Rescue helicopters ferried stranded tourists on Friday from a picturesque volcanic area in Costa Rica where a strong earthquake killed around 14 people.
Sony is reportedly negotiating licensing deals with studios to distribute videos online through a long-promised service for the PlayStation 3. Citing studio executives, the Los…
From iPods to navigation systems, some of today’s hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory — pre-installed viruses that steal…
White House hopefuls have launched a frantic blitz with the stakes enormous heading into ”Super Tuesday” and the home stretch of the costliest and longest United States election…
Apple’s fiscal fourth-quarter profits jumped 67% to cap a year that saw unprecedented momentum in its Macintosh computer business, continued demand for iPods and the successful…
Sun Microsystems will begin building servers with one-time foe Microsoft’s Windows operating system installed directly on them, instead of forcing customers to install the…
A fundamental change in the design of microprocessors is presenting software developers with a challenge — and a huge financial opportunity. Chip makers are no longer racing to…
Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive. Either way, your employer can now tunnel into your…
An update to Apple’s iTunes music software still has not resolved some of the compatibility problems with Microsoft’s new operating system. The latest version, iTunes 7.1, comes…
Apple is urging some iPod and iTunes users to hold off on upgrading their computers to Windows Vista, warning that the iTunes software may not work well with the new operating…
Federal prosecutors in California scored their first victory in the investigation of Hewlett-Packard’s ill-fated boardroom spying probe on Friday, when a low-level private…
Apparently, Apple Computer is listening. In a world where hearing problems are real and lawyers are looking to make gadget providers liable, Apple issued a software update on…
Despite pulling out of the Australian Open, Andre Agassi is planning a mid-February return to tennis with his entry into the ATP San Jose event. The 35-year-old is apparently…
Sony has become the latest of the video-game console makers to announce parental controls in its newest machine, according to the Entertainment Software Association. Now, all…
A California judge has sided with Google in an age-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former manager who alleged the online search-engine leader had fired him because he didn’t…
The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that organises the development of the Firefox Web browser said on Wednesday it has formed a corporate subsidiary, not to make money but to better…
Intel’s second-quarter earnings grew 16% and sales jumped to a record ,23-billion (â,¬7,71-billion) on Tuesday as the world’s largest chip maker continued to profit from the…
Microsoft on Wednesday settled a lawsuit that claimed it planned to incorporate a patented networking technology into future versions of the Windows operating system without…
A fire consumed several floors of a busy Costa Rican hospital before dawn on Tuesday, killing at least 15 patients, Costa Rican officials said. Nurses broke out windows trying to…
A pair of Supreme Court rulings this week is stoking fears that the internet is becoming an ever-more centralised platform for entrenched corporate interests — the antithesis…
