Under a licensing agreement in its final stages, consumers may get the right to make several legal copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies they've purchased, a concession by the movie industry that may quell criticism that DRM (digital rights management) technologies are too restrictive.

A signature update to Symantec Corp.'s antivirus software crippled thousands of Chinese PCs Friday when the security software mistook two critical Windows .dll files for malware.

Újabb siker a magyar szoftverexport területén: az Allround megoldását választotta Grúzia vezető mobilszolgáltatója, a MagtiCom, a roaming elszámolási folyamatainak támogatására. Az Allround szervezésében, két éven belül immár másodszor Budapesten ülésezik a nemzetközi GSM szövetség roaming ajánlásokért felelős munkacsoportja.

Az Adobe és a volt Macromedia szoftverek felhasználói felháborodásuknak adtak hangot a cég árképzési gyakorlata miatt.

Researchers in Japan have developed new circuit technology touted to be the vital next step towards the realization of a practical quantum computer.

The European Parliament made changes to a controversial proposal for a law criminalizing intellectual-property (IP) infringements Wednesday, sparking criticism from all sides in the debate.

Seagate has launched File Recovery for Windows software, designed to recover deleted or damaged files from a Windows disk or USB stick.

If you like Thunderbird 1.5, you'll love version 2, now available as a near-final release candidate. Like the new Firefox 2, Thunderbird 2 doesn't introduce any radical changes. But it does introduce inherently useful upgrades that will boost your productivity, particularly if your inbox overflows with e-mail.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has begun shipping two 3GHz versions of its dual-core Opteron chip to server vendors, continuing a battle over multicore processing power with Intel Corp., the company said Wednesday.

Tom Shea, writing in these pages 25 years ago, had it almost right. His article "Subscribe to Magazines with your Microcomputer" in January 1983 described Publishers Aide -- a "magazine subscription fulfillment" company that planned to let home computer users "key ... in a code" to access subscription data from the company's IBM mainframe.

European competition commissioner Neelie Kroes hit out at Microsoft Corp. in comments to European parliamentarians Thursday, saying it is "unacceptable" that the company continues to gain market share using tactics that were outlawed in the Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against the software vendor.

Az Intel-processzoros Macintosh gépekkel zöld utat kapott a Windows az almás masinákon. Mostani cikkünkben két módszert mutatunk be - a külön partíciókat és a virtuális windowsozást.

China has taken over as the world's most botnet-infested country, as the sophistication and danger of cyberattackers continues to grow, according to Symantec.

Still gasping from the resignation of its chief executive in January and an ongoing investigation of its accounting practices, Dell Inc. reported fourth quarter profits of US$673 million, down sharply from the $1 billion it reported for the same period last year.

Windows Vista may yet prove to be an unstoppable juggernaut, but statistics released Thursday by a market research firm show that the new operating system hasn't even licked its nine-year old ancestor.

Google Inc. will provide more data and tools to help its advertisers assess and combat click fraud, a controversial practice that is the biggest enemy of the otherwise highly popular and profitable online advertising model known as pay per click.

Japan and Russia plan to link their telecommunications networks via a new undersea fiber optic cable, they said late Tuesday. The cable, which is expected to be in place by the end of this year, avoids the area south of Taiwan in which many cables suffered damage after a powerful earthquake last year.

Mozilla Corp. updated Firefox Friday to patch 14 vulnerabilities, three of them critical, but pushed out the new versions without fixing several flaws.

With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft Corp. is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software.

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday unveiled more discounts and upgrade options for Windows Vista aimed at jump-starting sales of the operating system.