Opera Software has released an upgrade addressing two serious security flaws involving Macromedia's Flash Player and a code execution bug affecting Linux and Unix users.
 
The first problem relates to Flash Player and was made public earlier in November. Macromedia warned that the bug in Flash Player, one of the

The city of Tempe, Arizona was poised Monday to have a "cutting the wires" ceremony to formally launch what it claims is the largest city-wide wireless network in the U.S., which will cover a 40 square mile area.

The network will provide wireless access as well as voice-over-IP to residents and businesses

Government leaders attending a contentious Internet summit in Tunis, Tunisia, last week decided one thing: The way the Internet is governed will change eventually. What attendees of the World Summit on the Information Society didn’t agree on, however -- and what will remain the focus of much debate moving forward -- is how, and

South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it has developed a flexible seven-inch diagonal thin-film transistor LCD on which uses plastic substrate to display 640 by 480 pixel resolution television video pictures.

The plastic substrate that is thinner, lighter and more durable than conventional LCD glass panels, the firm said,

One in six U.S. Internet users have sold goods and services online and 2 percent do so on a given day, a new study found.
 
Sales are typically done through such online classifed ads sites as Craigslist or through an auction like eBay, the Pew Internet and American Life Project

DENVER - Initially, the great thing about Internet mapping programs was their swiftness and ease for obtaining directions, printing them and driving the course you plotted.
 
Now those Web maps can travel with you, too. And get updated on the road. And, on some wireless handhelds, show you exactly where

Microsoft will have around 300,000 of its new Xbox 360 games console available for its European launch on December 2, a Microsoft executive said in an interview published on Sunday.
 
Industry analysts' estimates of 300,000 Xbox 360s available at launch "were not far removed from reality," said Chris Lewis, the

Representatives from the most prominent browser makers -- including Microsoft and Mozilla -- recently gathered to discuss ways to make it clearer to users which Web sites are safe and which are fake.
 
Developers speaking for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror met in Toronto last week to hash over

U.S. online holiday sales are expected to hit nearly $20 billion this year and should take off on Monday, when consumers return to work and their fast Internet connections after the long Thanksgiving weekend.
 
"Cyber Monday," the term coined for the Monday after Thanksgiving, comes on the heels of the

Framingham, Mass.-based IDC and San Jose, Calif.-based Gartner both gave the top honor to IBM. IDC said IBM's worldwide server revenue climbed 10.3 percent over the same quarter last year to hit $4 billion. Gartner pegged IBM's revenue at about $4.1 billion, up 9 percent year over year.

Hewlett-Packard was No. 2,