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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The World Wide Web Consortium recently announced that HTML5 has reached last call status, which opens the standard to industry scrutiny. CNet From ACM TechNews | May 31, 2011
CEO Paul Otellini said today that Intel is embarking on a big shift in focus, moving its center of gravity to the most power-efficient devices.CNET From ACM News | May 17, 2011
Android is open-source software, but it doesn't come with much of an open-source community, and the Google leader of the project explained why.CNET From ACM News | May 17, 2011
A year ago, Ralph Langner was plugging away in relative obscurity, doing security consulting work for the industrial control system industry in his Hamburg headquarters...CNET From ACM News | May 13, 2011
For the U.S. government, the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan represents a unique opportunity to test advanced computer forensics techniques called...CNET From ACM News | May 6, 2011
As U.S. special forces assaulted Osama bin Laden's walled compound in Pakistan, a Twitter user was already recording a rough outline of the events to come. Sohaib...CNET From ACM Opinion | May 5, 2011
Google lost some ground in its effort to catch Apple's lead in the effort to attract mobile developer interest, but other rivals aren't even close, survey data...CNET From ACM News | April 26, 2011
Google's sweeping changes to Web site rankings have roiled the Web industry, including the company's announcement last week that its algorithms now incorporate...CNET From ACM News | April 18, 2011
Microsoft had some fun while offering up details of the software development kit for Kinect for Windows. A technology evangelist named Clint Rutkas jury-rigged...CNET From ACM News | April 15, 2011
If you're a commuter stuck in traffic, it doesn't help you all that much to know what road conditions are like right now. You already know you're being delayed...CNET From ACM News | April 14, 2011
If you didn't get an email warning this week that your name and email address were part of a database that was breached, consider yourself lucky, and unique.CNET From ACM News | April 6, 2011
There's no doubt the latest crop of stable browsers from Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are the best the companies have ever produced. But how do they perform...CNET From ACM News | March 29, 2011
While changes in the ancient market-share rivalry between chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices were unremarkable in 2010, the emergence of Apple as a force...CNET From ACM News | March 25, 2011
After a security problem derailed it last year, a technology to open a high-speed browser communications link is getting back on track again.CNET From ACM News | March 22, 2011
George Mason University researchers were scheduled to demonstrate a computer device attack using a USB cable at the Black Hat DC conference. CNet From ACM TechNews | January 21, 2011
As smartphones using Google's Android operating system become mainstream, James Steele and Nelson To are in a pretty good position.CNET From ACM Opinion | December 30, 2010
The easiest way to sum up the Web in 2010 is that it was a year of growth. The big got bigger and smaller companies came out of the woodwork with new plays on...CNET From ACM News | December 21, 2010
As its operations have come under increasing financial and political pressure, WikiLeaks has quietly bolstered its electronic defenses in an attempt to become...CNET From ACM News | December 8, 2010