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Toshiba to End Direct-to-handset Satellite Broadcasts
Toshiba will end its direct-to-handset satellite broadcasting service in Japan in March after several years of losses caused…News
Gas Crisis Fuels Dubious Online Offers
Beware of Internet sites promising cheap gas, free gas, or savings of 60 percent at the pump.News
Dell Takes Heat for Faulty Nvidia Chips
Users are questioning Dell's decision to fix the problem of faulty Nvidia graphics cards with a software patch.News
Cuil Stumbles out of the Gate
Cuil, the latest self-appointed Google killer search engine, fared badly on its debut Monday.News
Mobile Executives Spar Over IPhone
Mobile executives at a Silicon Valley roundtable discussion challenged Symbian, Android and other software platforms to match…News
Researchers Help Define Next-generation Social Networking
Academics who gathered at an annual event at Microsoft discussed shortcomings to current social-networking platforms.News
Google Italy Could Face Criminal Charges Over Video
Italian prosecutors are considering criminally charging four Google executives for failing to stop the upload of a video of a…News
‘World’s Cheapest Laptop’ Now Available
A Taiwanese company is selling what it calls the "world's cheapest laptop."Neil McAllister on Software
SourceForge Award Winners Announced
Open source software projects took center stage at a ceremony to honor the best and brightest of free software.News
Broadband Innovations, Part 4: The Doctor Isn’t In but Can Still See You
How telehealth is changing the way America gets well.News
Gateway to Stop Selling PCs Through Web Site
Gateway on Friday said it would not directly sell PCs through its Web site any more, but will now sell PCs through retail and…News
Microsoft: Stodgy or Innovative? It’s All About Perception
Microsoft executives responded to many analyst questions about how it can solve negative perception problems in the market.News
San Francisco DA Discloses City’s Network Passwords
San Francisco's district attorney has published passwords to the city's VPN software as part of its case against network…News
‘Last Lecture’ Computer-science Professor Randy Pausch Dies
Carnegie Mellon computer-science professor Randy Rausch, known for his globally famous "Last Lecture," passed away Friday at…News
Microsoft Gives Apache Cash to Promote Open Source
Microsoft on Friday expanded its support for the open-source community by donating cash to the Apache Software Foundation.News
AOL to Shut Down Xdrive, Other Services
AOL will axe several services that haven't achieved enough popularity, as it struggles to grow its online ad business.News
Software Group Weighs Piracy Lawsuit Against EBay
The SIIA considers suing eBay for allowing counterfeit software to be sold there.News
Augmented Reality Coming to Your Desktop Soon
A Tokyo-based start-up has taken the wraps off new software that brings to the desktop the world of augmented reality.News
Fugitive Spam King Dead in Apparent Murder-suicide
Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson has killed himself, apparently after murdering his wife and three year-old daughter.News
Broadband Innovations, Part 3: The Film Editor’s Dream
A 10-gbps fiber-optics connection enables a Swedish film editor to do his job in real time from his dream home in a beautiful rural village.News
Microsoft Still Working on Online Branding Issues
Microsoft is working on a way to combine its online services into a single Web page to solve its branding problem, CEO Steve…News
One of Gates’ Favorite Themes Continues in His Absence
Bill Gates is no longer working full time at Microsoft but some of his ideas, like tabletop computers and more natural user…News
Open-network Chief Sees Verizon Following His Lead
The head of the new open-network initiative at Verizon Wireless sees the carrier's traditional business following the open…News
Microsoft to Buy Data-warehouse Appliance Vendor
Microsoft continues a shopping spree to bolster SQL Server by purchasing data-warehouse appliance vendor DATAllegro.News
China Tops 250 Million Internet Users
China reasserted itself as the world's largest Internet market, with 253 million total users by the end of June.News
US Man Sentenced to Four Years for Piracy, ID Theft
An Oregon man is sentenced to four years in prison on criminal copyright and ID theft charges.News
US Poised for Broadband Explosion, Says Gartner
U.S. broadband penetration will increase over the next for years after having fallen behind recently, according to Gartner…News
Attack Code Released for New DNS Attack
Attack code has been released for a major flaw in the Internet's DNS software.News
Digital Comics Coming to the Wii in Japan
Four of Japan's biggest comic book publishers are coming together to bring digital versions of their magazines to Nintendo's…News
China Mobile Phone Subscribers Pass 600 Million Mark
The number of Chinese mobile phone subscribers topped 600 million in June.News
Nokia, Qualcomm Shelve Litigation, Reach Licensing Agreement
Nokia and Qualcomm have agreed to shelve all litigation between themselves after reaching a new licensing agreement that…News
Intel Takes on Embedded Market With Atom Chip
Intel on Wednesday said it was developing new x86 chips to put in devices ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones…News
Facebook Connects to the Wider Web
Facebook showed off a new service that lets people apply their Facebook profile to other Web sites.News
Intel Releases Moblin Into the Wild
One year after announcing its homegrown mobile Linux project, Intel prepares to hand Moblin over to the open source community.News
Report: Microsoft Online Chief Leaves for Juniper Networks
Kevin Johnson, the man behind Microsoft's failed bid to buy Yahoo, is leaving, the Wall Street Journal reports.News
HP Folds Voodoo PC Business Unit
HP folded the Voodoo PC business unit, opting to sell the high-end PCs as part of its expanded consumer offerings.News
Parts of San Francisco Network Still Locked out
The San Francisco DA's office says part of the city's network is still not under control.News
Romanian Admits to Phishing, Could Face Five Years
A Romanian man pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge Tuesday for his role in setting up fake Web sites in order to steal…News
Nokia Claims Victory Over Qualcomm in Ongoing Patent Battle
The German Federal Patent Court today ruled that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted against Nokia is invalid, said the Finnish…News
Design Flaws, Besides Vulnerabilities, Hurt Banking Sites
Banking Web sites suffer from design flaws that can undermine their security exclusive of software vulnerabilities, according…News
San Francisco’s Mayor Gets Back Keys to the Network
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with jailed IT administrator Terry Childs Monday, convincing him to hand over the passwords to the city's wide area network.News
Broadband Innovations, Part 1: The 21st Century Athlete
Broadband is helping to redefine the modern athlete. Meet gamer Patrick O'Day, who hopes to compete in the worldwide Digital Games in China this fall.
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With DNS Flaw Now Public, Attack Code Imminent
Hackers say that they will soon develop attack code that exploits a recently published, critical DNS bug.News
Brocade Deal to Help Drive Data-center Transition
Brocade Communications Systems' planned US$3 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks is a major strategic move in a brewing…News
Top Spammer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years
A court ordered "spam king" Robert Soloway to serve 47 months in prison for spamming.News
VMware to Offer Low-footprint ESX Hypervisor Free
VMware Tuesday said it will offer the small-footprint version of its ESX virtualization software free.News
Momentum Building for US Privacy Policy
Privacy advocates say there's momentum in the U.S. Congress for a broad new privacy law.News
Colorado ‘Spam King’ Walks Away From Prison Camp
Penny-stock spammer Eddy Davidson has escaped from federal prison.News