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(News) Akvis has released Akvis Artwork for Mac and PC. It's available as a standalone application and as a plug-in for Adobe...
(News) Rumors of Fireworks' demise should finally be put to rest with the release of Fireworks CS4. It is apparent Adobe has been...
(News) LaCie on Monday announced the release of the LaCinema Rugged, a USB 2.0 hard disk drive equipped with a High Definition...
(News) Adding fuel to the idea of Flash on the iPhone, Adobe announced Monday that it had struck a deal with chipmaker ARM to bring...
(News) Google on Monday released SketchUp and SketchUp Pro 7, new versions of the company's 3D modeling software. Google said the new...
(News) Software MacKiev on Friday announced the release of Roger Wagner's HyperStudio 5 for Mac OS X. It costs US$89.95.
(News) When Apple opened the doors to developers to write and sell products for the iPhone and iPod touch, it began a veritable gold...
(News) When I first gave MobileMe a spin months ago, I synced my Address Book contacts to the cloud. Recently, I wanted to clear...
(News) The world's largest mobile handset maker, Nokia, on Friday lowered its outlook for the global handset market. Citing...
(News) Recently I presented the steps for hacking an Apple TV so that it could use boxee (yes, that's small-b-boxee), the open-source...
(News) Freeverse Software on Thursday announced the release of Burning Monkey Casino for the iPhone and iPod touch. Available for...
(News) Native Instruments released a soundpack for its Kore audio platform. Dubbed True Strike Tension, the soundpack focuses on...
(News) On Tuesday, Apple announced the retirement of Al Shipp, the company's senior vice president of enterprise sales. As part of...
(News) Within Apple's hallowed halls, the Apple TV's status seems ever-changing. One minute it's a hobby. The next, because of...
(News) Seagate -- under the Maxtor brand name -- on Wednesday introduced the Central Axis Business Edition, a dual-drive network...
(News) Alternative image editor Pixelmator was updated on Tuesday, adding new features and what the company calls "major performance...
(News) Software maker Panic has updated its Web site development application Coda to version 1.6.
(News) IK Multimedia on Tuesday released a new version of its T-RackS mixing and mastering suite of plug-ins.
(News) If you're someone who started out with Adobe Illustrator back when it was called Illustrator 88, then you've seen lots of...
(News) Game makers designing apps for the iPhone and iPod touch have quickly learned to incorporate the built-in accelerometer of...
(News) I'm increasingly interested in the notion of making my iTunes library available to me wherever I go. Oh sure, I have plenty of...
(News) As more homes get multiple computers, more homes need some type of network storage. With network storage, you can share music...
(News) Problem: You have a mass of music and audio stored on your Mac's capacious hard drive yet you want to enjoy that media on a...
(News) Adobe Flash CS4 has been radically redesigned and restructured. With CS4, Flash has finally turned the corner from a...
(News) Video tutorial company, MacProVideo, on Friday released a major update for its Nonlinear Educating Device (N.E.D.), bringing...
(News) Sometimes it's the simplest games that wind up being the most fun. Case in point: iCopter by Matthew Hertz, the iPhone/iPod...
(News) Using the iPhone as a wireless modem to share Internet access with a laptop has been off limits to owners of the device so...
(News) iTunes is a powerful audio player that supports a variety of formats, including the space-saving MP3 and AAC, the uncompressed...
(News) Those of you who've read my posts here know that I'm an avid iPhone fan--and those of you who followed my long and storied...
(News) Monkey Tools released updates for two of its audio software products on Thursday. Sound Grinder Pro and Library Monkey Pro...
(News) Toontrack Music announced on Thursday the upcoming release of a new expansion pack for the company's drum sampling software.
(News) Karelia Software updated Sandvox on Wednesday, fixing or improving over 50 items in the application.
(News) When you consider all the new features and enhancements Adobe piled into the CS4 release of After Effects, its flagship visual...
(News) After dealing with issues electoral, my brain returned to the world of technology. And in the process of doing so, my left...
(News) Digital guitar hardware and software company Line 6 released a new software application aimed at computer using guitar...
(News) It's been a while since I've talked about recording audio on the Mac, but I'm still working hard at putting my album together...
(News) Realmac Software released an update for its popular Web site creation tool, RapidWeaver. The update not only fixes numerous...
(News) Gameloft is one of the biggest players in mobile games out there, and so it should come as no surprise that it's developing...
(News) Ever since Apple launched its US$100-a-year .Mac (now MobileMe) online service, it's had the annoying habit of creating tight...
(News) Ever since Apple launched its US$100-a-year .Mac (now MobileMe) online service, the company has had the annoying habit of...
(News) Apple has been working on its MobileMe syncing service since it was launched in July. The company revealed this week 27...
(News) Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is a solid upgrade to an already impressive Web site design program. The latest version adds to features...
(News) Brad Mogen's recent missive about adding chapter markers to movies he's ripped from commercial DVDs makes this Helpful Hint...
(News) Western Digital (WD) on Thursday announced the addition of a FireWire 800 interface to its My Passport Studio external...
(News) Hard drive-maker LaCie is offering potential customers unlimited online backup for one year with the purchase of any of the...
(News) iPresentee released several new themes for Apple's Web site building application, iWeb.
(News) Storage specialist EZQuest released a new series of hard drives the company says are targeted to audio and video...
(News) Wal-Mart is redoubling its efforts to win a piece of the music download market by refreshing its MP3 Downloads Store, offering...
(News) Rogue Amoeba Software on Monday announced the release of Fission 1.6, an update to their audio editing software for Mac OS X...
(News) As Apple promised in early October, the company has posted an updated Software Developer Kit (SDK) Non-Disclosure Agreement...
