The growth in popularity of consumer electronic products like Apple's iPod, MP3 players, and digital cameras was initially a benefit to makers of small hard disk drives like Maxtor and Seagate, two leading drive manufacturers.
 
But when Apple announced it would be using NAND flash memory from Samsung for its

Controversial copy-protection software used by music publisher Sony BMG (6758.T) on music CDs appears to have tapped an open source project, raising questions about copyrights, software experts said on Friday.
 
The XCP program, developed by British software firm First4Internet and used by Sony BMG to restrict copying and sharing of

Google Inc.'s share price crossed the $400 threshold to a new all-time high Thursday, marking a gain of nearly $100 a share in the four weeks since the Web-search giant reported impressive quarterly financial results.
 
During the intervening period, Google has produced a steady stream of news that has fanned

Chinese Internet firm Alibaba.com has vowed to defeat US giant Google in the battle to become the dominant search engine for the potentially lucrative Chinese market.

Alibaba.com chief executive Jack Ma said his company was the undisputed king of the web in China after seeing off e-Bay and taking over Yahoo's Chinese

Six more people pleaded guilty Thursday to operating a Web site that investigators claimed was one of the largest online centers for trafficking in stolen identity information and credit cards.

With others who pleaded guilty in recent weeks, that brings to 12 people who acknowledged roles with the site, www.shadowcrew.com,

Microsoft late Wednesday warned Windows users that proof-of-concept code was in circulation that could be remotely and anonymously exploited on Windows 2000 machines. Windows XP SP1 is somewhat less vulnerable, said Microsoft.

The security advisory gave out few details of the vulnerability, only saying that it was a flaw in the RPC

Printer upstart Dell lead all other sellers in customer satisfaction, while long-time powerhouse Hewlett-Packard tied for third, J.D. Power and Associates said Thursday.

The first-time survey of business users put Dell at the top of the chart, with a customer satisfaction score of 801 out of a possible 1,000. Dell led the

Microsoft Corp. has issued an out-of-cycle advisory warning users about a newly disclosed denial-of-service vulnerability in Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 and Windows XP Service Pack 1.

The company was prompted to issue the advisory because of reports about proof-of-concept code that seeks to exploit the flaw, the company said in its

Mercury Computer Systems Friday took the wraps off its latest high-performance Serial RapidIO Switch, the MC432, aimed at multiple switching applications in the embedded, communications, wireless, and storage markets.

The MC432 is targeted at chip-to-chip, board-to-board, or chassis-to-chassis communication. The 64Bbps switch has eight ports of 4X lanes.

The MC432

UTC Power, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., unveiled a bus powered by a fuel cell.

UTC’s 40-foot Van Hool Hydrogen A330 bus can reach 65 miles per hour and travels 250-to-300 miles before refueling. The bus features a hybrid-electric drive system and a so-called 120-kW PureMotion fuel cell power system. Read More...   Category: Hardware