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Television fans are getting more and more TV to go from Apple's iTunes and other services, including access to exclusive online offerings such as the broadcast-TV first announced Thursday by NBC ...

Law enforcement officials in Belgium and Switzerland raided the headquarters of a key portion of what has been described as "the world's largest peer-to-peer facilitator" this week, shutting down eDonkey's Razorback2 file-sharing server on the grounds that it allowed more than a million users to illegally access copyrighted music, movies, games and other digital content...

Big Blue is heading off the tiniest transistor boundaries with a new way of extending today's chip-manufacturing technology to generate smaller chip circuits, the company said this week ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has so far been most successful in its fight against cybercrime when it has involved major technology industry players. Cooperation between corporations and the feds must continue in order to keep up with ever-changing and evolving threats, FBI Director Robert Mueller told an audience at the RSA Security Conference in San Jose, Calif. this week...

Microsoft is making significant changes to the next version of its Office software, bringing a new file format and new user interface to users who have not seen such dramatic changes in 10 years ...

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates this week stressed coming security advantages for users of Microsoft's Windows XP and forthcoming Vista operating systems, highlighting an identity management strategy that seeks to pare down on passwords ...

Few people hold the status of "visionary" in the computer processor field, but Sun Microsystems' Marc Tremblay fits the bill. Sun fellow, vice president, and chief architect for the firm's Scalable Systems Group, Tremblay foresaw the advent of "throughput computing" and the jump in performance afforded by multiple cores and multiple computing threads...

Handset heavy Motorola and software giant Microsoft will team to integrate Windows Media technology into Motorola music handsets, the companies announced at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain this week ...

Nvidia hopes to bring console-quality graphics and fluid, digital video to mobile phones with its multimedia-minded GoForce 5500 graphics processing unit (GPU), announced this week at the 3GSM Conference in Barcelona, Spain ...

The company behind the console that helped launch the video game industry nearly 30 years ago may be facing a game-over situation. Atari (NYSE: ATAR) this week reported significant quarterly losses and the departure of a top executive that together paint a bleak picture for the future of the firm ...

IBM is trying to prove that its powerful, multi-tasking Cell computer chip is not just about fun and games ...

Dell on Wednesday said it is in the testing stage of plans to load Google's search and other branded software onto new Dell PCs. While Google has repeatedly denied rumors of its supposed plans to market hardware of its own in the future, the company joined with Dell to affirm that a deal is indeed in the works between the two, with industry analysts indicating computers coming in the spring may offer a first look at the fruits of their partnership...

Intel and AMD are duking it out again, this time putting the additional processor cores and capabilities they've built into hardware to deliver virtualization -- the running of multiple operating systems and applications on processors that are virtually carved up to carry the load ...

Intel and AMD are duking it out again, this time putting the additional processor cores and capabilities they've built into hardware to deliver virtualization -- the running of multiple operating systems and applications on processors that are virtually carved up to carry the load ...

IBM has introduced a chipset technology that will take close-in wireless connectivity to the next stage, it claims, by leveraging higher-frequency radio spectrum to digitally transmit and receive 10 times faster than today'sWiFi ...

Microsoft is calling "Shotgun!" as the software giant teams with automaker Fiat to feature its telematics applications designed for information and entertainment aboard new vehicles ...

Several major broadcast networks have turned to technology and Internet companies in recent months to put their programming on the Web, but now, CBS (NYSE: CBS) has announced that it will cut out the middle man with its new strategy ...

The U.S. government's efforts to conduct surveillance and gather data on the nation's citizens has been aided by huge U.S. companies, specifically AT&T, which are privy to the telephone calls and e-mails of millions of Americans, according to a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation this week ...

Five major anti-virus and security companies this week announced a collaboration effort aimed at fighting spyware, promising to share detection, testing and methodology for the benefit of consumers ...

The characters in the wildly popular, extremely violent and graphically explicit video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" face crackdowns from police and other authorities responding to their evil doings ...