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  • 20 May 2013

  • News: Senate report: Apple claims subsidiaries with no taxing jurisdiction

    Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new report from a U.S. Senate subcommittee.

  • News: Opinion varies on action against Chinese cyberattacks

    New cyberespionage attack by People's Liberation Army prompts calls for action such as sanctions, but experts are mixed on best response

  • News: The good, the bad and the ugly of Tumblr under Yahoo

    Yahoo has promised "not to screw up" Tumblr now that it has acquired the freewheeling blogging site. But there are still several ways Tumblr could get better, and worse, as a Yahoo-owned company.

  • News: Teen invents tech that fully charges phone batteries in less than 30 seconds

    It's become part of the daily ritual: Get home, plug in your phone, wake-up to a full battery, repeat. Our poly-gadget lives depend on our batteries having enough juice for the day, and depending on how we use them, they're usually good for just about one workday of use. However, a new nanochemical innovation from an 18-year-old California teen may throw this whole ritual on its head.

  • News: Flyknit uses a Kinect to turn your movement into colorful swirls

    When you think of Nike, you may only imagine exhausted runners throwing up on their shoes, but UK digital art studio Universal Everything has something just a bit more elegant in mind. Commissioned by Nike, they've created a breathtaking art installation called Flyknit that dynamically uses the human body to generate beautiful images.

  • News: Breaking Bad's creator credits Netflix for some of its success

    Walter White, Jesse Pinkman, and the rest of your favorite Breaking Bad characters return in August for the series finale, but if it wasn't for Netflix the show never would have reached this point, the series' creator says.

  • News: Samsung readies world's most pixel-packed laptop display

    Retina who? Not to be outdone on the display front, Samsung is showing off a 13.3-inch LCD notebook panel with a whopping 3200-by-1800 resolution screen.

  • News: Chinese hackers resume attacks on U.S. targets

    For the last three months or so, the U.S. government and some of its defense contractors have engaged in a war of shame on China to pressure it to cool its cyber-attacks on U.S. targets. The campaign appeared to be yielding results, but it seems that Chinese hackers were only catching their breath.

  • News: Govt asks industry for help to stem security breaches

    IT security firms have been asked to put themselves up for membership of a special-purpose panel to provide security services across all of government.

  • News: Cloud computing can slash IT expenses by half, DataOne executive says

    In today's competitive business landscape, CEOs and business owners are continually seeking ways to do more with less.

  • News: DOST Strengthens R&D Capabilities with IBM Supercomputer

    The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the University of the Philippines (UP) and IBM have announced that the world-renowned IBM Blue Gene supercomputer has been chosen to support the Philippine government's priority R&D projects focused on reducing poverty, improving government processes and tools and enabling smarter weather management, as based on the National Economic Development Authority's Medium Term Development Plan. A priority initiative around weather prediction will be the pilot project to use the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer as its platform.

  • News: Peculiar malware trail raises questions about security firm in India

    Security firm Norman, investigating cyber-espionage-related to a Norwegian telecom company, the Pakastani government and others, says a lot of its findings lead to the word "Appin," which happens to be the name of a security outfit in India whose website indicates it does work for the Indian military.

  • News: Boutique PC seller laughs all the way to the bank on the back of Windows 7

    A boutique system builder has bucked the industry trend of slumping PC sales by continuing to focus on selling Windows 7 machines.

  • News: Big data can increase competitiveness of businesses

    Big data can improve decision making and increase their competitiveness as per 60 percent of survey respondents of Cisco global study.

  • News: Turning phone booths into super fast wi-fi hotspots

    Telecom NZ (Telecom), the national communications service supplier in New Zealand, is transforming conventional payphones into ultra fast, outdoor wi-fi hotspots in locations across the country and Ruckus Wireless is helping in this transformation.

  • News: Reddit IAmA this week to feature Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe

    Bob Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet 40 years ago this week, will get his turn to play social media rock star as the subject of a Reddit IAmA on Tuesday, May 21, at noon EDT.

  • News: How we tested the nation's networks

    For the third year in a row, we hit the road and tested mobile wireless network speeds across the country, putting the four largest mobile networks--AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile--head-to-head. Our approach to testing wireless service has always been to closely replicate how people use wireless service in the real world, and then measure how well it really works. That's why we do the testing ourselves, instead of crowdsourcing the testing data, as other studies often do exclusively.

  • News: How VMware will try to shake up the cloud market this week

    There have been rumors and speculation. There have been whispers and rumblings. But this week VMware is expected to release details about its plans to launch a public cloud offering, the central part of its new hybrid cloud strategy.

  • News: TechHive's Wireless Week: Testing America's networks

    Our Internet experience has become irreversibly mobile, and the stakes couldn't be higher. It's not unusual for a family to pay $2000 a year in wireless-service bills alone. For anyone living in the United States, in fact, the cost of moving 1MB of data over a cellular network is among the highest in the developed world.

  • News: What we do (and don't) know about the new Xbox

    On May 21st at 10am Pacific time, Microsoft will unveil its next-generation Xbox console. And if this article were titled "What we know for sure about the next Xbox," we could end it here. Microsoft has been very tight-lipped about the successor to the Xbox 360, but that's about to change.

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