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A software problem at Skype left many users of the popular VoIP service unable to log in or make calls Thursday, and with little hope for relief until Friday, the company said. "Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype," the company wrote on its support blog at about 2 p.m. Greenwich Me...
Sonos, which sells wireless, multi-room home audio systems, has introduced new software that allows users to access Sirius Internet Radio. Called "Sonos System Software v 2.3," the new offering enables Sonos owners with Sirius subscriptions to access Sirius programming and control their listening wi...
With the continued increase in Web-based communication in the form of Web applications, social networking sites, wikis, blogs and podcasts, new security risks are rising throughout the enterprise. Organizations must take steps to strengthen their defenses in a Web 2.0 world. As Web 2.0 continues to ...
Electronic Arts appears to have scored a touchdown with its "Madden NFL '08," the latest iteration of the 18-year-old video game franchise that hit store shelves Tuesday. Reviewers have generally lauded "'08" as a marked improvement over the last few editions of the game, but some give an edge to ga...
In the race for message storage space among Web-based e-mail providers, Microsoft's Hotmail has just leapfrogged Google's Gmail. Customers with a free Hotmail account now will have 5 GB of storage; those with a paid account will have 10 GB, according to a posting on the Microsoft Live Hotmail commun...
Microsoft has fixed six critical and three important desktop application vulnerabilities in this month's Patch Tuesday release. Patches for flaws that directly affect desktop application users have been showing up more frequently in Patch Tuesday releases over the last eight to 10 months. This shift...
Satellite TV provider DirecTV is making a move on the high-speed broadband over powerline market. The company announced a wholesale distribution agreement with BPL provider Current Group Wednesday. In addition to letting DirecTV sell Current's broadband services, the agreement also lets DirecTV rese...
Portable hard disk drives aren't the sexiest computer peripherals in the world. They're pretty much a small box with an LED or two on them. Most disk makers have been content staying inside that box when they design their drives, but not SimpleTech. The company, which was purchased in February by Fa...
The face of the Internet is rapidly changing. For instance, Web maps are no longer about finding your house online. A few years ago, map-making power remained in the hands of specialists. Today, map-making power is within everyone's grasp. In the past two years, Web giants like Google, Microsoft and...
After an initial stumble -- perhaps related to the now-infamous YouTube snowman -- most of the Republican presidential candidates will be answering video questions posed by American YouTube users in a debate similar to one their Democratic Party counterparts participated in last month. CNN, YouTube ...
Clunky old batteries may soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new energy-storage device that looks and feels like a scrap of paper. Developed by a team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the nanoengineered battery is 90 percent cellulose, made up of the same plant cells used in n...
Some Facebook users are too friendly and play too loose with necessary security precautions, concluded a Tuesday report released by computer security firm Sophos. In the report, the company warns social network users about the dangers inherent in giving cyber-strangers access to their online profile...
Internet users spend nearly half of their time online viewing content, according to a study by the Online Publishers Association. That's up from just over a third of online time spent with content in 2003, according to the group's Internet Activity Index. Overall, Internet users are spending more ti...
Finnish cell phone giant Nokia will replace for free 46 million batteries due to an overheating problem, even though incidents of the batteries malfunctioning have been "very rare." The company will replace any Nokia-branded BL-5C battery made by Matsushita Battery Industrial between December 2005 a...
Virtualization rootkits, Web application security and Voice over IP attack vectors topped Gerhard Eschelbeck's list of the top three biggest issues at this month's Black Hat USA conference, held Aug. 1 and 2 in Las Vegas. Eschelbeck is chief technology officer and senior vice president of security v...
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