Handy Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

for techies who grew up on the command line, the handy keyboard shortcut has saved many an ugly situation especially when the mouse failed. More...

Tougher Passwords Are Easier to Forget

How many minutes waiting for unconcerned servers to spit out a “reminder” email message? More...

New Digital Books Offer Better Readability

Soon, they could be "flipping through" an electronic book reader, a cross between a handheld flat-panel monitor and a real-life book or newspaper. More...

Note-taking made easy, the Israeli way

The chore of studying has become easier and considerably more interesting for today's university students thanks to innovative technologies like PowerPoint presentations and iPods. More...

Password overload hitting firms' IT security

Security breaches from computer viruses, spyware, hacker attacks and theft of equipment are costing British business an estimated 10 billion pounds ($18 billion) a year. More...

Net Neutrality Debate Heats Up

Looking at possible antitrust implications of having telecoms and cable companies controlling 99 percent of U.S. broadband connections, a special task force of the House Judiciary Committee took up network neutrality. More...

New VoIP Phishing Scam

Cloudmark, an anti-spam company, put the word out about a new type of email phishing scam targeting banking customers. more...

MS Expands Anti-Piracy Program, Reissues Patch

Starting today, however, Windows XP users in the United States who have set up automatic security updates will receive the anti-piracy tool. More...

Microsoft's Google Scholar rival set to go Live

The new Windows Live Academic Search service, which will be available in beta form at http://academic.live.com sometime in the next several days. More...

Major banking sites insecure, researcher warns

A more secure approach would be to force users to log in on an HTTP Secure (HTTPS) Web page. HTTPS pages use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security protocol. More...

N.Y. county mandates wireless security

New York's Westchester County has enacted a law designed to limit identity theft by forcing local businesses to install basic security measures for any wireless network that stores customers' credit card numbers or other financial information. More...

Another Zero-Day Bug Smacks IE

researcher's note, circulated by Symantec, says that Internet Explorer is prone to memory corruption because of the way it handles malformed HTML. More...

Major banking sites insecure, researcher warns

Many of the most popular banking sites in the U.S. may be needlessly placing their customers at risk to online thieves. More...

Microsoft Patches Patch

Microsoft plans to re-release a patch ithat caused some snags and Internet Explorer lockups with older Hewlett-Packard devices and NVIDIA drivers. More...

E-mail authentication gaining steam

The technologies, known as Sender ID and DomainKeys, aim to allow e-mail recipients to positively identify the sender of an e-mail message and hold the promise of giving service providers the tools they need to effectively end spam and phishing attacks. more...

Cisco looks to university students for ideas

update Cisco Systems is in search of broadband's killer content, and it is throwing cash at university students in an effort to find it. more...

Apple offers free computer recycling program

Beginning in June, Apple will offer all US customers who buy a computer through the online Apple Store or an Apple retail location free shipping and environmentally friendly disposal of their old computer. more...

Man charged with hacking USC database

A 25-year-old San Diego man has been charged with hacking into the University of Southern California's online application system and nabbing personal data from prospective students. More...

HP recalls 15,700 laptop batteries

The batteries, which were made in China, are used in several HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario notebooks. A full list of affected models is available on the HP website. More...