(News) Equinux has announced the release of CoverScout 3, a new version of its album art finder for iTunes. CoverScout costs...
(News) Mac software-maker Native Instruments on Thursday released a new Kore Soundpack called Massive Expansion 2.
(News) Music software-maker BIAS on Wednesday released a new audio application, but this time for the iPhone, not the Mac...
(News) Native Instruments introduced the latest generation of its professional DJ software, Traktor Pro and Traktor Scratch Pro. In...
(News) Music loop specialist Bandmateloops released eight new music loop collections this week. The company also unveiled its new Web...
(News) Active Storage on Monday introduced its Active Storage XRAID, a 16 terabyte RAID system for Macintosh users that occupies...
(News) When the App Store opened its virtual doors in July, Tetris was one of EA Mobile's first iPhone-geared efforts--and it showed...
(News) Big Fish Audio released several new loop collections for Mac using musicians and songwriters.
(News) With the recent announcement of Adobe Creative Suite 4, users may find themselves looking to brush-up on their application...
(News) Designed to look right at home with the Mac, G-Technology's aluminum G-Drive mini is a portable external hard drive that is...
(News) Adobe on Thursday released an update for its page layout application InDesign and InCopy CS3.
(News) One of the new features in the OS X 10.5 version of iCal is the ability to add a default alarm when you create a new event...
(News) Joost, which offers video content from CBS, Showtime, Viacom and many other providers, on Tuesday announced the launch of a...
(News) One of the top drum loop companies making Apple Loops for musicians released a new collection of drums. Beta Monkey music just...
(News) Pangea Software has announced the release of Nanosaur II: Hatchling for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game costs US$3.99 and...
(News) Iomega on Wednesday introduced the StorCenter ix2, a new network storage appliance aimed at small businesses and home users...
(News) Adobe Systems on Wednesday announced the release of Flash Player 10 software. Available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux...
(News) Leave it to EA to leave no stone unturned for its Spore franchise. The brainchild of Sim City and The Sims maker Will Wright...
(News) SimpleTech's 500GB [re]drive is an environmentally friendly
 external hard drive
 that promises energy savings and high...
(News) ATTO Technology on Monday rolled out new host adapter cards for Macs and PCs used in data-intensive storage environments. They...
(News) Netgear on Monday announced the release of its ReadyNAS Pro Gigabit Desktop Storage system, with six drive bays. The new...
(News) United Lemur, a group of veteran Mac and iPhone developers, on Thursday announced the company's first product, Puzzllotto for...
(News) Delkin Devices on Friday announced it's shipping its Secure Digital to CompactFlash card adapter. The adapter costs US$29.99.
(News) Unless you and your musical cohorts have determined to emulate legendary bands from the 1960s by holing up in a crumbling...
(News) FracturedSoftware on Thursday announced the release of Rondo 2.8, a free update to the MIDI player software for Mac OS X...
(News) AppleScript Pro Sessions are planned for April 20 - 24, 2009 in St. Pete Beach, Florida. The price starts at US$1,500.
(News) Kingston Technologies on Wednesday announced that it is shipping a 32GB version of its DataTraveler 150 USB flash drive. The...
(News) Freeverse Software has released a new game for the iPhone called Plank. The game costs US$1.99 and is available for download...
(News) The organizers of the Independent Games Festival (IGF) have announced a new US$10,000 prize for iPhone game development as...
(News) LaCie on Tuesday introduced its 5big Network, a network attached storage (NAS) system for Macs and PCs. The system can...
(News) Freeverse Software is launching a new line of sports titles for the iPhone, and the first out of the gate is Flick Bowling.
(News) EMC announced Tuesday that it is expanding its Mozy online backup service with a new option targeted primarily at small...
(News) Here's a very simple Friday tip for those of you using iCal. I like to use iCal's notes field extensively--I'll put in all the...
(News) Recently, my colleague Chris Breen offered up some kind words for Apple regarding some of the company's contributions to his...
(News) The FreeAgent Go for Mac is an external hard drive built by storage giant Seagate that promises fast FireWire 800 transfer...
(News) MakeMusic has announed the release of Finale NotePad 2009 and has introduced Finale Reader. Finale NotePad costs $9.95; Finale...
(News) Adobe's senior director of engineering told attendees at the company's Flash on the Beach conference in Brighton, England on...
(News) A specially licensed version of Tapulous' hit iPhone and iPod touch game Tap Tap Revenge will be released this month, and will...
(News) Digital Legends Entertainment made a splash in June when its game, Kroll, joined a parade of 11 apps previewed on stage during...
(News) Netflix on Wednesday promised to release a product by the end of the year which will enable Mac users to use the service's...
(News) Western Digital (WD) on Wednesday announced that it's shipping its second generation of Caviar Green desktop hard disk drives...
(News) We know a lot about the iPhone, but here's one thing we don't know: how do you feel about your iPhone? It's a hard thing to...
(News) Digital Legends Entertainment on Tuesday have released Kroll, the side-scrolling action game they first debuted on stage at...
(News) Seagate's FreeAgent Desk for Mac 1TB FireWire 800 external hard drive is designed to be a stylish storage solution for your...
(News) Western Digital (WD) on Tuesday introduced the ShareSpace network storage system. It provides up to 4 terabytes (TB) of...
(News) At long last, residents of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands will join their compatriots on the U.S...
(News) Namco announced Tuesday that it has released Pole Position: Remix for the iPod touch and iPhone. The game costs US$9.99 and is...
(News) TikGames has announced the release of Agents of Interpol, a casual puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs...
(News) Given my profession (and avocation), I go through Macs relatively regularly--typically, the hardware lasts two to three years...
(News) The iTunes Store recently notified customers who have purchased Spore Origins for the iPod that it has been updated with a new...
