Google Drive Debuts Today Giving Users the Deepest Online File Cabinet Ever / image via IBTimes

Google, the Web’s mightiest search giant—another industry mantra—has launched Google Drive today, offering its millions of users and potential millions of new customers the world’s largest digital filing cabinet ever.
Reporting from San Jose, California, the Associated Press this morning said the Google Drive launch today in the US now provides its users a product that stores personal …

Apple Reports High Q1 Gains, Rivals Suffer More Pains. Image: Wysz / Flickr (CC)

Apple, the world’s most valuable company is set to report today another record quarterly profit performance, further setting in stone its unremitting leadership in the Internet and technology businesses.
The Associated Press yesterday quoted Wall Street analysts as predicting that Apple will post a profit for the January to March period this year of $9.2 billion, viewed as nearly equal to the quarterly profit …

Google 'Spring Cleaning' sweeps off Google Sync for BlackBerry smartphones. (Image: Ian Lamont, via Flickr / CC)

Google has announced plans to shutter its Sync for BlackBerry smartphones service to continue its annual “spring cleaning” initiative of closing not-so-popular products and services.
The Internet search titan said in an official blog post, “Beginning June 1, 2012, we’re ending our support for Google Sync for Blackberry. If you already have the app installed, …

Sexting is quite popular in the United Kingdom. (Image: Joi Ito, via Flickr / CC)

Sending attractive, sensual, and somehow seductive pictures and text messages to people we love – or like – to catch their attention is a very common practice. But a poll conducted recently says 11 percent of “sexters” commit the mistake of sending such messages to the wrong person instead.
Recombu.com, a news site based in the United Kingdom, has conducted a poll on a sample population of 2,000 adults. …

The back of a Samsung Galaxy S II handset. (Image: mjtmail, via Flickr / CC)

Vodafone has confirmed the upcoming availability of “the new Samsung Galaxy”, otherwise known as the Samsung Galaxy S III, on its network ahead of the phone’s official launching event on May 3.
While the UK mobile operator inadvertently made an untimely slip-up last week, this time around it sent email messages to media partners, saying, “I just wanted to let you know that the next Samsung …

F-Secure Chief Security Researcher Mikko Hypponen. (Image: Mikko Hypponen, via Flickr / CC)

F-Secure has warned that the world is now on the brink of another technological revolution revolving around cyber warfare.
The security firm’s chief security researcher, Mikko Hypponen, said in an interview with The INQUIRER that, not before long, countries worldwide will try to outflank one another using advanced computer skills and technologies to gauge a nation’s prowess.
Hypponen added that …

X-ray phones soon to become real world devices. (Image: SOCIALisBETTER, via Flickr / CC)

Researchers have designed a semiconductor unit that allows mobile phones to see through walls via X-ray.
The scientists explained that the chip uses Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology to find frequencies in the terahertz (THz) band – a step higher than gigahertz (GHz) – of the electromagnetic spectrum, which is the entire range of electromagnetic waves.
Kenneth O, Professor of …

WordPress Utility Redirects Mac OS X Users To Flashback Trojan. (Image: Juan Pablo Olmo, via Flickr / CC)

Kaspersky Lab has reported that exposed WordPress websites have been redirecting visitors to malevolent program hosts that carry Flashback trojan to infect Mac OS X systems.
The security firm claimed on its report that compromised WordPress blog sites pushed visitors to servers laden with malware, particularly those sites with credulous web administrators who installed a utility called …

au(KDDI) 3G – iPhone 4S. (Image: Miki Yoshihito, via Flickr / CC)

With two generations of iPhones having the same form factors under their wings, Apple is expected to level up with its sixth-generation smartphone and boast a new build with a possibility of using new materials. A little-known alloy which Apple has been using for the past two years could be just the thing to catch consumers’ attention.
 
On Wednesday, Korea IT News reported that the iPhone 5 could possibly be …

Google stock split earns critical judgment from governance experts. (Image: Robert Scoble, via Flickr / CC)

Stock splits usually get a thumbs-up and a round of applause from investors and governance experts. However, when Google announced an elaborate and tortuous plan to distribute additional shares – which do not have any voting power – to investors, they got the opposite reaction.
 
Google’s strategy to achieve the same result as that of a stock split is a little complicated. It …