In 1948, the Tucker sedan introduced a host of technical innovations to the automobile world, including disc brakes, seat belts, fuel injection, and a padded dashboard. But it wasn’t enough to make Tucker into the next General Motors; a host of technical and legal problems ensured that only a handful of cars would be built [...]

I was recently surprised when someone asked me what anti-virus programs they should be running. Note, he said ‘programs,’ not program, and that’s what he meant. He thought that if one A/V (anti-viral) program would do him good then two or three would be even better.
Ah…. no, that’s not how it works.
While it’s certainly [...]

Since 1996, Microsoft has been writing operating systems for little computers to carry in your pocket. It was a lonely business until the company’s perennial rival, Apple, introduced the Web-browsing, music-playing iPhone. But now that smartphones are popular, Microsoft’s operating system, Windows Mobile, is foundering.
Andrew Lees, Microsoft’s vice president for mobile communications, says the company [...]

The internet is on the brink of the “biggest change” to its working “since it was invented 40 years ago”, the net regulator Icann has said.
The body said it that it was finalising plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters.The proposal – initially approved in 2008 – would allow domain names written in Asian, [...]

In an effort to promote the “general health of the Web,” Google will send Webmasters snippets of malicious code in the hopes infected Web sites can be cleaned up faster.
The new information will appear as part of Google’s Webmaster Tools, a suite of tools that provide data about a Web site, such as site visits.
Google [...]