Windows PCs infected with the Conficker worm have turned into junk mail-spewing robots capable of sending billions of spam messages …
Analysis: Where did Sun go wrong?
Just before the crash of the dot-com boom that spawned the meteoric rise of Sun Microsystems Inc., then-CEO Scott McNealy …
MySQL could enable IBM to take over the database market
IBM's proposal to acquire Sun Microsystems Inc. may, for now, be off the table. But several experts say IBM should …
Poll reveals user love for Windows 7
Beta testers of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 7 are four times more likely to be happy with what they're seeing than …
Medical records on the iPhone debuts at health IT expo
Doctors with an iPhone or iPod Touch will be able to view patients' electronic health records using a new application …
Are Linux netbooks really returned more often than Windows models?
Windows' dominance extends to 96% of netbooks sold in the U.S. in February. Worldwide, three-quarters of the 15 million netbooks …
Conficker.c controls 4% of all infected PCs, IBM says
As many as one out of every 25 Internet addresses that transmits potentially dangerous data over the Internet is infected …
Report: HP may build Android netbooks
Hewlett-Packard Co. may build netbook PCs running Google Inc.'s Linux-based Android operating system, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The …
China denies cyberspy network charges
China denied suggestions it could be involved in a cyberespionage ring that attacked computers worldwide from servers mostly based in …
AT&T to resell Cisco telepresence gear to feds
AT&T and Cisco have inked an exclusive deal that allows the carrier's government marketing arm to sell fully managed room-based …
Cloud computing vendors converge on standard definition, goals
When “cloud computing” became the buzz-phrase du jour in IT sometime in the past year or two, you could probably …
Western Digital pays $65M for solid-state drive maker
Western Digital Corp. announced today that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems Inc., a small, Aliso …
IETF to explore new routing technique
The IETF is forming a new working group to address scalability issues in the Internet's routing system caused by companies …
Deep computer-spying network touched 103 countries
A 10-month cyberespionage investigation has found that 1,295 computers in 103 countries and belonging to international institutions have been spied …
Inside HP Labs: 8 cool projects
Innovation is both an exciting, revolutionary event and a mundane step-by-step process. For every remarkable, headline-making discovery — flash memory! …
VMware to manage virtual machines from mobile phones
VMware is set to release in the beginning of April a technology preview of a new feature that will let …
In poor economy, IT pros could turn to e-crime
Enterprises increasingly worry that their employees may be more willing to steal data or sell insider knowledge because of the …
China becoming the world’s malware factory
With China's economy cooling down, some of the country's IT professionals are turning to cybercrime, according to a Beijing-based security …
Adobe details secret PDF patches
Adobe Systems Inc. revealed today that it patched five critical vulnerabilities behind the scenes when it updated its Reader and …
Conficker’s next move a mystery to researchers
Security researchers are in the dark about what will happen next week when the newest variant of Conficker, 2009's biggest …