A programming error in eBay's Skype communications software could give cybercriminals a new way to sneak their malicious software onto a victim's PC. The flaw, which was reported Thursday by security researcher Aviv Raff, has...
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EA has announced it will be releasing a free Battlefield Heroes game in the summer. Developed by series veteran DICE, it will be a cartoon-inspired war game powered by advertising and micro transactions. This is...
Alltel Corp. is unveiling a new feature that uses voice-recognition software to allow wireless phone customers to read their voicemail messages as text messages. Monthly fees for the Voice2TXT service start at $4.99, and users...
A court document in a drug smuggling case has shown that the private email service Hushmail has been cooperating with police in handing over user emails. Hushmail claims to offer unreadable email as it uses...
Cisco Systems Thursday unveiled plans to add content security services to its routers via an extended partnership with Trend Micro. The San Jose, Calif.-based networking vendor plans soon to integrate Trend Micro technology into the...
The US Government and auto safety groups praised technology that prevents a drunken driver from starting a vehicle, which could potentially greatly reduce alcohol-related deaths, at a a meeting yesterday led by the National Highway...
April 28 marks the two-year anniversary of Guild Wars (original Prophecies campaign) as well as the one-year anniversary of Guild Wars Factions, and what an exciting two years it has been! With three campaigns available...
Google Incorporated is now providing free tools designed to make it easy for people to share their local geographical knowledge by creating customized maps that can assemble information from a variety of sources. Thousands of...
Adobe Systems turned over the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for publication by the International Standards Organization (ISO). Yep, that's a mouthful. Why would Adobe bother?...
Step one: The MPAA and BSA investigators allegedly purchase pirated materials from a 31-year-old Pennsylvania man between last November and January. Step two: The investigators contact local police about the purchases made from Robert Uss,...
A month-long campaign by two independent security researchers to disclose security flaws in Apple Inc.'s products has so far resulted in 10 vulnerabilities being publicly disclosed -- and several more on the verge of being...
With the recent release of Microsoft's newest potential cash cows, Windows Vista and Office 2007, the company is expecting a wave of upgrades from users seeking the latest functionality. But what if you're not looking...
Believe it or not Windows is 21 years old on Monday. When it was launched in 1985 the PC market was barely out of it's infancy, and whatever you may think of Microsoft it is...
Microsoft Research held an event at Microsoft's Redmond, in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates appeared via video to applaud the organization. On Tuesday, the research team demonstrated innovative technologies still...
Today, the hard drive is found everywhere--from the PCs we use daily to MP3 players and memory keys so small you can toss them in your pocket and forget you're carrying around a hard drive....
Elgorithms develops a raster to vector conversion program, the recently unveiled program called MagicTracer. Raster to vector programs autotrace bitmap / raster images and turn them into vector linework. While the major raster to vector...
Yahoo has released a beta version of software that turns a PC into a digital video recorder. The software, Yahoo Go for TV, is free to download. After the software is installed, people plug...
In celebration of 15 years of the "http" protocol, CNN has compiled its list of the 10 greatest moments of the web's first 15 years of existence. After exploding thanks to browsers such as...
AS the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) approaches, there arefive computer technologies goodies I am really hoping and praying tosee work – as in, built in working pre-production devices that willturned into real, on-my-Big-Box shelf...
To celebrate Opera's 10th Birthday Download.com is offering everyone a free full version of Opera, for one day only. Until version 5 Opera did not have a free version of its popular web browser, but...
Neowin.net's official podcast, PowerUser.tv has posted episode 4. This week, the Neowin gang tackles Linus trademarking Linux, looking at psycho bosses, the Amazon sex store, Windows 95 turning 10, thoughts on QuakeCon, and more!...
Nearly all of hard drive maker Seagate Technology's products will use perpendicular recording technology by the end of 2006, the company's chief financial officer says. Perpendicular recording promises big capacity boosts for drives used in...
Less than a month after Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Server Update Services enterprise patch-management platform was released to manufacturing, Microsoft has turned off downloads of the previous version. Beginning Thursday, Microsoft will no longer be offering...
Students using the new superfast Internet2 connections at many US colleges to share music and films are being targeted by the RIAA in its latest blitz on piracy. More than 1.5 million files were being...
The fast increasing popularity of full-track downloads and ring-tones will help push mobile music revenues to more than $9.3bn by 2009, according to a newly published study. The report from Juniper Research predicts that, while...
Rockstar updates official Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas site with info on the game's soundtrack. Rockstar Games updated the official Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas site with information on the ten radio...
Regular users of Google might have noticed a new logo on the popular search engines new page. Google's 5th year has been explosive, and perhaps it's most important to date. It's seen...
Trying to get ahead of its competitors Sony announced that it will soon add a video download feature into its Connect online music service. With this new feature Sony is hoping to catch up...
Wal-Mart has launched a pilot program using radio frequency identification technology, as it moves ahead with plans for all its top suppliers to be using the inventory-tracking tags by January, the retail giant said Friday....
Adobe Systems announced on Tuesday that it plans to drop the Mac version of FrameMaker, the latest sign of eroding support for the Apple Computer operating system. The San Jose, Calif. company...
The MyDoom virus has triggered a new wave of attacks on company websites. It is also looks like a new front in a war waged by those who want to preserve the open-source Linux operating...
Its dedicated users are so passionate they're often described as religious about their love for the machine. Twenty years ago, on January 24, 1984, Apple Computer launched the Macintosh. It contained virtually...
Twenty years ago this week, during the year of Big Brother, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduced the Apple Macintosh. Although the seminal advert (which you can view on Apple's Website here) sticks in everyone's...
On the back of AMD's recent launch of Athlon 64 3400+, Intel has confirmed it might launch its 3.4GHz ExSpensive Edition of the XEON MP on the 2nd February, but as the quarter runs on,...
Microsoft is turning to developers for ideas on what to call the current Longhorn Technologies when they're shipped. Developers who are part of the "Longhorn Developer Platform" on Betaplace have been given the opportunity to...
Businesses were abuzz about voice over Internet Protocol technology in 2003, announcing new deployments almost daily, but the reality is that the actual work is only just beginning. Analysts say it could be...
Gateway on Thursday unveiled a computer designed as a family entertainment device. The 901 Family Room Media features a personal video recorder, television tuner, digital video-disc player and recorder, CD player and recorder, and FM...
Computers are damaging our health, thanks to rising stress levels induced by so-called 'PC pests' like spam, pop up ads and viruses. More than four in five (86 per cent) of British computer users get...
Thanks SouL2kEEp Dear MSN Mobile Customer: If you are accessing MSN Hotmail on your wireless device, this free service will expire on Wednesday, December 3, 2003. This only affects access...
On July 15, 2003 a very special milestone will occur: That day will mark the 20th anniversary of the release of Nintendo's Family Computer (aka Famicom) in Japan. You may know the system better by...
Leaked Samsung Galaxy S25+ images reveal a design that looks familiar
Acronis backup, cloning app gets Windows 11 24H2 BitLocker support; won't work on old CPUs
PowerToys 0.87 is out with a new utility for Windows 10 users and a lot of improvements
Samsung 85-Inch QLED 4K 120Hz QN85D with Dolby Atmos falls to lowest price
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