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Ahead of the Bell: Yahoo 1Q Puts Spotlight on CEO
April 16, 2013 10:00 am | by Associated Press | CommentsThe numbers, due out after the stock market closes Tuesday, are being released with Yahoo's stock price trading at some of its highest levels since the company squandered an opportunity to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. for $47.5 billion, or $33 per share, in May 2008.
Wi-Fi Alliance and Wireless Gigabit Alliance to Unify Multi-gigabit WiGig Technology
April 15, 2013 11:57 pm | CommentsWi-Fi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining their plans to consolidate activity in Wi-Fi Alliance. The agreement builds on more than two years of collaboration between the organizations...
Texas Instruments Delivers a Better Way to the Cloud
April 15, 2013 11:14 pm | by Texas Instruments Incorporated | CommentsHP Project Moonshot, a multi-year, multi-phased program, is dedicated to the development of a new family of software-defined servers, including extreme low-energy processing technology purposefully built to address surging infrastructure pressures from emerging application trends.
SecurityCoverage Signs Distribution Agreement with SYNNEX Canada
April 15, 2013 10:48 pm | CommentsSecurityCoverage Inc. has announced the company has entered into a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Canada. SYNNEX will become the exclusive Canadian distributor for the “Ultimate Mobile Accessories” From SecurityCoverage, extending the strong demand for the firm’s products already seen in the U.S. since their release.
Fox Electronics Signs Distribution Agreement with Arrow Electronics
April 15, 2013 10:40 pm | by Fox Electronics | CommentsFox Electronics has signed a worldwide distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics, a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions.
Google Clears Another Step in EU Antitrust Case
April 15, 2013 10:30 am | by JUERGEN BAETZ, Associated Press | CommentsGoogle Inc. has submitted a list of remedies in legally binding form to address the concerns voiced by the European Commission, which acts as the 27-nation bloc's antitrust authority, the body's spokesman Antoine Colombani said Monday. He added that they will shortly be put to a market test...
Local Police Grapple with Response to Cybercrimes
April 15, 2013 10:13 am | by EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press | CommentsIf a purse with $900 is stolen, the victim probably would call the police. If a computer hacker steals $900 from that same person's bank account, what then? Call the police? Could they even help? As it is now, local police don't have widespread know-how to investigate cybercrimes.
Dish Network Offering to Buy Sprint in $25.5B Deal
April 15, 2013 9:56 am | by Associated Press | CommentsDish Network is offering to buy Sprint Nextel Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal it values at $25.5 billion, saying its bid is superior to that of Japanese phone company SoftBank. Sprint's stock jumped almost 15 percent in premarket trading Monday. SoftBank Corp. is seeking...
Low-Cost RF Vector Signal Generation for Wireless Communications Test
April 15, 2013 9:50 am | by Agilent Technologies | CommentsDigitally modulated signals fill space and travel through almost every wired and optical network. Today, almost all wireless services use a plethora of complex carrier modulation schemes. The continuous improvement in modulation technologies, components, and advancements ...
Diamond as a Building Material for Optical Circuits
April 12, 2013 10:08 am | by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | CommentsThe application of light for information processing opens up a multitude of possibilities. However, to be able to adequately use photons in circuits and sensors, materials need to have particular optical and mechanical properties. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)...
New Software Alleviates Wireless Traffic
April 12, 2013 10:00 am | by University of Michigan | CommentsThe software, GapSense, lets these devices that can't normally talk to one another exchange simple stop and warning messages so their communications collide less often. GapSense creates a common language of energy pulses and gaps. The length of the gaps conveys the stop or warning message.
Facebook's Zuckerberg Launches Political Group
April 12, 2013 9:55 am | by BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer | CommentsZuckerberg announced the formation of Fwd.us (pronounced "forward us") in an op-ed article in The Washington Post late Wednesday night. In it, he said the U.S. needs a new approach to these issues if it is to get ahead economically. This includes offering a path to citizenship...
Investors Dump Microsoft, PC Stocks on Bleak News
April 12, 2013 9:48 am | by MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer | CommentsThat logic ruled Thursday as Wall Street reacted to fresh evidence that PCs are turning into a dying breed of technology as consumers and businesses embrace smartphones and tablet computers as their preferred computing devices. That logic ruled Thursday as Wall Street reacted to fresh evidenc...
Review: Home Shields You from Non-Facebook Tasks
April 12, 2013 9:43 am | by ANICK JESDANUN, AP Technology Writer | CommentsWhen I got my first smartphone in 2010, I checked Facebook obsessively. But over time, the novelty wore off and opening Facebook's app to check photos, links and posts from friends turned into a chore. In a sense, I'm the ideal target for Facebook's new Home app ...
NYC Students, Hackers Train for Cybersecurity Jobs
April 12, 2013 9:37 am | by JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press | CommentsEvery week, a group of teenagers and 20-somethings dressed in hoodies gets together in a tiny room on a college campus and plug in their laptops. They turn up pulsing electronic funk music, order pizza and begin furiously hacking into computer networks.
