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Citing unnamed sources, The Associated Press reports that government officials are investigating whether contents of a U.S. government laptop were copied during Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutie... More >
Citi's commitment to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent by 2011 has earned it the honor of being the first business to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ... More >
For people who don't even need a reason to throw a party, Mozilla's offering one. It's started a campaign to get users to generate the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours on ... More >
A federal jury in Arizona convicted an Iranian man of illegally using a computer in the United States to access software from the nation's largest nuclear power plant. However, they deadlocked on two... More >
The build-out of super-fast broadband is uneven , likely creating a smaller group of "haves" and a larger group of "have-nots" in the United States, according to an Associated Press story in the S... More >
Samsung is backing up its Greenpeace "Guide to Greener Electronics" ranking with the release of a new hard drive that the company claims will consume 50 percent less power than traditional hard dri... More >
In a move to appease competitors and fend of antitrust scrutiny, Microsoft has announced that it will update Office 2007 to accommodate rival document formats beyond its Open Office XML, reports B... More >
Slow or inaccessible Internet service had many grinding their teeth Tuesday, including us here in the Louisville, Ky., offices at IT Business Edge. Cuts in fiber-optic cables were reported in ... More >
The One Laptop Per Child project has unveiled its second incarnation of the XO laptop , which has a book-like design and no keyboard, reports BBC News , which includes a photo. The new version, due... More >
VMWare and Citrix are squaring off in a race to virtualize the desktop. Citrix on Tuesday unveiled its XenDesktop in five flavors , detailed by ZDNet 's Dan Kusnetzky, along with what he cal... More >
In France, where bundled software is illegal and vendors are required to reimburse buyers for unwanted licenses, a court has backed up a buyer against computer maker Asus , reports The Register . &... More >
Walter Bender, former One Laptop Per Child president of software and content, has left that organization to launch another non-profit, Sugar Labs, devoted to development of the user interface origi... More >
Mozilla's Firefox 3 Release Candidate is out, with bloggers comparing its merit against Internet Explorer 8, Safari 3.1 and Opera 9.5. It's easier to use, faster and more secure , writes eFl... More >
Hewlett-Packard has joined Microsoft in scratching heads over Windows XP Service Pack 3, which goes into endless reboots on machines with AMD chips, reports eWEEK . HP has warned users of... More >
Though Comcast has been getting grief from users who allege it blocks peer-to-peer traffic and since has been under investigation by the Federal Communication Commission, a new study finds Cox Commu... More >
Microsoft has committed to offering Windows XP for the One Laptop Per Child project , though it previously had expressed concerns about whether it could make XP work on the limited storage, repor... More >
In what would seem to be the bad plot of a low-budget horror flick, hairy, reddish-brown ants are swarming across the Houston area, impervious to over-the-counter extermination methods, reports Th... More >
Groups including the Grand Ole Opry and MTV are petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to oppose plans by Google and Microsoft to use the so-called "white spaces" between broadcast channel... More >
The U.S. Department of Energy released a new report this week on the prospects of wind power. The DOE study says it would be feasible to generate a fifth of the country's electricity needs through ... More >
Microsoft rolled out a public preview Tuesday of its Essential Business Server 2008 for the midmarket and said it plans a preview for Small Business Server 2008 by the end of the month, reports CR... More >
Microsoft has released its first service pack for Office for Mac 2008 with better Excel file-exchange capabilities between Windows and Mac, improved formatting for Word and more, reports ZDNet bl... More >
Despite talk that the One Laptop Per Child program might switch to Windows , Microsoft apparently wants to fend off other vendors of low-cost laptops, announcing that it will drop the price of its... More >
Cell phone service has been cut in the wake of the massive earthquake that hit China on Monday, but landline service remains available, reports PCWorld.com . The 7.8 magnitude quake in sout... More >
A Macintosh feature is being credited with helping to nab two burglars. According to this news.com article, the Back to My Mac feature helped police catch two suspects in the burglary of an apart... More >
While weather scientists have been calling for more computing oomph dedicated to forecasting , IBM has built a new supercomputer for the National Center for Atmospheric Research, reports the Dail... More >
The United States has warned China that it risks "technological isolation" by ignoring international technological standards and developing its own, according to an AFP story in The Sydney Mornin... More >
Five years after the breathtakingly tragic breakup of the space shuttle Columbia, which killed all seven crew members on re-entry, scientists have published research done during that space mission. &... More >
NASA is enlisting Intel and SGI to help it boost its computing power to 10 petaflops , reports InformationWeek . The project, known as Pleiades, will be an update at the space agency's Ames Researc... More >
With the devastating cyclone in Mayanmar fresh in the public's mind, climate scientists are calling for their governments to invest in a "Manhattan"-type project to improve global weather forecast... More >
With social-networking sites everywhere, even sites for the dead , it was just a matter of time before hackers had one, too. InformationWeek reports computer security company GnuCitizen has ... More >
The State Department can't seem to locate hundreds of employee laptops -- some sites put the number at as many as 1,000 -- including about 400 that belong to the department's Anti-Terrorism Assista... More >
Climate Counts released its annual scorecard yesterday. The organization seeks to educate consumers by ranking businesses based on the role they play in reversing global warming. GoodCleanTech rep... More >
The United States' 40-year-old 911 system increasingly can't keep up with wireless consumer devices, according to the 911 Industry Alliance . In an interview with InformationWeek , alliance Execu... More >
The off-again WiMax project between Sprint and Clearwire is on again, reports The Washington Post . It says the $12 billion deal will include $3.2 billion in cash investments from Comcast, ... More >
Sun Microsystems demonstrated its answer to Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight at its JavaOne conference this week. Its JavaFX technology for rich Internet applications is targeted for the 2.2... More >
Samsung has announced the development of a hydrogen-powered cell phone . The handset, which is expected to be available in 2010, is powered by a micro fuel cell and hydrogen generator that runs on w... More >
Purdue University plans what it's calling an "electronic barn-raising" Monday, when more than 200 employees will install a supercomputer on the West Lafayette, Ind., campus in a single day, accordi... More >
In a report on the worsening energy picture for data centers , consultants McKinsey & Co. and the Uptime Institute call for a new metric that combines energy efficiency as well as capacity used,... More >
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