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Timing technology updates with the start of school, Apple announced it has sped up its iMac desktop computers with faster processors and beefed up the storage in new iPod digital music players, which are now offered in 20- and 40-GB models ...

By decreasing space requirements and boosting power efficiency, Broadcom said its new, single-chip wireless solution marks a revolutionary breakthrough for the wireless industry and will make wireless local area networks (WLANs) less expensive and easier to build ...

Intel is aiming new energy-efficient Itanium 2 processors at mainstream, high-density servers and high-performance applications with two lower-cost Itanium designs ...

Looking to land its first major handset maker as a Windows Mobile software customer, Microsoft is reportedly involved in a deal with Motorola, the company that will build the new smart phone to be offered by French operator Orange ...

Lifted by higher sales of more powerful and less expensive notebook computers, the worldwide and U.S. PC markets are delivering better results than expected, according to industry research firm IDC ...

Authorities in Romania are investigating another suspected writer of a Blaster variant, according to Bucharest-based BitDefender, which reported similarities between the 24-year-old suspect and Jeffrey Lee Parson, the Minnesota teenager accused of authoring a different Blaster variant ...

With nearly 10 million Americans reporting identity theft that cost banks and other businesses nearly US$48 billion last year, the Federal Trade Commission said the problem is worse than previously estimated ...

Online and on-demand media services in digital form are likely to make CDs and DVDs obsolete as consumers switch to downloads and streaming media to get their music, movies and other entertainment, according to Forrester Research ...

Using several new technologies and more than 1,000 dual-processor Power Mac G5 computers, Virginia Tech University is building a supercomputer cluster that is likely to rank among the fastest in the world ...

In a bizarre twist to the file-sharing fight in which the Recording Industry Association of America is using copyright law to pursue file traders, search engine Google pulled links to sites hawking unofficial Kazaa alternatives after the popular file-swapping service made its own copyright-infringement claims ...

SoBig.F, Blaster, Nachi and MiMail -- the most frequently occurring viruses in August -- helped make last month the worst in the history of computer security, according to antivirus firm Sophos ...

Federal officials reportedly have closed in on an 18-year-old man believed to be the author of a variant of the Blaster worm, which affected nearly half a million computers earlier this month ...

The Recording Industry Association of America has come under legal fire again, this time from a group of Internet broadcasters that claim the industry group broke federal antitrust law and has kept royalty rates high to hinder independent Webcasters ...

Arming its low-end handheld iPaq with a more efficient processor, expansion slot for Web connectivity and lower price point, Hewlett-Packard's update of the PDA reflects an industry-wide trend of adding features to handhelds while dropping prices to compete ...

As law enforcement officials continue their search for the origin of the SoBig.F computer worm that clogged servers and networks last week, security experts are watching for the next variant and worrying that antivirus defenses might be flawed ...

A New Zealand man who bore the brunt of the recent backlash against unwanted e-mail -- known as spam -- has said he is leaving the business that fills e-mail boxes with solicitations and suspect messages ...

Antivirus giant Symantec is touting features like centralized management and wireless Web updates in its new AntiVirus for Handhelds line that will be available in consumer and corporate versions beginning in September ...

At the tail end of what could be called this summer's "Worm Week," antivirus and security experts watched carefully as the spreading SoBig.F variant flooded in-boxes around the Internet with millions of virus-laden e-mails ...

Lawyers representing a California woman who was targeted by a Recording Industry Association of America subpoena have filed a motion in U.S. federal court challenging the subpoena as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy ...

The spread of the latest SoBig computer worm variant, called SoBig.F, now is being called the fastest outbreak ever. The worm marks the continuation of a recent onslaught of attacks that included previous worms Nachi and Blaster ...