Is Microsoft Cracking Down on DVD Ripping With Vista SP1 Beta?

A popular DVD cracking program won't work for our tester after he installs the Vista SP1 beta.

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Time Warner to Try Tiered Cable Pricing

Time Warner Cable is looking to revolutionize home broadband pricing in the U.S. by selling consumers service based on bandwidth usage.

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Skype Flaw Turns Videos Into Weapons

Sears Sells Latest Sub-$200 Linux Desktop PC

Yahoo to Support OpenID Single Sign-On

Greenpeace Applauds MacBook Air

Mozilla Interfaces to Get 'Humanized,' Developer Says

Attack Code Released for Critical Windows Flaw

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EA Confirms Spore for Mac

Electronic Arts will release its latest Mac title, Spore, later this year. 18-Jan-2008

Cell Phones and Virtual Worlds Affect Buying Patterns

Retailers must take advantage of virtual worlds and mobile technology to stay competitive. 18-Jan-2008

Intel, AMD Don't See Demand Falling Off Cliff

Despite fluctuating stock prices, AMD and Intel assure investors that microprocessor market remains strong; analysts agree. 18-Jan-2008

Group Defines Cyberattack Prevention Rules for U.S.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved standards intended to protect the U.S. power grid from coming under cyberattack. 18-Jan-2008

Digital TV Switch Won't Sway Cable Holdouts

Most TV viewers who do not have cable or satellite TV will stick to broadcast programming after the switch to digital TV in February 2009. 18-Jan-2008

Indie Labels Come to iTunes Plus

Apple has reached a deal with an independent distributor that brings music from 200 labels to its DRM-free iTunes Plus. 18-Jan-2008

Google Warns of iPhone 1.1.3 IMAP Switch

Google is warning iPhone users that the latest software update will change the way Gmail works on their phone. 18-Jan-2008

Greenpeace Applauds MacBook Air

Greenpeace says Apple's environmentally friendly MacBook Air "raises the bar" for the PC industry. 18-Jan-2008

Rock Band Sells 2.5 million Songs

MTV says that players of its Rock Band have downloaded more than 2.5 million songs since the game went on sale. 18-Jan-2008

Microsoft Accused of Patent Violation in China

Zhongyi Electronic says that Microsoft has been using its technology and Chinese fonts in Windows for a decade. 18-Jan-2008

Google.org Expands Funding to Attack World Crises

Google's philanthropic arm is moving beyond alternative energy to focus on health, poverty, and climate change in Southeast Asia and Africa. 18-Jan-2008

Sprint Nextel to Lay Off 4000 After Customer Losses

Sprint Nextel is laying off about 4000 employees and closing retail outlets after losing more than 100,000 customers in the last quarter. 18-Jan-2008

Wipro Profit Growth Down

Indian outsourcer Wipro says 2007 revenues were up, but profits growth was slow due to higher salaries and reduced margins. 18-Jan-2008

JiWire Offers Free Wi-Fi for iPhone, iPod Touch

JiWire will offer iPhone and iPod Touch users ad-supported Wi-Fi Internet access for free in select locations. 18-Jan-2008

Time Warner to Try Tiered Cable Pricing

Time Warner Cable is looking to revolutionize home broadband pricing in the U.S. by selling consumers service based on bandwidth usage. 18-Jan-2008

IBM Reports Strong Software, Services Results

IBM's says 2007 services and software revenues were up, sees emerging markets as a 'virtual gold rush.' 18-Jan-2008

China Internet Population Tops 200 Million

The number of Internet users in China is up 53 percent from 2006--and it is poised to become the world's top Internet market. 18-Jan-2008

Sears Sells Latest Sub-$200 Linux Desktop PC

Sears.com is selling a fully equipped Linux desktop PC from Mirus International for $299, minus a $100 rebate. 18-Jan-2008

Skype Flaw Turns Videos Into Weapons

A programming error in Skype could let hackers use "Add Video" feature to run malicious code on the victim's system. 18-Jan-2008

Digg.com Videos Coming to Internet TV Network

Internet television network Revision3 is launching The Digg Reel, a new weekly show that will highlight the most popular videos submitted to Digg.com. 18-Jan-2008

Putting the MacBook Air Laptop Through Its Paces

The MacBook Air has arrived, a third MacBook model that brings incredibly small size to the MacBook line at a premium price.

