Published: June 8, 2010
Lawmakers seek prepaid cell crackdown, cite terror
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NEW YORK – Alarmed by the use of hard-to-track prepaid cell phones by terror suspects, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Texas Sen. John Cornyn have introduced legislation requiring consumers to produce identification before buying such phones.
The bill has been praised by law enforcement and has bipartisan support, even as civil liberties groups have raised [...]
Published: June 8, 2010
Microsoft to offer $1.15B in convertible debt
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Even one of the richest companies in the world, Microsoft Corp., can use some of the financial flexibility that comes from borrowing money at today’s relatively low rates.
Despite sitting on nearly $40 billion in cash and investments, the software company said Tuesday it will raise $1.15 billion by selling debt that is convertible to stock. [...]
Published: June 3, 2010
For new AT&T users, no more 'all you can eat' data
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NEW YORK – Just in time for the release of a new iPhone, AT&T will stop letting new customers sign up for its unlimited Internet data plan for smart phones and iPads and charge more for users who hog the most bandwidth.
AT&T hopes to ease congestion on its network, which has drawn complaints, particularly in [...]
Published: June 3, 2010
Nokia launches bike-powered handset
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HELSINKI – Want to talk more? Keep pedaling, says Nokia.
The world’s largest mobile phone maker on Thursday launched four low-priced handsets and a recharger that can be connected to a bicycle’s dynamo which charges when the wheels turn.
The bicycle charger kit and handsets — some with a standby battery time of up to six weeks, [...]
Published: June 3, 2010
Foxconn raises worker pay by 30 pct after suicides
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group, shaken by a spate of suicides at its China plants, said Wednesday it is raising the pay of workers by 30 percent, a greater increase than first planned.
The company, which makes iPhones, iPads and other electronic gadgets, said the pay increase will take effect immediately at its plants [...]
Published: June 1, 2010
China supercomputer named world's second-fastest
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BEIJING – A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked the world’s second-fastest machine in a list issued by U.S. and European researchers, highlighting China’s ambitions to become a global technology center.
The Nebulae system at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen in southern China came in behind the U.S. Department of Energy’s Jaguar in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, [...]
Published: June 1, 2010
Hewlett-Packard to cut 9K jobs in services unit
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NEW YORK – Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday it will lay off about 9,000 workers in the unit that provides technology services to other businesses as the company consolidates and automates its commercial data centers.
The cuts will be made over about three years and amount to some 3 percent of HP’s global work force of 304,000 [...]
Published: May 27, 2010
Facebook adjusts privacy controls after complaints
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NEW YORK – In Facebook’s vision of the Web, you would no longer be alone and anonymous. Sites would reflect your tastes and interests — as you expressed them on the social network — and you wouldn’t have to fish around for news and songs that interest you.
Standing in the way is growing concern about [...]
Published: May 27, 2010
One Laptop Per Child's next move: the $100 tablet
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SEATTLE – The nonprofit organization that has tried for years to produce a sub-$100 laptop for children in the world’s poorest places is throwing in the towel on that idea — and jumping on the tablet bandwagon.
One Laptop Per Child’s next computer will be based on chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd.’s Moby tablet design. Marvell [...]
Published: May 27, 2010
Image-conscious youth rein in social networking
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CHICAGO – What’s that? A young college grad lecturing her elders about online privacy?
It might go against conventional wisdom, but a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project is adding fuel to the argument that young people are fast becoming the gurus of online reputation management, especially when it comes to social [...]
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