Facebook and its social networking compatriot Twitter are jointly taking new steps to help users share information. Facebook, the top …
Samsung Electronics names new CEO in major reorganization
Samsung Electronics named a new CEO on Tuesday as the company undertakes a major reorganization intended to improve its competitiveness. …
Microsoft halts microblog service accused of copying Plurk
Microsoft suspended a microblog-style site for Chinese users after the service was accused of copying programming code from Plurk, a …
Preview: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 impresses
In beta 2, Visual Studio 2010 is beginning to show the rather attractive shape of things to come. It supports …
Adobe probes new in-the-wild PDF bug
Adobe confirmed that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the most up-to-date version of its PDF viewing and editing applications. …
Twitter rival Plurk claims UI, code ripped off by Microsoft China
Plurk, a micro-blogging service popular in parts of Asia, claimed today that its site design and underlying code were copied …
Graphics issues force Apple to delay iMac orders, resellers report
Apple has delayed shipping new 27-in. iMacs until it can figure out the cause of flickering screens and other display …
New Western Digital format squeezes 11% more capacity from drives
Western Digital (WD) is beginning to use a new hard disk drive format that opens up between 7% and 11% …
Microsoft patches Office 2003 lockout bug
Microsoft fixed a bug that locked out Office 2003 users from accessing documents safeguarded with the company's rights management security …
Seagate to release world’s thinnest laptop drive
Seagate Technology announced what it's calling the world's thinnest laptop and netbook hard drive, the Momentus Thin drive, which at …
MySQL creator launches campaign to ‘save’ database
The creator of MySQL has launched a Web-based campaign to “save” the open-source database from the “clutches” of Oracle, which …
Microsoft, Google unveil climate change Web apps
Microsoft and Google have built Web applications designed to highlight environmental problems coinciding with the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen …
Oracle’s pledges on MySQL are ‘purely cosmetic’, say critics
Oracle's latest commitments designed to address the European Commission's concerns regarding its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL database …
Google’s ‘Nexus One’ test phone: details emerge
Watch out Apple, here comes Nexus One, the Google phone the tech world has been salivating over. Over the weekend …