Microsoft Corp. will cut the price of some versions of Windows Vista, the software maker said late Thursday.
The move came a day after court filings revealed internal dissent over which Windows XP computers would be considered capable of running the new operating system _ and a feeling on at least one executive’s part that the […]
China’s top search engine Baidu.com has been sued by a local music industry group for alleged copyright violation, the second recent similar action from the industry, the group said.
In a statement on its Web site Friday, the Music Copyright Society of China quoted official Qu Jingming as accusing Baidu of “providing music listening, broadcasting and […]
A New Zealand teenager allegedly at the centre of an international cyber crime network has appeared in court where he was charged with computer hacking crimes.
Computer programmer Owen Thor Walker, 18, was charged with two counts of accessing a computer for dishonest purpose, damaging or interfering with a computer system, possessing software for committing crime, […]
Private Microsoft emails unearthed during a US court case have revealed that even the software giant’s own executives struggled to get Windows Vista running smoothly.
Early adopters of the operating system, which launched last year, battled with widespread hardware and software compatibility issues. Many PCs initially sold as “Vista Capable” were unable to run some of […]
Google co-founder Sergey Brin called Microsoft’s takeover bid for Yahoo an “unnerving” maneuver that threatens innovation on the internet.
Brin reiterated the internet search leader’s position that a merger could violate antitrust laws and harm internet users.
Brin made the comment after an event at the Mountain View-based company’s headquarters for the Google Lunar X Prize, a […]
Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia, even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down, the space agency said.
The domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the Kizuna satellite was launched at 17:55 pm (0855 GMT) with no glitches from the Space Centre on Tanegashima island off the southern tip of […]
Infamous computer hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) said Friday it is offering a software tool that lets people use Google to scan websites for security flaws.
CDC says a “Goolag Scanner” program based on work done by a hacker using the name “Johnny I Hack Stuff” is available for free download at its […]
Lawyers representing Kiss bassist Gene Simmons are furiously trying to stop the spread across the internet of a leaked sex tape featuring the ageing rocker.
The sex tape, which hit the web this week via a website, GenesSecret.com, shows Simmons, clad only in a t-shirt, purportedly having sex with an Austrian model.
The site sought to sell […]
Police have uncovered a $1 million internet scam with links to Nigeria during a raid at a home in Perth’s southern suburbs.
Western Australia Police Computer Crime Squad detectives arrested a Nigerian citizen after raiding the house in Treasure Road, Queens Park about 7pm (WDT) yesterday.
Police allege the 29-year-old is involved in an international syndicate, and […]
People will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said.
“It’s one of the big bets we’re making,” he said during the final stop of a farewell tour before he withdraws from the company’s daily operations in July.
In five years, Microsoft expects more Internet searches to […]
Facebook, the Internet social networking site, has suffered its first drop in British users in 17 months, according to data from web monitoring firm Nielsen Online.
The study said that since July 2006, Facebook had 17 successive monthly increases in Britain but while 8.9 million people here used the site in December 2007, 8.5 million visited […]
Web search leader Google plans to start selling ads to appear in web videos and has signed up 20 customers, as it aims to do for videos what it has done for text.
Partners include YuMe, an online video advertising network, Brightcove, an Internet TV platform, and comedy site MyDamnChannel.
Brightcove, whose customers include CBS Corp, Time […]
Kelly Parkinson thought he had found the perfect gift when he splashed out more than $500 on a brand new Xbox 360 for his son’s 15th birthday last year.
Six months down the track, Mr Parkinson claims the machine has destroyed $200 worth of games bought from his son’s own pocket money and is now effectively […]
Google’s dominance in search, coupled with its software-related forays, may drive Microsoft to acquire Yahoo or eBay to become the top internet revenue earner, writes MediaPost, citing a report by Merrill Lynch analysts. The Microsoft-Yahoo combination would immediately challenge Google in search, with search traffic roughly evenly split between Google and a merged Yahoo/MSN, according […]