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  • Google Glass probed by six more countries amid mounting privacy fears

    from six countries have demanded that Google tell them more about its augmented reality eyewear Glass due to mounting security concerns. Data protection authorities from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Switzerland and Israel have ...

  • Android Gamestick games console is delayed until August

    . The delay is to be taken as good news, of course, because it is a result of all the hard work being pumped into the controller console. In an email sent to Kickstarter backers the firm said that delays to the first run of consoles, called the Designed by Me units, have pushed back production on all models. "We have [taken] the decision to push back the whole project by 1 month to ensure ...

  • Remote working will lead to offshoring of IT jobs

    , with some fearing a loss of offices will lead to a loss of local jobs while others see positives for the housing market. One reader has raised concerns that a move to remote working will lead to companies outsourcing local IT jobs. "If you can do your job remotely, there is a person in India that can do that same job, for much less money," Karl noted. "I was a virtual support ...

  • Nvidia to license Kepler GPU technology for smartphones and tablets

    Nvidia will license its GPU technology to compete with Qualcomm and Samsung in the smartphone and tablet markets. Nvidia has been promoting its own ARM based Tegra system on chip (SoC) for a number of years with relatively muted success. However the firm announced that it will look ...

  • Gadgetwise Blog Skates Squids And Dollies That Make Striking Video

    CineSquid ($270) systems, which can be used to attach a camera to a vehicle. With these, you could take the kind of action shots you usually take with a Hero camera, only in higher fidelity because it can support a DSLR or midweight video camera. The CineVise puts vice clamps on the feet of the tripod. The CineSquid adds suction cups.There are also smaller versions, ...


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Movie Review

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Don't let the movie poster fool you. Even though Sandra Bullock takes top billing and her face is most prominently displayed on the advertisements for "Speed 2: Cruise Control," she spends most of the movie taking a back seat to Jason Patric's action hero, Willem Dafoe's mugging villain, and director Jan De Bont's confusing action and bigger-than-life special effects. Bullock, who has a sly and wo ... ...

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  • Google FB using New Zealanders as guinea pigs

    tech companies looking to trial their latest innovations, industry experts say. They said New Zealand, tucked away deep in the southern hemisphere, offers a tech-savvy, English-speaking population where firms such as Google and Facebook can quietly test new products without risking major fallout if anything goes wrong. "We tend to be early adopters, any technology that reduces the tyranny ...

  • India eyeing $400 billion electronics base by 2020

    NEW DELHI: Having established itself as the backroom office for global businesses with a flourishing outsourcing industry, India is taking steps to expand its electronics manufacturing base to avoid imports, arrest dollar outflows and add jobs, a top official has said. "We are importing so much of electronics items that we are draining our foreign exchange," said J Satyanarayana, ...

  • The Apple e-book antitrust trial Enter Barnes Noble

    BKS ), the last of the nationwide brick-and-morter bookstore chains, plays only a bit part in the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Apple ...

  • CEO Adobes results validate shift to subscriptions

    Creative Cloud subscriptions jumped 221,000 to 700,000 in Adobe's most recent quarter. In an exclusive interview, Shantanu Narayen says that's evidence Adobe is "well on our way to a very successful ...

  • Imagination Technologies profit dips on licensing slowdown

    , reported lower full-year profits as licensing slows.The British company, which licenses its designs to chipmakers and receives a royalty on every unit shipped, has lost business it had expected from customers such as Texas ...

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