Douglas Perry
Douglas Perry is an author and journalist from Portland, Oregon. His many articles have appeared in the likes of Tom's Guide, Tom's Hardware, The Oregonian, and several newspapers. He has covered topics including security, hardware, and cars, and has written five books. In his spare time, he enjoys watching The Sopranos.
Latest articles by Douglas Perry
Nintendo Hit With Dramatic Decline in Sales
By Douglas Perry published
Nintendo is finding itself in financial trouble as the company has not an effective tool to halt the decline of its console shipment numbers.
Patent Troll Sues Entire Wireless Industry
By Douglas Perry published
IP company LVL Patent Group has filed nine patent infringement suits against a total of 120 defendants primarily in the wireless and communications industry.
Motion Capture from Body-Mounted Cameras
By Douglas Perry published
Future movies may be using a different type of motion capture technique than we are used to today. rather using a camera to record the motion of a person or object, actors may be wearing numerous outward-facing cameras on a body suit.
200,000 U.S. BitTorrent Users Sued
By Douglas Perry published
More than 201,000 people in the United States have been sued over illegal file sharing activity using BitTorrent since the beginning of 2010, according to a post published by Torrent Freak.
Scientists Develop Software to Animate Face Photos
By Douglas Perry published
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a software that can animate a face in a picture and create the impression of a movie.
Telex Software Circumvents Internet Censorship
By Douglas Perry published
A group of students and professors at the University of Michigan have developed Telex, a software that could allow users to break through a government-level censorship of websites.
Foxconn: Apple Products Are Difficult To Build
By Douglas Perry published
While telling its shareholders that it has made substantial investments to increase the production volume of Apple products, Foxconn dropped a note that Apple products are "very difficult to make", according to a report published by Bloomberg.
Linux Emulator That Runs In Your Web Browser
By Douglas Perry published
JavaScript is showing off more of its potential as French developer Fabrice Bellard published a PC emulator using the platform.
Opera Adopts Browser Rapid Release Cycles
By Douglas Perry published
Opera released a preview version of its next browser, not surprisingly named Opera Next.
Mozilla Announces New Firefox JavaScript Engine
By Douglas Perry published
It appears as if Firefox 4 has grown old over the past few weeks it has been available.
Researcher: Chrome Is The Slowest JavaScript Browser
By Douglas Perry published
It has been no secret that JavaScript benchmarks are usually very biased and fine-tuned toward the talents of the browser you would want to shine.
Firefox 5 Scheduled for June 21
By Douglas Perry published
As of this morning, we know that Mozilla has pulled in the launch of Firefox 5 by one week to June 21 and announced two versions of a versioning system as well as a renamed developer channel.
Google Buys Nortel's Patents for $900 Million
By Douglas Perry published
Google may have simple been tired of lawsuits that are being filed against it. Fortunately, the company is sitting on a pile of cash to deal with this problem: It simply buys patents.
SMS Messages Can Kill Mobile Phones
By Douglas Perry published
You may not think much of SMS messages hitting your phone every day, but two researchers revealed earlier today at a hacking conference in Berlin, Germany, that SMS could be used to attack and shut down individual cell phones or an entire carrier network.
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