If you were really as "creative" as your resume claims, you'd use different terminology to showcase your skills, according to LinkedIn's 2011 list of most overused words and phrases.
Virginia Tech, the Blacksburg, Va., school that was rocked in 2007 by the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/041607-virginia-tech-shooting.html">deadliest shooting rampage</a> by a single gunman in U.S. history, has been locked down this afternoon in the wake of shootings that have resulted in at least two deaths.
A Cornell University professor is calling the controversial Carrier IQ smartphone software revelations a privacy disaster.
North Carolina State University researchers say some <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a> smartphone makers' efforts to go above and beyond the Google mobile platform's basics open their devices to security breaches.
Charles Walton, inventor of the RFID technology now common everywhere from warehouses to retail stores to public libraries, has died at the age of 89 in California.
MIT researchers have published research regarding a breakthrough that could speed the way to zippy new computers that rely on photonic chips that use light beams rather than electrons to work.
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-focused social network <a href="http://diasporafoundation.org/">Diaspora</a>, has died in San Francisco.
Two professors from Wellesley College’s Department of Computer science have been awarded a nearly half million dollar National Science Foundation grant to build an application that gauges the trustworthiness of information shared on social networks, and in particular Twitter.
Accel Partners launched a $100 million Big Data Fund at the sold-out Hadoop World conference in New York in an effort to help start-ups exploit new data types expected to dominate computing and networks for years to come.
Job cuts in the US technology industry in 2011 are down significantly from a year ago and turnover levels in IT shops have returned to pre-recessionary levels, but that doesn’t make the tens of thousands of people in the United States who have been laid off from electronics, telecommunications and computer industry jobs feel much better.
The co-founder of Siri, the company Apple bought last year and whose technology powers the sophisticated voice control features of its new iPhone 4S, has reportedly left Apple to pursue other interests.
<a href="http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2011/10/101711-outreach-cybersecurephones.html">Virginia Tech researchers</a> for the past month and a half have been working to customize Google’s Android software to lock down smartphones so that sensitive data isn’t exposed once a user leaves approved locations. They’re hopeful the technology – part of a project dubbed GhostBox -- will be production-ready by year-end.
Now that you’ve got the basics down of using smartphone and tablet touchscreens, Carnegie Mellon University researchers are ready to take you to the next level.
Technology Review's annual <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/emtech/11/">Emtech</a> event at MIT always bursts with fresh-faced innovators awkwardly touting their world-changing breakthroughs. However, the 2011 event held this week at the new MIT Media Lab also includes plenty of established companies, from Google and IBM to Verizon and Polycom, promoting lots of new ideas backed by their significant financial and human resources.
New research out of England finds that 1 in 6 mobile phones there are contaminated with fecal matter, most likely due to poor hand washing habits.