Will it, won't it? If so, when? If not, why not? An entire cottage industry of speculation has built up around the public debut of Facebook, arguably Silicon Valley's hottest Internet company. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's...
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According to a new study by The Sleep Council, teenagers are increasingly sleeping less and experiencing lower quality sleep due to a huge increase in entertainment gadget ownership. In the study, almost all of the...
For the second straight quarter, Hewlett-Packard beat out Dell as the No. 1 vendor of PCs in the world, according to research firms IDC and Gartner. In the fourth quarter of 2006, HP shipped more...
I've been reading that the Featured Community Laptop 'give away' has been receiving some bad press. I thought it would be a good idea to clear up some confusion surrounding this whole process as far...
Research group Gartner has said that Mac OS X users are now safer from a mass attack -- such as Blaster on Windows -- than they were two years ago, partly because Microsoft has closed...
Car safety device manufacturer Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (IMS) has launched a new system designed to give field staff and other frequent travellers easy hands and eyes-free access to their corporate email systems from behind the...
While Microsoft beats the drum loudly for Vista, the K Desktop Environment open-source community has more quietly been improving its popular desktop interface. The upcoming version of KDE 3.5 will include many small, but significant,...
PCWorld is reporting that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is expressing concerns at Windows XP SP2 and the upcoming Longhorn Operating System, ensuring that they comply with the antitrust case against Microsoft. ...
Internet Explorer is continuing to lose share to the open-source Firefox Web browser. In the past month, use of Microsoft Corp.'s dominant browser fell another 1.5 percentage points to 90.3 percent. Meanwhile, the Mozilla Foundation's...
They always say competition is good for everybody, and so far that seems to be true these days. Since Google launched Gmail (beta version) several of the top free e-mail providers have made changes....
A new version of the Bagle computer virus started spreading on Monday among PCs connected to the Internet, and antivirus companies warned that more variants are sure to come. The latest virus, called...
The proliferation of paid-for content has prompted cable firm NTL to offer bundles with its broadband services, but downloads will be rationed to a gigabyte each day. NTL is launching a new broadband product this...
Unlike Novell and Linuxtag, Lindows - the consumer Linux maker - says it is neither for nor against SCO's legal battle against IBM and Linux. Lindows.com on Thursday sought to distance itself from the legal...
Microsoft will be able to keep its hold on the trademark rights for its Windows software for the next several months, but those rights appear to be in some jeopardy in a federal court case...
Reminds me of a duracell battery - the MS antri-trust trial of course. This week, we celebrate its 4th anniversary - and look whats happened in that time period eh. "And the longer...
In a potentially striking blow to Microsoft's "Windows" trademark, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour issued a preliminary ruling late Friday stating Lindows.com may continue using the Lindows name despite efforts by Microsoft to prove it...