Kazaa creates worst spyware threat, says CA
Peer-to-peer program Kazaa is the number one spyware threat on the Internet, according to Computer Associates. According to the company's Pest Patrol research, Kazaa created a greater threat than other…
Opera 7.60 joins the browser battle
Opera says the next version of its browser will improve Web page rendering to make it easier to view and print online content. The next version of the Opera browser,…
Firefox cutting into IE
As Firefox marks its 5 millionth download and moves to retail stores, a survey showed Microsoft's heavyweight Internet Explorer slipping below 90 percent market share. , an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based provider…
Tiny new species of human unearthed
The remains of a tiny and hitherto unknown species of human that lived as recently as 13,000 years ago have been discovered on an Indonesian island. The discovery has been…
Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has made an appeal to the EU Council to oppose the adoption of the Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions, known as the software patent…
Netscape aims beyond Firefox
Once chided for jumping the gun with its Mozilla-based browser, Netscape is gunning to surpass the original with its next release. Netscape on Wednesday confirmed an earlier report that it…
Does anybody like Norton AntiVirus?
Has anybody had a good experience with Symantec's Norton Antivirus? Whenever I have written about Symantec's flagship consumer antivirus application, the response from readers is always the same. Hordes of…
IView MediaPro v2.6.2
Imagine everything you wanted to do with your digital media all in one place. iView MediaPro is a media management, presentation, editing, publishing and cataloging application. It offers a rich…
Panda Software reports the appearance of Sober.I
PandaLabs has detected the appearance of a new worm called This malicious code is designed to spread rapidly via email in a message that can be written in English or…
Sony reveals some specs for PSP handheld
PALO ALTO, is coming out with its own portable game player this year, and it's going to have one complex processor inside it. The PlayStation Portable will come with a…
ATM industry prepares to secure its new windows-based ATMs
The Global ATM Security Alliance (GASA) () has published its international best practices for ATM Cyber Security as the ATM industry enters its cyber era, due to the twin migrations…
2005 Volvo S40
If there's been a problem with Volvos in recent years, it's that the price of admission has been too steep for many working folks. Yes, ivory tower types with tweed…
Microsoft says IE updates possible
Microsoft, under pressure to add new features to Internet Explorer, said it might do so by way of the browser's add-on mechanism. The company has been steadfast in its insistence…
Intel Aims to Make PCs Cooler, Quieter, Sleeker with BTX Form-Factor
As projected, Intel Corp. Monday said its new BTX form-factor co-developed by Intel and a number of industry partners entered the scene and systems made using BTX guidelines are widely…
Dear IE, I
Dear Internet Explorer: It's over. Our relationship just hasn't been working for a while, and now, this is it. I'm leaving you for another browser. I know this isn't a…
Los Angeles – Pay up, Frodo
Producer sues over ‘Lord of the Rings’ profits - Zaentz wants $20 million in royalties from New Line Cinema. As says a Hollywood producer himself, he has sued New Line…
Alienware powers up 4GHz desktop
Games system specialist Alienware has hot-rodded one of its desktop PCs with a homegrown version of Intel's Pentium 4 processor that runs at 4GHz. The new Area-51 ALX, introduced on…
Boy sues mom who refuses to buy him a PC
We used a lot of ploys to try and get our parents to buy us stuff when we were younger (you don’t even want to know what we did to…
Is Microsoft using ‘Halo 2’ to thwart Xbox hackers?
Microsoft appears to be using its smash "Halo 2" game as a vehicle to crack down on mod chips and other hacks of its Xbox video game console. Hundreds of…
Windows Media Player: Pirate Edition
A German PC magazine has found out that that Microsoft pirated a copy of Sound Forge to edit .WAV files. In the listing: "WindowsHelpToursWindowsMediaPlayerAudioWav". There are exactly nine WAV files,…