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Microsoft Switches Plan, Offers Vista SP1 Public Beta

Web site offers instructions to download and install the latest preview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

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Macworld Expo Roundup at a Glance

Toshiba Slashes HD DVD Prices

Google Maps Gaining on Mapquest

The Absolute Latest in HDTVs

CES 2008 Picks and Pans

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Flash Attack Could Take Over Your Router

Google Improves iPhone Offering

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Sun to acquire MySQL for US$1 billion

Sun Microsystems will pay US$1 billion for Swedish software company MySQL, whose open-source database is used for some of the most widely visited Web sites in the world. 16-Jan-2008

MacSpeech Unveils Dictate

New voice recognition program, shown at Macworld Expo, borrows technology from Dragon Naturally Speaking. 16-Jan-2008

Oracle to buy BEA Systems for $8.5 billion

Oracle has agreed to buy BEA Systems for around US$8.5 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. 16-Jan-2008

Microsoft Helps Put Ads on Computerized Shopping Carts

MediaCart and Microsoft team to serve personalized digital ads to Wakefern Food shoppers. 16-Jan-2008

FCC Earns Kudos for Net Neutrality Inquiry

Public interest groups praise the FCC for beginning inquires into traffic management by broadband providers and mobile phone carriers. 16-Jan-2008

MacBook Air: How Incomplete is It?

The list of features missing from Apple's wafer-thin laptop is almost as long as the list of what it's got. 15-Jan-2008

MacBook Air Versus PC Ultraportable Laptops

The MacBook Air is a stunner, no doubt, but it's going to be up against stiff challenges from PC notebook makers. Here are a few of the top ones. 15-Jan-2008

Business Users Get Into the Vista Adoption Curve

A new study on Vista adoption shows that the year-old Microsoft operating system may be finding a groove with business users. 15-Jan-2008

Apple TV Untethers From Mac, Price Dropped

A new software upgrade to Apple TV turns the device into a substantially different product. 15-Jan-2008

Flash Attack Could Take Over Your Router

Security researchers release code that shows how a pair of widely used technologies could be misused to take control of a victim's Web browsing experience. 15-Jan-2008

Putting the MacBook Air Laptop Through Its Paces

The MacBook Air has arrived, a third MacBook model that brings incredibly small size to the MacBook line at a premium price. 15-Jan-2008

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Intros at Macworld

Microsoft used today's Macworld conference to release its much-anticipated Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac software suite. 15-Jan-2008

Storm Botnet Gets Profiled at Web Site

Storm, now a large remotely controlled botnet, is getting a graphic profile on a Web site set up to track it. 15-Jan-2008

Google Maps Gaining on Mapquest

Google's Maps application is making headway against the number-one ranked map Web site. 15-Jan-2008

iPod Touch Owners Can Add More Apps for a Price

iPod Touch users will get new features for their handheld device. But unlike a free iPhone update, iPod users will have to pay for their new capabilities. 15-Jan-2008

Apple Introduces Time Machine Companion Hardware

Taking the keynote stage at Macworld Expo on Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs wasted no time in introducing Time Machine, a new product designed as companion hardware to Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard's" Time Capsule backup technology. 15-Jan-2008

Drobo Gains Network Storage Add-On

Data Robotics' new DroboShare works with its Drobo hard drive system to let users share files a LAN. 15-Jan-2008

Dual-Link DVI KVMP and Multimedia Switch Debuts

Iogear's new switch lets users share a dual-link DVI display, USB keyboard, mouse, and surround sound audio between two computers. 15-Jan-2008

Clearwire to Offer Google Applications

Wireless service provider Clearwire will offer Google's e-mail, calendar, and chat applications to its subscribers. 15-Jan-2008

USB 2.0 Drive Adapter Gets Status Lights

Newer Technology's new USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter now has connection status LEDs. 15-Jan-2008

Researchers Control Robot With Brain Signals

Scientists in Japan have succeeded in controlling a humanoid robot with signals from a monkey's brain. 15-Jan-2008

Nokia to Close German Plant, Lay Off Workers

Nokia is laying off 2300 employees at a German factory and moving production to lower-cost sites. 15-Jan-2008

EMI Faces Job Cuts to Meet Digital Challenge

British music label EMI will cut up to 2000 jobs to increase Internet sales by promoting digital music, and boost its roster of talent. 15-Jan-2008

Perimeter eSecurity Buys E-Mail Compliance Firm

Perimeter eSecurity is buying SECCAS, which sells e-mail management products to financial institutions. 15-Jan-2008

Nintendo Blocked GoldenEye, Says Microsoft

Microsoft officials say that Nintendo president Satoru Iwata blocked the release of a GoldenEye port on Xbox Live Arcade. 15-Jan-2008

iTunes Subscribers Could Feel Pinch From Writers' Strike

As the Writers Guild strike continues, iTunes subscribers who have season passes for favorite TV shows are out of luck. 15-Jan-2008

New iPhone App Helps You Navigate Macworld Expo

A free iPhone application provides the booth location of every company exhibiting at MacWorld Expo. 15-Jan-2008

BlackBerry Entering Chinese Market

Newspapers report that RIM's BlackBerry is set to go on sale in China this month. 15-Jan-2008

Mac Security Program a Scam?

