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Paired with printing specialist Toppan, Sony has announced a new, Blu-Ray-based disc capable of holding 25 GB of high-definition programming through digital information's prehistoric precursor: paper ...

Small outfits have been providing high-speed wireless Internet service to rural and isolated communities for a couple of years, but now larger players, such as Verizon and more recently Nextel, have begun their Internet-access plays to compete with cable and DSL broadband as well as one another. ...

High-speed wireless -- or WiFi -- provider Wayport will be serving wireless access alongside Bic Macs and Happy Meals to McDonald's customers as the two companies team to roll out 802.11b and 802.11g technology throughout hundreds of the fast-food restaurants. ...

In its monthly scheduled security update, Microsoft released four sets of patches, totaling 33 updates, to counter several vulnerabilities in the company's widely used Windows operating system and other software products. Microsoft said three of the four patch sets are "critical vulnerabilities," with the fourth rated as "important." ...

How far Sun Microsystems and Microsoft take their newfound cooperation remains to be seen, but analysts agree both companies are being forced to embrace one another to fight off the successful interoperability and multiplatform approach of others, such as IBM, HP, Dell and Novell ...

Now that it has more firmly projected 2006 as the year it will deliver the next-generation Windows operating system, known as Longhorn, Microsoft is cutting overly ambitious parts of the software to avoid delays and ensure quality. ...

The first reported malicious code to target Apple's Mac OS X operating system, a potentially damaging Trojan Horse computer program, is serving as both a validation of the platform's security and a warning that more may be coming ...

RealNetworks is warning users of some of its RealPlayer and RealOne media players to remove a plug-in that could allow a remote attack and the running of arbitrary code on their machines ...

What happens when you cross controversial peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technology with regulation-debated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone capability? Meet the new, free PocketSkype software, which enables VoIP-based calls on the Skype network using a WiFi-enabled PocketPC handheld device ...

What happens when you cross controversial peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technology with regulation-debated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone capability? Meet the new, free PocketSkype software, which enables VoIP-based calls on the Skype network using a WiFi-enabled PocketPC handheld device ...

Perhaps the biggest part of and reason for Microsoft's dedication to security is the pain of the software-patching process. On one hand, Windows customers are told that to be as secure as possible, they must keep up with and promptly download and install all patches from Microsoft. ...

Microsoft appears to be cutting out middleman ATI with its announcement of a deal with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, to make processors for future Xbox gaming consoles and services ...

Providers of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services may get their way, preventing state governments from taxing or regulating them, if proposed U.S. federal legislation is approved. Parallel bills from Sen. John Sununu (R-New Hampshire) and Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Mississippi) could keep VoIP classified as an information service and free from state regulation.

Software giants Microsoft and Computer Associates are heading up the National Cyber Security Partnership, a task force that is calling for security in software development from the start. The NCSP also is suggesting a more prominent role for government in securing software during the development process ...

By making final chip designs more flexible and opening its Power processor architecture to more partners and developers, IBM is pushing its microprocessor technology to the widening category of electronic devices that require chip customization ...

Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- into the developer community, Microsoft released previews of the software toward the end of last year. The actual Longhorn operating system, the company's next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company's next-generation development tools code-named Whidbey are as many as two to three years from arriving.

Computing giant IBM is seeking a declaratory judgment in its ongoing defense and counterclaim lawsuit with SCO, which has based its US$5 billion suit against Big Blue on copyright and contract issues surrounding SCO's intellectual-property claims to Linux ...

Internet search giant Google has rolled out new features aimed at making Web searches more personal with user-selected preferences and keywords, plus delivery of search results via e-mail ...

Contrary to claims made by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has launched a campaign of lawsuits against peer-to-peer (P2P) network users and blamed them for plunging sales, unlicensed downloading and Internet file-sharing of copyrighted music has no effect on CD sales, according to researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill...

Promising a more integrated and economical development environment, Microsoft has released a beta of its newest embedded operating system (OS), Windows CE 5.0, at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco ...