China and the US are the top two countries with the greatest potential to drive technology breakthroughs and likely to have a global impact in the next four years, said KPMG that released results of a survey recently.

China and the US are the top two countries with the greatest potential to drive technology breakthroughs and likely to have a global impact in the next four years, said KPMG that released results of a survey recently.
Civil rights advocates view Wednesday’s narrow defeat of a bill to curtail funds for the National Security Agency’s domestic spy programme as a sign of the growing opposition within Congress.
Emerging technologies for 4G LTE networks are expected to make rapid advances over the next few years, helping mobile networks keep up with data growth and bringing more users worldwide into the LTE fold.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has renewed permission to the US government for a controversial programme to collect telephone metadata in bulk.
Wall Street played its own version of war games on Thursday, testing its defences against simulated cyber-attacks bent on taking down US stock exchanges.
Last month, a former CIA technician leaked information on the National Security Agency’s data gathering surveillance programme dubbed PRISM. Joe Lipscombe investigates what relevance this holds for the Middle East.
Infor has been sued by a customer who claims an ERP project that was supposed to take six months instead allegedly dragged on for well over a year without any useful results.
A new version of a file-infecting malware program that’s being distributed through drive-by download attacks is also capable of stealing FTP (File Transfer Protocol) credentials.
With major parts of the US under an intense heat wave, opting for less cooling may seem like a bad idea. But it isn’t.
The US may be the global centre of the IT universe, but India will exceed the US in the number of software developers by 2017, a new report notes.
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