Leap Motion says its 3D motion controllers will be included in some computers from Hewlett-Packard this year. The Leap Controller tracks people’s fingers and hand motions as they gesture, swipe and point at their computer screens. Applications developed for it let people control games, work on office tasks, paint pictures or design 3D objects. At […]
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Yahoo 1Q Puts Spotlight on CEO
Yahoo’s first-quarter earnings report will cast a spotlight on CEO Marissa Mayer’s efforts to turn around the Internet company. The numbers, due out after the stock market closes Tuesday, are being released with Yahoo’s stock price trading at some of its highest levels since the company squandered an opportunity to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. […]
Google Clears Another Step in EU Antitrust Case
Google has taken another step toward settling a European antitrust investigation focusing on whether the Internet giant is abusing its dominant position of online search and advertising markets. Google Inc. has submitted a list of remedies in legally binding form to address the concerns voiced by the European Commission, which acts as the 27-nation bloc’s antitrust authority, the body’s spokesman Antoine Colombani said Monday. […]
Local Police Grapple with Response to Cybercrimes
If a purse with $900 is stolen, the victim probably would call the police. If a computer hacker steals $900 from that same person’s bank account, what then? Call the police? Could they even help? As it is now, local police don’t have widespread know-how to investigate cybercrimes. They rely heavily on the expertise of the federal government, which focuses on […]
Focus on PCs in Microsoft’s 3Q
Microsoft’s latest quarterly report will give the software maker another opportunity to persuade investors that its efforts to redesign its products for mobile devices are heading in the right direction, despite recent evidence that the attempted transformation isn’t paying off. WHAT TO LOOK FOR: The results, due out after the stock market closes Thursday, cover […]
PA State Websites, Recently Outsourced, Go Dark
Many of Pennsylvania’s state government websites are offline, and officials aren’t providing details about the cause or its likely duration. A spokeswoman for the governor’s office said Monday it was described to her as a network issue. The outage appears to cover many of the agencies under the governor’s jurisdiction but not state courts or […]
Local Police Grapple with Response to Cybercrimes
If a purse with $900 is stolen, the victim probably would call the police. If a computer hacker steals $900 from that same person’s bank account, what then? Call the police? Could they even help? As it is now, local police don’t have widespread know-how to investigate cybercrimes. They rely heavily on the expertise of […]
NYC Students, Hackers Train for Cybersecurity Jobs
Every week, a group of teenagers and 20-somethings dressed in hoodies gets together in a tiny room on a college campus and plug in their laptops. They turn up pulsing electronic funk music, order pizza and begin furiously hacking into computer networks. But they’re not shadowy criminals: They’re students training to become “white-hat” hackers, experts to […]
Kodak Selling Document Imaging Assets for $210M
Kodak has agreed to sell some of its document imaging assets to Brother Industries for about $210 million, its latest deal as it seeks to exit bankruptcy protection. Japan-based Brother also would assume the business’ deferred service revenue liability, which totaled about $67 million as of Dec. 31, the companies said Monday. Kodak’s document imaging […]
Glasses-Free 3D and a Near Replacement for Knight Rider
This week’s Engineering Update from ECN is brought to you by Mouser Electronics, the electronic components distributor with the widest selection of the newest products. In this week’s headlines: Mobile 3D, Without the Glasses: A new screen protector from Nanovue, called the EyeFly, gives mobile devices a glasses-free 3D display. Made out of a thin, […]