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A technical error that affected 28 million Windows users in Europe could cost Microsoft billions in penalties The glitch, which disabled the display of a browser choice screen in Windows, violates an agreement between Microsoft and European Union (EU) regulators....

Owners of GM vehicles who subscribe to the automaker's OnStar service can now rent their vehicles out to other people when they're not in use RelayRides is the first third-party developer to integrate with OnStar's proprietary application programming interface (API). The API will be made available to other devs later this summer....

It's not enough to have just a website, or just social media profiles. Businesses need to have both -- and the traffic needs to flow seamlessly between them Numerica Credit Union was looking for a way to offer customers a useful tool on its Facebook page while driving traffic from Facebook to its site. When Shastic offered it a chance to test drive...

TreeLine is a unique information manager that combines the characteristics of both a traditional outliner and a PIM (Personal Information Manager). Use it to stow away contact information, bookmarks, text snippets, bibliography, task lists, or whatever else you track or catalog.

It has been a heck of a year for password/password hash disclosures. In the same week in June, millions of password hashes were disclosed from LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm. And in the same week in July, more than 450,000 usernames and unencrypted passwords were reportedly stolen from Yahoo Voice, while 420,000 password hashes were leaked as a result of an attack on the social networking site, Formspring. These events have drawn a lot of attention to the issue of password security.

The United States National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has successfully fired the most powerful laser beam ever recorded It took 192 laser beams to deliver more than 500 trillion watts, or terawatts (TW), of peak power and 1.85 megajoules (MJ) of ultraviolet laser light to a target 2mm in diameter....

Microsoft unveiled the new versions of its Office suite and and Office 365 subscription-based service on Monday The updated Office has an intuitive design that makes it touch- and stylus-compatible, and usable across a variety of devices running Windows, including tablets and smartphones.

Symantec has determined that combining the newest version of its antivirus software with the decade-old Windows XP operating system can cause users' PCs to freeze up with the dreaded Blue Screen of Death After Symantec analyzed the problem, it revealed that the incompatibility hit machines running a combination of the nearly 11-year-old Windows XP ...

Yahoo's search for a CEO is over: The company has announced that Marissa Mayer, one of Google's most prominent executives, will take the helm at Yahoo. Her recruitment is seen as a major victory for Yahoo, which has churned through a number of CEOs in recent years. After the company's last chief executive, Scott Johnson, stepped down under dubious...

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has released a study that suggests television news needs to revamp its approach in how it uses videos to support its reporting. The study found that YouTube has become a major news source -- in particular, for eyewitness videos -- that could one day rival traditional TV news broadcasts ...

Overall, the deal between Intel and ASML is pretty straightforward: Intel agreed to commit about US$1.0B to ASML R&D programs to accelerate deployment of new technologies for 450mm microprocessor wafers and extreme ultraviolet lithography(EUVL) by as much as two years. The company also agreed to buy 10 percent of ASML shares for approximately $2.1

Kana plans to build out its customer service experience management bona fides with its recent acquisition of contact center provider Ciboodle from the Sword Group The point of the acquisition is to weave together Ciboodle's chief strengths -- its process-based customer contact management platform, agent desktop tools and case management expertise -...

Some users of Microsoft's Skype service are having problems with their text messages, as detailed in the Skype support network Skype instant messaging contacts are getting messages originally addressed to others. A few users who got messages from one Skype contact found those messages were somehow sent from their accounts to yet other Skype contact...

The MS part of MSNBC.com has pulled out of the joint venture, it was reported late Sunday. This ends the partnership between Microsoft and NBC News, which is now owned by Comcast. In 2005, Microsoft sold its stake in the MSNBC cable channel to NBC, and it now will sell its 50 percent interest in the website for an undisclosed amount. The website, ...

A recent report from Baird Equity Research claims mobile developers are fleeing from Research In Motion in a mass exodus. However, RIM's fighting back. The report's findings are far from the truth, according to Alec Saunders, the vice president of developer relations for the BlackBerry maker.

Despite dire warnings, the Internet didn't break last week when the FBI pulled the plug on the server controlling the DNSChanger botnet An estimated 300,000 computers are still infected by the malware that ties them to the botnet, which was designed for large-scale click fraud. Those machines' connections to the Internet depended on a server the FB...

I was doing background on a recent piece on Forced Employee Ranking, a process that ensuresincompetence in companies, and found that it was sourced, as a failure, to Jack Welch -- the guy credited with turning around GE. I began to wonder if much of what he was credited with actually created whatnow appears to be a cancer in that company, and in Microsoft, and that the reason folks haven't been able to fix it is because it came from such a well-regarded expert. But given how widespread this practice is, and how stupid and suicidal it has become, I now wonder if Jack should be credited with crippling the U.S. -- and I'll bet his practices weren't limited to these shores.

The ever-changing nature of technological consumption, combined with the economic instability experienced since 2007, has given rise to a heightened awareness of risk analysis in the technology sector. As organizations engage in across-the-board belt-tightening, decision makers realize that the potential failure of each decision carries a heavier burden than ever before.

Verizon's US$3.9 billion bid for spectrum from a consortium of cable providers could be in jeopardy, with news surfacing Friday of the Justice Department's fear that a cross-marketing deal within the larger deal could reduce competition for landline Internet service DoJ's concern reportedly stems from Verizon's agreement to jointly market wireless ...

AMC will stream the first episode in the upcoming fifth season of "Breaking Bad" for Dish customers at a site that greets visitors with the welcoming words, "Dish dropped AMC, so we're offering a special livestream of the premiere for Dish customers, right here." Viewers are invited to begin registering at the site on Friday afternoon in order to w...