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Palm unveils Treo Pro to battle BlackBerry
Palm Inc unveiled a Treo smartphone Wednesday based on Microsoft Corp software to compete for business users against rivals such as Research In Motion's BlackBerry.
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Apple updates iPhone software to fix glitches
Apple Inc has issued a software update for the latest iPhone to help fix connection problems that led to a flurry of online complaints from customers, a European mobile service provider said Tuesday.
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Iran says rocket can carry low-orbit satellite
Iran said on Monday that a home-built rocket sent into space in a move that triggered US concern over possible military use will be able to take a satellite into low orbit around the earth.
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NASA hacker wins two week reprieve
A European court has intervened in Gary McKinnon's extradition to the United States. The British hacker has been given a temporary reprieve, but still faces extradition later this month.
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Thousands of web servers hit by SQL attack
Internet security specialist Secure Computing has issued a warning of an SQL injection attack that appears to have infected several thousand web servers, including government and financial services sites.
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Olympic fever being fuelled by high-tech in SKorea
Cutting-edge technology is fuelling Olympic fever in South Korea, with employees using hand-held TVs or mobile phones to follow the Games live during work or off-duty hours.
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Space Shuttle successor will not fly before 2014
NASA announced it has pushed back the launch of the Orion, the spacecraft designed to replace the agency's aging space shuttle fleet, by one year to 2014.
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Dotcom merchant launches incubator
One of the dotcom boom's great survivors will today take the plunge with his latest venture, an internet incubator and its first offspring, a web operation that helps small and medium-sized businesses find the professional services they need.
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Evident domain
With e-discovery laws in effect, companies find benefits to data archiving, says TLC Vision's Roger McIlmoyle. Dan Kaplan reports.
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Wal-Mart, AIG drag Wall Street lower
U.S. stocks fell Thursday after a big loss from insurer American International Group revived worries about the credit crisis and retailers fell after Wal-Mart gave a cautious August sales outlook.
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Yahoo election tally reveals big protest vote
Yahoo Inc on Tuesday released a recount of the vote for its board that revealed a strong protest vote against five of nine directors, including Chief Executive Jerry Yang.
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Six degrees of separation within IM
A social graph derived from billions of instant messages validates folklore that there are about six degrees of separation between any two strangers on the planet.
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Thailand halts GTA sales after murder
A Thai video game distributor halted sales of "Grand Theft Auto" on Monday after a teenager confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the controversial game.
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China drops some Internet curbs ahead of Games
China on Friday rolled back a few high-profile planks of its Internet censorship system in an apparent effort to defuse an embarrassing dispute over media freedom just days ahead of the Olympics.
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DNS patch slows BIND servers
Patches designed to address the recently publicized DNS flaw have slowed servers running the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) system, which is used on the majority of name-serving machines on the internet.
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NASA hacker loses extradition appeal
Gary McKinnon, the British hacker accused of breaking into NASA and Pentagon computers, has lost his latest appeal to stop extradition from the United Kingdom.
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Yahoo in research with HP-Intel
Yahoo and technology giants Intel and Hewlett Packard on Tuesday announced an alliance to advance "cloud computing," backing a trend that would reduce reliance on packaged software.
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Ex-google workers launch rival
A group of former Google engineers on Monday launched a rival Internet search engine, Cuil, saying it is an improved version of the world's most popular Web-scouring tool.
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Application weaknesses double
An analysis of 100 security tests carried out over the past five years shows that application level weaknesses are up by 50 percent.
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Microsoft done talking to Yahoo, for now
Chief Executive Steve Ballmer Thursday defended Microsoft Corp's need to make heavy investments in its Internet businesses but said the company was "done," for now, with pursuing Yahoo Inc.
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Peace breaks out in Yahoo leadership row
The struggling internet company Yahoo has struck a pact with its billionaire critic Carl Icahn by giving the hedge fund activist a minority presence on its board to avoid a potentially tempestuous showdown at a shareholder meeting next month.
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Apple shares fall
Apple Inc said Monday its current-quarter earnings would be well below Wall Street targets, sending shares in the maker of Macintosh computers and iPod music players down nearly 9 percent.
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iPhone joins mobile game revolution
The excitement surrounding the launch of iPhone 3G probably would have passed me by if it weren't for the fact that my in-tray was full of press releases all saying the same thing: "Hi, I'm a mobile games publisher. I'm releasing stuff on the popular new Apple phone. Please tell your readers to buy some."
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Game over for some titles
Last month, Sony announced that Eight Days and The Getaway, both high-profile action-adventure games for the PlayStation 3, first shown to journalists (albeit as tech-demo videos) two years ago had been given the chop. This February, beleaguered British games publisher SCi/Eidos announced that it had canned 14 games.
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Netflix, Xbox team up
A long-rumored tie-up between online movie rental company Netflix Inc and Microsoft Corp to let Netflix subscribers watch streamed movies and TV shows on Xbox 360 game consoles will become a reality this fall, the companies said Monday.
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