SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Monday (Dec. 19) it has agreed to supply a Venezuelan mobile service provider with network equipment and operational know-how for recently-certified mobile WiMAX services.

The agreement means Samsung, South Korea’s leading handset provider, is capable of commercializing the fledgling high-speed Internet broadband technology

George Lucas might not want to make any more "Star Wars" movies now that "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" is secure in its crown as the top-grossing domestic movie of the year.
 
But that didn't discourage West Virginia-based filmmaker Shane Felux, who this year created a

Symantec's line of anti-virus software is vulnerable to attack, a prominent security researcher revealed Tuesday. The bug is currently unpatched, although Symantec has issued an advisory.

The vulnerability, which was discovered and reported by Alex Wheeler, is in how Symantec's AntiVirus Library, part of all the Cupertino, Calif.-based security giant's anti-virus products,

SAN FRANCISCO — Carbon Design Systems said Tuesday (Dec. 20) that it has added PCI, PCI-X, USB 2.0 Host and DDR SDRAM bus protocol support to its VSP product line.

According to Carbon (Waltham, Mass.), the bus functional models provide a communication layer from abstract functions, such as reads and writes, to

Google Inc. and America Online Inc. on Tuesday expanded their Web search and advertising alliance to offer the sharing of video and instant messaging, shutting out Microsoft Corp., which had fought hard for a deal with Time Warner Inc.'s AOL Internet unit.
 
America Online confirmed that Google had agreed to

Oracle Corp. on Tuesday released the Identity and Access Management Suite, an integrated set of products for protecting IT systems from hackers.
The suite spans a number of Oracle homegrown and acquired technologies that include Web access control, identity administration, user provisioning, federated identity management and directory services. Customers have the option

Netgear has unveiled three new ProSafe stackable smart switches and a dual-band wireless access point that incorporates stronger security features.

The switches include a 24-port and 48-port model plus a 48-port model with 24 Power Over Ethernet (PoE) ports. All three units come with four Gigabit Ethernet ports and are aimed at

Computing is a dynamic field in which standards and practices rarely stay the same for long. Nowhere is this truism more evident today than in software installations.
 
Once upon a time, if you wanted to install an application, one or two floppy disks did the trick. Now, it is rare

LONDON — Seagate Technology LLC has agreed to acquire rival disk drive maker Maxtor Corp. in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.9 billion, the companies said Wednesday.

Under the terms of the agreement, which has been unanimously approved by the boards of both companies, Maxtor shareholders will receive 0.37 shares of

A new worm posing as a come-on to a Santa Claus site is traveling across all the major instant messaging networks, a security firm warned Tuesday, and when recipients visit the bogus site, they're infected with a file hidden from sight by a rootkit.

IMlogic said that the worm, dubbed "M.GiftCom.All," is