Engineering salaries are still rising, but not as fast as in the good old days WASHINGTON — Engineers working on communications technology were paid a a median salary of $135,087 last year, the highest in the profession, according to new […]
Computer viruses could cross frontier into biological realm, researchers say
Best Microsoft MCTS Certification, Microsoft MCITP Training at certkingdom.com Attacks based on designed viruses could interest bioterrorists Computer hackers could create malicious software that crosses the line from technology to biology, crafting viruses that could spread dangerous epidemics, researchers said […]
Can Apple really sue Google or Microsoft for using its patented sliding on/off switch?
In last week’s episode of “Can you top this dumb patent?” we discovered that Apple had patented the design element of sliding to unlock a device. Gosh, and I recall my grandpa’s front gate having a slide-to-unlock device in the […]
Steve Jobs’ last big project: The next iPhone
The iPhone 4S is not the last major project that Steve Jobs worked on, according to one analyst. That would be the next iPhone–let’s call it the iPhone 5. The next-generation iPhone “was the last project that Steve Jobs was […]
Quotations from Chairman Steve
A mosaic of Apple leader Steve Jobs’ on-the-record opinions and musings Apple’s former CEO, and now chairman, Steve Jobs does not think in sound bites. Reading through the wealth of interviews in his career, one is conscious of a mind […]
IRS crosses 1 billion e-filed tax return mark
The IRS today said it crossed the 1 billion mark for individual tax returns processed via its e-file system. The Internal Revenue Service’s electronic filing program started as a pilot project in 1986 and became available nationally in 1990. Prior […]
The 7 worst tech merger ideas ever
McAfee-Rovio Mobile Let’s face it – fighting viruses on your own computer gets really old after a while. You perform an hour-long scan of your hard drive, you quarantine suspicious files, you scrutinize them and then delete them one-by-one. To […]
4G faceoff: ThunderBolt vs. Galaxy
With 4G smartphones hitting the market in a big way, we decided to test a couple of devices to get an overall sense of how 4G compares with 3G, how specific devices perform and how the underlying networks differ. […]
The Top 40 Free iPhone Apps 2010
21. NYTimes 2.3.3 21. NYTimes 2.3.3 The New York Times Company, www.nytimes.com So you’re wondering why a news app would be included in a list of a top apps when you can just go to the Web site? Simple: It […]