Antivirus vendors are warning of a rapidly-spreading worm that is carrying a potentially destructive set of instructions. The Nyxem worm - also nicknamed the Kama Sutra worm - is programmed to overwrite all of the files on computers it infects on Feb. 3, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure Corp.

Authorities in Bulgaria arrested eight people last week who allegedly stole financial information using a variety of fake Web pages carrying Microsoft Corp. logos, netting the group at least US$50,000.

The U.S. government is asking a California court to force Google Inc. to turn over information about usage of the company's search engine for finding pornography on the Internet.

Az American Power Conversion (APC) bemutatott négy új áramellátást biztosító laptop táskát, amelyek az úton lévő felhasználók munkavégzését könnyítik meg. Az APC új, elegáns kivitelű táskái mobiltelefonok, PDA-k és laptopok számára biztosítanak folyamatos áramellátást.

Köszönjük, hogy ilyen nagy számban vettek részt az év végén meghirdetett előfizetői nyereményakciónkban. Szeretettel köszöntjük régi és új előfizetőinket! Az alábbiakban megtalálható azon előfizetőink névsora, akiknek a lezajlott nyereménysorsolásnál kedvezett a szerencse.

Intel Corp.'s poor performance in the last three months of 2005 turned out to be good news for rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., (AMD) which on Wednesday reported better-than-expected financial results for the period. With sales of AMD's microprocessor division increasing nearly 80 percent from the previous year, the company reported revenue of US$1.84 billion.

A design flaw in Windows XP and Windows 2003 systems with built-in wireless capabilities could be exploited by hackers to lure Wi-Fi users into connecting to malicious wireless networks, according to Microsoft Corp., which recently completed an investigation of the issue.

A professzionális videós szakembereknek készült, új programcsomag a Video Collection utóda, immár a Creative Suite termékcsalád tagjaként nyit új távlatokat.

A Mozilla Foundation márciusra ígéri az Intel processzoros Mac-eken futtatható, MacOS X alapú Firefox böngészők megjelenését.

IBM Corp. plans to unveil a server, storage, networking and software bundle based on its BladeCenter servers targeting the retail market Monday. Known as the Systems Solutions for Retail Stores, the bundle follows similar packages IBM has already announced for the banking industry and small to midsize businesses.

Microsoft Corp. has issued a patch for a preliminary version of its Vista OS for the same graphics-rendering problem that raised concerns about current versions of the Windows OS earlier this month.

Taiwan's legislature has passed a resolution asking the government to reduce its purchases of Microsoft Corp. products by 25 percent this year, a further sign the world's largest software company is running into resistance in Asia.

As part of its monthly security updates, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday released patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its products. The more serious of the two flaws is a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server products.

When 21-year-old British student Alex Tew needed to raise money to pay for his university, he came up with an idea many might dismiss as wishful thinking: raise US$1 million by selling 1 million pixels worth of advertising space on his Web site for $1 each.

Sharp Corp. is planning to increase production at its two LCD (liquid crystal display) factories in Japan in response to anticipated soaring demand for flat-panel LCD televisions over the next few years, it said Wednesday. The company also expects to report record sales in 2006.

A HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) csatolófelület képességeiben még olyan tartalékok rejlenek, amelyek még a mostaninál is jobb kontrasztot és kisebb sávkialakítást eredményezhetnek a jövőben megjelenő új HD-televíziók és monitorok esetében.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is praising a U.S. District Court judge's preliminary approval Friday of a settlement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment over two widely-criticized copy protection programs found on an estimated 15 million music CDs.

If you're a producer for a third-rate variety television show, you're not going to like PCs with Intel Corp.'s Viiv logo, according to the head of the company's digital home group.

As expected, Google Inc. launched a new video download service during a keynote by co-founder and President Larry Page at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Friday.

The recent controversy over a copy-protection system employed on music CDs from Sony BMG Music Entertainment proved to Sony Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer the need to carefully balance the needs of customers and the rights of artists, he said this week.