Google Inc. has extended a multiyear deal with RealNetworks Inc. to promote Google software across Real's entertainment and multimedia products the companies said on Wednesday.

RealNetworks and Google together with Web browser maker Mozilla Corp. said they had agreed to distribute the Mozilla Firefox browser together with the Google Toolbar along with Real's

Authentium which sells software development tools to security applications vendors introduced a new product July that promises to give banks and other online service providers the ability to create more secure Webbased transactions.

Dubbed VirtualATM the SDK (software developer kit) is aimed squarely at businesses looking to boost security of their online

Small businesses will get some of the wireless LAN bells and whistles enterprises already have as Cisco Systems' Linksys division expands its product lineup on Monday.
 
A new router access point and CardBus adapter will use a draft version of the .n standard for high speed as a slew of consumer

Verizon Wireless has announced a digital music player called "Chocolate" that uses a cell phone made by LG Electronics to play songs downloaded over Verizon's wireless network.

With its circular scroll pad the device looks like Apple Computer's iPod MP player adding another player to an increasingly crowded market. Microsoft announced July it

On Monday a startup called Spiceworks released a beta version of its free adsupported IT management software for network administrators.

"After probably plus years in this business it struck us as kind of odd maybe even a little perverse that you should have to pay for technology to manage your technology" says Scott Abel

Sonoma Wire Works has completed its extensive beta period and has released Riffworks . for Mac OS X. The first time Riffworks has been made available for the Mac the application has been released as a Universal Binary supporting Intelbased Macs.
 
Riffworks is contains a Riffbased workflow allowing guitarists to

Google has launched a beta site service for open source software called Google Code Project Hosting available at http://code.google.com/hosting. Announced late last week at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland Oregon and sporting a tagline of "Release Early Release Often" Google Code provides space for developers and users to exchange open

Apple Computer on Monday issued a battery recall for its inch MacBook Pro. Apple said the affected batteries do not pose a safety hazard and users can continue to use them until the new ones arrive.

&;We recently discovered that some inch MacBook Pro batteries supplied to Apple do not meet our high

MSNBC on Monday said it has completed a beta test of its adsupported mobile news service which the news company plans to roll out in November.
 
The service is being developed with SmartVideo Technologies Inc. which is providing the mobile platform to deliver the top headlines and videos from NBC

Big U.S. companies are taking tough measures to shore up laptop security amid a rash of thefts.
 
The actions of Ernst & Young Fidelity Investments and other highprofile victims underscore the balancing act for executives who must weigh the costs of additional security and customer privacy with the financial benefits of