15787 news & feature articles results for "computing giant information technology"

More than a decade ago, an IBM researcher proposed a computer user's bill of rights. Ten years later, we need to lower our expectations.

Posted by Dennis O'Reilly

In a court filing, a former employee, Paul A. Galloway, said that Seagate had appropriated hard-drive technology from Convolve for its own products.
(From The New York Times)

Posted by Ashlee Vance and Diana B. Henriques

By 2020, we'll be streaming songs from the cloud instead of buying albums and storing them on our hard drives, and suggestion services like Pandora will become essential.

Posted by Matt Rosoff

Google sponsored research to detect differences in how children and adults search and to identify barriers children face when seeking information.
(From The New York Times)

Posted by Stefanie Olsen

iDefrag is a small utility with the single purpose of running drive defragmentation and optimization. It does this job quite well, and has become a reputable and complete option for people wanting to defragment and optimize their hard drives.

Posted by Topher Kessler

Nonprofit Information Overload Research Group--whose members include Microsoft Research, IBM, and Google employees--holds its first conference this week in New York.

Posted by Holly Jackson

Share a lot? Here's a guide to the security and privacy problems that users of Facebook and Twitter encounter, and what they can do about it.

Posted by Elinor Mills

Web sites launch all the time, but they also shut their doors. We highlight 15 that bit the dust in 2009.

Posted by Josh Lowensohn

Oracle, Informix, Dell, and Intel are among those who think the freely available operating system is ready for corporate use.

Posted by Ben Heskett

New Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt promises to develop strategies to protect U.S. networks, beef up technology partnerships, and promote R&D.

Posted by Lance Whitney