Shocking! iPod plus lightning equals trouble
Doctors writing in the New England Journal of Medicine warned that using a portable music player such as an Apple iPod outdoors when lightning threatens can be dangerous.
Doctors writing in the New England Journal of Medicine warned that using a portable music player such as an Apple iPod outdoors when lightning threatens can be dangerous.
Confusion reigns around a zero-day browser vulnerability made public Tuesday, with four researchers or organizations squaring off over whether Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Mozilla's Firefox is at fault.
Microsoft Wednesday released the first public beta of Windows Live OneCare 2.0, a major upgrade of its consumer security suite.
Three critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player that could let hackers infect Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems, were patched Tuesday by Adobe Systems.
Microsoft Tuesday issued six security updates for Windows, Office and the .Net Framework, patching a total of 11 vulnerabilities -- five of them rated critical.
A British online retailer "runs" its Web site using a bunch of obsolete home computers from the early 1980s, according to Internet monitoring company Netcraft.
As investigations continued into the death a 22-year-old Chinese man whose cell phone exploded, Chinese authorities have found batteries that may blow up when used in Motorola and Nokia cell phones, news reports said Friday.
Microsoft faces a revolt among enterprise customers over its Software Assurance maintenance program, an analyst said Monday, because of long stretches between upgrades and simple economics.
Microsoft Thursday rejected the idea that its deal last year with Novell ties it to the new General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) and said it will not support any software distributed under the just-released open-source license.
VMware launched the first release candidate (RC1) of its Fusion virtualization software that lets Mac owners run Windows on Intel-based machines, one of the last steps toward finalizing its rival to Apple's own Boot Camp and Parallels's flagship virtual machine, Parallels.
A noted Norwegian hacker claimed Wednesday to have come up with a way to activate an Apple iPhone without committing to an AT&T wireless plan.
The notorious Mpack hacker toolkit is installing malware that carries out all its chores -- including spewing spam -- from within the Windows kernel, making it extremely difficult for some security software to detect, Symantec said Thursday.
Each 8GB iPhone sold by Apple puts US$333 more in the till than the device cost to build, a market research company said Tuesday after tearing apart the new phone.
Apple Monday issued a fix for the "snap, crackle, pop" audio problem that has bedeviled some Macintosh users since the June 20 operating system update to Mac OS 10.4.10.
The team responsible for coming up with add-ons for Microsoft's Windows Vista Ultimate reacted to critics Monday by breaking a three-month silence to say that they'll finalize one already-released program within three months.