Daum Communications, Korea’s second largest Web portal, has sold its U.S. subsidiary Lycos for 42.6 billion Korean won (28.2 million euros). The buyer is the Indian digital marketing company Ybrant how Korea Times reported. Daum had the search engine beginning August 2004 for $ 95.4 million (74.8 million euros) from the Spanish company Terra Networks, [...]

Figures growth in the supply laptops Chinese company Lenovo, are expected market sources, over the next year or two will be the highest in the world. The reason is simple: China has become by 2012 the largest PC market. Notebook manufacturers compete for orders from Lenovo. Wistron and Compal Electronics are the main producers of [...]

PayPal plans to launch by the end of the year has its own micro-payment service. That said Scott Thompson, president of Online Payment Services, the news agency AP . Mainly it is a matter of simplifying the payment of individual news articles or even virtual goods in online games. Currently, a user must purchase for [...]

Toshiba Libretto W100 – a rather unusual laptop that looks like a familiar notebook. However, it differs in that no physical keyboard, which is the touch screen itself is smaller even than a netbook. The company plans to soon offer the market a limited quantity of these devices, but so far they are only available [...]

As a child designer Sean Kim (Shawn Kim), apparently spent much time in the grandfather’s rocking chair, listening to stories and developing their imagination. And when Sean grew up in his head came a very interesting concept – to use a rocking chair motion to generate electricity. As planned, the chair combines two materials – [...]

Apple has updated late last week Quicktime to version 7.6.7. The new version fixes a security classified as critical gap that exists only on Windows. This update applies to Windows 7, Vista and XP SP2 or later. An attacker can inject run on the vulnerability and malicious code or cause a crash the media player. [...]

ASUS CEO Jerry Shen (Jerry Shen) at a conference on summing up the work in the second quarter, announced plans for the future of the company. In December of this year or January 2011, ASUS will launch its first tablet Eee Pad. A new device called the Eee Pad EP121 is equipped with 12-inch touch [...]

The association of German Internet Economy (Eco) has apparently results in the deletion of child porn sites only fooled. Last summer, the Eco had reported 144 sites to INHOPE, the International Federation of complaint hotlines. More than half the 110 U.S. sites had still been available for months, reports the Sunday newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAS). [...]

Dell plans to buy the storage specialists to 3Par for around 1.15 billion dollars. This will allow the computer manufacturer to expand its enterprise cloud offering. Dell offers 3Par per diluted share $ 18 in cash. The acquisition will complete the Group by the end of the year. The supervisory boards of both companies have [...]

As it turns out, despite the difficult situation that had developed in the company before the merger with Palm Hewlett-Packard, the engineers of R & D department continued to work on new ideas. In April, Palm patented detachable handset for voice, used with a portable computer system that is integrated with a mobile phone. Although [...]

security researchers at Trend Micro and Symantec warned of the dangers caused by too freely communicating spatial information. For example, information criminals could get in touch with each other and for ordinary burglaries, but also use for social engineering. Hon Lau on Symantec Security Response describes as an example the case of burglary. There would [...]

Hardly anyone had any doubts that reducing the price on E-reader company Amazon (Kindle) and Barnes & Noble (Nook) remain unnoticed by another major player in the market of devices for reading electronic books. According to the resource Sony Insider, received information from “credible” sources, Sony has already prepared an answer, and will soon appear [...]

Canon has recently holding in suspense customers around the world, intriguing rumors about their upcoming August 26th event and sending him an invitation. Obviously, this will be the presentation of new products, but that’s what? No clues in the invitation was not. most popular suggestion is to present a new semi-professional digital SLR EOS 60D, [...]

rumored that NVIDIA has already developed the design of third generation systems on a chip, Tegra, and expects production of the first samples. Despite the fact that the official announcement of the product may take place soon, the emergence of products based on it should not be expected before the first half of next year. [...]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) provided 10 and 11. Customers and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) can now run SLES on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and pay only for the hours used. The offer is for all types of instances and in all regions of [...]