Windows took it on the chin Tuesday as Microsoft released nine patches, five labeled critical, as part of its Patch …
Sony warns of laptops with faulty Nvidia chips
Sony has said some of its Vaio laptops are equipped with faulty graphics chips from Nvidia, which the graphics company …
Intel resumes shipping consumer SSDs after fixing bug
Intel Corp. said it had resumed shipping its latest consumer solid-state drives (SSDs) after resolving a password bug that made …
Apple patches 6 Safari security vulnerabilities
A month after it last patched Safari, Apple plugged six security holes, four of them critical, in its Mac and …
Microsoft to announce mobile Office deal with Nokia, report says
Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp. are said to be set to announce a deal that would bring the mobile version …
Google Caffeinates Its Search Engine
Over the past few months, Google has been working on optimizing its search engine architecture for better, faster results. For …
RFID to help keep the world's mail on time
One of the world's newest communications technologies soon will be used to track one of the oldest. The Universal Postal …
Nine data storage companies to watch
Building a data storage start-up in this economy is quite a challenge, but there is room for innovation in an …
Why Microsoft is sabotaging desktop virtualization
As they say, everything old is new again. The emergence of virtualization as a widely accepted computing platform has moved …
Apple works on MacBook Pro hard drive fix as complaints mount
Apple is working on a software update to address hard drive issues affecting its latest 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro …
Microsoft workers unveil Office suggestion site
Two Microsoft employees have created an online suggestion box where users can submit feature or fix requests for Office, the …
Free Web antimalware tool offered up
Free stuff has been a vendor mainstay to build a customer base, and start-up Dasient is trying that with a …
Nvidia, Intel reach SLI pact, but still clash over Nehalem
Nvidia licensed an important technology for its graphics cards to work with Intel's latest Nehalem processors, but friction between the …
The cloud, brought to you by flash storage
Cloud computing and flash-based storage, two of the fastest-growing technologies in IT, may drive each other forward as Internet-based service …