Microsoft Corp. on Thursday called for a broad national law to protect consumer privacy and a top Republican lawmaker said he planned to push such a bill next year, amid heightened consumer concerns about identity theft and online fraud.
 
"This is the time, this is the place, we believe, for

Lenovo, making good on a strategy to enter the U.S. retail market, has reached a deal to begin selling some ThinkPads through Office Depot.

The Purchase, N.Y.-based PC maker, which bought the former IBM PC properties earlier this year, has agreed to distribute systems including the ThinkPad Z60t and ThinkPad T43 to

US software kingpin Microsoft has forged a "strategic partnership" to digitise 25 million pages of content from the British Library in London, the Financial Times reported.
 
Microsoft is to invest 2.5 million dollars in the venture next year as "an initial investment" in a long-term project that will kick off

A consortium led by the University of Delaware (UD) on Wednesday (Nov. 2) said that it could receive nearly $53 million in funding — with the bulk of the money coming from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) — to more than double the efficiency of terrestrial solar cells within the next 50

Noted adware supplier 180solutions said Thursday that it was the target of an alleged denial-of-service (DoS) extortion attempt by one of its own distributors, a Dutchman who, with help from two others, created a botnet of some 1.5 million machines.

The admission not only revealed some of the behind-the-scenes business that goes

Web browsing used to be mostly about just that: Surfing site after site for information and goods. But lately, more people are using the Internet as much to produce and share things as to consume them. A new browser called Flock seeks to address the new reality of enhanced online creativity and community. Read More...   Category: Internet

Sun Microsystems, in a move to improve interoperability between Java and Microsoft's .Net platform, plans to develop and distribute open source versions of several industry-wide Web services specifications. The company is planning implementations of WS-* specifications in messaging, metadata, security, and quality of service.
 
"What we're announcing is sort of

From the day the iPod debuted, there was little doubt the diminutive music player would become a significant product for Apple. With its ability to play MP3 files and sync up with the jukebox software on your Mac, the iPod immediately leapt to the top of the crowded field of handheld music players. Read More...   Category: Apple Mac

Looking to boost its presence in the digital music market, America Online Inc. (AOL) has acquired music subscription provider MusicNow from Circuit City Stores Inc., AOL announced Thursday.
 
The acquisition agreement was signed at the end of September and the deal, whose financial terms weren't disclosed, closed this week, AOL

Cable TV companies and networking vendors are angling to provide infrastructure for municipal Wi-Fi coverage, and for some solution providers that spells opportunity.

Comcast's recent investment in wireless mesh networking vendor BelAir Networks and Cisco Systems expected entry into the mesh networking hardware market later this month, among other developments, have turned