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Incessant, unsolicited e-mail brought out the worst of a Sunnyvale, California programmer who is now charged with 11 federal counts of illegal interstate communications after he graphically threatened to harm, torture and kill the alleged spammer in a series of e-mails and telephone messages ...

Several computers supporting the 10-year-old Linux development project Debian were compromised by hackers late last week, causing a delay in the release of the latest distribution of the operating system and disrupting services for the project's 1,100-plus developers ...

Computer chip king Intel has committed to producing a 4-GHz processor by the end of next year as it adopts an aggressive push toward smaller, faster 90-nanometer chips that cost less for the company to make ...

Despite an expected spike in the amount of IT services outsourcing to offshore firms, the impact likely will be mitigated by solid services-industry growth in the United States, researcher IDC said in reporting the results of a recent survey. ...

In a move described by at least one industry observer as something the Baby Bell had to do, SBC Communications has introduced Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) -- a technology that will let customers conduct conversations using the Internet rather than telephone systems ...

AMD has announced groundbreaking on a new manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany, that will help the company keep up with what it claims is growing demand for 64-bit chips ...

SCO chief executive Darl McBride's explanation and defense of his software company's legal strategy has brought on a flurry of activity in the open-source software community. ...

Continuing to dispel uncertainty over its dedication to open source, software maker Novell has released a road map for the Mono development project -- an open-source effort to write Linux and Unix applications for Microsoft's .NET framework ...

In an effort to turn the tables on computer worms that can clog and confound corporate networks, Cisco has teamed with three major antivirus vendors to make networks smarter -- and therefore safer -- with trusted agents that can cut off infected or compromised nodes while keeping the overall network up and running ...

Marking a trend in which large security players are among the last to the party, Internet Security Systems released the first of its new Proventia G Series intrusion-prevention appliances this week, promising proactive protection and ease of use ...

Hoping to shift industry focus to the company's new "kindler, gentler" business approach, Microsoft has announced the availability of royalty-free licensing of its Office 2003 XML reference schemas and documentation ...

In its first move since being acquired by Novell, SuSE announced that its enterprise Linux software will be sold and supported by Gateway in a partnership aimed at seizing more of the U.S. server market, particularly among small- to medium-size businesses ...

With more than mere reputation on the line, virus writers are using the MiMail worm as the basis for more advanced attacks aimed at identity theft ...

Looking to head off the kind of communications crowding and interference that has disrupted emergency services in times of crisis -- and to make room for the continued growth of 802.11 WiFi and other wireless devices, networks and services -- the Federal Communications Commission opened up a large chunk of unlicensed spectrum this week ...

With the discovery of a new property in commonly used plastics, researchers from Princeton University and Hewlett-Packard said they have invented a combination of materials that could lower the cost and boost the density of electronic memory ...

The Liberty Alliance has locked up an open standard for federated identity management with new specifications that let companies share login and other information as they deploy and use Web services ...

Mobile phone giant Nokia said it is investigating and responding to a security breach that allows users to play games for its recently released N-Gage handheld on other mobile devices, including at least one device from another manufacturer ...

The desktop may be the final frontier for Linux, but one company is using a combination of Windows interface strategy, Wal-Mart sales and a wide selection of software to try to match the inroads Linux has made in the corporate datacenter. That company is Lindows.com ...

Electronics and music giant Sony is rolling out a new CD copy-protection technology that will let the company sell music on multiformat CDs with additional content that can be accessed through PCs ...

Eastern Ontario voters today were allowed to vote by Internet or telephone -- but not by paper ballot -- in what is being called the first all-electronic election of North America ...