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Nine months after launching the Chrome browser, Google on Tuesday announced plans for a Chrome operating system. The new OS will be tailored for netbooks. Google has already lined up several OEM partners, and it plans to put the first products out by mid-2010.

U.S. computer security experts didn't have much of an Independence Day holiday this year, thanks to a massive botnet-driven attack launched on July 4 that initially targeted several federal agency Web sites and then went wider to include assaults on private sector Web entities in America and sites for South Korean government departments ...

Microsoft reportedly is in preliminary talks to settle two pending antitrust investigations now before the European Commission. Microsoft wants to end these probes before the Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes leaves office at the end of the year, according to the scuttlebutt. Microsoft did not return a request for comment in time for publicati...

Large, mid-size and small businesses that were already using Gmail for their communications needs may have forgotten that the email application was still officially a beta app -- that is, a work in progress, with all the tinkering and occasional downtime that goes along with the label On Tuesday, however, Google decided that it was time to declare ...

It seemed like a logical leap: If you already provide shoppers with couponsonline, what's to stop you from offering them an online source for e-gift cards? So thefounders of online gift card company CashStar pooled resources withonline shopping coupon mogul Coupons Inc. to create an outlet formerchants to offer more services than are available fr...

By the end of 2008, the U.S. had a wireless subscriber base of nearly 270 million users, according to CTIA. That equates to a penetration of 88 percent. Only 11 percent of wireless subscribers used mobile Internet services, CTIA reported in 2007. By the end of 2008, that category grew to an estimated 12.5 percent At the other end of the wireless te...

Microsoft made good Tuesday on a promise it made months ago to the open source community that it would not sue software developers who use its EMCA C# programming language and Common LanguageInfrastructure, or CLI This announcement aims to calm growing fears that Microsoft might restrict open source projects by going after program developers for pa...

Adaptability is the name of the game in our fast-paced society. In order to remain on top, every company needs to adapt to the market in which it participates. Software and application developers (actually, the entire IT department, if you want to get technical) are particularly affected by this fast pace of change. With mobile phones, netbooks...

Sony joined the netbook race on Monday with a new line of Vaio models The move comes nearly a year after the Sony executive in charge of the Vaio line derided the diminutive computers as part of a damaging "race to the bottom" for computer manufacturers....

Microsoft has warned Web surfers that an unused ActiveX control in Internet Explorer could let hackers launch malicious code on the user's system if it's running an older OS like Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Hackers have reportedly already begun exploiting the vulnerability, and security experts predict the attacks could get worse....

Yahoo has rolled out a beta for a feature designed to meet an unfilled need in online search: automated note-taking. The newSearch Pad feature in Yahoo Search automates note taking through a number of functions, such as saving recently visited links. It does not target the so-called stereotypical search engine user -- that is, someone who's lookin...

Pandora Radio Founder Tim Westergren had been one of the most vocal critics of the royalty rates that small online radio broadcasters were forced to pay per government edict. However, Tuesday's announcement of an agreement between those webcasters and SoundExchange, the organization tasked by the recording industry to collect music royalties, has made him change his tune...

"Green IT" has been a tech industry cause celebre for the past few years, first arising as the potential effects of global warming were coming increasingly to the fore and then enjoying a significant boost as the global recession compounded the practical value of data center energy efficiency and power savings. Indeed, green IT remains notable as ...

Due to the economy, many businesses are now looking at project portfolio management solutions to help them isolate and execute mission-critical projects more effectively. These businesses have also found that Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions are both more affordable and easier to deploy than traditional ones. Choosing the right solution, h...

Imagine that it's "show time" for your company's annual peak period of e-commerce traffic. If you've ever been an e-commerce manager for a toy company on Black Friday, a floral company the day before Mother's Day, or a sporting events ticketing company a month before the Super Bowl, then you can surely relate Your online customer service representa...

Best Buy is rolling out a pilot program for a new product category: electronic bicycles, scooters and Segways. The company has announced it will be selling these vehicles in 20 stores in Washington, Oregon and California, with electric motorcycles to join the mix later this summer. There had been expectations that Best Buy would be dipping its toe...

A prototype of a mobile Internet device dubbed the "Crunchpad" will reportedly make its public debut later this month The Crunchpad is a low-cost touchscreen tablet designed for Web surfing, video chat and email use.

Nokia is denying rumors that it is about to unveil a smartphone running on Google's Android operating system "There is no truth to this rumor whatsoever," spokesperson Joseph Gallo told LinuxInsider on Monday. "It is a well-known fact that Symbian is our platform of choice for smartphones."

He was into cloud computing before cloud computing was cool. Before that, he'd given the world its first real Web browser. He's a board member of eBay and Facebook, and he's invested in some must-watch Web 2.0 companies: Digg, Twitter, Ning, etc So when Marc Andreessen announced on his blog Sunday night that he's raised US$300 million in a lousy ec...

2009 is rapidly turning into a vintage year for old-school journalism whine. Traditional newsies -- both the ink-stained wretches and the blow-dried TV variety -- were already approaching critical mass with their complaints about the Internet, Twitter, social media and their impact on journalistic credibility and accountability, not to mention the...