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Internet security research firm Sophos has warned of a massive spam campaign it has detected within the past 24 hours ...

Parents who have eagerly sat their infants in front of TVs playing DVDs and TV shows designed to boost their intelligence may want to rethink their plans, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Pediatrics. The so-called education DVDs and shows aimed at babies ages 8 to 16 months that purportedly make them smarter could cause them to lose language skills, according to researchers...

Novell and Lenovo, the world's No. 3 PC manufacturer, have inked a deal to pre-install the Linux operating system (OS) on certain Lenovo ThinkPad notebook PCs, the two companies announced Monday at LinuxWorld, held this year in San Francisco. Lenovo will also provide support for Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED), Novell's open source OS ...

In a move sure to disappoint scores of gamers, not to mention Microsoft and Sony, Take 2 Games announced late Thursday that the release of the latest installation in its hottest gaming property, "Grand Theft Auto IV," will be delayed. The company said its revised plan is to release the game some time after March 2008, six months later than expected...

Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, will add support of Microsoft's latest copyright protection software, PlayReady digital rights management (DRM) technology, to its line of Nokia S60 and Series 40 mobile device platforms beginning in 2008, the two companies announced Monday. The move, according to Nokia, will enable content owners and service providers to deliver nearly any type of digital content in a flexible manner...

Not content to sell everything from video downloads to cosmetics to furniture, Amazon.com quietly rolled out a new service Wednesday called "AmazonFresh," a grocery store and home delivery site. Currently stating availability only in the Seattle area, the grocery service appears to offer similar services as such spectacular dot-com boom era failures as Webvan.com and Kozmo.com...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided more than 30 businesses, storefronts and homes in 16 states Wednesday as part of an investigation into the alleged sale and distribution of modified chips and other devices that enable gamers to circumvent copyright protections and play pirated software on their Wii, PlayStation and Xbox consoles...

Not content to win the hearts and minds of gamers, Sony is apparently aiming to take over living rooms around the world by adding digital TV tuner functionality to its currently underperforming PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console ...

Mozilla released a new version of its Firefox Web browser Monday which includes fixes for two vulnerabilities disclosed by Secunia, an Internet security firm, earlier this month. The two flaws, which involved conflicts with Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), kicked off a round of finger pointing as both companies claimed the problem lay with the code of the competing browser...

Perhaps hoping that lightning can strike the same company twice, Sony announced Friday it has signed an exclusive deal with Rockstar Games, maker of the famous and infamous "Grand Theft Auto" (GTA) series, to bring a new upcoming franchise exclusively to the PlayStation 3 (PS3) ...

Thursday was a busy day for French video game maker Ubisoft. The company announced a licensing deal with NBC/Universal to create a game based on the sci-fi hit TV series "Heroes." ...

During a congressional hearing Tuesday before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) came out in favor of a plan that would bring open access to one-third of the airwaves set for auction in January ...

Yahoo became the latest major Internet search provider to alter its user privacy policy Monday. Under the new plan, the company said, it will anonymize search histories after only 13 months, five months earlier than its search competitors at Google, Microsoft and Ask.com ...

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) executives finally have something to celebrate. Newly released sales data show the company's beleaguered PlayStation 3 (PS3) gaming platform saw a significant jump in sales for the month of June ...

Microsoft announced Sunday a new set of privacy principles for Live Search and online advertising data collection, use and protection. The principles delineate newly enhanced steps the company will implement to protect the privacy of Windows Live users ...

First Jeeves got the old heave-ho; now Ask.com is ready to give user data the boot as well ...

Music file sharers and ISPs in Europe were triumphant after an advisor to the European Union's Court of Justice (ECJ) said Wednesday that, in civil cases, telecommunication companies in Europe are not required to provide data on clients thought to be illegally sharing music files ...

Microsoft and game software developer Electronic Arts (EA) announced changes in the upper echelons of their executive suites Tuesday. Peter Moore, the chief architect behind Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming platform and the Xbox Live online gaming site, will take the helm at EA's sports division. Meanwhile, Microsoft tapped Don Mattrick, former president of EA's Worldwide Studios, to lead Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB)...

Google decreased the length of time and amount of information the company holds on users' preferences and searches Monday with the announcement that it will shorten the lifespan of the small parcels of information it stores on users' computers, known as "cookies." The lifespan of Google's cookies will be shortened from more than 30 years to a comparatively brief two years, the company said...

EMC, a maker of information infrastructure technology, launched a new lineup of storage systems and software designed to aid business users of all sizes securely and intelligently store information in a more cost-effective manner. The new systems range from entry-level devices to high-end ...