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Microsoft and AOL on Monday joined forces with the United Kingdom's new Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center. The alliance could see photographs of convicted pedophiles posted on the Internet. The organization will bring together law enforcement officers, specialists from children's chari...

Intel is making its first platform pitch to the enterprise with its new vPro package, promising desktop security and manageability, energy-savings and support from a long list of technology partners, including Symantec, Cisco, Lenovo, Microsoft, Novell and others. While Intel indicates the effort wi...

This week I'm speaking at the Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego on why the PC OEMs don't, and probably never will, fully support Linux on the desktop. This is somewhat of a deja vu for me since a decade ago my team made a similar presentation at IBM on OS/2 and why it wouldn't beat Windows in its ti...

In the art house film, "Wit," Emma Thompson plays an always-acerbic college English professor whose approach to life is challenged by the sudden onset of cancer, and the resultant treatment of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy regime is often worse than the cancer itself, what with countless visits to ...

Sony lowered the price of its PlayStation 2 game console by US$20 to $129 as gamers wait for the next generation of the machine, PlayStation 3, expected in November. The Japanese electronics giant is advertising the price cut with an Internet and print media blitz in the hope of driving sales before...

Opera Software on Thursday announced the first public Beta of Opera 9. Opera has been testing the free browser software since last October. The Norwegian software company's latest version includes widgets, small Web programs that run in their own windows on users' desktops. The Opera 9 Beta also fea...

OPINION

Calling for a Response to Digital ID

Last year, Congress passed the Real ID Act, a law that calls for standardization of drivers' licenses across the country by 2008. The current reaction from states like California and New Hampshire raises questions about how a national ID system would affect civil liberties, putting welcome pressure...

The American Electronics Association is reporting that the tech job market is getting hot again, with a net gain of 61,000 new good-paying technology gigs added to last year's pool of 5.6 million. Although some U.S. states lost technology jobs while others gained, the overall increase marks an end t...

A group of technology industry leaders on Wednesday launched The Green Grid, an effort to help reduce growing power and cooling demands in enterprise datacenters. AMD, HP, Sun Microsystems and IBM are the founding sponsors of the organization whose goals are supported by the Environmental Protection...

A malware-for-sale ring used to distribute customized copies of a data-pilfering Trojan has been cracked by two computer security firms. Panda Software of Glendale, Calif., and RSA Security of Bedford, Mass., "neutralized" several Web sites that were providing information thieves with customized ver...

Motorola, Nokia and other handset developers are generating plenty of kudos for the designs of sleek, new clamshell mobile phones, but there is less innovation, and more marketing flash, there than meets the eye, experts tell TechNewsWorld. A new report by the Boston-based research consultancy Strat...

Fresh off its stunning acquisition of high-end gaming computer competitor Alienware, Dell has unveiled a pair of high-power, high-price notebooks for gamers. Described by the computer giant as "Dell's fastest consumer notebook," the new XPS M1710 will be packaged in a magnesium-alloy chassis in styl...

SCIENCE

Mapusaurus Crowned Largest Meat Eater

Meet Mapusaurus roseae, the largest carnivore on Earth recorded to date. Paleontologists working in the Patagonian wilderness in Argentina who found the remains of the 41-foot long and 15,000-pound dinosaur species said it roamed Earth 100 million years ago and was far bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex....

Riding on the back of the second annual E-mail Authentication Summit in Chicago, Microsoft on Tuesday claimed rapid adoption of its Sender ID framework for e-mail authentication to fight spam. It also launched improved postmaster services for consumers. There has been a threefold increase in Sender ...

Personal computers may dominate Internet usage today, but mobile phones are poised to invade that territory with wireless browsing capabilities, a new study says. Internet access via the mobile phone actually outpaces wireless access from a notebook PC in many of areas of the world -- a statistic dr...


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