Etisalat and du have postponed the launch of Voice Over Internet Protocol (Voip), despite the grace period given by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA). Both the telecom operators were supposed to start operations before end-2010, according to 'Emarat Al Youm'.
The annual RSA Conference, now in its 20th year, will be rocking this month as the security industry gathers in the weeklong extravaganza of product introductions and security experts arguing cloud and mobile computing security issues.
The B.C.'s government's largest-ever computer crash was caused by routine upgrades that somehow brought down the entire system, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Computer technicians were installing "normal" upgrades to systems Monday afternoon when they inadvertently generated a huge amount of traffic to the government network, causing it to crash, said Lara Perzoff of the Citizens' Services Ministry.
With the internet down and SMS services unavailable, most of Egypt is closed off from the rest of the world. This makes distributing eyewitness reports very difficult. Radio hams, hackers and bloggers from all across the globe are desperately trying to set up make connections and to distribute information.
Japan's Asahi Glass Co. on Thursday unveiled a highly durable cover glass for smartphones and tablet computers and said it aimed to grab a 30 percent global share in the highly competitive market.
Asahi said that its new glass, called Dragontrail, is chemically strengthened to be six times stronger than conventional glass currently used as covers for mobile gadgets and flat-panel TVs, and is difficult to damage.
Is it a good thing or a bad thing that Google has created a mobile phone application that will solve any Sudoku puzzle? Google Goggles, as it's called, uses a phone's camera to take a snap of the puzzle. It sends the grid of boxes to Google's central servers, where the numbers are effortlessly filled in, and a picture of the result is sent back to the phone's owner.
Shrouded behind a wall of black curtains, on the long walk into the Adult Entertainment Expo you may hear the occasional whip over the loud rock music, or the sweet smell of latex wafting from the crowd. ?
?The anticipation is high as freaks, fetishists, and the occasional nerdy CES straggler head over to the Sands Las Vegas to check out the latest and greatest in sex, movies, and of course, technology.
A German firm is poised to launch software allowing users to have photos uploaded to websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Flickr erased automatically after a certain time, its head said Wednesday.
The software should prevent the increasingly frequent occurrence of someone being refused a job or running into other embarrassing difficulties after posting a photo that maybe should have been kept private.
Seagate expects a significant increase in disk capacities this year and reckons it's got the jump on the competition.
Stifel Nicolaus' Aaron Rakers was present at recent Seagate analyst briefing and has posted a note to clients explaining Seagate's view of the world.
First of all Seagate is unfazed by the supposed coming tablet boom, with dozens of flash-using tablets bursting through the doors blasted open by the iPad,and multi-level cell flash posed to make inroads into the netback and notebook markets.
For years there have been rumors that NVIDIA has a top-secret x86 processor project, and last November an NVIDIA exec all but confirmed that the company is looking at making an x86 chip at some point. That's why today's processor announcement from NVIDIA was both surprising and unsurprising.