The MacSweeper site purports to scan Macs for security issues, then sell users a software fix--but researchers have their doubts. 15-Jan-2008

Will MacBooks Follow iPhone to 3G?

Faster cellular service for the iPhone is on its way, but Apple may also add high-speed wireless WAN capability to its MacBooks. 15-Jan-2008

Toshiba Slashes HD DVD Prices

With only two major studios left in the HD DVD camp, Toshiba is slashing prices on its players and ramping up its marketing. 15-Jan-2008

New Trojan Intercepts Online Banking Information

A new Trojan program is targeting unwitting users' bank data by intercepting account information before it is encrypted and sending it to a central attacker database. 14-Jan-2008

Latest Vista SP1 Beta Opened Up to Public

Microsoft now has opened public access to the latest beta build of Vista Service Pack 1 to all who are interested. 14-Jan-2008

MySpace, States Team Up for Children's Safety

An agreement between MySpace and most U.S. state attorneys general aims to significantly increase the safety of minors on the popular social network. 14-Jan-2008

Dust Settles on CES; What Major Trends Emerged?

We try to pinpoin the discernible directions in which the consumer electronics industry seems to be heading. 14-Jan-2008

CES 2008 Picks and Pans

Gadgets rule, editors drool, and wireless tech takes over. Here are our picks--the best, the worst and the weirdest--from this year's Consumer Electronics Show.

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In Pictures: Slick, New Laptops

HD DVD writers, Intel Penryn processors, and 1 terabyte of storage are among the features coming to new laptops near you.

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Microsoft Admits Vista Update Glitch

Google Maps Enhanced with Weather Channel Data

Toshiba Shows Prototype TV Running on PS3 Chip

New QuickTime Flaw Found

Prank Puts Gizmodo on the Hot Seat

Assassin's Creed Update Revealed

Hacked MySpace Page Disguises Trojan as Update

Macworld Preview: Slim Laptop, Movie Rentals?

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Dutch Media Player Comes With a Worm

Security firm Kaspersky confirms a variant of the Fujack worm was loaded on some DVD players shipped for the holidays. 13-Jan-2008

WWI Soldier's Story Unfolds in a Blog

Thousands follow a long-dead soldier's fate as a descendant posts a series of real letters home. 12-Jan-2008

Microsoft's FAST Bid Signals a Shift in Search

Enterprise search companies and analysts say Microsoft's deal to buy FASTshows the market has arrived. 12-Jan-2008

ID Theft Suspect Pleads Guilty

A Columbia man's computer fraud scheme allegedly involved more than 600 victims worldwide. 12-Jan-2008

Will Tomb Raider Doors Slam Shut?

Stock drops and financial losses prompt worries that game publisher SCi will go out of business. 12-Jan-2008

Google Denies Infringing Patent

The search giant calls Northeastern University's patent on search technology invalid. 12-Jan-2008

Holiday Spirit Spread Malware

The Storm worm network nearly doubled in size over the Christmas holidays. 12-Jan-2008

Assassin's Creed Update Revealed

A peek at the packaging exposes the name -- Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles -- and that its story is a prequel. 12-Jan-2008

Hacked MySpace Page Disguises Trojan as Update

Hackers are using MySpace to download Trojan Horse software disguised as a Microsoft download. 12-Jan-2008

Laptop Project Would Welcome Intel Back

The head of the One Laptop Per Child effort says Intel could still contribute to the program for developing nations. 12-Jan-2008

Mobile Tunes Rack Up Sales in Asia

Digital music leader Soundbuzz lures Motorola, seeking to expand the selection of platforms. 12-Jan-2008

New QuickTime Flaw Found

Both Windows and Mac versions of the multimedia program have a buffer overflow flaw that puts users at risk. 12-Jan-2008

One Laptop Per Child Project Extends to American Students

OLPC America plans to combat digital divide by distributing low-cost laptops to needy students in the U.S. 12-Jan-2008

WiMax Networks Draw International Interest

Proponents say the wireless networking technology is gaining momentum for its portability, wide range. 12-Jan-2008

UK Considers Relaxing Copyright Laws

Proposals would clarify fair use of digital materials, bringing British law in line with that of many other countries. 12-Jan-2008