NASA's Messenger begins historic orbit of Mercury
For the first time, a spacecraft is in orbit around the solar system's innermost planet.
For the first time, a spacecraft is in orbit around the solar system's innermost planet.
The government has allocated £30 million to the police to establish regional e-crime units, according to reports.
A rocket carrying a satellite designed to help scientists study the Earth's climate suffered a technical failure and may have crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today denied it is planning to expand the use of whole-body scanning technologies to rail and bus transit facilities or for pedestrian surveillance.
Robotic history was made today.
Open democracy, open borders and open standards were the themes to which speakers returned again and again at the opening ceremony for the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, on Monday night.
The central command post for the International Space Station's robotics work failed Monday in the middle of the first spacewalk for the shuttle Discovery's final space mission.
Astronauts aboard Discovery are using the vehicle's robotic arm today to inspect the shuttle for any damage to its exterior during Thursday's launch into orbit.
Two separate enforcement actions taken this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for HIPAA privacy violations should serve as a warning to all health care entities, say privacy analysts.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The time to act on cyberwar is now, several experts at the RSA Security Conference held here this week said.
WASHINGTON - With Congress in the mood to cut spending, the federal budget proposed by President Barack Obama relies heavily on cloud computing and data center consolidation to keep IT costs under control.
Health-care facilities in two states have begun exchanging data with each other and public health agencies over the Internet as part of a pilot program that standardizes the way patient information is transmitted. The goal is to speed up data transmission and to track public health trends, the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced today.
Organizations that are deploying public cloud computing applications need to pay close attention to security and management risks, the National Institute of Standards and Technology said in a report released Wednesday.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's State of the Union Speech was so technology-focused that it buoyed expectations that U.S. investment in IT, particularly supercomputing, will survive his other plan to freeze domestic spending for five years.
The White House will be using <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9126858/Feds_Web_site_gets_Web_2.0_makeover">Web 2.0 technology</a> to reach out to Americans during and after the president's State of the Union address tonight.