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Three technology giants -- IBM, Sony and Toshiba -- today took the wraps off of their jointly developed, much-hyped "Cell" chip, which the companies claim to be "effectively a supercomputer on a chip." ...

Spamhaus, an authoritative force against the unwantede-mail that accounts for more than half of all mailsent on the Internet, sounded an alarm this week overthe problem of Internet service provider (ISP) e-mailrelays being used by spammers ...

Napster has unveiled its new "To Go" technology, calling it the first, portable music subscription service, and it is backing the effort with a US$30 million multimedia marketing campaign aimed at biting away at Apple's dominance in the music download space ...

Sun Microsystems this week unveiled new pricing for its grid computing, storage, developer and desktopservices, as well as for its Java Enterprise System (JES). The move is viewed as an attempt to adjust how enterprises pay for IT resources ...

Technology researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found that radio frequency identification (RFID)technologies used for automobile locks and easy-pay gasoline systems are sorely lacking inprotection, warning that opportunists could easily exploit the weakness for ill deeds ...

A "bot" -- a piece of malicious software that can spread and function much like a computer virus orworm -- is seizing on vulnerable MySQL database software running on Windows systems to spread and scan for newvictims ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released what it described as three key recommendations, or pre-standard specifications, that will address performance and reliability issues for Web services, the joining of software applications inside and among different organizations' IT architectures ...

As the controversy over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks goes before the U.S. Supreme Court, the recording and film industries are enlisting celebrities to help make the case that network operators should be held liable for the illegal file sharing that occurs over their networks. The tech industry, meanwhile, fears that an adverse ruling might stifle innovation...

Security software giant Symantec -- which has grown to cover a wider range of security solutions with acquisitions and partnerships -- this week rolled out two e-mail security appliances featuring anti-spam, antivirus and e-mail firewall ...

Texas Instruments and Nokia announced today that a new single-chip mobile phone solution will take cutting-edge chips to the volume market of simple mobile phones ...

Sony seems to be finding success for its portable PlayStation, or PSP, with nearly a million units shipped in less than two months, but that is not stopping the electronics giant from planning new features for the device ...

Wireless access to the Internet through WiFi hot spots is widening to include more public places, but users of the often free wireless networks are being warned that security risks are also growing ...

Electronics giant Toshiba this week announced new software that turns mobile phones into remote access controllers for PCs, allowing users to access the Internet and e-mail with a PC desktop displayed on a handset ...

Facing competition from the more widely available and less expensive DSL broadband Internet connections, Comcast has announced a speed increase in its residential cable broadband service ...

Microsoft may not be delivering its next-generation version of Windows desktop and server software known as "Longhorn" as early as expected or promised, but the company has just released the Avalon graphical interface, formerly a key component of Longhorn, for developers ...

The saying "Don't mess with Texas" took on new meaning this week as the Lone Star State's attorney general sued a college student and his alleged accomplice, accusing them of being among the world's most prolific senders of unsolicited e-mail ...

Google responded yesterday to a bug that would allow users of the company's Gmail beta software to e-mail themselves a message which would then drag other information from other e-mails transmitted with the service ...

Drawing on the expanded partnership they announced last year, Microsoft and SAP have created the Portal Development Kit (PDK) for Microsoft's .Net platform on SAP's NetWeaver, promising the benefits of integration and interoperability ...

As security experts warn that search engines can be used by attackers to search out vulnerable systems, new software shows that search technology can also be used to promote security: McAfee's SiteDigger 2.0 uses Google to learn where the computer systems of organizations are vulnerable to exposure and attack ...

Microsoft is again being forced to respond to serious Internet Explorer security holes coupled with exploit code that could allow attackers to saddle Windows users with spyware, Trojans or other trouble, even if they have updated with Microsoft's Service Pack 2 (SP2) ...