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Windows Phone 8 "is not just having a lot of apps to choose from," Microsoft Vice President Joe Belfiore said during his presentation. He dismissed the "static grid of icons" introduced by Apple, which has become the standard, saying people are the focus of Windows Phone 8's design...

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, an Islamic group, claimed responsibility for the attacks. U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) blamed the attacks on Iran There wasn't anything about the attacks that made them extraordinary, said Richard Stiennon, chief research analyst with ...

In fact, from the first page results, you'd conclude that the president must have been the best damn president we've ever had. Even under news, Romney is primarily pounded by the YouTube video of his ill-conceived 47 percent remark (YouTube is owned by Google), while Obama's news focuses on his being ahead in the polls. There's also the NFL ref controversy, with comments from both candidates, and there is a piece about Romney pointing out weaknesses in Obama's performance. Other than the Romney comments, which clearly look biased, I didn't see anything on the economy, foreign relations, unemployment -- or even Joe Biden, who traditionally has foot-in-mouth disease. ...

With each major public data breach our attention focuses on how to prevent these incidents. A good example is the recent security breach at LinkedIn, in which millions of passwords were stolen. Industry experts and the media immediately started to dissect what LinkedIn had done wrong or what methods or tools should have been used to prevent the incident. Unfortunately, at some point every organization will be faced with a security breach. This raises the question -- are security professionals focusing on prevention at the expense of damage control preparation?...

Switching to another browser "is warranted," Joe McManus, software engineering manager at Webroot, told TechNewsWorld. Because IE "is a large executable with many features [and] this attack is complex, once [the browser] is patched, it does not mean the end of vulnerabilities in IE."

The announcement builds on momentum Sprint began developing in this space years ago, Joe Mandacina, VP of corporate communications, told the E-Commerce Times. Sprint was the first wireless carrier to introduce 4G on the WiMAX network in 2008, he noted, and "because of that h...

"Given the amount we will have to store in the future, with all of the new big-data and business analytics heading our way, this is an important technology," Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics, told TechNewsWorld. "This is probably why IBM is in the forefront of this technology."

HP grossly overpaid for EDS, said Joe Aberger, president of Pritchett, and author of Selling Your Business: Making the Right Moves, Avoiding the Costly Mistakes. For that reason, "the HP-EDS deal was dead on arrival," he told the E-Commerce Times....

"My wife does a lot of stuff on application performance management, and once an app drifts off into the cloud, it's very hard to track where it is and what problems it's facing, and this kind of tool sounds excellent to me," Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics, told LinuxInsider...

A terrorist organization has compromised the account of an Olympic organizer IT admin. One of its members, Joe, has also gotten a job on the IT helpdesk. Joe uses his door badge to let Jane, a skilled hacker, into a secured office setting and then into a LAN closet with a computer terminal. ...

Meanwhile, Congress is battling over a cybersecurity bill; Sen. Joe Lieberman and other sponsors say they're being forced to water it down and reintroduce it. "We are still very vulnerable [to cyberattacks], though it's likely an attack would need a weapon that has been desig...

"If Digg wanted to compete and stay relevant they should have worked on better algorithms," McHenry told the E-Commerce Times. "They should have found a way so that any old Joe that submitted a story actually had a chance the article would go popular. If you aren't connected to an influencer on Digg, don't even waste your time submitting because nobody will see your story." ...

However, an upstart called "Ouya" is looking to challenge the big three and is looking to raise money in a Kickstarter.com-based campaign. Led by video game veteran Julie Uhrman, who was formerly the VP/GM of digital distribution at IGN Entertainment, the company has attracted a who's who of angel investors including Digg founder Jay Andelson; Eric Hautemont, publisher of the Ticket to Ride board game; Joe Greenstein, founder of Flixster; and Hosain Rahman, founder of Jabone...

Our track had some cool presentations on social marketing from IDC mavens Gerry Murray and Joe Farentino, revenue performance management from Phil Fernandez, CEO of Marketo, and an intriguing discussion from Pam Kostka, a fellow Crusader and CMO of VirtuOz, a company that makes virtual agents. ...

DeeChee, which is built to look, act and learn like a 6-to-14-month-old child, is the subject of a report recently published in PLoS ONE by Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and Joe Saunders, researchers with Hertfordshire's Adaptive Systems Research Group DeeChee is desig...

Here synergy between games and sports is greater. Andrew Wilson of Electronic Arts took the stage and was joined by legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana to demonstrate "Madden NFL 13's" new support for Microsoft Kinect "As a sports fan, I am excited by it," Dave Rudden, the...

Flame also lacks the degree of sophistication found in malware created with rootkits like TDL4 and ZeroAccess, according to Webroot Vice President Joe Jaroch "The code is not armored at all, and while it has many different components which can make it marginally more time-cons...

However, "using 20 times more code than Stuxnet doesn't necessarily mean that it's 20 times stronger," Joe Jaroch, vice president of endpoint solutions engineering at Webroot, told TechNewsWorld There are reports that Flame was launched by Israel against other nations the Midd...

"Flame would be easy to discover for multiple elements of an intrusion defense system, so if a nation-state was behind it, they clearly didn't plan it well or want it to actually work," Joe Jaroch, vice president of endpoint solutions engineering at Webroot, told TechNewsWorld...

Researchers have developed a robotic arm that has enabled a paralyzed woman to drink a cup of coffee -- by directly controlling it with her mind. The development has raised the question of whether this approach could perhaps restore some mobility to similarly affected people in the future ...