Archive for May, 2011
Apple brings iWork to iPhone and iPod touch
Apple iWork Now Available For iPhone iPod touch Users CUPERTINO, California-May 31, 2011-Apple® today announced that its groundbreaking iWork® productivity apps, Keynote®, Pages® and Numbers®, are now available for iPhone® and iPod touch®, as well as iPad®. Created for the Mac® and then completely redesigned for iOS and Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ interface, Keynote, Pages and [...]
Read moreGarmin announces redesigned line of eTrex GPS handhelds with enhanced geocaching
The New eTrex®: Garmin®’s Best Selling GPS Handheld Just Got Better OLATHE, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced the redesigned and upgraded eTrex® handheld GPS device – evolving from one of the world’s most reliable and popular handhelds, with millions sold. This entry [...]
Read moreStuxnet attack forced UK to rethink cyber war
The pieces of the puzzle began to take shape, and then fall into place, on 17 June last year, when Sergey Ulasen was emailed by a dealer in Tehran about an irritating problem some of his clients were having with their computers. Ulasen works in the research and development department of a small company called VirusBlokAda [...]
Read moreTwitter planning photo-sharing service
Twitter is to launch its own photo-sharing service to compete with existing services such as Twitpic, Yfrog, Instagram and Flickr, according to multiple sources. The announcement is expected this week at the D9 conference in California, where the company’s chief executive Dick Costolo will be speaking on Wednesday. The service may be provided via the [...]
Read moreIntel’s Ultrabook signals first steps into mobile
Faced with one of the biggest challenges in its 43-year history, Intel is accelerating its efforts to produce chips for the mobile phones, tablets, netbooks and ultra-thin laptops. In an exclusive interview before his keynote speech at the Computex exhibition in Taiwan, Intel’s executive vice-president Sean Maloney explained how the company was changing to compete [...]
Read moreThreat now is from weapons of mass disruption
These last few centuries have, to put it bluntly, been bloody simple – bloody in the numbers of innocents and combatants slaughtered and simple in the character of how we killed them. Armies, navies, marines and air forces fought each other, with civilians caught up in the crossfire. Those state on state battles may still [...]
Read moreForget a cyber Maginot line | Nick Harvey
The late JG Ballard once told the Guardian that in cyberspace “the entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet”. Whenever we log on we carry our essential human nature with us. Like people, cyberspace has a dark side and it is already shaping our future security environment. The [...]
Read moreTake a holiday from your networks
It’s the Sabbath, and I do hope you’re reading the dead tree version of this column. After all, it’s a long weekend, and isn’t it time you had a holiday from the web? Even the ultimate how-to guides to life, the doctrines of the major world religions, recommend at least one day off a week. [...]
Read moreMicrosoft chief Ballmer is under pressure
Almost as soon as Steve Ballmer took over as chief executive of Microsoft in January 2000, the stock crashed. It wasn’t his fault; the dotcom crash pulled every tech stock down with it, including the Seattle software empire that, the previous year, had been the world’s most valuable at $612bn. This is the sort of [...]
Read moreGoogle Wallet: A big deal or another Buzz?
After weeks of rumors, Google finally announced its near field communication payment system, christened Google Wallet. It must be big because PayPal sued, but how big? Let’s start with the basics. First, the ostensible goal is to get rid of the antiquated multiplicity of insecure credit cards and replace them with your smartphone … your [...]
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