Microsoft’s Bing search engine is five times more likely to serve up malicious sites in search results than Google, according to German research outfit AV Test.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt believes more regulation is needed in the civilian drone market. The use of drones by law enforcement and enthusiasts is skyrocketing, but it is also raising new concerns about privacy, reports the BBC.
As wearable electronics are set to emerge as a new trend - with recent reports that Apple and Samsung are working on their own watches - it seems Microsoft may be about to have another pop at an interactive wristwatch.
The current popularity of wireless devices - from WiFi laptops to Bluetooth headsets to ZigBee sensor nodes - is increasingly clogging our airwaves, resulting in dropped calls, wasted bandwidth and botched connections.
Approximately 150 million tablets (up 38% year-over-year) are forecasted to ship globally in 2013. Thus far, Apple has reigned since the introduction of its iPad in 2010, though Samsung and others continue to erode its early success.
Opinion There is no other way of saying it, PC makers are in a world of trouble. The slump is getting worse and many punters now believe that we might see two subsequent quarters of double digit decline. The trouble is, they can’t do much about it, at least not in the short term.
The US House Intelligence Committee passed a bill to remove legal barriers that have stopped the government and private companies from protecting their networks against foreign hackers.
Intel has been showing off its next-generation Thunderbolt technology which boasts double the speed and backward compatibility of the earlier versions. The technology does look good on paper and the fact that it is going under the bonnet of Apple machines means that it is guaranteed a lot of excited free publicity from the Apple frenzied press.
The once buoyant Indian IT industry appears to be continuing to slide.This week the IT industry association Nasscom has forecast that in 2013 there will be 50,000 fewer jobs available.
It is starting to look like the US courts are losing patience with copyright troll companies and they are starting to find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
Software giant Microsoft has kicked off a nasty marketing war directly against Google and ended any pretence of niceness between the pair. The Vole has released a series of attack ads in the US which have upped the ante considerably in its trade war against Google which began five months ago.