(News) Lava Software has released Kenbushi 7.5, an update to its free "digital media jukebox" for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. The...
(News) SimpleTech on Monday announced it's shipping its Pro Drive and Duo Pro Drive. The external hard drives come in different...
(News) We brought you news last week that the iPhone 3G had made its way to Latvia and Lithuania, but those weren't the only...
(News) Just when you thought there was nothing more to add to After Effects, Adobe has crammed a large number of new features and...
(News) Rejoice, for the iPhone 3G comes at last to the motherland next week. One of the last remaining major countries in the world...
(News) As part of this week's Creative Suite 4 launch, Adobe taped a launch event Monday night that it broadcast on the Web to...
(News) Fishbeam Software has announced the release of Goldfish 2.3, an update to its Web site creation software for Mac OS X and...
(News) Toy Bot Diaries developer Iugo Mobile Entertainment has announced the release of Shaky Summit, a new game for the iPhone and...
(News) When the original USB Drobo was released, it made a big splash, and even earned an Editors' Choice Award. The sturdy little...
(News) Search the App Store for the word "beer" and you're going to pull up more than a dozen apps, including a couple of games. For...
(News) The Web is a breeding ground of new ideas and collaborative resources--you simply need to know where to look. But while there...
(News) While Estonia got the iPhone 3G in the last round of country updates back in August, the other pair of Baltic...
(News) Howling Moon Software has announced the release of ScribBall for the iPhone and iPod touch. It's available for purchase and...
(News) Freeverse Software has announced the release of Flick Sports Bowling, a new game for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs...
(News) Adobe Dreamweaver has a couple of interesting new features in this update, highlighted by the addition of Live View. This new...
(News) BeLight Software has released Art Text 2, an upgrade to its software for creating headings, Web graphics, buttons and logos...
(News) Among the applications updated in Adobe's Creative Suite 4 is Illustrator, the company's oldest software application. While a...
(News) Apple opened up five new brick-and-mortar stores this past weekend, bringing it ever closer to its goal of having 242 stores...
(News) Polarbit, the game developer that created Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart for the iPhone on behalf of Vivendi Games, has announced...
(News) Want to learn all about the iPhone? Then your local college or university might just be the place to do it. Last week, Apple...
(News) While my iPhone has always felt relatively fast, now I can say it really flies--and no, that's not due to the 2.1 software...
(News) Optima Systems has announced the release of PageSpinner 5.1, an update to its Web development software for Mac OS X. A free...
(News) iWebTemplate has added 11 new themes to add on to Rapidweaver, RealMac's popular visual Web site creation tool. This brings...
(News) This week marks the release of the new game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. The game is appearing simultaneously for multiple...
(News) Despite the enormous popularity of games for the iPhone and iPod touch, some genres remain relatively untouched. The role...
(News) LaCie on Thursday announced the 4big Quadra, a four-bay external RAID hard disk system for Macs and PCs. It's priced starting...
(News) Atempo on Wednesday announced Atempo Digital Archive (ADA) for Mac. The new archive system is intended to provide Mac users...
(News) Iomega on Wednesday announced its eGo Helium portable hard disk drive. The 320GB drive is coming in October for $149.99.
(News) Give Gameloft credit where it's due: Asphalt 4: Elite Racing doesn't look like some rehashed cell phone game. Instead, Asphalt...
(News) MakeMusic on Tuesday released Finale PrintMusic 2009, an application that allows you to print publisher-quality sheet music.
(News) Movie studios and technology companies have joined together to push for digital video that isn't tied to specific devices but...
(News) MicroNet has introduced the RAIDBank 4, a compact RAID system intended for use by small and medium businesses. It's priced...
(News) Western Digital (WD) on Monday announced its new 500GB My Passport Portable USB hard disk drives. The external drives cost...
(News) Nemetschek North America on Monday announced the 2009 release of their Vectorworks line of design software. The products...
(News) iPhone 2.0 brought a lot of cool features with it, but it also brought a lot of bugs. Performance was slow, calls dropped...
(News) MacBook Pro users looking to expand their laptops with faster external storage have a new choice from Sonnet Technologies...
(News) Western Digital (WD) on Friday announced that it's shipping its Scorpion Blue 500GB 2.5-inch hard disk drive. It costs...
(News) When it's time for you or your business to post a Web site, you're faced with the prospect of building it yourself or hiring a...
(News) Abaltat, makers of Abaltat Muse, have announced the release of Abaltat Express 2.0, a new version of their soundtrack...
(News) Magma on Thursday announced that Digidesign has approved its ExpressBox7 PCI Express expansion system for use with Pro Tools...
(News) MakeMusic on Thursday announced the release of SmartMusic 11, a major new release of its music learning software for bands...
(News) It's a big week for Apple's retail stores: Apple on Thursday announced plans to open three new stores this weekend on...
(News) This is the easiest buck I've spent on the App Store in weeks. touchGrove has re-created the classic Mattel Football...
(News) Sonnet Technologies on Thursday introduced its Fusion F3 RAID storage device. The Fusion F3 will be released in October;...
(News) VMware reports that its Fusion software for Macintoshes is being used by scientists at CERN, the European Organization for...
(News) Avid Technology subsidiary Pinnacle Systems has introduced its new Pinnacle TV for Mac HD mini Stick, a USB-based television...
(News) Following its release for the iPod last week, Electronic Arts' Spore Origins is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch...
(News) Electronic Arts is quickly building a new franchise out of SimCity creator Will Wright's newest game, Spore. Even before the...
(News) Parliant has announced CurbTalker, a new telephony product for Mac OS X designed especially for realtors. CurbTalker costs...
(News) Mundue.net on Monday announced the release of iKeno, a version of the classic game of chance. iKeno is available for purchase...
