Technology

For the quarter, Apple sold a record 37 million iPhones, a healthy leap over the 30 million anticipated by the average analyst.

Apple still on top when it comes to mobile phones

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/6/2012

There are many things that Apple, the world-leading gadget maker based in Cupertino, California has not conquered. For example, Apple may not be the world's leading mobile phone maker, but its cut of both profits and sales still places it firmly at the top. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - ...

Once withdrawn and shy, the adjective of 'cocky' has been increasingly used to describe Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as of late.

Facebook announces plans for stock market explosion

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/3/2012

Facebook, the world's largest social networking site has announced plans for a stock market flotation. The Web site said it would seek to raise $5 billion, or about half the amount many analysts expected. The initial public offering or IPO is still expected to be the biggest sale of shares ...

The plates were created at a time when researchers used glass surfaces coated with light-sensitive silver salts to record discoveries seen by telescopes. The Harvard collection includes plates made with dozens of telescopes.

Decades-old photographic plates reveal new stars

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/31/2012

A new analysis of the 500,000 plates made by the Harvard College Observatory from the 1880s through the 1980s, covering the whole sky offers astronomers an unprecedented look at how stars change over long periods. The century's worth of astronomical photographic plates have revealed a slew of new ...

Five of the systems contain a pair of planets, the inner one circling its star twice in the time it takes the outer planet to make one lap.

11 new planetary systems discovered with 26 alien planets confirmed

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/29/2012

Eleven new planetary systems with 26 confirmed alien planets among them have been discovered, thanks to NASA's prolific planet-hunting spacecraft. "Prior to the Kepler mission, we knew of perhaps 500 exoplanets across the whole sky," Doug Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA ...

While many associate 'cloaks of invisibility' with radio chapter plays and Harry Potter, scientists are now able to mask small objects in transparency with plasmonics.

Scientists have created a 'cloak of invisibility'

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/27/2012

Popular radio show character the Shadow was able to cloak his personage in invisibility in order to find out what evil lurked in the hearts of men. Now, scientists say they have taken a step closer to creating a "three-dimensional cloak" that would render objects invisible. LOS ANGELES, CA ...

Essential to YouTube's popularity is the interactivity it gives the user. Anyone can upload a video and become a self-proclaimed artist, journalist, pundit, self-promoter, exhibitionist, prankster, weirdo and wag.

YouTube enjoying newfound popularity

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/23/2012

YouTube, best known for streaming countless video clips with a keyboard stroke has enjoyed a 25 percent increase over the past eight months. Google Inc.'s video Web site is currently streaming a phenomenal four billion online videos every day. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The increase ...

This image shows the reason why the US cannot compete with China in manufacturing.

Steve Jobs to Obama: Those jobs aren't coming back.

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 1/23/2012

In February of 2011, Barack Obama visited Silicon Valley for dinner with several movers and shakers of the electronics industry. Each visitor was asked to have a question prepared for the President. But the question that got the most attention was one fielded by the President himself to Mr. Steve ...

Police in the New Zealand's city of Auckland, working with U.S. authorities detained the Web site's co-founders Kim Dotcom (pictured above), also known as Kim Shmitz, and Mathias Ortmann.

MegaUpload Web site shut down by U.S. government

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/22/2012

MegaUpload.com, one of the world's most popular file-sharing Web sites has been shut down by the U.S. government. The U.S. Justice Department cited the Web site for allegedly violating piracy laws. Police arrested MegaUpload.com's co-founders along with two other staff members in New ...

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, worth $1.1 billion, also relinquishes his title of 'Chief Yahoo.'

Yahoo co-founder resigns

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/18/2012

One of Yahoo's cofounders, 43-year-old Jerry Yang has announced his resignation from the Internet Company. The announcement comes just two weeks after former PayPal executive Scott Thompson was named the company's new CEO. The troubled Internet search engine is struggling to revive revenue ...

The virus first lies in wait until a customer with an infected computer visits an online banking site, steals their login credentials and tricks the victim into divulging additional personal information such as debit card information.

Insidious virus targets your bank account

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 1/6/2012

Nowadays, seeing is not always believing. You've seen this trick before in the movies: a thief breaks into a high-tech security bank, tricks the security cameras into showing screens that no one is there, and absconds with all the cash. Now - think of an insidious computer virus that ...