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Verizon's U.S. District Court appeal over the subpoena powers granted to the Recording Industry Association of America, to be considered Tuesday, calls into question the music industry group's tactics and highlights privacy concerns ...

Hoping to hook manufacturers and shippers beholden to modest radio frequency identification (RFID) implementation requirements from companies like Wal-Mart, IBM has announced new service and software offerings to help roll out the wireless tag-tracking technology ...

An Internet-connected grid of potentially millions of personal computers is being launched by a group of UK-based universities, weather services and software companies in an effort to predict global climate ...

Coming to a notebook near you -- it's 3D display technology from Sharp. But industry observers say it is likely to be a slow start for the Mebius PC-RD3D notebook, which the electronics giant is planning to release in Japan next month and in the United States by the end of the year ...

A day before the two-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a series of phone calls threatening the presence of a bomb at San Francisco's Moscone Center forced the evacuation of thousands from the Oracle and Seybold trade shows ...

A 22-year-old computer hacker credited with breaking into more than a dozen networks owned by some of the largest companies in the world is facing federal charges of computer intrusion and unlawful use of passwords ...

Leveraging new wireless network technology that will more than double data rates in mobile phones, Intel has developed a single-chip processor for the next generation of mobile networks, called Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE). ...

In a letter posted today on its company Web site and some open-source sites, SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride aimed the Unix-code-in-Linux claims at Silicon Graphics, which SCO says it is in discussions with over the matter ...

Timing technology updates with the start of school, Apple announced it has sped up its iMac desktop computers with faster processors and beefed up the storage in new iPod digital music players, which are now offered in 20- and 40-GB models ...

By decreasing space requirements and boosting power efficiency, Broadcom said its new, single-chip wireless solution marks a revolutionary breakthrough for the wireless industry and will make wireless local area networks (WLANs) less expensive and easier to build ...

Intel is aiming new energy-efficient Itanium 2 processors at mainstream, high-density servers and high-performance applications with two lower-cost Itanium designs ...

Looking to land its first major handset maker as a Windows Mobile software customer, Microsoft is reportedly involved in a deal with Motorola, the company that will build the new smart phone to be offered by French operator Orange ...

Lifted by higher sales of more powerful and less expensive notebook computers, the worldwide and U.S. PC markets are delivering better results than expected, according to industry research firm IDC ...

Authorities in Romania are investigating another suspected writer of a Blaster variant, according to Bucharest-based BitDefender, which reported similarities between the 24-year-old suspect and Jeffrey Lee Parson, the Minnesota teenager accused of authoring a different Blaster variant ...

With nearly 10 million Americans reporting identity theft that cost banks and other businesses nearly US$48 billion last year, the Federal Trade Commission said the problem is worse than previously estimated ...

Online and on-demand media services in digital form are likely to make CDs and DVDs obsolete as consumers switch to downloads and streaming media to get their music, movies and other entertainment, according to Forrester Research ...

Using several new technologies and more than 1,000 dual-processor Power Mac G5 computers, Virginia Tech University is building a supercomputer cluster that is likely to rank among the fastest in the world ...

In a bizarre twist to the file-sharing fight in which the Recording Industry Association of America is using copyright law to pursue file traders, search engine Google pulled links to sites hawking unofficial Kazaa alternatives after the popular file-swapping service made its own copyright-infringement claims ...

SoBig.F, Blaster, Nachi and MiMail -- the most frequently occurring viruses in August -- helped make last month the worst in the history of computer security, according to antivirus firm Sophos ...

Federal officials reportedly have closed in on an 18-year-old man believed to be the author of a variant of the Blaster worm, which affected nearly half a million computers earlier this month ...