Review: Canon Pixma MX922 has great small-office features and pricey ink

A moderately busy small or home office is the target audience for the Canon Pixma MX922, a $200 (as of 06/28/2013) color inkjet multifunction that can handle every office chore from automatic two-sided scanning and printing, to faxing and printing...

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Hewlett-Packard touts viability, courts customers in China

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman stressed her company's future viability as HP tried to win Chinese business customers at an event in Beijing last week. "Believe me, HP is here to stay," Whitman said in a keynote at the HP World Tour in Beijing. "We've...

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'Comment Crew' hackers resurface, security firm reports

The suspected China-based hackers known as the "Comment Crew" are back at it again, a development likely to contribute to continued tensions between the U.S. and China over cyberattacks. The security community has had the group under its watch for a...

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Google's future Office killer now available in Chrome OS dev channel

Google now offers the ability to edit Office documents within Chrome OS, although the new feature is currently far less capable than the document-editing capabilities of Google's own Google Apps. However, there's one reason why this is worth...

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Yahoo kills a dozen more products to sharpen its focus

Yahoo is slimming itself down again by axing 12 of its products, part of an ongoing effort to sharpen its focus on services it thinks people need in their daily lives. The list includes AltaVista, the granddaddy of search engines, and Yahoo RSS Alerts....

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Review: Canon Pixma MX922 has great small-office features and pricey ink

A moderately busy small or home office is the target audience for the Canon Pixma MX922, a $200 (as of 06/28/2013) color inkjet multifunction that can handle every office chore from automatic two-sided scanning and printing, to faxing and printing...

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Myanmar selects two telecom licensees, paving way for affordable mobile phones

Myanmar is a step closer to offering affordable mobile services after selecting two international carriers to launch telecommunications networks in one of Asia's last untapped markets. Norway's Telenor and Qatar's Ooredoo were named the winners in a...

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Intel's CTO Justin Rattner stepping down

Intel's CTO and director of its labs Justin Rattner is stepping down to meet a requirement under the company's bylaws that employees cannot serve as corporate officers after the age of 65. Rattner will, however, return to Intel at a later date in an...

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US regulator shuts down 1,677 Internet pharmacies

More than 1,600 websites selling pharmaceutical products, including some spoofing CVS and Walgreens pharmacies, were shut down this week in a sting involving 99 countries, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. Close to 8,000 more were...

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Google-backed O3b launches satellites to offer Internet connectivity

O3b Networks, a company backed by Google and other investors, has launched its first satellites that aim to provide low-cost and high-speed connectivity to parts of the world that do not have fiber infrastructure. The company's first four satellites,...

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Samsung LTE-Advanced phone launches on 150Mbps network in Korea

South Korean operator SK Telecom said it launched an LTE-Advanced network on Wednesday, offering speeds of up to 150Mbps on an upgraded version of Samsung's Galaxy S4 handset. The operator said the service is the first in the world and went live in...

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Suspected China-based hackers 'Comment Crew' rise again

The suspected China-based hackers known as the "Comment Crew" are back at it again, a development likely to contribute to continued tensions between the U.S. and China over cyberattacks. The security community has had the group under its watch for a...

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New privacy bill aimed at reforming FISA and the Patriot Act introduced in the Senate

New legislation aims to reform the Patriot and FISA Amendments Acts to apply greater oversight and control to the government's surveillance programs. The bill, the FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013, comes following dramatic revelations...

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Western Digital to acquire sTec to expand in enterprise SSDs

Western Digital plans to acquire sTec to boost its presence in the market for enterprise solid-state drives. The two companies have signed a definitive agreement under which sTec will be acquired by HGST, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Digital,...

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US ITC begins pilot to speed up disposal of patent cases

The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched a pilot program to test whether early rulings on identified crucial issues in some investigations could limit unnecessary litigation, saving time and costs for all sides. One such "dispositive" issue,...

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Bitcoin Foundation warned by California financial regulator

A foundation created last year to shepherd Bitcoin's software development has received a stern warning from a California financial regulator. The state's Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) warned the Bitcoin Foundation in a May 30 letter that...

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Microsoft investing over $670 million in Iowa data center

Microsoft is investing US$678 million in the expansion of its data center in West Des Moines, Iowa. The plan, dubbed Project Mountain, was awarded tax benefits and is expected to create 29 new jobs, the board of the Iowa Economic Development Authority...

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Qualcomm invests second $60 million in Sharp for next-gen displays

Japan's Sharp said Monday that it has received a second US$60 million investment from Qualcomm, as the two companies work together to mass produce low-power, high-performance displays for mobile devices. Qualcomm, through subsidiary Pixtronix, has teamed...

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Microsoft's $100,000 bug bounty: Read the fine print

Microsoft is offering up to $100,000 for vulnerabilities found in Windows 8.1 that are paired with exploits, but it's pretty much up to Microsoft to decide who gets paid how much based on a set of subjective criteria. In order to pull down the full...

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Google quietly updates local search with an image carousel

It's hard to keep track of new Google features. They can show up as Google trial balloon and surprise you one day. And then the next day poof they're gone. But one big addition to Google search—introduced with little fanfare over...

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Google's Waze acquisition gets FTC scrutiny, reports say

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked Google for information related to its Waze acquisition, as the agency reviews the deal, according to reports published on Saturday. The FTC wants to look into possible antitrust issues stemming from...

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Civil liberties advocates call for more oversight of NSA surveillance

Congress should press for privacy protections and more information about surveillance programs at the National Security Agency, some technology and civil liberties activists said Friday. After recent news leaks about two broad surveillance programs...

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British intelligence tapping fiber-optic cables for massive amounts of data

More secret National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden to The Guardian suggest that the U.S. agency's British counterpart intercepts petabytes worth of communication data daily from fiber-optic cables. The operation codenamed "Tempora"...

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U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage, report says

Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked information about U.S. government mass surveillance programs, has been charged by the U.S. with espionage, the Washington Post reported Friday. Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint...

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Wi-Fi's fast 802.11ac standard may pay off big in mobile

The emerging IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN standard will be able to deliver faster connections wherever it's used, but the biggest benefit may come at public hotspots—eventually. On Wednesday, the Wi-Fi Alliance started certifying pre-standard 802.11ac...

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Oracle, Microsoft to announce new partnership Monday

Microsoft and Oracle are set to reveal details of a new partnership on Monday, one of a "startling series" of announcements Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised next week around the Oracle Database 12c. Oracle will be announcing next week technology partnerships...

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U.S. inventor of DRAM tech honored with Japan award

A U.S. researcher at IBM who invented the basic building block of the modern DRAM has been honored with a prestigious Japanese award and a US$500,000 prize. Robert Dennard was given the Kyoto Prize in the electronics category on Friday, awarded by the...

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3-D printer maker Stratasys to acquire desktop rival MakerBot

3-D printer company Stratasys is acquiring desktop 3-D printer maker MakerBot for over US$400 million in an all-stock deal, to shore up its consumer presence. Privately-held MakerBot has sold more than 22,000 3-D printers since it was founded in 2009,...

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