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Daylight Saving Time starts three weeks earlier this year in most parts of the United States and there are fears that the change will cause problems for unprepared computer systems and digital devices. If you think the scenario sounds familiar to the so-called Y2K problem that gripped the world in t...
The PlayStation 3 consoles about to be sold in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia will not be as compatible with PlayStation 2 games as those sold elsewhere. The news may bother many gamers, but it probably won't affect Sony's bottom line. "Whatever the game console manufacturers d...
A security flaw found late last year in Google Desktop was quickly patched, but the company that discovered it says the popular application's mix of Web and private hard drive searches might still be risky. Google Desktop, which uses Google search technology to scan PC hard drives as well as the Web...
The One Laptop Per Child project is close to making computer users out of a million children in developing nations. The company building the inexpensive laptops for OLPC, Quanta Computer, has received an order for a million of the lime green notebooks, according to published reports. The Taiwan comp...
Relentless attempts by those determined to undermine the copy-protection technology used on HD DVD movies continue to yield successes. The newest discovery, revealed on the Doom9 Forum by someone with the screen name "Arnezami," involves the location of the "processing key" vital to the high-definit...
Yahoo on Monday began integrating its popular Web-based e-mail service with its instant messaging platform, a process that will take several months to complete. In doing so, Yahoo is hardly breaking ground. More than a year ago, Google unveiled Google Talk, an application that allows Gmail users to ...
Advances in technology, particularly customer resource management software, are driving e-commerce these days. In some cases, they're driving the industry down a strange road that, like a "Twilight Zone" episode, ends up in Smalltown USA, circa 1950. It's a road that has companies adopting some of t...
Personal computer buyers last week rapidly snapped up machines loaded with Microsoft's new Vista operating system, buying nearly 70 percent more units during the week than they did during the same week in 2006, according to a report by Current Analysis. The figures show that 67 percent more PCs were...
Microsoft has acknowledged a clever person might be able to remotely exploit the voice recognition features of the new Vista operating system to gain access to a PC, but a company representative downplayed the seriousness of the problem. The company's response was posted on the Microsoft Security Re...
After this week's arrest of a California man accused of selling pirated copies of Microsoft and Adobe Systems software, police said the suspect had brazenly offered the disks on eBay and on personal Web sites. This latest case highlights an ongoing trend that software makers are battling. "It may t...
A month after a miffed hacker told the world he had figured out how to copy a supposedly copy-protected high-definition movie disc, the consortium backing the encryption system admitted all was not well in its world. The Advanced Access Content System Licensing Authority on its Web site stated that ...
Gamers in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australasia have two months to save their money for a PlayStation 3 as Sony Computer Entertainment plans to launch the new console in those regions on March 23. While consumers might still be upset about the debt they accumulated during the holidays, Son...
If Microsoft really wanted to make a splash with the upcoming international rollout of its Live OneCare antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall and PC tune-up product, it might have picked a bad day to do it. The new version of Live OneCare will ship on Jan. 30, which happens to be the same day Microsoft ...
Bad news outweighs the good in the new "Threat Report 2007" issued Monday by Sophos, the global IT security company. The good news, which might provide significant hope, is that computer users are finally refraining from opening attachments connected to unsolicited e-mail. Because of that, according...
In the competitive world of digital music download services, Ruckus Network upped the ante by announcing it is offering free music downloads to any college student. The Herndon, Va.-based company gets its revenue from selling advertising instead of charging users to download files. Under the new sys...
"Storm Worm" is the name that seems to have stuck for a massive malware attack that spread Thursday and Friday by teasing e-mail recipients to open infected messages supposedly about European wind storms. The attackers use of the subject line "230 dead as storm batters Europe" was an effective way t...
In announcing Thursday the release of its new Prada phone, LG Electronics didn't claim it was competing with the heavily-hyped Apple iPhone scheduled to be released in June. It didn't have to. The media did it on its own with headlines boldly suggesting the iPhone already had a competitor. Indeed, t...
Seagate Technology has introduced a new Savvio 15K hard drive that is 70 percent smaller and 1.12 pounds lighter than 3.5-inch units. It also draws 30 percent less electricity and has a reliability factor of 1.6 million hours mean time between failures, according to the company. Seagate believes the...
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