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Google has agreed to a US$500 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice for allowing online Canadian pharmacies to place ads through its AdWords program targeting consumers in the United States. The ads resulted in the illegal importation of controlled and non-controlled prescription drugs into the U.S., according to the Justice Depar...

Sony has announced two new additions to its SLT-A family of cameras: the A77 and A65 ...

In a nod to users who have complained about Facebook's privacy settings for years, the social network announced new, simplified settings Tuesday that allow users to exercise greater control over what information is shared across the network Going forward, users can choose a feature called "Profile Tag Review," which would allow them to approve a ph...

Aug. 12, 2011, marked the 30th birthday of the IBM Personal Computer (PC) -- an event marked in numerous congratulatory and cautionary articles and blog posts. In the days since then, PC-related news has remained thick on the ground. Most shocking, perhaps, was HP's announcement that it was "looking at options" (i.e. sale or spinoff) for its PC bu...

Rewards for Recycling: Q&A With Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot, Part 1 In the fast-moving world of consumer electronics, last year's gaming system and smartphone are old news. Luckily, however, they're not entirely worthless.

Rewards for Recycling: Q&A With Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot, Part 1 In the fast-moving world of consumer electronics, last year's gaming system and smartphone are old news. Luckily, however, they're not entirely worthless.

People keep calling me to ask what Salesforce is going to announce at Dreamforce. My standard answer is, how would I know? I get briefings like a lot of analysts, but in a situation like this you usually have to promise to hold the news until the company makes its announcements. This is not new or unique to Salesforce; every vendor does this, a...

Sure, we all know that making regular file backups is an essential survival task for frustration-free computing. But backing up data and backing up computer systemfiles are not entirely the same things. Doing one without the other is like having an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) that's not connected....

Mikko Hypponen has spent the past 20-plus years studying malicious software, including everything from "Brain" -- the first PC virus, dating back to 1986 -- all the way up to Stuxnet and today's most sophisticated global malware He's widely considered one of the world's foremost experts on information security, and he's played a key role in taking ...

A U.S. judge has ruled largely in favor of music locker site MP3tunes in the copyright infringement suit brought by record label EMI. Judge William Pauley on Monday ruled that MP3tunes did not promote infringement with its online music storage service EMI did win a smaller victory, Pauley ruling that MP3tunes must take down infringing files belongi...

In the wake of its largest-ever global launch of smartphones earlier this month, Research In Motion on Tuesday announced three new BlackBerry Curve devices ...

Gazelle takes your old cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, GPS devices, game systems, calculators, e-readers, LCD monitors, tablets, and any other out-of-date electronic equipment cluttering up your home or office, and turns it all into cash. First launched as "Second Rotation" in 2006 and rebranded as "Gazelle" in 2008, the U.S.' la...

Gazelle takes your old cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, GPS devices, game systems, calculators, e-readers, LCD monitors, tablets, and any other out-of-date electronic equipment cluttering up your home or office, and turns it all into cash. First launched as "Second Rotation" in 2006 and rebranded as "Gazelle" in 2008, the U.S.' la...

Technology analyst Scott Steinberg fields a viewer question on the latest approach to curbing online piracy: "Internet service providers policing pirates: What is Hollywood smoking? And does anyone really think that this will work?" Not really, suggests Steinberg. Enforcement would be costly and cumbersome, and probably not at all effective -- pir...

The U.S. government's new chief information officer wasted little time in directing federal agencies to significantly improve the way they manage information technology resources. Steven VanRoekel, who took over the federal CIO post on Aug. 4, quickly issued a directive designed to push agencies to meet an Obama administration goal for operating federal websites more efficiently.

If you had the option to pick your own price for a computer game that only runs on your Linux rig, would you pay to play? Not if you are a typical Linux gamer. At least, that's the popular perception of fans of free and open source software. Linux is available freely. So why pay for a game -- or any other Linux app -- when the FOSS mantra is based on a no-cost buy-in? ...

This past week saw considerable hacker activity: AntiSec released to the Internet 1 GB worth of emails and documents stolen from the account ofVanGuard Defense Industries Senior Vice President Richard Garcia A related hacker community, Anonymous, hacked into the servers of theBay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police Officers' Association....

The 45,000 striking union workers have returned to their posts at Verizon Communications after nearly three weeks on picket lines. Earlier this month, the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers voted to go on strike after they said they had been unable to reach agreement with Verizon regarding several matters, including their contributions to pensions and healthcare plans...

Sprint is reportedly in talks with Clearwire and cable companies regarding the possible acquisition of the wireless Internet provider to help build its 4G LTE network The talks are allegedly happening between Sprint and cable providers such as Comcast, according to a Bloomberg report. Clearwire is looking for an investment of US$600 million to expa...

In a few short weeks, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, will award a US$500,000 grant for a 100-year starship project The grant will be awarded at the 100-Year Starship Study Symposium, which will be held in Orlando, Fla., from Sept. 30 through Oct. 2....