(News) Maverick Software has announced the release of Jiggy for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs US$3.99.
(News) Spore Origins, a game based on the new Mac and PC game Spore, came out this week for the iPod. Electronic Arts (EA) confirmed...
(News) Adobe will officially announce Creative Suite 4 on September 23, 2008. The company will also host a webcast introducing the...
(News) Highpoint Technologies has announced the release of the RocketRAID 4320 SAS RAID Controller. It's a PCI Express (PCIe) host...
(News) Other World Computing (OWC) on Thursday announced a new model of its Mercury Elite-AL Pro USB 2.0 Dual-Drive Storage Solution...
(News) Electric Rain has announced the release of Swift 3D, now with Universal binary support. A free upgrade for existing 5.0 users...
(News) Coraid on Wednesday introduced the EtherDrive SR2421 Storage Appliance. The rack-mountable storage system contains a hardware...
(News) Like Thought on Wednesday announced the release of Opacity Express 1.0, a screen graphics editor for Leopard. It costs US$39.
(News) Every year the top high-end 3D companies in the world converge on Los Angeles, Calif. to attend the Siggraph tradeshow. This...
(News) Global IP Solutions (GIPS) on Monday announced that its GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile technology is now available for licensing to...
(News) Addonics on Thursday introduced its Portable Dual Drive RAID enclosure, an external storage device that accommodates up to two...
(News) Memorex on Thursday announced that its Ultra TravelDrive is now available in a 500GB version. The 500GB version costs...
(News) Workamajig -- formerly Creative Manager Pro, the ad agency software and project management groupware - will gain improved...
(News) Newer Technology on Wednesday announced its MiniStack 2.5, a new addition to its MiniStack line of external powered hubs. The...
(News) Media Player: Apple iPod Touch
(News) The International Olympics Committee says is satisfied that Beijing will keep the Internet accessible during the Games.
(News) EMI Music has hired Google's Chief Information Officer Douglas Merrill to be president of its digital business division, the latest high-profile executive to seek greener pastures away from the Googleplex.
(News) Sony's HDR-TG1 weighs only 10.6 ounces and records 1920-by-1080 digital video to a memory card.
(News) Sharp is planning to more than double its production of solar cells over the next few years as it targets sun-rich nations in southern Europe, Southeast Asia, Central and South America and Africa.
(News) Komoku technology will be incorporated into Forefront and Windows Live OneCare.
(News) Sony is offering to remove some of the trial software it crams onto the hard disks of new laptops -- for a fee.
(News) More than charity lies behind Microsoft and Intel's announcement this week that they will donate US$20 million to a pair of U.S. colleges in the hope of spurring advances in parallel, or multicore, programming research, as a Microsoft research scientist readily acknowledged.
(News) EMC signed an agreement with distributor Digital China on Tuesday to establish a joint-venture company that will work with Chinese vendors to make sure their offerings are interoperable with EMC's products.
(News) Coverage of Windows Vista and editor's column honored by business media organization.
(News) The U.S. Congress may need to amend antitrust law to keep broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic, the chairman of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee said Tuesday.
(News) They're the next generation of entrepreneurs, inventors, and innovators--and not one of them is old enough to buy beer.
(News) Among all the new features the manufacturers of GPS receivers introduced at Cebit this year, one thing they haven't cracked yet is how to navigate around the myriad halls and alleys of the trade show, which sprawls over 240,000 square meters of exhibition space. With the reorganization of the show this year, and the closure of Hall 1 for refurbishment, getting lost can be a serious problem even for seasoned show-goers.
(News) While wireless Internet access has become a virtual commodity in homes and offices, exhibitors at this week's Cebit show in Hanover, Germany, are displaying wares focused on extending and optimizing the technology.
(News) Intel warned Monday that low prices for NAND flash memory chips will have a greater financial impact during the first quarter than company officials had initially anticipated.
(News) Intel's Silverthorne and Diamondville chips will be called Atom and the company's Menlow platform for ultramobile computers will be renamed Centrino Atom when these products hit the market, according to a company spokesman.
(News) Wi-Fi, mobile apps, and Web services are helping cure the headaches you get in trains, planes, and automobiles.
(News) A proposed consumer rights bill for mobile telephone service drew mixed reviews during a hearing in Congress Wednesday, with detractors saying the legislation would place too much regulation on a competitive industry.
(News) Microsoft will reveal "significant" company news Thursday, but the announcement is unrelated to its bid to acquire Yahoo.
(News) Microsoft's chairman weighs in on the Internet, e-business, and his retirement plans.
(News) News that the DVD format war may be ending was met with approval by investors in Japan.
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(News) The debate heats with some tech companies pushing Congress and the FCC to restrict spectrum use in latest auction.
(News) We at PC World have seen technology history--lots and lots of it. And maybe even made a little of it ourselves.
(News) A new report from Forrester Research declares that the wave of mega-acquisitions in the software industry is over for now, though big vendors will continue to snap up smaller firms as they round out their portfolios.
(Reviews) PCs may disappear from your desk by 2033. But with digital technology showing up everywhere else--including inside your body--computing will only get more personal.
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(News) India's IT services market is forecast to grow to US$10.73 billion by 2011, at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 23.2 percent, as outsourcing emerges as a more favored option for companies in India, according to research firm Gartner.
(News) Do Apple's Macintosh users lean more to the artsy and hip end of the personality spectrum than PC users. A new study seems to confirm that.
(News) A sophisticated hacking scheme seen early last year appears to be affecting an increasing number of Web servers.
(News) Panasonic showed the prototype of the new display, which stretches 11 feet across and may be the largest in the world.
(News) Starry-eyed companies and CEOs made big promises to rollout new gadgets and told consumers to prepare for big trends in 2007. Who was right? And who was wrong?
