Barnes Noble launched its widely expected tablet Monday, taking on the soon-to-be released tablet from book-selling rival Amazon with a machine that has slightly better specs. “With the Nook Tablet we are delivering the best media device ever created in a portable form factor,” said Barns Noble CEO William Lynch at a launch event at [...]

Palo Alto Networks is upgrading its firewall products with a capability to precisely identify outbound traffic generated by malware, a technique that the company said will help if the malware is undetected at first and starts running on a computer. The company calls the technology WildFire, and it will be distributed as a free upgrade [...]

BANGOR, Maine — Police are searching for two male suspects they say shoplifted the same tablet computer from a local department store a week apart. On Oct. 22, Officer Brian Smith was dispatched to Sears at the Bangor Mall after a suspect who was spotted by store security had fled on foot, Sgt. Paul Edwards [...]

NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel Architects, PC (GKV), a New York-based award-winning architecture firm, has completed a modern, new space for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s New York headquarters, located at 599 Lexington Ave. The renovation of the 22,000 sq. ft. space took place in multiple phases with [...]

Hewlett-Packard says it’s “making 3D available to the masses” with two new PC-based offerings that will begin to roll out Tuesday. The TouchSmart 620 3D edition desktop is priced starting at $1800 and sports a 3.1 GHz Intel i5 processor, 8 GB of RAM, and 1.5 TB of storage space. The 3D display works with [...]

HP has been very prolific with its HP TouchSmart All-in-One PC lineup, launching the new 320, 420 and 520 last September. The HP TouchSmart 620-1080 3D is an upgrade of the HP TouchSmart 610 introduced in May 2011, it boats a 23-inch 3D display that swivels up to 180 degrees and reclines up to 60 [...]

Czech Republic PC download store raises launch awareness with TV sponsorship LONDON 04/11/11 – Green Man Gaming – Europe’s fastest-growing independent digital PC games distributor (www.greenmangaming.com), is celebrating its launch in the Czech Republic on Saturday, 5th November by sponsoring Re-Play TV – the country’s biggest gaming show. In co-operation with local partner Next Level [...]

Automobile technology has become so advanced that today’s cars are essentially computers with wheels. So why aren’t we using them to surf the Web, communicate with other cars or order food at nearby restaurants? We’re well on our way. Current models of several cars, including the Ford Edge, the Audi A6 and the Lincoln MKX, [...]

These days, mobile-technology patents and lawsuits go together like peanut butter and jelly. Previously, patents primarily served to help companies protect their intellectual property; now, however, Apple, HTC, Microsoft, and smaller companies are using patents as leverage, suing one another in attempts to gain the upper hand. The trend, experts say, is quickly spinning out [...]

According to the survey of 1,000 shoppers conducted by Immedia Plc, 49 percent said they had stayed longer I a store as a result, but overall, 50 percent of them had left because they didn’t like what was playing or they found it annoying. 23 percent of those surveyed said that they would be less [...]