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The storm cloud that's been hanging over Dell's headquarters may be finally lifting. After the PC and server manufacturer restated its earnings from 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Thursday -- and admitted to the widespread practice of inflating its financial results -- investors have responded positively, giving a modest boost to the price of Dell stock...

McAfee has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability in Yahoo's popular instant messaging solution, Yahoo Messenger. McAfee's Avert Labs is a security research firm designed to tackle security issues as soon as they trickle into the world, and the crew first noticed the potential flaw on a post on a Chinese-language security forum ...

Satellite TV provider DirecTV is making a move on the high-speed broadband over powerline (BPL) market. The company announced a wholesale distribution agreement with BPL provider Current Group Wednesday. In addition to letting DirecTV sell Current's broadband services, the agreement also lets DirecTV resell VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services...

After an initial stumble -- perhaps related to the now-infamous YouTube snowman -- most of the Republican presidential candidates will be answering video questions posed by American YouTube users in a debate similar to one their Democratic Party counterparts participated in last month. CNN, YouTube and the Republican Party of Florida have announced they will hold their Republican debate on Nov. 28...

After a suffering a setback last month when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) found flaws in a new Microsoft-produced wireless broadband device that could enable the use of the so-called white spaces in radio spectrum airwaves for high-speed Internet traffic, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant is getting set to try again this week ...

As rock band Pearl Jam performed a set as part of the Lollapalooza music festival this week, AT&T broadcast the performance over the Internet as part of its Blue Room webcast. However, the webcast's audio cut out at a significant point in the band's performance -- the moment that singer Eddie Vedder began singing lyrics that apparently bashed President George W. Bush...

As rock band Pearl Jam performed a set as part of the Lollapalooza music festival this week, AT&T broadcast the performance over the Internet as part of its Blue Room webcast. However, the webcast's audio cut out at a significant point in the band's performance -- the moment that singer Eddie Vedder began singing lyrics that apparently bashed President George W. Bush...

As rock band Pearl Jam performed a set as part of the Lollapalooza music festival this week, AT&T broadcast the performance over the Internet as part of its Blue Room webcast. However, the webcast's audio cut out at a significant point in the band's performance -- the moment that singer Eddie Vedder began singing lyrics that apparently bashed President George W. Bush...

By 2011, Internet advertising is expected to become the largest advertising segment, surpassing newspapers for the first time, a new study reported Tuesday ...

While Apple's iPhone clearly is aimed squarely at the consumer market, that hasn't stopped business users from coveting it as well -- and putting it to work. Independent software vendors (ISVs) are jumping in, making integration solutions and applications that work with the iPhone ...

A "Dateline NBC" undercover reporter tried a little social engineering of her own at a well-known conference of computer hackers and security experts -- and reportedly failed spectacularly ...

Approximately 1,500 online activists -- bloggers, for the most part, that are collectively called the "netroots" -- are meeting in Chicago for the 2007 YearlyKos Convention, an event named after the super popular, left-leaning DailyKos political blog ...

The persistent rumors surrounding a Google "Gphone" have been stoked again, this time by a Wall Street Journal article that reports that Google is courting wireless operators to provide an ad-supported mobile phone service to Google-customized handsets ...

TheLinux Foundation recently scored an executive coup when it nabbed Novell's Markus Rex, a well-respected Linux-focused business executive. Rex is now the chief technology officer of the nonprofit group, which is dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. Rex comes to the Linux Foundation with a strong history of Linux product management and strategy. At Novell, he's served in various vice president roles in which he has worked on services strategy and managingSuse Linux efforts...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on the rules governing the upcoming auction of the controversial 700 MHz radio spectrum band, taking a middle ground that may or may not result in a significant changes for the wireless broadband and cellular service industry ...

Verizon posted strong financial gains for the second quarter of 2007 Monday, calling out its growth in wireless and high-speed Internet subscribers ...

The CNN/YouTube Democratic Party candidate debate on Monday has sparked a wide variety of commentary. Much of it has been fairly positive, despite a few moments during the event that bordered on ridiculous ...

While the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public Licenses (GPL) are used in nearly three-quarters of all free and open source software, GPL-based licenses not the only game in town ...

In an effort to leverage its growing WiMax mobile Internet initiative, Sprint has called on Google to collaborate on a new mobile portal. The two companies will work together to bring Sprint WiMax mobile Internet customers search, interactive communications and social networking tools that will include the Google Apps communications suite ...

Amazon.com blew by Wall Street expectations Tuesday when it reported its second-quarter sales for 2007 were up 35 percent year-over-year ...