(News) Legal tussles, format wars, and (of course) the iPhone dominated technology news in 2007. Here are the biggest tech headlines of the year--including some we'd like to forget.
(News) Charles Giancarlo, who was seen as a likely candidate to head Cisco Systems, has resigned from the networking giant after 14 years to "pursue new professional opportunities," Cisco announced Thursday.
(News) From Google wonders to laptop reviews to iPhone torture tests, here's what the Web was reading and watching on PCWorld.com this year.
(News) These much-ballyhooed products, sites, and services, it turned out, left much to be desired.
(News) Microsoft Research's eScience group is helping scientific researchers use database and online sharing tools in ways they might not have imagined, and sharing those experiences with Microsoft product groups that can tweak their software for easier use by the scientific community.
(News) Open-source enterprise software developer OpenLogic wants open-source users to stand up and be counted in a worldwide census -- and is offering a new software tool to help the process.
(News) Asustek's early success with its sleek, budget laptop is inspiring rivals to enter the market, Gartner says.
(News) A bill granting a one-year extension to a research and development tax credit program supported by many technology trade groups is off to President Bush for signature.
(News) Microsoft won a patent dispute over technology that helps computers boot up faster Thursday.
(News) In an effort to boost its managed IT services portfolio, Dell on Thursday agreed to acquire desktop services management company Everdream.
(News) Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen will step down from his post at the end of the month, the company said Monday.
(Reviews) The new, improved Web won't deserve that name until sites make clear what they do with your private data. And online tech support gets a lot better. And...
(News) Cisco Systems posted a double-digit rise in revenue in its fiscal first quarter ended Oct. 27, with an even bigger gain in profit.
(News) Strong sales of new and old products alike led Microsoft to its fastest first-quarter growth in seven years, with the company reporting growth in all five business segments and both revenue and earnings per share (EPS) that beat analyst expectations.
(News) Strong sales of new and old products alike led Microsoft to its fastest first-quarter growth in eight years, with the company reporting growth in all five business segments and both revenue and earnings per share (EPS) that beat analyst expectations.
(News) Apple Inc. on Monday reported strong earnings for its fourth quarter, boosted by record Macintosh computer sales and the shipment of 1.12 million iPhones.
(News) Still carrying the weight of costs related to last year's acquisition of graphics vendor ATI, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. recorded its fourth straight quarter of net losses Thursday.
(News) Oracle Corp.'s bid for BEA Systems Inc. appears to be getting ugly with the latest statement from Oracle.
(News) IT investor confidence in technology is gaining strength. This week, vendors as diverse as Google Inc., Business Objects SA and VMware Inc. led the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index to break the 2800 mark for the first time since January 2001, the second week in a row the market has hit a six-year milestone.
(News) Plus: iPhone Price cut, Google Phone Rumors, and the Ringle.
(News) Gianfranco Lanci fields questions from U.S. journalists at Madrid press event.
(News) The declining value of the U.S. dollar should allow PC vendors to offer bargains to people living in the euro zone, while U.S. consumers probably won't feel much of a pinch, according to a leading economist.
(News) Surveillance cameras in London are not helping solve crime, according to local politicians.
(News) The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill to overhaul the nation's patent system, overcoming objections by many Republicans, small inventors and some labor unions.
(News) Just two weeks after revealing that some employees had falsified corporate revenue to meet earnings targets, Dell Inc. reported a profit of US$733 million for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, up 46 percent from its mark of $502 million for the same period last year.
(News) A video showing the founder of a Belfast, Northern Ireland company unlocking the iPhone hit the Web early Wednesday U.K. time as proof that software exists that can unlock Apple Inc.'s device for use with carriers other than AT&T Inc.
(News) Plus: Free Microsoft Works, Filtering on YouTube, and Thunderbird Leaves the Nest.
(News) Serena has said it will jump into the software-as-a-service (SAAS) market next month with a user-oriented development toolset aimed at promoting the idea of "enterprise mashups."
(News) Almost 36 hours after a software problem caused widespread outages in eBay Inc.'s Skype service, engineers continue to work to fully restore this extremely popular Internet telephony and instant messaging service, while many business users deal with work disruptions.
(News) IBM Corp. and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) have separately agreed to pay the U.S. government a total of US$5.3 million to settle allegations that the companies solicited and provided improper payments on technology contracts with government agencies, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
(News) Longtime rivals IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have signed an agreement related to operating systems technologies, the two companies said Wednesday.
(News) U.S. rock band Pearl Jam is crying foul after an AT&T webcast censored politically themed lyrics by lead singer Eddie Vedder, but the telecom giant said Thursday the editing was a mistake by a contractor.
(News) Your organization's next e-mail filtering software may come equipped with a blocking component that prevents pornographic content from entering the corporate network.
(News) Plus: New Dells, Google vs. Microsoft, and PS3 Price Cuts
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(News) Steve Wozniak isn't perhaps as well known as his Apple Inc. cofounder Steve Jobs, but "Woz" invented the Apple I in 1976 and the Apple II in 1977, which was one of the best-selling PCs of that time. In this interview, Wozniak, who turns 57 on Aug. 11, talks about how he met Jobs, his most cherished inventions and why he believes thinking robots and artificial intelligence will never happen.
(News) IT procurement managers are finding that Microsoft Corp.'s Software Assurance maintenance program may not save them money as hoped, according to a survey by Forrester Research Inc.
(News) Microsoft Corp. will release six groups of security patches next week including three critical updates for Windows and Excel users.
(News) The number of iPhones manufactured by Apple may not be enough to meet customer demand when the smart phone goes on sale later Friday, CEO Steve Jobs said in an interview published the same day.
