, with notebooks overtaking desktops in late 2008 and sales of desktops declining for the last two years. However, Caris & Company analyst Robert Cihra is expecting desktops ...

ByronScott writes "Want eyesight that could put your neighborhood cyborg to shame? Well, University of Washington professor Babak Amir Parviz and his students are working on solar-powered contact lenses embedded with hundreds of semitransparent LEDs, letting wearers exp...

Estonia's defense minister said Wednesday that cyberattacks will grow in the next few years.

After private sector outcry, Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller has rewritten a cybersecurity bill that was criticized for giving the president emergency power over the Internet.

Acquia plans to release a hosted version of its Drupal open-source content management system in about three months, the company's CTO said.

The PlayStation Move was just announced, but Sony is wasting no time before going on the attack. The newest—not to mention first—advertisement for the peripheral makes fun of the Nintendo Wii, attacks Microsoft's Project Natal, and basically buries the...

McAfee warns of password stealer hiding in attachment that comes with an e-mail purporting to be from Facebook.

'House 17' and the secret algorithm A federal grand jury has indicted two computer programmers on fraud and conspiracy charges for developing programs used by Bernard Madoff to cook the books in his billion-dollar ponzi scheme.?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnsty...

Competition turns cutthroat as more and more people track their travels with the location-based service. At the South by Southwest conference, the quest for badges and tussles over mayorships gets frenetic and weird.

Start with a moisturizer, then add a few (safe) preservatives, an antistatic agent, and some of that stuff inside breast implants, and you have dry scalp care!

FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour says she doesn't believe consumer privacy played any significant role in Google's thoughts when releasing Buzz.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied Google's application for a Nexus One trademark.

Google is continuing its quiet war on Microsoft Office by making it easier for users to switch from Exchange to Google Apps for e-mail. The company has launched a new server-side tool called Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange, which not only migrates yo...

Tress are among the oldest living things on the planet, and the oldest we know of are pushing 5,000 years. If you count clonal trees, which continually grow new trunks from the same roots, the oldest may be 80,000 years old.

We take a close look at Xobni for BlackBerry, an uberutility that complements--or replaces--your address book.

With thousands of bands playing at South by Southwest 2010, it can be difficult to spot the killer music wedged in amongst all the buzz and noise. Here are 10 bands worth your inebriated time and attention.

hansamurai writes "Over one hundred cars equipped with a Webtech Plus blackbox were remotely disabled when a former employee of dealership Texas Auto Center got hold of his employer's database of users. Webtech Plus is repossession software that allows the dealership to...

Led by a boutique guitar effects maker, the three-piece band makes its third trip to South by Southwest to show off its visceral musical creations.

Nvidia is asking customers to remove drivers that caused some GeForce graphics cards to overheat.

Fancy a bundle? MacUpdate has announced the release of its Promo Spring Bundle 2010, which includes 10 different Mac apps for the low, low price of $50.

A new study by Retrevo finds that 40 percent of respondents don't mind being interrupted for a message, and almost 10 percent admit they'd check a message during sex.

Another security firm finds Mariposa malware on a new Android-based HTC Magic from Vodafone, according to PandaLabs.

Should the Google/China spat over censorship start a trade war that puts an end to Chinese-made computers? One international trade lawyer argues that it should: "If China shuts out our Internet companies, we need to shut out their hardware th...

Databases and the agony of choice OSBC Red Hat will help others build clouds, but is unlikely to following operating-system rival Microsoft by becoming a cloud service provider itself.?Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Lanxon writes "The guy behind Ultima Online once bought an old Russian rover, despite it being lost on the moon somewhere. And now, using images released by NASA, it has been located on the moon's surface after nearly four decades of being MIA, reports Wired. Richard Ga...

The benefits of a smart grid are far clearer to utilities than consumers at this point, but changes in regulations could spur more interest, say a panel of industry execs.