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China is building its cyberwarfare capabilities and appears to be using the growing technical abilities to collect U.S. intelligence through a sophisticated and long-term computer attack campaign, according to an independent report.

...This technology may be used to keep email, contacts, calendar information and other data synchronized between mobile devices (such as PDA's and smart phones) and servers or desktop computers. A conference call is scheduled for today. The Acacia Research presentation ...

A report by Click Forensics links a growing amount of click fraud to botnets. The increase in botnet-related activity follows an overall upsurge in click fraud in the third quarter of 2009. - New research from Click Forensics shows botnets are playing a growing role in the spread of click fraud. Click fraud is a scheme when a person, automated script or computer program mimicks a legitimate user clicking on an online ad in order to profit from a pay-per-click arrangement. ...

patentpundit writes 'On April 18, 2008, Apple Computer applied for a patent relating to an 'invention' that allows for showing advertisements within an operating system. The first named inventor on the patent application is none other than Steve Jobs. The patent application published and became available for public inspection on October 22, 2009. If implemented, the invention would make it possible for advertisements to be displayed on a variety of devices, including desktop computers, cell phones, PDAs, and more. In one alarming aspect, the device could be disabled while the advertisements run, thereby forcing users to let the advertisement run its course before the system would unlock and allow further use. In an even more invasive scenario, explained in the patent application, the user could be required to do something, such as click to continue, in order to verify that they are actively watching the advertisement and haven't simply walked away while the ad runs. Whether Apple would

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com said on Thursday that digital books ordered for use on its Kindle electronic reader can now be read on personal computers.

Among Apple's many recent patent applications is this one, in which the computer company envisions a future where your very operating system may be supported by ads.

...computers and portable consumer electronics, such as digital media devices, portable media players, portable audio players, portable gaming devices, and PDAs. China BAK Battery, Inc.'s 3.0-million-square-foot facilities are located in Shenzhen and Tianjin, PRC, and have ...

Windows 7's many small changes add up to a much better product - the best version of Windows you can get, in factThe first thing you'll notice about Windows 7 is that it looks like Vista. It also works like Vista, in the sense that it has the same plumbing underneath, except for a very welcome graphics upgrade to DX11. However, it works much better than Vista, and most of Vista's annoyances have either been removed, or (mostly) can be changed so the system works the way you like. It takes personalisation to extremes.Microsoft has analysed the data from millions of user computing sessions to find out exactly what people do with their computers, then attacked the 'pain points' to make Windows 7 quicker and smoother. (About 15 million people used the Windows 7 beta.)The most obvious difference is that Windows 7 doesn't keep annoying you with prompts - though it's also true that the latest version of Vista is much less annoying than the original. In fact, you can set the degree of annoyanc

...Labs' technology blends computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence; it sends instant and reliable alerts to a myriad of PDA devices, and the software is compatible with all legacy camera systems. "Traditional video surveillance approaches have failed because they ignore ...

If consumers like the new Windows 7 operating system, going on sale today, they'll have the much-maligned Windows Vista to thank. With consumers lukewarm to Vista, both microsoft and the computer makers realized the standard way of business just wasn't cutting it.