(News) A state judge in California on Thursday dismissed charges against the three remaining state criminal defendants in the Hewlett-Packard Co. spying case.
(News) Law firm that posted a video offering advice on how to avoid hiring U.S. workers isn't responding to requests for comment.
(News) Microsoft Corp. launched a redesigned MSN portal for mobile phones, with improved navigation and optimized display of Web pages.
(News) John Lilly, chief operating officer of the Mozilla Foundation, has accused Apple chief Steve Jobs of aiming for a 1980s-style "duopoly" with his plans for the Safari web browser on Windows.
(News) Although virtual environments are still at an early stage in development and adoption, many companies are already dabbling in one or more virtual worlds or closely observing them prior to getting their feet wet.
(News) EBay Inc. has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants.
(News) Attracted by aggressive prices and the launch of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista OS, consumers purchased more notebooks during the first quarter than expected, pushing IDC to raise its 2007 PC industry forecast.
(News) Symantec Corp. Wednesday released a beta of its new enterprise security product, formerly code-named Hamlet, that melds technology from several of the company's acquisitions over the last few years.
(News) Google Inc.'s claims that Microsoft Corp.'s built-in Vista desktop indexing and search tool violates its antitrust agreement could be difficult to prove even if the software does slow down the performance of Google's competitive Google Desktop offering.
(News) Ongoing legal disputes over mobile phone patents between Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. are consuming much executive management time, generating substantial lawyer fees and, if they escalate, could affect handset development and prices, experts warn.
(News) China's software and IT services sector is on track to catch and exceed the U.K.'s output in as little as five years, according to a new report.
(News) China is seeking to put technical Internet management issues on the agenda of the next Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting, a U.N.-run forum concerning the development of the Internet.
(News) Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will square off next week at the annual Computex exhibition in Taipei, where many of the world's largest hardware makers will be showing off products slated for release later this year.
(News) Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday said the company is bringing the Google-owned YouTube video service to [
Apple TV]. A software update will be available in mid-June, which will enable the service.
(News) In an extension of a cost-cutting program it began in January, Motorola Inc. said Wednesday it would lay off 4,000 more workers.
(News) Concerns about retail sales and the U.S. trade deficit Thursday put a halt to the recent increase in market indexes, including the technology-oriented Nasdaq, but news from bellwether IT vendors such as Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. show that underlying computer sector issues are still uppermost in the minds of IT investors.
(News) Google England plans to take legal action against a Dutch man who uses the word "'Google" in the domain names he has registered.
(News) Almost one in four Americas use advanced mobile technology and visit the Web 2.0 world, but close to half have little use for either, according to a report released Monday.
(News) Research In Motion Ltd. this week tightened up the links between enterprise phone systems and its BlackBerry handsets, demonstrating software that makes it easier for employees and IT administrators to keep the work force connected.
(News) The State of California on Monday filed suit against a defunct computer training school for closing its doors without refunding to students US$2.5 million in tuition fees for courses they were never able to take.
(News) Ultramobile PCs have often been criticized as falling into a gap between laptops and smartphones, but Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. hopes to change that perception with a reduced price and upgraded performance for its Q1 Ultra.
(News) Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) will let developers create applications for BlackBerry phones using Microsoft Corp.'s .Net programming environment, continuing its efforts to broaden the capabilities of the devices.
(News) In a case that illustrates the technological and legal uncertainties about electronic voting, a California county has agreed to share data stored on computer voting machines in a disputed election.
(News) IBM Corp. hopes to get more users interested in its midmarket family of products with the expansion of its Express Advantage program outside of North America and the addition of new server, storage and software offerings.
(News) Websense has made a US$400 million offer to buy U.K. security vendor SurfControl, and said there will be job cuts when the deal closes.
(News) Acer Inc. has hired a lawyer that helped win a big patent case against Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) two years ago to help defend itself against two HP patent lawsuits, Acer's chairman said Friday.
(News) Optical fibre is a lot easier to tap than most people imagine. There is no need to break or splice the fibre now -- a relatively shallow bend can be enough.
(News) The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group said Thursday that it had raised the price for its hundred-dollar laptop to US$175, but were still confident they would collect enough orders to begin volume production by September.
(News) Healthy demand for digital consumer electronics products particularly overseas helped Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) achieve higher sales and profits in the fiscal year just ended.
(News) Singaporean contract chipmaker Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. said Friday that chips manufactured using a 65 nanometer process will account for 5 percent of its revenue as the technology enters commercial production.
(News) Providers of online music services in Europe should benefit from a new one-stop licensing system aimed at simplifying the complex process of obtaining music distribution rights across the continent.
(News) Acer Inc. achieved its top goal for 2007 early in the year, passing Lenovo Group Ltd. as the world's third largest PC vendor in the first quarter. For the rest of the year it plans to extend its lead over Lenovo, executives said Friday, putting it in position to challenge Dell Inc.
(News) The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved a plan for auctions of wireless spectrum in the 700MHz band, taking the first step toward the multi-billion-dollar sale of spectrum being abandoned by television stations.
(News) Looking to merge mobile phones with PCs, Nokia Corp. has expanded its presence in Silicon Valley and is exploring a wireless network that local developers can use to try out new applications.
(News) The U.S. government plans to establish a national identity theft law enforcement center and create a multiyear public education campaign about the dangers of ID theft, as part of a series of recommendations released by a task force Monday.
(News) The Internet's blog sites have become overgrown with a variety of unpleasant content, including porn, offensive language, hate posting, and malware, a new threat analysis has suggested.
(News) Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates launched an initiative in Beijing Thursday aimed at bridging the digital divide between technologically advanced and developing countries.
