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BT Group has teamed up with FON to blanket the UK with free WiFi, the companies announced Thursday ...

In a move widely considered only a half-step toward openness, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it will open up its .Net source code for developers to view, but not change ...

Yahoo, eBay and PayPal are teaming up to improve protections against phishing attacks, the companies announced Thursday ...

A federal district court judge issued two landmark decisions Tuesday in a nationwide class action suit against Target charging that the retail giant has "failed and refused" to make its Web site accessible to the blind ...

Enthusiastic Wii gamers know that it can be hard not to get carried away in play, but one consequence of the fun can be a damaged Wii Remote. With such players in mind, Nintendo on Monday announced the new Wii Remote Jacket, which is designed to add an extra level of protection ...

With the current ban on Internet access taxes due to expire on Nov. 1, tensions rose last week when a move to extend the ban stalled in the Senate ...

Sony will launch its first organic light emitting diode (OLED) TV this December in Japan, the company announced Monday ...

Before the space shuttle Columbia's disastrous mission in 2003, NASA did not fully recognize the safety risk posed by the shuttle's protective foam. Following that tragedy, however, NASA buckled down and set to work, trying to come up with solutions ...

Palm staked its claim in the low end of the smartphone market Thursday with a new device priced at US$99.99 with a two-year plan and rebates ...

The Oracle v. SAP intellectual property infringement lawsuit moved a step forward Tuesday, as Judge Martin Jenkins of the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California assigned a trial date and made other procedural decisions in the first case management conference between the two parties ...

Doomsayers may be fond of predicting the imminent collapse of the Internet under the weight of video and other bandwidth-intensive applications, but at least one infrastructure provider is on track to increase its capacity tenfold by 2010 ...

The failure of a system controller card at an AT&T office in Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday apparently caused a communications outage that grounded airplane flights and resulted in delays throughout the nation ...

Customers who shop online at Walmart.com may soon have no way to speak with a live person over the phone to ask questions ...

Ask an IT executive to define service-oriented architecture (SOA), and there's a good chance you'll get at least some kind of a reasonable answer. Ask that executive's functional peers the same question, and the answer might not be so clear ...

Users of Pudding Media's free, new Internet phone service might want to watch what they say, because the system listens for keywords in their phone conversations and displays related ads on their computer screens ...

With an eye toward minimizing its carbon footprint, Wal-Mart Stores will partner with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) to measure the amount of energy used to create products throughout its supply chain ...

As the world watched the progress of the space shuttle Endeavour's mission to the international space station and back last month, it was hard not to suffer from flashbacks to past space disasters ...

When NASA sends astronauts back to the moon, they will likely have pressurized rovers to drive and large-capacity habitation modules to live in, NASA officials reportedly said Thursday ...

In what promises to be a precedent-setting case, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) announced Thursday that it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL) ...

President Bush wants to renew and expand the controversial temporary surveillance legislation he rushed into law last month ...