Chinese product turns anything into interactive touch interface

If you're a part of the do-it-yourself crowd and can tolerate long shipping times, you may want to turn your attention to Shanghai-based Polytouch Interactive Systems. The company sells a hand-sized electronic component

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 16th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Apple imitator ‘Goophone’ highlights IP challenges in China

In China, you can buy iPhone 5 knockoffs before the Apple release this month.  The “Goophone” looks remarkably like the iPhone 5 with the big caveat that it runs the Android OS. Apple,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 17th, 2012 Monica Goyal

Ryerson’s DMZ incubator takes on its first foreign startups

Canada's tech incubator scene is going global.Toronto's Ryerson University is welcoming nine youngentrepreneurs from India for a four-month stint at its Digital MediaZone. It may just be the first time a Canadian technologyincubator hasformally

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 28th, 2012 Christine Wong

Angry Birds teach physics to summer camp students

Angry Birds is more than just your average mobile video game – it’s a veritable popular zeitgeist. It’s hard to exaggerate the success of this simple game, in which birds are slingshot through

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 22nd, 2012 Brian Jackson

Crowdfunding could fill void left by dip in IPO market: study

The number of tech firm IPOs fell last year as political and economic instability continued to rock public markets around the world, new Ernst & Young data show.There were 149 tech IPOs in

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 23rd, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

U.S. and IBM dominate new list of top 500 supercomputers

The U.S. is once again home to the world's most powerful supercomputer, rebounding after it was knocked out of the top spot by China two years ago and Japan last year.The latest Top500

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 16th, 2012 Patrick Thibodeau

‘March Madness’ of coding contests highlights two trends

If you’re not familiar with the Association of Computer Machinery’s (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) sponsored by IBM Corp., just think of it like the “March Madness” of computer programming. Just like

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 16th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Show Me the Money – Innovation Opportunities From Networked Vehicles

The rapid surge in the number and importance of driver-assist and mobile devices is pushing “networked” to the front of the value chain, according to Joachim Taiber, Research Professor at Clemson University’s renowned

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 20th, 2012 Barry Gander

China-based hackers hit Bay Street law firms

The Toronto offices of several Canadian law firms handling a $40 billion potash deal were targeted by hackers believed to be based in China, according to a report by Bloomberg Businessweek. The report

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 3rd, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Were you a victim of Operation Shady RAT?

Whether you believe McAfee that Operation Shady RAT was a major hacking operation taking place over five years and affecting every industry, or Symantec Corp.'s rebut that those hacks weren't such a big

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 9th, 2011 Nestor Arellano

Video Rewind: Hack attack origin hard to determine

China is once again being suspected of involvement in cyber-surveillance after security vendor McAfee Corp. released a report about a major, years-long hacking operation yesterday.Operation Shady RAT was a five-year operation conducted by

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 4th, 2011 ITBusiness Staff

Chinese government refutes Google accusations over Gmail attacks

A Chinese official today denied accusations that the government was responsible for attacks that accessed hundreds of Google Gmail accounts. "The so-called allegations that the Chinese government supports hacking is completely fabricated with

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 3rd, 2011 Gregg Keizer

We’re under NDA, right?

By Phil Newman “OK. Tuesday at 2:30. Great, see you then. We’ll get our NDA over to you guys … yeah, it’s mutual … we can talk more freely about how things could

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 19th, 2011 IDG News Service

Chinese hackers: the root of all evil, or an obvious scapegoat?

By Claudiu Popa  The Chinese are apparently after our law firms now. They weren’t content to hack Google and the Pentagon. After those hacking attempts on our federal government’s Finance and Treasury Board

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 8th, 2011 Claudiu Popa