In the wake of Monday's earthquake in Italy, scientists and researchers working on early warnings systems said that knowing about an earthquake even just a few seconds before it hits can make a big difference to people in a stricken area.

Research In Motion Limited (RIM) stock soared in after-market trading after the company posted solid financial results and said it sold its 50 millionth BlackBerry smartphone.

An expected activation of the Conficker.c worm at midnight on April 1 passed without incident, despite sensationalized fears that the Internet itself might be affected, but security researchers said users aren't out of the woods yet.

A piac 2007-ben ért csúcsra, azóta csökkenő trendet mutat. A jövő az új generációs hálózatokon, több platformon nyújtott komplex, integrált szolgáltatásoké lehet.

Computers infected with the Conficker worm are being updated with a new variant that sidesteps an industry effort to sever the link between the worm and its hacker controllers, researchers at Symantec Corp. said Friday.

A gazdasági válság a grafikus vezérlők piacát is érinti: a Jon Peddie Research szerint 38,91 százalékot zsugorodott a GPU-k piaca a negyedik negyedévben.

A GE Global Research fiziológiai alapokra épülő "virtuális emberi lényt" fejleszt az amerikai Védelmi Minisztérium számára.

An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.

Researchers in the U.K. and the U.S. on Friday published a paper detailing discoveries that might bring a fully functional quantum computer one step closer to reality.

After shelving plans to detail a browser clickjacking vulnerability that is indirectly related to Adobe Systems' products at the company's request earlier this month, a security researcher plans to detail the flaw next month.

Enterprises continue to pay too much for security software - while the software vendors aren't doing enough research to keep up with fast-changing threats on the Internet, a Gartner analyst said Monday.

Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo are partnering for cloud computing research and education in order to advance the development and adoption of large-scale, data-intensive Internet-hosted applications and related IT infrastructure.

IBM will invest $1.5 billion to boost its semiconductor manufacturing and research efforts in New York State, the company announced on Tuesday.

IBM's India Research Laboratory (IRL) has developed technology that automatically detects and masks sensitive information in audio recordings.

A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems' routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.

A Számítógépes Vírusellenes Kutatók Szervezete (CARO: Computer Antivirus Researchers' Organization) második szakműhelyének 2008-ban a hollandiai Amszterdam adott otthont május elején. A találkozón a csomagoló- és titkosító programokról - az "exepackerekről' -, illetve a programkódot bonyolulttá, olvashatatlanná változtató eljárásokról volt szó.

For the third year in a row, Google Inc. topped the list of the 100 most powerful brands in the world, beating out Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc., according to a report (download PDF) released Monday by market research firm Millward Brown Optimor.

A new report from Forrester Research declares that the wave of mega-acquisitions in the software industry is over for now, though big vendors will continue to snap up smaller firms as they round out their portfolios.

If criminals were to target unsecured wireless routers, they could create an attack that could piggyback across thousands of Wi-Fi networks in urban areas like Chicago or New York City, according to researchers at Indiana University.

Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls where victims go on the Internet.