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As we roll to the end of the year, events continue to take place that are changing dramatically the technologies and environments we live in. Last week, Microsoft had a coming-out party for Vista -- but only for the business market While most feel it can't ramp up in business until 2008, there is clearly massive pressure building to accelerate adop...

Downloading movies from the Internet may be easierthan ever to do, but it isn't necessarily advisable,according to McAfee, which sees trouble ahead with thistechnology and Internet security. It cites the growingnumber of video-sharing sites on the Web as a primetarget for hackers next year....

How safe is stored e-mail from the prying eyes of government authorities? Not very. It would be a whole lot safer if a decision by a federal judge in Ohio were left standing, according to a trio of civil rights groups The decision by District Court Judge Susan J. Dlott declared unconstitutional provisions in a statute that allow law enforcement aut...

Two major chipmakers said Friday they had received subpoenas from antitrust investigators focusing on the market for graphics processing units and related chipsets Both AMD and Nvidia announced they had received the subpoenas early Friday and both said they planned to cooperate with investigators from the San Francisco Office of the Antitrust Divis...

Novell unveiled its new Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) this week, completing a shift of Novell workgroup solutions, particularly NetWare, over to the Suse Linux platform Highlighting support from backup andsecurity vendors includingCA,Symantec andMcAfee, OES 2 is set to ship in 2007 and will feature enhancements to virtualization, storage and fil...

The U.S. government on Thursday issued a warning to American private financial services of a possible cyber attack by an Islamist militant group against online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning on Friday The group, reportedly associated with al-Qaeda, is seeking to hack and destroy the databases of the U.S. financial sites, according to...

A two-month-old shareholder lawsuit alleging that Hewlett-Packard's boardroom spying scandal cost investors millions of dollars was amended this week to add claims of insider trading The suit, filed in California's Santa Clara County Superior Court on behalf of all HP shareholders, had previously alleged breach of fiduciary responsibilities by top ...

More than a third of shoppers who have a poor experience on a Web site abandon the site entirely, according to JupiterResearch, and 75 percent are likely not to shop on that site again That's a loud and clear wake up call to e-tailers. Now that you are awake, it's time to find out exactly what "poor experience" means in the minds of shoppers....

Novell has pulled out of theopen source Hula Project, a community development effort that it kicked off early last year to compete with e-mail, calendaring and collaboration solutions such asMicrosoft's Exchange andIBM's Domino servers Novell encouraged continued development of the Hula server, but its future is uncertain, at best, without the comp...

New scientific studies showing that it is possible to slow down the aging process are important for those interested in life extension but also key for those who want to see greater economic growth. That's because life-extending treatments generate what some call the "longevity dividend" -- an idea that deserves more attention Two recent studies re...

Just two weeks after the debut ofIntel's quad-core chips,AMD on Thursday announced its Quad FX Platform with Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) architecture AMD is touting the Quad FX as the first dual-socket, multi-core desktop PC platform designed to work with Windows Vista Ultimate. Intel, however, won first-to-market bragging rights, releasing i...

Intuit, which makes financial management software popular among small businesses and consumers, said Thursday it had agreed to buy Digital Insight, a provider of Web-based banking services, in a deal worth US$1.35 billion Intuit agreed to pay $39 per share in cash for the Calabasas, Calif.-based firm, which provides back-end support for banking ser...

In a setback to Google's efforts to fend off a copyright infringement suit stemming from its ambitious plan to create digital copies of millions of books, rivalsearch engineYahoo has declined to provide information about its own book digitization efforts Neither Yahoo nor Google would comment, but reports suggest Yahoo refused to cooperate with Goo...

Microsoft on Thursday launched its Windows Vista operating system for businesses, along with Office 2007 suite and Exchange Server 2007 Microsoft made the introduction at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York City. The software giant is also celebrating 20 years as a publicly traded company....

How many dinosaurs could you build out of the carbon in one gallon of gas? Before the introduction ofGoogle Answers and other Q&A Web sites, that question might never have been asked, much less answered. However, within hours of its initial posting, it received an apparentlywell considered answer. The short response: You can build 1/460th of a tyra...

From the apparently sudden arrival of Web-based video distribution options to the growing sophistication of TV-like advertising online and the social networking phenomenon, theInternet drew attention and dollars away from newspapers, TV and radio in 2006 This coming of age did not take place overnight. Web-based video has been discussed and planned...

Opera Software is singing a new tune with its updated Mini 3.0 browser, released on Tuesday. It brings photo sharing and social networking functionality to the Norwegian company's free mobile phone mini browser Despite its struggles in the desktop Web-browser market, Opera has succeeded with its mobile browser, which it says is used by 8 million pe...

There are programs for creating to-do lists. There are programs for managing projects. Rarely, however, do the twain meet as they do in Priorganizer The program, by John Wood atRiaform, is priced at US$29.95 like a simple to-do list application -- which is certainly how it can be used -- but it contains features found in pricier project management ...

Microsoft lost a key ruling this week in the South Korean Supreme Court, which upheld a finding that the company infringed on Korean-English translation software patents held by a local inventor The plaintiffs -- the academic who invented the language-switching process and the company representing his interests -- have requested that the version of...

Wal-Mart said Tuesday it would soon launch a downloadable video service, a move that could hasten the demise of the traditional DVD and help catapult the retailer into the center of the video-on-demand marketplace The discount retail giant, which already ranks as the largest seller of DVDs in the world, unveiled plans to launch a download-on-demand...