 Technology to detect whether CEO is telling the truthUsing a new technique, Layered Voice Analysis, can decipher whether CEOs are lying or not, a study reveals.
Duke University and University of Illinois researchers turned to an Israeli firm... | |
| Kindle Fire owners 'less satisfied' than Apple iPad owners Kindle Fire owners were most pleased about the cost of the device, its colour screen and ease of use.However, they were less happy about the fact that the tablet, which has to come to the UK, does... |
| Zuckerberg May Sell to Pay Taxes Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Mark Zuckerberg may sell about $1.67 billion of Facebook Inc. stock in the company’s initial public offering to pay off taxes he will owe when he exercises options to buy... |
| HTC Forecast Trails Estimates as It Awaits Smartphone Models Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- HTC Corp., Asia’s second-largest smartphone maker, forecast revenue that missed analysts’ estimates as it awaits the introduction of new products to help it rebound... |
| Camden Council threatens its constituents with shouting CCTV has been installed talking CCTV cameras in residential areas which literally threaten constituents outside their own homes.The camera, spotted by London... |
| Microsoft publishes Accelerated Massive Parallelism spec published a specification for C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) which is its new system for heterogeneous parallel processing in C++. Microsoft was telling the world about C++ AMP in June... |
| Apple presses ahead with Thunderbolt trademark Apple over the Thunderbolt project. Thunderbolt was mostly developed by Chipzilla with a little bit of help from Jobs mob. But it seems that Apple's reality distortion field does not allow for... |
| DNSChanger trojan still infects Fortune 500 companies after a traffic hijacking scheme was brought to its knees, the software that powered a botnet is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on nearly 50 percent of all... |
| Germany claims Chrome most secure browser Chrome browser. In a security best practices guideline, Germany's Federal Office for Information Security, known by its German initials of BSI, said Chrome was the best browser. In its... |
| Gamers play for hours next to a corpse that no one noticed because he was one of those people who play for days at a time without getting any sleep. In this case he came in late one night and was seen shouting into his mobile mid-day the... |
| Micron appoints a new CEO , the firm was deciding who should replace him and hours later announced the appointment of Mark Durcan as CEO. Durcan will also serve as a director on the firm's board of directors. "We... |
| Intel buys into online video advertising Artivision will incorporate its front-end in-video advertising platform and back-end advertisement serving technology into an Intel software development kit that uses the semiconductor giant's... |
| Apple claims to own the letter i a Kiwi who came up for a case which keeps mobile phones from getting wet wanted to trademark the idea by dubbing it the "driPhone". Hayden Crowther, of Hamilton, New Zealand, created the... |
| Internet giants remove content after India court warning (Reuters) - Internet giants Google Inc and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown "like China" if they... |
| Facebook to Tap Mobile Ads for Revenue Facebook is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices within weeks in an effort to tap a new source of revenues before it goes... |
| HTC Forecasts First-Quarter Sales That Miss Analyst Estimates Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- HTC Corp., Asia’s second-largest smartphone maker, forecast revenue that missed analysts’ estimates as it awaits the introduction of new products to help it rebound... |
| Olympus to Hold Special Shareholders Meeting April 20 Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Olympus Corp., the Japanese camera maker suing 19 current and former executives over accounting fraud, will hold an emergency shareholders meeting on April 20, it said yesterday... |
| IBM Almost Doubles New CEO Rometty’s Salary to $1.5 Million Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. almost doubled the salary of Virginia "Ginni" Rometty after promoting her as the chief executive officer of the world’s... |
| London Olympics could break the internet is warning people to prepare for communications breakdowns during the upcoming Olympic Games in London. The advice is in a PDF that has appeared on the official London 2012 web site and is called... |
| Micron appoints Durcan as chief Reuters is saying that hours after after Appleton's death Micron's board named Durcan, the president and chief operating officer, as temporary CEO. The word on the street is that Durcan... |
| MPs fear far-right terror threat MPs have warned the government not to neglect the threat from extreme far-right terrorism. In a report on radicalisation, the Home Affairs Committee said it had heard "persuasive evidence"... |
| 'Puzzlejuice' combines aspects of 'Tetris,' Boggle In a nutshell: In this 99-cent iOS game from Colaboratory, you rotate and drop multicolored pieces into a well and swipe over letters to spell words to clear away blocks. Got that? Cool factor: If... |
