With Microsoft's unveiling of the Lumia 640 and 640 XL earlier this week and with Windows 10 devices coming soon, is it time for Microsoft to consider a new naming scheme for its future devices?
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Husband and wife, Mirza Ali, 60, and Sameena Ali, 53, have been sentenced to five years in prison and to over $25 million in fines for their role in a Microsoft software reselling scheme run...
Microsoft Ireland has launched a scheme aimed at keeping PCs out of landfills and re-building them for use by schools and charities. The Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher (MAR) programme, which was officially launched at the Rehab...
AMD is preparing to replace its current processor numbering scheme for desktop processors with a new naming scheme which combines two letters and a four-digit number, according to Leslie Sobon, director of product and brand...
A plan to make it easier for web users to manage their online identities has won the support of Microsoft. The Open ID scheme uses web addresses that people already own to help authenticate their...
Warner Music plans to release music albums on DVD discs that are laden with extras, including versions of the song as iTunes files. The Wall Street Journal explains that Warner and Apple are close to...
A US man has been charged with conspiracy, mail fraud and wire fraudover a 'click fraud' scheme allegedly carried out against an internetfirm that rewards subscribers who complete online surveys and viewbanner ads. ...
Microsoft Corp.'s chairman Bill Gates said in an interview that the copy-protection scheme on the Blu-ray discs was very anti-consumer, which would make them harder to on the personal computers. This partly explains Microsoft's decision...
Intel today publicly confirmed its AMD64-like 64-bit addressing system, EM64T, will be brought to the company's budget Celeron processor line "this year". The chip maker also revealed that its dual-core Pentium 4 processor, 'Smithfield', is...
Apple's iBook Logic Board Replacement scheme has been extended once again, this time until March 18. The scheme means owners of iBooks manufactured between May 2002 and April 2003 who experience a logic board failure...
A California man was arraigned on Thursday on federal extortion and wire fraud charges arising from a software program he claimed could allow spammers to defraud Web search company Google Inc. of millions of dollars,...
British-based commercial P2P music company Wippit is to launch an iTunes-style music download service offering songs for less than 50p (91c) a pop, The Register has learned. Wippit's move was pre-announced by the company's first...
WE REPORTED LAST MONTH that AMD has a cunning plan to work with Microsoft on 64-bit security. And, at the time, we also reported that Intel had no plans to implement this stuff itself. The...
Microsoft apparently got the hint: Palladium, its new scheme to fortify the next Windows operating system, win the ever-escalating virus wars, and knuckle down on users trying to share files, wasn't exactly causing the great...
Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday will announce a partnership with Electronic Data Systems Corp., in which the Plano, Texas, IT outsourcing firm will provide migration services, training, help-desk and call center desktop services for Sun's...
A European scheme to tackle illegal and harmful digital content is to be extended for another two years. The Safer Internet Action Plan - which supports a network of hotlines in Europe where people can...
A scheme being implemented by Office Depot – almost certainly at Microsoft's behest – means that companies that fail to join a logo scheme will find their XP products won't appear on store shelves unless...
Thanks Jason for this one. This has been all over the local news here in Seattle. Apparantly, this Microsoft guy made money off of Microsoft in more ways then one. For a...
Sounds like something Jack Straw wants to implement... thank god he's gone eh.... "Demonstrators dressed as prisoners and cows symbolically tore up their 11-digit Internet identifcation numbers in Tokyo earlier today, in protest...
U.S. financial regulators said on Monday they had uncovered a fraudulent $1 million Internet securities scheme they alleged was run by a 17-year-old high school student. Cole Bartiromo defrauded 1,000 investors through...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 49-year-old Nevada man has been sentenced to two years in prison for the large-scale trafficking in counterfeit Microsoft MSFT.O software over the Internet, federal prosecutors said on Friday. ...
