- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
Personal computer buyers last week rapidly snapped up machines loaded with Microsoft's new Vista operating system, buying nearly 70 percent more units during the week than they did during the same week in 2006, according to a report by Current Analysis. The figures show that 67 percent more PCs were...
Microsoft last week unleashed its six versions of its new operating system, Vista. The software maker's promises of a more robust kernel and built-in security enhancements have created the impression among consumers that third-party security solutions for antivirus, spyware and adware will become a ...
What do liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Christian Coalition have in common? No, it's not a penchant for government-funded jet rides -- it's a misguided belief about Net neutrality. The net neutrality debate is basically a question of whether or not broadband service providers can manage ...
Nokia, the world's top cell phone maker, says it will begin offering free maps and routing to its customers in more than 150 countries, as well as users of Window Mobile devices. Nokia's "smart2go" will allow users to focus localized search and route-finding services into mobile handsets for free. T...
Details about the forthcoming Windows Mobile 6, a platform that has been code-named "Crossbow," have been leaked days before Microsoft's planned formal release at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The operating system will begin shipping on mobile devices worldwide by the second quarter. ...
Since its heyday in the late 1990s, the PC game industry has seen its share of the video game market grow increasingly smaller. Cannibalized by the onslaught of gaming console powerhouse lines Sony PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox line, sales of CD-ROM-based PC games, while still robust at $970 mill...
Parents, beware: Your video gaming kids may now have a new argument to justify the hours they spend playing. A new study from the University of Rochester has found that playing high-action video games can actually be good for your vision. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process vi...
Hackers on Tuesday launched a denial-of-service attack against at least three of the 13 root servers that maintain the Internet's domain name system. The attacks, which lasted for 12 hours, reportedly targeted the server that maintains the dot-org suffix, and the servers at the Department of Defense...
Vodafone has signed an exclusive partnership deal with social networking Web site MySpace, allowing its customers to access and update their MySpace pages from their mobile phones, according to the telecom giant. The deal is expected to help Vodafone, Europe's biggest mobile operator, boost mobile u...
If hours of prerecorded TV content aren't enough for TiVo subscribers, Amazon will offer a solution. The digital video recorder pioneer and the super-sized online retailer announced their new "Amazon Unbox on TiVo" service Wednesday. For Amazon, the joint venture provides a captive audience more tha...
With Apple grabbing all the headlines of late with its iPhone, it's difficult for other spiffy mobiles to garner any mindshare in the market. That's a shame because a recent offering by Samsung deserves some attention. The new cell phone -- Samsung's answer to Motorola's Razr -- is called the Sync (...
Sony Ericsson unveiled its slimmest Walkman phone ever on Tuesday. It's only 0.38 inches thick and has several new music features. The matchbook thin device, called the "W880," packs music features into its ultra-thin design with a handset preloaded with Walkman Player 2.0, Disc2Phone music managem...
Chip and PIN is a UK government-backed security measure that requires customers to present both a four-digit PIN and a bank card containing a smart chip in order to complete a purchase. Backers argued that the system offers a much higher level of security than previous schemes. Also, they claimed th...
As part of Safer Internet Day, which is being celebrated Tuesday in 40 countries around the world, a group of more than a dozen European mobile phone companies joined together in Brussels, Belgium, to sign an agreement to help make mobile phones safer for children. By signing the European Framework ...
Microsoft Excel users should avoid opening or saving any file attachments sent via e-mail if the message is not from a trusted source or arrives unexpectedly, the company said following public reports of zero day attacks exploiting a flaw in the spreadsheet program. Security firm Secunia ranks the v...