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echnology giant Microsoft has reported record profits on the back of strong sales of the Windows 7 operating system.
Microsoft’s second-quarter net profit rose by 60 percent to a record $6.66 billion while underlying revenue rose to $19.02 billion, the company said in an earnings statement released overnight.
“Exceptional demand for Windows...
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The unveiling of Apple’s iPad tablet computer was one of the most anticipated technology events in recent years, but a similar looking device has been on sale in China for nearly six months.
The touchscreen iPad look-alike marks a new milestone by Chinese manufacturers: cloning a product before it had even been...
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StartPage.com is search engine that doesn’t record your IP address, your searches, or anything about you. And now you can surf to linked pages anonymously.
StartPage isn’t exactly a new contender in the Internet search field—it launched all the way back in earlt 2005—but it is unique among Internet search ...
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The 20-year-old hacker best known for cracking Apple’s iPhone says he’s done it again, this time with Sony’s PlayStation 3 that suppose to be Unhackable!
In a Friday blog post, George Hotz said that after a five-week effort, he’d finally managed to run his own software on the PlayStation 3, which...
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An American woman told to pay $2m for sharing 24 songs over the internet has had her fine slashed.
Following an appeal, Jammie Thomas-Rasset has now been ordered to pay the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) $54,000 .
The judge who reduced the fine said the original multimillion dollar claim by...
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Google(GOOG Quote) co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin each intend to sell about 5 million shares of company stock under prearranged stock trading plans.
The plans, adopted Nov. 30, will be part of a five-year diversification program for the executives’ portfolios, according to a filing made Friday with the Securities and...
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Firefox 3.6 is much more colorful than the previous version, but color us unimpressed. The new version sports a fabulous new cosmetic feature called “personas” but, despite claims of improved speed, Firefox is still miles behind Google’s Chrome browser in the speed department.
Some of the new features
Plug-in Check for Better Security
Firefox 3.6 can now...
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Onetime mortal enemies Apple and Microsoft are in talks over the possibility of Redmond’s Bing replacing Google as the default search engine on the iPhone, according to a report citing two people familiar with the matter.
Anonymous sources speaking with Business Week say the two tech giants – so long at odds in the operating...
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Warnings by the German and French governments about the vulnerability of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 in the wake of the serious China-based cyberattacks disclosed last week by Google appear to be boosting the uptake of rival browsers across Europe.
Internet Explorer is still the leading browser in Europe, with 45 per cent market share, but...
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Akamai recently released their latest “State of the Internet Report,” (registration required) which every quarter covers a number of topics including broadband penetration, broadband speeds, security, and more. It’s of particular interest to our readers, as the company gathers the data from clients that have hit their 56,000-strong global content server network, tracking 444...
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Apple has formally announced a special event for Wednesday, January 27, in San Francisco to reveal to the public its “latest creations.”
Whether the company will open the curtains on a tablet, slate, big iPod Touch, or a bit of all three, invited guests will find out for sure at the 10 a.m. event to...
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New York, January 17 – With new evidence suggesting that a vulnerability in Internet Explorer
(IE) led to cyber-attack against Google, the German government has warned against the use of IE browser.
The Federal Office for Information security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI) issued a warning saying that the Web users should find an...
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Google, the internet search company, has said it may shut down its China operations in protest against government censorship of its search results.
The announcement, which represents a major shift in policy by the company, follows a recent hacking incident that appeared to target the accounts of activists using its electronic mail system, Gmail.
Google has...
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Leave it to the BBC to show us how it’s done. At CES, BBC reporter Dan Simmons managed to break the display (click on link for video) on the seemingly indestructible Sonim XP3.2 Quest Pro. Simmons accomplished this feat after bashing the phone against the side of an aquarium in which it had previously...
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A California web-filtering company says it is the victim of “one of the largest cases of software piracy in history.”
Lawyers for adult- and violent-content web-filtering company Cybersitter claim in a federal lawsuit that the Chinese government purloined some 3,000 lines of its code from its servers as part of software for a national censorship...
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