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Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- into the developer community, Microsoft has released previews of the software ...

Security experts and network administrators are once again on worm watch because of the existence of exploit code for a software vulnerability in a widely used Windows service ...

Facing tough questions about the direction of its heavily used and heavily targeted Windows platform, Microsoft acknowledged it has work ahead to build more effective software-management capabilities into its products while at the same time ridding those products of the vulnerabilities that continue to open the door to attacks ...

Touting hands-free capabilities -- including voice recognition and audio playback of text documents -- Toshiba has rolled out its newest Pocket PCs, the e400 and e800 series. The Japanese company's e800 series also now include voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) functionality ...

The makers and distributors of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game series are being sued by the victims and family impacted by a June shooting spree that left one man dead and another woman injured ...

IBM and Cisco have announced an initiative to simplify data storage with a network-hosted storage virtualization system. ...

Red Hat and SuSE today continued their Linux-fueled assaults on the enterprise market and proprietary vendor Microsoft with new releases that seek to broaden the open-source operating system's use in the data-center and replace Microsoft e-mail software and servers ...

Big Blue is again aiming at smaller targets with the announcement of its DB2 Content Manager Express, new content-management software intended to help small businesses store, manage and protect documents and other data ...

Adding yet another piece to its portfolio of computer network security solutions, Cupertino, California-based security giant Symantec announced the purchase of SafeWeb for US$26 million in cash ...

Facing increased competition and negative perceptions -- yet still optimistic and ready to fight for its home turf on the desktop -- Microsoft made its new Office 2003 available to retail customers ...

Japanese electronics leader NEC and mobile microprocessor mainstay ARM have announced a long-term collaboration initiative toward new multiprocessor-based cores for mobile devices and other multimedia applications ...

The U.S. Department of Defense will begin testing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), a technology that many have called the next-generation Internet and that the DOD has said is critical to national defense. The DOD is teaming with hardware and software vendors -- including Fujitsu, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Sun and Nokia -- to test IPv6, which many believe will replace today's widespread IPv4 and provide the additional capacity and security required for more Internet-connected devices.

Moving the successful iTunes music download service from its own platform to the wide world of Windows, Apple this week entered a crowded marketplace that is still dominated by free peer-to-peer services ...

Microsoft once again is discussing plans to overhaul its security just as the company has released five patches for seven newly discovered vulnerabilities in Windows desktop and server software ...

Fueled by continued demand for notebook computers as well as consumer and corporate spending, worldwide PC sales in the third quarter of 2003 grew nearly 16 percent from last year, about 5 percent above projections, research firm IDC said ...

Recent high-end performance tests show AMD's 64-bit Athlon and dual Opteron processors beating Apple's G5 and Intel's Pentium 4, but analysts have downplayed the results, citing a lack of available 64-bit applications and the timing of the benchmarking results ...

Furthering its unique technology that uses on-chip software to economize processor energy, Transmeta has introduced the Efficeon TM8000 family of chips, which the company hopes will broaden its markets ...

A new file storage system designed to be backward compatible with today's Windows machines but also to move data-storage technology forward has been a long time coming from Microsoft. According to recent reports, the new file system will arrive with Microsoft's next operating system, called Longhorn, which is slated for release at some point in 2005 or 2006...

Promising quality improvements and furthering the competition for media players and broadband subscribers, Microsoft's MSN is offering free streaming video in a beta version that will be available to all MSN subscribers in the United States this winter ...

In a bid to keep up with rivals Intel and IBM, Sun has revealed more of its "Throughput Computing" strategy by unveiling the new UltraSPARC IV processor, which uses multithreading to speed performance twofold compared with the UltraSPARC III ...