A member of the group of hackers credited with uncovering more than 100,000 iPad users' e-mail addresses on AT&T's website worked hard to get the story covered by the media, according to recently unsealed court documents.

Yahoo confirmed that it has laid off 600 people, following news reports often based on Twitter messages from employees who had been let go.

At next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft will demonstrate a number of new Windows-run tablets and possibly even an early version of the next generation Windows 8 operating system, according to reports.

Dell has agreed to buy virtualized storage vendor Compellent Technologies in an all-cash deal worth US$27.75 per share, a little more than the $27.50 per share price tag it was discussing with the company last week, but still lower than the stock's Monday-morning opening price of $28.30.

McDonald's is working with law enforcement authorities after malicious hackers broke into another company's databases and stole information about an undetermined number of the fast food chain's customers.

A Microsoft következő generációs böngészője, az Internet Explorer 9-nek (IE9) legújabb (RC) kiadásába épített ?Tracking Protection" alkalmazás révén a felhasználók ?láthatatlanná válhatnak" az általuk nemkívánatosnak nyilvánított weboldalak előtt.

Protesting what it perceives as Oracle's undue control of Java, the Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat from the Java SE/EE Executive Committee, the organization announced Wednesday.

A loosely organized group of Internet hacktivists took down Visa's website Wednesday, after organizing a similar attack on MasterCard.

Facebook is in breach of South Korean data privacy laws and needs to do a better job of getting consent from users when getting their personal information, a South Korean regulator said Wednesday.

Google opened its Web application store for Chrome browser users on Tuesday, offering highly interactive, graphically rich applications from a variety of sources, including National Public Radio, Amazon.com, Electronic Arts and Sports Illustrated.

Az ismert magyar, de nemzetközi hangzású, navigációs brand, a Nav N Go azonnali hatállyal NNG-re változik.

Vitaly Borker a New York Times-nak nyilatkozva beszélt arról, hogyan használta ki a Google egyik "kiskapuját" webshopja látogatottságának növelésére. A kereskedő szisztematikusan zaklatta és fenyegette a vásárlóit, hogy a méltatlankodó hozzászólások révén az oldala előkelő helyen szerepeljen a keresőtalálatok között.

A Microsoft Windows Azure nyilvános és magánfelh?k kialakításához ? az interneten elérhet? vagy vállalaton belül adott, felh?alapú szolgáltatások bevezetéséhez ? egyaránt rugalmasan méretezhet?, robusztus megbízhatóságú, szabványos platformot ad. A szoftvercég jelenleg olyan megoldáson dolgozik hardverpartnereivel, amely mindehhez hardvert is csomagol.

Fiatal ötletgazdáknak indított új támogatási programot a Microsoft Magyarország. A GarázsProjekt kiíróinak célja, hogy olyan szoftver- vagy szolgáltatás ötleteket karoljanak fel, amelyek kidolgozására, megvalósítására, végül pedig piacra vezetésére szoftverfejlesztő cégek alakulhatnak.

Unisys on Tuesday introduced a dedicated, hosted computing service that lets customers quickly add extra capacity for short-term use, a feature Unisys says is unique among what it calls "hosted private clouds."

An online retailer who boasted that complaints about his business helped boost its standing in Google search results was arrested Monday.

BMC Software announced Friday it has purchased GridApp Systems, maker of software tools for database provisioning, patching and management in physical and cloud deployments. Terms were not disclosed.

Tokyo Institute of Technology's newest supercomputer, Tsubame 2.0, proves that high-power computing can go hand-in-hand with energy efficiency. The new computer, which was inaugurated last week, is the second most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world and that's thanks to an administrator who was more concerned with the monthly electricity bill than the cost of the hardware.

Retailers in Japan began accepting reservations for Sharp's new Galapagos media tablet on Friday ahead of its launch next week. Sharp hopes to sell a million of the devices and in doing so take the lead in Japan from competitors like Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle.

Oracle on Thursday stepped up its efforts to rebuild Sun's hardware business, announcing a high-performance clustered database system that could turn up the competitive pressure on rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard.