Leaders of large corporations often have a little bit of the crazy about them. Like, for instance, Kodak founder George Eastman, who, back in 1928, insisted that the official company calendar had to use 13 months. More »
A federal judge has estimated that at least 30,000 secret electronic surveillance orders are made every year in the US, and those who are found to be innocent will probably never know that they've been the target of such snooping. More »
What would happen if you ripped out all the TVs and associated wiring from a plane, and gave everyone an iPad instead? Well, we just found out: the plane becomes 7 percent lighter, and saves an awful lot of fuel as a result. More »
If you've ever wondered why people write malware, it's just like anything else – it's all about the money. Symantec has worked out that the evil-doing bottom-feeders behind that nasty Flashback Trojan, which caught the Mac world with its pants down, were raking in around $10,000 a day. More »
While Google continues to crow about Android market share, it's got to be pretty embarrassing for them to testify under oath that iOS owns their mobile search traffic. More »
It was 45-years ago today that NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped several photos of the Earth while the craft was orbiting the moon. It's our first real glimpse of the Earth from such a vantage point. More »
In a five-day survey that polled public and private organizations both large and small, Ponemon research found that 90% of the companies asked had been hacked in the las 12 months. More »