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Chip challenger AMD is poised to announce its new mobile processor, dubbed Turion, to take on the increasingly significant mobile PC market and to shorten Intel's head start in the thinner and lighter PCs that are popular currently ...

Bill Gates made a big announcement about a deal with TiVo, the digital video recording company, but it was the Microsoft head who might have wanted to hit rewind as his presentation crashed to a blue Windows screen during his Consumer Electronic Show (CES) keynote yesterday ...

Although celebrities such as Jackie Chan, rapper Ludacris and baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. will make appearances, the real stars at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week will be the cutting-edge gadgets ...

Some of the world's leading handset manufacturers and wireless carriers announced an agreement to develop advanced technology, dubbed "Super 3G," for sending high-resolution video at speeds 10 times today's third-generation wireless ...

Two new variants of the Cabir mobile phone virus have been discovered, indicating that the source code for the virus is available in the malware underground. Even more troubling, the new variants are smarter than the old ...

Security firm Sophos once again has named the U.S. as thebiggest spam-producing nation in the world in a recent report. Sophos alsohighlighted the growing problem of compromisedcomputers, or "zombies," as conduits for theunwanted e-mail ...

A Chinese group announced it began operating what it says is the world's biggest next-generation Internet network over the weekend, boosting data transmission speeds and bringing more Internet protocol (IP) address possibilities to a region sorely lacking them ...

Google helped shut down a spreading computer worm this week by denying the malicious software's use of its search engine, but the Santy.A worm still marks a troubling trend toward attack via Web sites and search technology, security experts warned ...

Software giant Microsoft announced an extension of itstechnology and cross-licensing deal with accessinfrastructure solutions specialist Citrix, in a showof support for both the smaller software company andWindows Terminal Server ...

In a bid to display its suitability for consumer users,antivirus giant Trend Micro has announced it will provideantivirus scanning and cleaning protection forMicrosoft's MSN Hotmail Internet e-mail customers, whonumber nearly 190 million. Such services had been provided by McAfee ...

Search engine leader Google has been forced to respond to a security vulnerability in its Google Desktop Search software, which reportedly made it possible for computer intruders to view desktop search results via the Web ...

IBM said today that its bet on blade server technology is paying off, announcing that more than 100 companies had acquired its eServer BladeCenter specification since the blade server base technology was made available last September ...

Faced with antiquated technical issues and political pressure, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week contemplated lifting the ban on cellular telephone use on aircraft ...

They've become another symbol of the holiday season -- the menorah, the Christmas tree, the colors of Kwanzaa, and now the holiday worms that hide in online greetings, e-mails and Web sites ...

Two of the world's largest electronics makers, Samsungand Sony, announced today a broad cross-licensingagreement that will allow each company to take advantage of the other's technology ...

AMD and IBM announced a collaborative breakthrough in processor technology today, marking the first use of two new techniques that advance speed and performance without requiring more power ...

With Yahoo's announcement of a free desktop search tool to be available early next year, and other search engine and software companies such as AOL, Ask Jeeves, Microsoft and others delivering similar technology, the feature is becoming a standard part of search ...

Siemens Communications claimed a historic wireless speed record this week, touting that its Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology allowed it to reach a wireless data transfer rate of 1 gigabit per second, which is 20 times the speed of today's wireless local area network (WLAN) ...

U.S. wireless carrier Sprint announced it was pumping US$3 billion into high-speed wireless network partnerships with Motorola, Lucent and Nortel, hoping that more bandwidth and speed will let it generate more revenue from users ...

Cisco today outlined a strategy for its new Internet protocol (IP) networks and gained technical and Japanese market support by striking a deal with Fujitsu ...