Information Technology
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Solar power in Germany hits record levelJun 08, 2012 1:14 pm - BERLIN — German utilities say solar power reached a new record level in May when it produced about 10 percent of the country’s overall electricity. The BDEW utility lob...
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How your devices could be affected by new IP numbersJun 07, 2012 10:00 am - A flurry of activity is brewing behind the scenes of the Internet that could affect how your smartphone and other Internet-enabled devices operate. All of those devices ...
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Gogo, StubHub partner to provide ticket access to airline passengersJun 07, 2012 9:00 am - Commercial airline Wi-Fi provider Gogo, based in Itasca, said it has partnered with StubHub to give passengers onboard all Gogo equipped flights free access to the onlin...
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Google adds warning of ‘state-sponsored attacks’Jun 06, 2012 9:49 am - BEIJING — Google said Wednesday that it has added a feature to warn users whose accounts it believes are targets of “state-sponsored attacks,” but the Internet giant did...
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Restaurant.com launches $15 dining certificatesJun 06, 2012 9:03 am - Arlington Heights-based Restaurant.com launched $15 dining certificates and eGift cards retailing for $6. With this new option, restaurant goers will save $9 at more tha...
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CompTIA announces panels for Breakaway 2012Jun 05, 2012 10:46 am - A lineup of executives from leading information technology vendors and distributors has been added to the program for Breakaway 2012, the IT channel’s premier annual edu...
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UOP technology selected for clean fuel refining In RussiaJun 05, 2012 9:23 am - Des Plaines-based UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, said it has been selected by Haldor Topsoe to provide technology to purify hydrogen from a steam reforming unit to be ins...
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RIM sinks, but patents, network have valueJun 02, 2012 7:30 am - WATERLOO, Ontario — Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, is in steep decline. The company, once the crown jewel of the Canadian technology industry, is ...
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Researchers bring back vacuum tubesJun 02, 2012 7:30 am - Peer inside an antique radio and you’ll find what look like small light bulbs. They’re actually vacuum tubes — the predecessors of the silicon transistor. Vacuum tubes w...
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To avoid computer viruses, keep off those racy ... church sites?Jun 02, 2012 7:00 am - As with herpes, one of the peripheral embarrassments of contracting a computer virus is that everyone has a pretty good idea of what you were up to when you got it. Oh s...