Google, which has always maintained that the Android Market, although not immune to malware, was not heavily affected by it, revealed Thursday it has been using...

Slideshow: Best Government Web Sites A virus has caused the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) to disable its email and Internet access indefinitely while the...

iRandomizer Numbers contains an unexpected function: It allows users who enter the undocumented codes to create a tethered Internet connection. Thereafter, other nearby computers can join an ad-hoc...

KDE , the software community that produces its namesake desktop environment for Linux, is planning to release a tablet that runs a completely open and unlocked Linux software stack. The Spark...

(click image for larger view and for slideshow) A European regulatory group focused on data protection has asked Google to delay its planned privacy policy consolidation, which is scheduled to take...

Today, strict security requirements mean most employees at the National Security Agency have to leave their mobile devices in their cars in the parking lot rather than bringing them in to work....

Want to know who your real Facebook Friends are and are not? Turns out there are some common characteristics of the fake Friend, according to new data revealed Thursday by Barracuda Networks. For...

Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Appleton, who took charge of Micron Technology Inc. at 34 and went on to become the memory- chip industry’s longest-serving chief executive officer, died after...

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Panasonic Corp. almost doubled its annual loss forecast to a record 780 billion yen ($10 billion), the latest Japanese electronics company to predict weaker earnings because of...

Hacker group Anonymous, in an embarrassment for law enforcement, released a recording Friday of a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard discussing operations against the hacking...

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to...

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop put it best: ';The industry has shifted from a battle of devices, to a war of ecosystems.'; In other words, a smartphone or a tablet is only as good as the apps it...

Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com At Gadget Lab we’re system-wiping fools. With new smartphones and tablets coming through the office every week, we’re religious about doing complete system...

For a founder of a highly touted Internet company undertaking an IPO, the "Letter to Shareholders" in the S-1 prospectus has become a rarefied form of performance art. Going public is the...

Steve Appleton, chief executive of semiconductor firm Micron, has been killed following a small plane crash. "Our hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children and his family during this...

A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and Saudi...

The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses. One expert says the difference between the two is...

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Micron Technology Inc. Steve Appleton speaks at the Reuters Semiconductor Industry Summit in San Francisco, California in this November 2, 2005 file...

(Credit: Edward Moyer/CNET) Innovative Leisure is a startup with a singular purpose: Create great mobile-gaming experiences. To accomplish that mission, co-founder Seamus Blackley has assembled...

Firefox stable earlier this week, Mozilla released today updates to its Aurora and Beta versions that introduce some pretty hefty changes for the Firefox on PCs. Firefox 11 beta (download...

(Credit: CNET) The big game is this weekend and most American's will tell you it's a lot more than just a football game. Many people make an event out of the game with parties,...

(Credit: Motive Industries) Transportation design firm Motive Industries released computer-generated images of what a pickup made of composite material could look like. The Bison is a...

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) Editors' note: This roundup was originally published June 24, 2011, and is updated regularly. After unveiling a marginally...

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) With the 2012 Ford Edge, the Ecoboost engine is like having your cake and icecream, too. The Edge is a tank of...

. Citing a source close to the project, CNN says that developers in a government program are working on smartphones that run a customized version of the OS with security improvements. Though the...

(Credit: CNET) Apple has declared war on lookalikes in its App Store. The company today removed a handful of iOS applications that bore a resemblance to more popular apps, and had climbed the...

(Credit: SourceOne) By building a wind turbine to power a hydrogen production and fueling station, a little hamlet in Long Island is positioning itself as the bellwether for carbon-neutral...

Galaxy Nexus get caught in the middle of a lovers' quarrel between Google and Verizon today? That's the way it appeared at first with the news that Google had dumped the CDMA version...

(Credit: Williams-Sonoma) Despite the availability of a plethora of recipes online, many good old-fashioned cookbooks still quite often do the trick; they are easy to thumb through, they are...

(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) Mozilla engineers have begun work on a new API for Web sites that will allow them to notify you when they update, similar to how a mobile app...

Weather forecast icons can be cryptic. There's only so much that can be communicated by a picture of a gray but-not-too-gray cloud with some raindrops and a sun poking out behind it. All you...

(Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET) GloSpex have one-way illuminated lenses. That means that the light glows out, but doesn't shine into the wearer's eyes. A $20 pledge...

, is being targeted a second time: for championing legislation that would require Internet service providers to keep track of their customers, in case police want to review those logs in the future....

In 2007, while on a medical research trip to Malawi, Stanford undergraduate Josh Nesbit made two startling realizations. First, residents' access to health care was much worse than he was used...

Yelp, the user-generated review site that's planning an initial public offering, reported a wider loss in 2011 after increasing spending to attract reviewers and make the service easier to use. ...

In this intercepted phone call, an FBI official thanks his British counterpart for delaying court action on two British suspects linked to Anonymous, giving the FBI more time to work on a related...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package that hinges on the one-time politician's ability to lift the stumbling...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The head of memory chip maker Micron, long known for taking risks in stunt piloting, died Friday when a small experimental plane he was piloting steeply banked, stalled and...

VenusWhat it is: The second planet in our solar systemWhere: In the western sky, low on the horizonWhen: TwilightVenus is a very bright object in our sky that's always easy to spot. It's often...

IT managers at healthcare organizations say tablets pose challenges for entering data into enterprise healthcare applications and can raise IT support...

Anonymous released audio transcripts Friday from an "Anon-Lulz International Coordination Call" conducted between cyber-crime experts at the FBI and its law enforcement counterparts abroad...

It used to be that a major version bump for a major program was a major event. Major versions usually introduce new features and make other changes that cause incompatibilities. Big companies have to...

(click image for larger view and for slideshow) Even as its market share in the U.S. business market slips, Research in Motion (RIM) said its BlackBerrys are holding steady in the government sector....

HCA founder Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., and nephew of former U.S. Sen. Dr. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), though publicly traded HealthStream has no connection to HCA. Condra said that HealthStream supplies...

For each episode of Valley View, our monthly live Web TV show, we like to start out with a little bit of a news update...complete with sarcasm and cheap shots, because there's nothing worse than...

IT is a service business, where nice guys often finish first. But you'd better be effective too, because scorched-earth leaders are just waiting to...

The Obama campaign used National Field in 2008 to bring together and share all of the data around its outreach efforts--all of its calls, contacts, and meetings were tracked every day using the...

Brainshark rolls out SlideShark Team Edition, bringing PowerPoint compatibility to the Apple tablet on an enterprise scale. Nothing seems to slow the Apple iPad's popularity, despite the fact...