(News) The biggest dangers to extending Web 2.0 capabilities to the enterprise are information overload and lack of information accountability, experts attending and speaking at Microsoft Corp.'s IT Pro Town Hall Event in Redmond said on Wednesday.
(News) Reducing the digital divide through "integration" is the theme of a two-day Microsoft Corp. conference in Beijing that kicked off Wednesday morning.
(News) Blogs, wikis, and community forums can help companies prosper and bloom--or lead them to disaster.
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(News) Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. saw operating profits slide during the first three months of this year on weakness in the memory chip market, it said Friday.
(News) Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. may be locked in a vicious price war over desktop and mobile chips, but that hasn't stopped Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. from gaining ground in the market with its focus on low-cost processors that don't draw much power.
(News) Technical consultants, SAP AG functional consultants and hardware engineers were the highest paid hourly IT workers during the first quarter, according to the Yoh Index of Technology Wages, a compensation index that tracks outsourced tech workers.
(News) IBM Corp. is adding to its server lineup with new models featuring lower-wattage processors and flash memory instead of disks, all in the name of energy conservation.
(News) Business analysts at Intel Corp.'s technology conference next week will focus on the company's powerful server chips, but industry blogs are showing more excitement over word that the company will launch a new platform for ultra mobile PCs (UMPCs).
(News) Qualcomm Inc. has rejected a US$20 million payment from Nokia Corp. for royalties on patented Qualcomm technology, snuffing out a possible resolution of part of the companies' ongoing intellectual-property dispute.
(News) Now the geeks can have a full-featured Linux OS booted from a USB stick or thumb drive. Linux distributor Mandriva's Flash 4GB provides Mandriva Linux 2007 KDE 32-bit, which needs no installation -- being ready to boot off the USB 2.0 stick. Plug in the stick, turn on the PC, and Mandriva Linux is ready to use in a few seconds.
(News) The recent buzz about security threats posed by iPods to corporations has reinforced the need for IT managers to treat these devices like any other removable media that employees with malicious intent can use to extract sensitive data.
(News) The market for desktop virtualization is hitting a growth spurt, given a run of new product introductions and research showing increased demand for the technology.
(News) Google Inc. has commented on a new software tool it released in China this week, although it did not address allegations that the software bears more than a passing resemblance to a rival's product.
(News) Acer Inc. unseated Toshiba Corp. from its third-place perch in worldwide mobile PC sales during the fourth quarter of last year, according to market researcher iSuppli Corp. Hewlett-Packard Co. saw the strongest year-on-year growth overall in the segment.
(News) Qualcomm Inc. is using its Web site for the latest shove against Nokia Corp. in the companies' ongoing legal dispute.
(News) Lenovo Group Ltd. has opened a consumer business unit in an attempt to increase sales of PCs and other electronic devices outside of its China base.
(News) The EMEA Oracle Usergroup Council (EOUC) has cancelled without explanation a user conference due to be held in Amsterdam next month.
(News) The three top executives at Google Inc. are also the lowest paid employees at the company, and they prefer it that way, according to a company filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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(News) Red Hat Inc.'s latest financial results prove the company can withstand new competitive challenges, according to Matthew Szulik, the company's chairman and CEO.
(News) With online criminals exploiting an unpatched flaw in Windows, security vendor eEye Digital Security Inc. has come forward with an unofficial fix for the problem.
(News) The overseer of the Internet's addressing system rejected for the second time the creation of a ".xxx" top-level domain, supported by some as a way to isolate adult content on the Internet.
(News) An internal investigation at Dell Inc. has found evidence of misconduct and accounting errors, forcing the company to delay filing its annual earnings report with stock market regulators, it said Thursday after the U.S. stock market closed.
(News) New software has been published on the Internet that could be used to exploit a known flaw in Internet Explorer.
(News) Faced with an outcry against the creation of a dedicated ".xxx" suffix for pornography Web sites, leaders of ICANN are set to vote Friday on whether to launch the initiative.
(News) Verizon Wireless Inc. plans to boost its wireless data network through a new three-year contract with Alcatel-Lucent SA that is expected to be worth US$6 billion.
(News) An Internet scorecard application which rates potential risks on Web sites has been downloaded more than 38 million times since it was launched 12 months ago.
(News) Open-source rivals Novell Inc. and Red Hat Inc. are each highlighting initiatives to bring Linux-based functionality to the desktop.
(News) Microsoft Corp. Wednesday named Satya Nadella to lead the newly formed Search and Ad Platform Group, the software giant's effort to optimize the advertising revenue-raising potential of its search business.
(News) Intel Capital, the investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corp., is investing up to US$40 million in a digital TV integrated circuit (IC) maker.
(News) True to the saying "when it rains, it pours," BenQ Corp. could find itself being sued by creditors of its failed mobile-phone venture in Germany.
(News) Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and SanDisk Corp. have reached a patent cross-license agreement and will jointly manufacture and sell NAND flash memory in addition to developing four-bit-per-cell flash memory, the companies said Wednesday.
(News) Oracle Corp. has gotten off to a "very strong start" with its support program for users of Red Hat Inc.'s Enterprise Linux, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
(News) The founder and chairman of IT services provider Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (ACS) wants to take the company private for about US$6 billion.
(News) Oracle Corp. reported third-quarter results Tuesday which exceeded both the software vendor's and analysts' predictions.
(News) PC vendors will focus on notebook sales and emerging markets to boost unit shipments by 10.5 percent in 2007, but revenue will lag behind with only a 4.6 percent rise, according to an analyst forecast released Tuesday.
(News) Google Inc. is expanding a test it began last year of pay-per-action ads, an ad format that is similar to pay-per-click ads but that experts say is much less prone to click fraud.
(News) Technology has yet to reach the level required for ultramobile PCs to take off with consumers, according to Acer Inc.'s president, Gianfranco Lanci.
