Apple Computer is providing photographers with an upgrade to its digital-imaging software and sweetening the deal with a price cut and free merchandise.
 
Aperture 1.1 runs on both Intel-based and PowerPC Macs and features advanced controls for raw-image rendering and a new built-in color meter.

The update comes

SOS Online Backup is looking to recruit about 1,000 solution providers within the next 12 months to bring secure online backup services to small businesses.

The company, headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, with a corporate office in Arlington, Va., has entered the United States market with an all-channel strategy and is looking for

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a minor refresh of its anti-spyware Microsoft Defender software with improvements to the user interface and signature updating.

Other changes include a tweak that modifies alerts according to the severity of a threat to make them less, improvements in the real-time protection to better watch key parts of

Mozilla Corp. late Thursday updated its Firefox browser to patch a mega-batch of 24 vulnerabilities, the bulk of them tagged "critical."
 
Just days after rival Microsoft fixed 10 bugs in its Internet Explorer, Mozilla unveiled Firefox 1.5.0.2, which included 7 patches, 5 of them critical. It also unveiled 11 new

Kaspersky Lab has released a beta version of mobile antivirus software for smart phones using the Symbian OS, it announced this week.
 
The product, called Kaspersky Anti-Virus Mobile 2.0, can stop suspicious programs before they infect the phone and scan devices for malicious software, the company said.

Kaspersky is one

A federal jury in Texas has awarded TiVo $74 million in damages in patent lawsuit against EchoStar Communications Corp.
The 10-member jury in the United States District Court Eastern District of Marshall, Texas said EchoStar willfully infringed on TiVo's Digital Video Recorder (DVR) patent.

In the lawsuit, TiVo alleged EchoStar

With its just-fielded Google Calendar service, Google is going head-to-head with a number of other companies with lengthier histories in this space, including archrival Microsoft.

Microsoft has offered calendaring as part of Outlook and Hotmail for years. Recently, Microsoft added more calendaring offerings to its stable. It introduced a new calendaring facility

The credit card details of thousands of Britons are being sold on the Internet by hackers intent on committing identity fraud.
 
At least 400 credit card numbers are sold per day, along with other personal information such as dates of birth and mothers' maiden names, The Times said.

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Software engineers have the best jobs in America, according to a survey released Wednesday.

Placing second were college professors and administrators and third were financial advisors, as surveyed by Money magazine, published by Time Inc., and Salary.com, compensation experts based in Needham, Massachusetts.

The job of software engineer topped the list based

Dell delivered on its recent promise to dive into print managed services by adding such capabilities to a pact with longtime customer Boeing.

Under the deal, Dell said it will provide printer installation, repair and asset optimization for Boeing, as well as print supplies.

The Round Rock, Texas-based vendor said