Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd decided that HP's future was in the more lucrative world of corporate service contracts when they purchased Electronic Data Systems in May of this year. That move placed them in...
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Nearly 30% of logged Vista crashes were due to NVIDIA driver problems, according to a Microsoft data included in the bundle. That's some 479,326 hung systems, if you're keeping score at home, and it's in...
Spam email accounted for between 90 and 95 per cent of all email in 2007, up from an estimated five per cent of email in 2001, according to a report from web security company Barracuda...
The Microsoft Popfly team has sent out invitations for the alpha program to all of those who requested them as of June 19. Those who haven't received one yet are urged to request one again....
In an effort to expand its global reach in computing, Microsoft plans to offer a stripped-down version of Windows, Office and other software for $3 to people in developing nations. The program, which is being...
Announced in January at the Consumer Electronics Show and expected to ship this summer, Microsoft Windows Home Server is currently in the beta stage. Developers have been inundated with bug reports for the consumer server...
A typical household with two adults and three children can easily have three or more computers. Since each of the users wants access to the Internet, their PCs are likely to already be connected to...
Amazon.com has begun taking orders for Norton 360, Symantec's consumer all-in-one security suite and competitor to Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare and McAfee's Total Protection. According to Amazon's website, Norton 360 will now ship March 16...
Last week's IEEE meeting in London demonstrated that the move to the next stage of Wi-Fi is nearly ready. At the meeting, 802.11n committee members unanimously approved draft standard version 1.10, and agreed to create...
According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in Delhi, India went from 75.94 million (end of December 2005) to 149.5 million (December 2006) mobile subscribers. In other words the Indian market gained over...
According to Gamepro.com the mega-merger between Gamestop and Electronics Boutique is about to be completed on October 31st. After getting an investor offering of $950M USD, Gamestop went ahead with the merger plans....
On the Warcraft III Battle.net website news comes that Blizzard has taken action against 53,928 accounts and CD keys on Battle.net for hacking or cheating. 3,331 of these accounts have been banned permanently from ladder...
Quite regularly we see articles that talk about Linux as a desktop OS. Most of the time, they're entitled "Linux not quite ready for desktop use.." or something like that. That's because they're written...
The investment firm that manages the private fortune of Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell invested $99.5 million in Red Hat Inc., the world's largest distributor of the Linux computer operating system, according to regulatory filings....
For three hours last week 800 airplanes were left flying in the air with no way to contact air traffic control. This serious problem was a combination of human error and a 'design glitch'...
Following reports from last month, Tadashi Okamura confirms that the CELL chip is nearing completion. Following reports from last month that the CELL chip's designs have almost been wrapped, the Nikkei Journal...
Advanced Micro Devices will try to nearly triple its market share in its server segment by the end of the year through high-profile customer wins and tighter relationships with manufacturers. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based...
Company rides Game Boy Advance sales to a 22.6 billion yen ($204 million) profit, counting on DS for rest of fiscal year. Nintendo's financial report for the first fiscal quarter shows amazing...
That's right folks, in two weeks time myself, Voodoo, Neobond & Redmak will be hanging up our keyboards and flying out to Amsterdam to cover Tech-Ed 2004 Europe. Seconds ago we just launched...
Hardware costs will fall sharply within a decade to the point where widespread computing with speech and handwriting won't be limited by expensive technology, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said on Monday. "Ten years out,...
Nintendo Co. Ltd., which at one point stopped production on its GameCube video game console due to slack demand, has now nearly sold out of the console in the United States and is seeking to...
Top Three OEMs, Dell, Gateway and HP, to Offer Plus! Digital Media Edition to PC Customers; New Plus! Dancers and PowerToy for Music Devices Offer Extra Online Bonuses Microsoft Corp. today...
Sales in the United States of servers running Linux nearly doubled in last year's fourth quarter from a year earlier, according to new statistics from market researcher Gartner Dataquest. Total Linux server revenue was $384.6...
Genuity said today that Level 3 Communications's $242 million acquisition bid is the only qualified offer. The declaration effectively eliminates the possibility of another buyer swooping in. The companies, which provide wholesale Internet access,...
Wireless usage in the United States will nearly double by 2006 from 2001 levels as more and more consumers use their cell phones to make calls that they previously made from traditional telephones, a study...
A Symantec software engineer by the name of Barry Erickson has been sentenced to 33 months in prison following his guilty plea in the still unfolding DrinkOrDie piracy bust. According to prosecutors Mr. Erickson provided...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. video game industry lost at least $1.9 billion to global piracy last year, half of which came from Korea and China, an industry trade group said on Thursday. ...
Total security incidents nearly doubled in 2001 compared to the prior year, according to statistics released Friday by the federally funded computer and network security body, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center. ...
