Bomb detection portals will increase by nine times at the nation's airports as part of the aviation security enhancements announced Friday by the Transportation Security Administration.

Though most public attention focused on renewed permission for passengers to carry small scissors and other tools onto airplanes, TSA Assistant Secretary Kip Hawley told reporters

Two security firms today issued new warnings about two separate threats affecting Microsoft Corp. products.

Sophos PLC reported evidence of new malware planted on Web sites that exploits a previously announced -- and as-yet-unpatched -- Internet Explorer security vulnerability. The Clunky-B Trojan horse allows hackers to install and run malicious software on

With its new entry into the wireless mesh market, Cisco brings some new cards to the table, including multi-radio technology and proprietary controllers. With Cisco in the arena, the wireless mesh game is sure to be different in coming months.

One of the great ironies of wireless LANs is they require a

Royal Philips Electronics announced Friday (Dec. 2) it is talking with leading game developers and peripheral makers to implement its new amBX software technology.

Philips expects the technology to redefine the experience of playing video games, watching movies and listening to music by utilizing light, color, sound, heat and air. According to the

An "extremely critical" threat may cause Microsoft to release a patch before its next scheduled round of software patches.

The unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer is bad enough, said the company which reported the Trojan drive-by download exploit to Redmond, that Microsoft will probably fix the problem before this month's scheduled patch

Corporate adoption of Linux desktops is hindered by the inability to run Windows applications, the difficulty of installing and managing peripheral devices and the challenge of making users feel comfortable with the open-source operating system, a survey shows.

With desktop Linux remaining an anomaly in businesses, the Open Source Development Lab decided

Market research firm Gartner projected Thursday that slightly less than 300 million cameraphones will be sold worldwide in 2005.

That total represents about 38 percent of all of mobile phones sales, Gartner said in a statement. In 2004, cameraphones accounted for 14 percent of all mobile phone sales.

Cameraphone sales

When asked a few years ago if they might someday offer a Mac that works like a Microsoft entertainment PC, Apple executives joked that they were instead focusing on the convergence of computers and toasters.

The basic concept of a PC powering a living room multimedia hub — as pushed by Microsoft

Yahoo Inc. aims to boost the effectiveness of its advertising -- and rates -- by targeting ads to users based on their surfing behavior on its site, the company's advertising sales chief said on Thursday.
 
"The new, new thing at Yahoo, even though we've had variations of this, is getting

Plagued by accounting scandals and management upheaval in recent months, Nortel got some good news Thursday from a report that noted it is the leading supplier in the growing worldwide IP PBX market.

“Nortel leads the recovering North American IP PBX market,” said Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst at Infonetics Research, in a