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• Atlantis astronauts get rude awakening
  Michael Cooney
  Nov 20 2009

  Talk about a nightmare. The Atlantis space shuttle crew and other astronauts onboard the International Space Station were awoken this morning by a system depressurization alarm. According to NASA, ...

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• Banks on watch after suspected card breach
  Jeremy Kirk
  Nov 20 2009

  An apparent data breach in Spain has caused Visa and MasterCard to warn banks of possible fraudulent credit card transactions. The breach likely affects people across Europe who may have had ...

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• EU security agency highlights cloud computing risks
  Mikael Ricknäs
  Nov 20 2009

  Cloud computing users face problems including loss of control over data, difficulties proving compliance, and additional legal risks as data moves from one legal jurisdiction to another, according ...

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• EU gives Oracle extra time to respond to Sun inquiry
  Paul Meller
  Nov 20 2009

  Oracle and Sun Microsystems have been granted an extra week to defend their planned US$7 billion merger in front of European regulators, the European Commission said Friday.Earlier this month the ...

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• Cloud Engines launches next generation Pogoplug
  Cody Barbierri
  Nov 20 2009

  San Francisco startup Cloud Engines, maker of a box-like device called Pogoplug that makes external hard drives accessible from any computer or iPhone, today launched the next generation of the ...

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• FunMail livens up your iPhone messages
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 20 2009

  FunMobility, the developer of a bunch of social mobile applications, is releasing a new iPhone app that chief executive Adam Lavine says will finally convince people to use their phones’ ...

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• Tech mishaps and the human problem
  Chris Morris
  Nov 20 2009

  Behind every tech problem is a human problem – and if you don’t dig into it and figure out how solve it, your company will never progress. Serial entrepreneur Eric Ries, in this entrepreneurial ...

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• Cyberattacks on U.S. military jump sharply in 2009
  Robert McMillan
  Nov 20 2009

  Cyberattacks on the U.S. Department of Defense -- many of them coming from China -- have jumped sharply in 2009, a U.S. congressional committee reported Thursday. Citing data provided by the U.S. ...

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• New H-1B hiring bill takes aim at tech firms
  Patrick Thibodeau
  Nov 20 2009

  The two lawmakers who successfully added H-1B hiring restrictions to the financial bailout bill earlier this year have introduced legislation that would bar any firm that lays off 50 or more workers ...

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• Why Chrome OS will fail -- big time
  Randall C. Kennedy
  Nov 20 2009

  The Chrome OS is here -- sort of. This week, Google was kind of enough to give the world a sneak peek at its nascent desktop operating system. And after months of speculation (and more than a few ...

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