(News) If you're paying taxes to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service there is only one URL you need to know: IRS.gov.
(News) Cisco Systems Inc. is entering new territory with its planned US$3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx Communications Inc., with plans to deliver collaboration tools as an online service and possibly integrate the company's business-related offerings with consumer social networking technology.
(News) Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer criticized rival Google Inc., saying it is devoted primarily to ad-supported search while Microsoft has reinvented itself many times over.
(News) Small and medium-size outsourcing companies in India are getting marginalized as customers look for larger outsourcers with big brands and strong financial results, according to Forrester Research Inc.
(News) It's a "huge conflict of interest" for one company to provide both an operating platform and a security platform, Symantec Corp. CEO John Thompson said during a keynote speech at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany. Although Thompson didn't mention Microsoft Corp. by name, that company's introduction of consumer and enterprise security products to complement its operating systems could hurt Symantec, which currently tops the security software industry by market share.
(News) Vishal Sikka, SAP's chief software architect, describes the company's software-as-a-service approach.
(News) Video game players might soon use their thoughts instead of joysticks to control on-screen characters, if they wear a helmet released Wednesday by Emotiv Systems Inc.
(News) McAfee Inc.'s board of directors on Monday named former EMC Corp. executive Dave DeWalt as the security software company's chief executive officer and president.
(News) Here's who's shaping what you read, watch, hear, write, buy, sell, befriend, flame, and otherwise do online.
(News) Plus: Spammers go to jail, and Laptops get LED backlights.
(News) Some of the first Windows Mobile 6.0 phones to hit the market will include Opera Software ASA's mobile browser, in addition to Microsoft Corp.'s browser.
(News) Just weeks before launching its new Centrino notebook platform, Intel Corp. said Wednesday it had cancelled plans to provide wireless access with an HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) module built by Nokia Corp.
(News) Top trends in software will include business solutions and productivity boosters.
(News) Online attacks, spam, and sneaky cybercrime top list of year's most common security issues.
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(news) Ireland Putting Digital Films in Every Cinema
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(news) White House 2006 Budget: More IT Spending
(howto) Stupid PC Error Messages: Fatal!
(howto) Bye-Bye, Big Blue; Hello, Lenovo?
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(news) The Craig behind Craigslist speaks about his Web community's popularity and touches on the site's future.
(news) We uncover the candidates' views on Internet taxes, privacy, and other tech hot buttons.
(news) Microsoft founder also tells college students outsourcing jobs is not a 'zero-sum game.'
(howto) Plus: Cell phone clubs, a store in your OS, and free streaming audio.
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(howto) Plus: Creative's IPod killer, the Firefox browser, and double-core processors.
(howto) With a Web phone, you're always in the know.
(howto) EvDO service arrives in two cities. Plus: Double-fast video, smart shoes, and upgradable notebook graphics.
(howto) Plus: Better bookmarks, son of Zip, and Intel stops talking gigahertz.
(news) The U.S. is lagging behind South Korea when it comes to wired politics.
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(news) So what if camera phones take lousy pictures? The fun is in the sharing--and chronicling the unexpected.
(reviews) Two high-tech sports jackets have pockets for all your stuff.
(howto) Plus: TiVo competitors, wearable MP3 players, and roaming with Wi-Fi.
(news) Controversy surrounds new e-voting systems set for wide use in 2004 elections.
(howto) Real-world verdicts are what matters.
(howto) Media PCs: Almost ready for prime time.
(howto) Plus: Notebooks go 3D, Zodiac gets game, and spam busters give up.
(howto) Plus: Long-distance wireless, hi-def DVD, and Doom and Half-Life get real.
(howto) Plus: Jailing spammers, packing DVD bytes, and 64 bits from AMD.
(howto) Plus: McDonald's gets wireless, phones get game, and Everest gets Net.
(howto) With PCs, truth is stranger than fiction. And dumber.
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(howto) Old tech, new tech: The resemblance is a little scary.
(news) No e-mail, no word processor, no Google...no problem? Our reporter goes cold turkey and lives to tell the tale.
(howto) Plus: Gadgets get tossed, small biz gets help, and Big Brother gets nosy.
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(news) House approves Digital Tech Corps Act, which encourages job exchange between private and public tech workers.
(news) Businesses of all sizes accept telecommuting, but tech support faces a challenge, study says.
(news) Artists explore PDAs as a medium, with downloadable dancers and video exhibitions.
(news) Researchers find we're not as savvy as we think--and suggest how to improve our technological literacy.
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(reviews) Here are the 20 products, trends, and technologies that will change PCs in 2002--and beyond.
(howto) There are Web sites that I'm sad to see go--and some that I'm not.
(news) Is escaping disease and oppression good training for leading a tech firm?
(news) PCWorld.com gleans the best, the worst, and the weirdest among exhibitors and events.
(news) Comdex ChiliFest benefits efforts to find missing kids in United States and worldwide.
(news) Security concerns (and products) draw interest, standards emerge, and the PC makes a comeback.
(howto) Make the Documents menu display the file and folder shortcuts you want to see, use Windows' built-in glossary, optimize Windows' performance.
(news) The once-grand show is losing steam, but among the ruins we find a few products to love (and a few to mock).
(news) Martha Stewart and others make art out of computer mice for charity.
(howto) Web sites can put job hunting at your fingertips, but digital want ads can be strewn with false leads. We list five key steps to help you focus your search, avoid wasting time, show your strong points, and nail down that dream job.
(news) Instead of fighting the trend, people embrace tools to better manage an integrated lifestyle, study shows.
(news) Companies continue to embrace the Net with positive results for themselves and customers, study says.
(news) Systems take a back seat to all things Internet at the tech industry's biggest show.
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