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Microsoft has given its Windows XP operating system -- originally set to disappear from store shelves in January 2008, one year after the release of Windows Vista -- a reprieve. "There are some customers who need a little more time to make the switch to Windows Vista," said Mike Nash, corporate vic...
Palm staked its claim in the low end of the smartphone market Thursday with a new device priced at $99.99 with a two-year plan and rebates. The new Centro features voice, text, instant messaging, e-mail, Web, contact and calendar capabilities, along with a full-color touch screen and full keyboard. ...
America's "third screen" -- that is, the mobile market -- is at a crossroads. The direction it will go is anyone's guess, but IDC is advocating that Internet powerhouse Google should take a leading role in determining its path. Conditions are ripe for a strong player like Google to transform the thi...
Microsoft has given its Live Search service an extreme makeover. In addition to improving the way Live Search makes queries and presents search results, the company has added channels for entertainment, shopping, and health searches. The renovation -- the biggest update for the platform since it hit...
Microsoft, along with several partners, has launched a bundle of new methods for connecting household PCs to the living room entertainment center. Collectively called "Extenders for Microsoft Windows Media Center," the solutions are WiFi hardware devices that deliver video, high-definition TV, music...
Gamers have made "Halo 3" the biggest launch in entertainment history by scooping up enough units to bring in an estimated $170 million in its first 24 hours on store shelves. Moving that amount of product puts the Xbox 360 title ahead of smash hit movie releases and blockbuster book launches, such ...
A demonstration by Motorola of Sprint's Xohm WiMax wireless broadband technology took place this week on a tour boat in the Chicago River. Accounts of the exhibition are likely to have DSL and cable Internet providers worried. Journalists invited aboard the "Summer of George" filed generally upbeat ...
Doomsayers may be fond of predicting the imminent collapse of the Internet under the weight of video and other bandwidth-intensive applications, but at least one infrastructure provider is on track to increase its capacity tenfold by 2010. VeriSign, which manages the critical infrastructure that han...
Sharp's announcement Wednesday that it's launching Blu-ray disc recorders, including a model that sports a one-terabyte hard disk drive, has one catch for Americans planning early Christmas shopping: You can't get them because they're only being launched in Japan. The unit will sell for about $2,60...
The failure of a system controller card at an AT&T office in Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday apparently caused a communications outage that grounded airplane flights and resulted in delays throughout the nation. The interruption of communications occurred at 11:25 a.m. CDT at one of 20 air traffic cente...
Right smack in the middle of Microsoft's most important Xbox 360 game launch of the year, some "Halo 3" discs have been scratched before their unlucky owners ever got a chance to play them. Not all of the scratches resulted in unplayable discs, but the problem is systemic enough that Microsoft is wa...
Two separate exploits involving the Apple QuickTime and the Microsoft Windows Media players could continue to plague computer users regardless of which Web browser is installed as the default on a computer system. So far, the only browser developer to announce a patch for this vulnerability is Mozil...
New York's Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has launched an investigation into social networking site Facebook and its claims that it is a "safe" site, the AG's office announced Monday. At issue is the company's alleged failure to adequately respond to complaints from undercover agents working for th...
Even in a sleepy little college town in rural Idaho, a mere five-and-a-half hour drive from Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters, "Halo 3" is more than just a game. We don't get the attention of New York -- no ATVs decked out in green, no famous stars, Microsoft giveaways or spotlights tearing t...
Computer security company FireEye announced on Monday a new strategy for fighting the worsening threat to consumers and businesses posed by botnets. The company announced its new Botwall appliance, linked to a worldwide intelligence network coupled to local botnet analysis designed to thwart attacks...
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