| Alarm-clock programs make staying on task easy We have a daughter with autism. She loves her computer and is very proficient at Web surfing and working with her camera and her photos. Unfortunately, she becomes so focused that she forgets her... |
| Data torrent may spur biggest M&A frenzy since '07 Three years from now, the data equivalent of every movie ever made will cross Internet networks every five minutes, according to Cisco Systems predictions. How to manage all that information is what... |
| Nintendo banking on Wii U to break sales slump Super Mario is proving no match for "Angry Birds." Nintendo executives have watched with alarm as consumers spend a few dollars to buy apps like "Angry Birds" for their smart... |
| Best portable Bluetooth speakers The Jambox is a rechargeable Bluetooth speaker with advanced features, a stunning design and a balanced sound that belies its small, convenient... |
| Bay Area mergers and acquisitions, Feb. 6 Notable mergers and acquisitions in the Bay Area last week. Deal type{+1} Announced Target Target's city Acquirer Acquirer's city Seller Seller's city Announced value{+2} Payment type... |
| Giants top Pats for 2nd Super Bowl in 4 years INDIANAPOLIS, IN - FEBRUARY 05: Quarterback Eli Manning #10 of the New York Giants poses with the Vince Lombardi Trophy after the Giants defeated the Patriots by a score of 21-17 in Super Bowl XLVI... |
| Obama: Israel has not decided on attacking Iran (02-05) 19:48 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle... |
| Nikon Gains After Raising Forecast on Cameras: Tokyo Mover Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Nikon Corp. surged the most in three years in Tokyo trading after the world’s second-biggest maker of professional-grade cameras raised its operating profit forecast on... |
| KT Corp Fourth-Quarter Profit Rises, Helped by One-Time Gain Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- KT Corp., South Korea’s largest phone and Internet company, reported a 13 percent increase in fourth- quarter profit as a one-time gain masked higher costs and falling... |
| A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 6 Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to... |
| HTC faces uphill struggle to prove its worth TAIPEI (Reuters) - HTC was once the standard bearer of the Android phone but that was 2010 -- a long time ago in mobile terms. Now analysts say it faces another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to... |
| Observing Super Bowl Sunday (Credit: Screenshot by Edward Moyer/CNET) Eli Manning connected with Mario Manningham for the big game's biggest play, but did tech advertisers manage to connect with consumers?... |
| AP Newsbreak: 3 lost in Ore. considered eating dog This undated photo provided by Karanda Williams shows Daniel and Belinda Conne. The couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 after they got lost while picking... |
| Big Year for Tech Mergers NYSE at 42% Size of CME Is Niederauer Dilemma as Deal Fails Cisco Systems Inc., the world’s largest maker of networking equipment, estimates that by 2015 the data equivalent of all movies... |
| M.I.A. flips bird during Super Bowl halftime show Kelly Clarkson sings the national anthem before the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in... |
| Actress Katie Leclerc is a gamer, 3-D fan 3-D"I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than in the theater, because you're in tighter quarters and you're closer to the TV, so it feels like... |
| Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free (Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Many of the deeply affected have been standing in line waiting to see how Samsung would attack Apple in launching the Galaxy Note. So here we were,... |
| White Male Facebook Board Prompts Questions Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Most of Facebook Inc.’s more than 800 million users are women. You wouldn’t know it from looking at the board, whose seven directors are all... |
| Vodafone Said to Abandon Greek Merger After Opposition Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Vodafone Group Plc has decided to abandon an attempt to merge its Greek unit with rival Wind Hellas after facing European Union regulatory opposition, according to a person with... |
| KT Fourth-Quarter Profit Misses Estimates on Tariff Cut, Costs Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- KT Corp., South Korea’s largest phone and Internet company, reported fourth-quarter profit that missed analysts’ estimates after the carrier cut tariffs under an... |
| Nikon Jumps After Higher Profit Forecast on Cameras: Tokyo Mover Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Nikon Corp. surged the most in three years in Tokyo trading after the world’s second-biggest maker of professional-grade cameras raised its profit forecast on higher-... |
| Hacker Group Anonymous Intercepted U.S. Call Over Probe Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The online hacker group Anonymous intercepted a telephone call between FBI agents and U.K. authorities involving a joint investigation of the group, according to the U.S.... |
