The campus of Georgia College & State University boasts traditional college fare — spacious greens, historic architecture and a steady stream of students with the familiar white headphones of iPods dangling from their ears. But here in the antebellum capital of Georgia, students listening to iPods might just as well be studying for calculus

TOKYO — Sony Electronics said it will launch its first Blu-ray Disc player, BDP-S1, in July in North America for about $1,000.
A Vaio desktop computer and notebook with built-in Blu-ray Disc recordable drives will follow almost immediately along with recordable and rewritable disks. An internal PC drive will also be introduced

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Friday launched a new e-filing system that allows patents to be submitted online. Unlike the previous online system, the new PDF-based e-filing system features complete support for Mac OS X.
 
“The great news for Apple is that USPTO listened to its

The hugely popular US college basketball championships got under way this week, with the CBS TV network looking to slam dunk an Internet experiment that could revolutionise sports broadcasting.
 
For the first time, CBS, which owns exclusive rights to the tournament, is augmenting normal television broadcasts of games by providing

The hugely popular US college basketball championships got under way this week, with the CBS TV network looking to slam dunk an Internet experiment that could revolutionise sports broadcasting.
 
For the first time, CBS, which owns exclusive rights to the tournament, is augmenting normal television broadcasts of games by providing

Hosted messaging service provider USA.NET, Denver, said it is now offering its subscribers the ability to encrypt and digitally sign all outgoing messages by simply clicking a button in their existing e-mail application.

USA.NET encrypted emailSM is aimed at small- and medium-size businesses as a way to ensure the confidentiality of all

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The semiconductor rankings changed in 2005 in what was considered the year of the “soft landing” for the IC industry, according to iSuppli Corp.

Global semiconductor sales amounted to $237.1 billion in 2005, up 3.6 percent from $228.8 billion in 2004, according to iSuppli. Meanwhile, Broadcom, Hynix, IBM, Micron,

Chalk up another first to the hacker universe. According to the " Windows XP on Mac" Web site, a hacker known only as "narf" has managed to load Windows XP on an unmodified Intel-based Apple Macintosh computer.
 
It is a feat that Apple engineers, as recently as last Thursday, said

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The way companies are rolling out beta products these days, you're never quite sure what's real anymore.
 
Such was the case at Microsoft's presentation here at the Spring 2006 VON show Thursday afternoon, when the software giant showed -- sort of -- some in-development video- and

In a continuing effort to crack down on distributors of illegal software, Microsoft this week filed suit against eight users of eBay's auction site for allegedly selling counterfeit copies of the company's software online.
 
Microsoft filed the suits in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, and Washington, each a