University of Vienna researchers quantum leap into the cloud, ensure privacy for distributed computing

Afraid of the cloud? You’re not alone, as rising concerns surrounding the security of distributed computing have led University of Vienna researchers to seek out quantum mechanics as a privacy fix. The team’s findings, soon to be published in the journal Science, prove that an end user’s data can remain

Analyst: All These Concerns Over EA And Star Wars Are “Overdone”

So, there’s been some hubbub around Electronic Arts over the last few days, as the company ramps up for the release of the third quarter earnings on February 1st. Yesterday, EA’s stock closed at $17.54 per share, which, in context, meant that the gaming goliath’s stock was down 30 percent since hitting

GO App Lets You Anonymously Share Photos, Videos or Comments [PICS]

If you’ve ever wanted to post a photograph, video or brief comment without your real name or online moniker attached to the content, a fre…

If The Tech Industry Had Its Way, Hollywood Would Be Zynga

Like all of y’all I just read Paul Graham’s SOPA-soaked call for a tech startup that would kill Hollywood.  You would have to be a complete idiot to think Hollywood (or at least some part of Hollywood) isn’t ripe for disruption BUT …

"The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected

iPhone 4S and iPad 2 untethered jailbreak is a success

On your mark, get set, go! A jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 has just been released by the “Dev Dream Team” just moments ago. Apparently, cracking the A5 was “Not exactly a walk in the park” according to the entire team. The jailbreak is termed GreenPois0n Absinthe and

StyleSeat Is OpenTable for Beauty Appointments

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

Google Trims The Fat

Google has more than 40 core products, and hundreds depending on how you count them. Even with over 30,000 employees, that’s a lot to support. In the name of refocusing, today the company announcedthat Picnik, Sky Map, Urchin, Needlebase, Google Message Continuity, and the Social Graph API are all headed

Restore Your Faith in Humanity at the Nicest Place on the Internet

You catch glimpses of sunny parks, busy street corners and various home dwellings as smiling faces step up to offer friendly hugs and a lullaby…

Eye-Fi CEO slams SD Association’s eerily similar Wireless SD card standard, says his IP is being violated

Yuval Koren is not pleased. For those unaware, he’s the CEO of Eye-Fi, the company that has practically written the rules on embedding WiFi into SD cards. If you blinked last week, you probably missed the SD Association’s announcement that it had created a new Wireless LAN SD standard that would effectively

FCC Fridays: January 20, 2012

We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of