A new Trojan horse demands a $10.99 ransom payment to stop erasing files on the infected PC's hard drive, a security firm said Thursday.
According to U.K.-based Sophos, the Ransom.a Trojan freezes the computer, then puts up a message saying it will delete files every half hour until the user sends $10.99

The California Public Utilities Commission approved a plan Thursday allowing providers of high-speed Internet services to test electricity lines to deliver online access throughout the state.

CPUC commissioner Rachelle Chong, who drafted the plan, said broadband over power lines, or BPL, could become a new competitor to Internet services delivered via telephone, cable

Japan-based NEC Electronics Corp. will produce LSIs for Nintendo's next generation game console, code named Revolution, at its 300-mm wafer fab in Yamagata Prefecture.

Toshio Nakajima, president of NEC Electronics, disclosed that the company had got an order for the system-on-chip LSI for Revolution. NEC Electronics plans to expand the capacity of its

Unisys Corporation reported Wednesday that it has opened a Biometrics Centre of Excellence in Brussels to serve the European Union and, at the same time, announced the results of a survey that found that nearly 70 percent of consumers favor the use of biometrics to verify identity.

Unisys said the Brussels facility

Apple didn’t disappoint again this year as the company unveiled the 17-inch MacBook Pro at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Apple’s booth was lined daily from one side to the other with onlookers scouting out the MacBook and the company’s professional software editing suite, Final Cut Studio.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Evergreen Solar Inc. said that its manufacturing plant in Germany has begun making volume shipments of finished solar modules.
The Thalheim-based EverQ plant manufactures Evergreen Solar's new Spruce Line of photovoltaic panels. The Spruce line includes panels up to 190-Watts.

Products fabricated at the EverQ plant

Intuit Inc. expects to launch this week a fully-hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for large enterprises as an add-on to QuickBase for Corporate Workgroups, a company executive said.
 
Designed for enterprises with more than 100 employees, QuickBase for Corporations features directory-based lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) authentication, password administration, added security

Microsoft is entering the social networking market currently led by MySpace.com and Friendster with its own entry, Wallop.

The new company is being spun out from Microsoft IP Ventures, which was formed in 2003 and expanded last year to make Microsoft technologies available to appropriate start-ups for licensing.

Both Microsoft and Cupertino,

Google Inc. on Wednesday ran an ad for Firefox on its popular homepage, giving the open-source Web browser a big marketing boost over their joint rival Microsoft Corp.
 
The ad promoted the key advantage supporters claim Firefox has over Microsoft's Internet Explorer -- security. IE, which has more than 85

Big media companies must keep finding ways to reach on-the-go users and make money doing it to stay relevant in an online marketplace that values convenience and novelty, the leaders of three of the largest U.S. media and tech companies said on Wednesday.
 
In a wide-ranging discussion on tech trends