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Continuing a pattern of kinder, gentler software licensing terms and relationships, Microsoft announced this week its simplified, virtualization-ready Windows Server licensing that allows as many as four virtual instances of the software on one physical server for the same price ...

In an unprecedented move, service provider Level 3 Communications cut off Internet traffic flowing from rival Cogent Communications this week, following failed negotiations between the two companies embroiled in a bandwidth fight that has now reportedly affected thousands of Internet users ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission took action against spyware this week by asking a U.S. District Court Judge to halt an operation that allegedly plagued users who clicked for free file-sharing software with performance-slowing, private-information-gathering software that also altered search results for victims ...

It used to be that the Hollywood portrayal of a computer virus writer -- the teenage, late night pizza-eating, underachieving genius who gets a kick out of taking down the White House Web site -- was fairly accurate. But today's malicious code creator has a variety of ways to disrupt and trespass onto consumer and corporate PCs and networks: information-stealing trojans, spyware, spamming and phishing, and more...

EarthLink will attempt to make the City of Brotherly Love the city of brotherly wireless access as well, with a deal to cover America's fifth largest city with WiFi mesh connectivity over 135 square miles, the largest municipal wireless rollout to date ...

Like a film that fantasizes what would happen if the other side won the war, AOL's Netscape browser won a huge distribution deal with HP this week, putting the challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer on the PC giant's North American notebook and desktop computers beginning next year ...

Like a film that fantasizes what would happen if the other side won the war, AOL's Netscape browser won a huge distribution deal with HP this week, putting the challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer on the PC giant's North American notebook and desktop computers beginning next year ...

The lines continue to take shape and blur as technology companies throw their weight behind the competing HD-DVD and Blu-ray high-definition DVD formats, while also hedging their bets by declaring a willingness to support either or both next-generation discs ...

What do you get when you combine two of the hottest consumer electronics technologies and put them into a single device? It's the WiFi digital camera, according to Kodak ...

PC powerhouse Dell this week unveiled its latest line of ultra high-end PCs in its XPS computers and new digital televisions in a quest to capture the usual gaming and technology enthusiast, early-adopter PC market ...

Looking to leverage the latest trend toward continuous, disk-based backup, Microsoft unveiled this week its Data Protection Manager (DPM) and said its solution was available in storage servers and appliances from Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu and others ...

It is not uncommon for a 7-year-old to view themselves as the center of the universe and the largest persona among their peers, and search engine superstar Google is no different ...

Formerly bitter rivals Palm and Microsoft announced an alliance this week in hopes of strengthening both companies in smartphone technology, devices that combine mobile phone functionality and Internet connectivity ...

Technology intended to untie the American worker is actually taking a tremendous toll, according to new research from IT analysis firm Basex. The report indicates that technology tools, including e-mail and instant messaging, are the main culprits when it comes to unnecessary interruptions that cost U.S. companies nearly US$600 billion per year ...

Formerly bitter rivals Palm and Microsoft announced an alliance this week in hopes of strengthening both companies in smartphone technology, devices that combine mobile phone functionality and Internet connectivity ...

Equifax, Experian and TransUnion have revealed plans to collaborate on encryption standards to strengthen their protection of sensitive consumer data, which has increasingly become the favorite target of attackers motivated by profit ...

Fewer of the remaining Americans not hooked up to the Internet are getting online, and fewer existing dial-up users are spending enough time on the Web to want to move up to broadband access, reports the Pew Internet Project in its latest study on U.S. broadband growth ...

Fewer of the remaining Americans not hooked up to the Internet are getting online, and fewer existing dial-up users are spending enough time on the Web to want to move up to broadband access, reports the Pew Internet Project in its latest study on U.S. broadband growth ...

Google is synonymous with Web search, but now the company is continuing its recent multi-directional movement by going ahead with Google Secure Access, a beta WiFi connection program available for free ...

Three hardware heavyweights unveiled notebook computers capable of cellular broadband wireless service from Verizon this week, bolstering support for the wireless technology and improving its performance with plans for built-in, roaming broadband capabilities ...