Symantec could not immediately comment on whether the hackers had indeed released the source code of its product. "It happened so recently that we're still in the process of analyzing and...

The revised Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) Code by the Communications Alliance has included new provisions such as regular customer usage notifications for voice, SMS and data...

Oracle has chosen a new trial in its lawsuit against SAP for copyright infringement, rejecting the reduction of a jury verdict by about US$1 billion by a federal court in September last...

Samsung's next flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S III, may be officially unveiled in March and will be just 7mm thick, according to the latest...

The rollout schedule for the Federal Government's Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) project is currently on track, according to the Department of Health and Ageing...

More than 300,000 Australian households have changed channels to subscription IPTV which could pose challenges for operators such as Foxtel, according to a new study by analyst firm,...

Paul Allen was the third most generous donor in America last year, and the most generous one still alive. This is Allen's 10th year on the list. Only two donors have made the list more times:...

Follow this company . Stock ownership by members of Congress has been an issue recently after several media reports that were critical of what some viewed as politicians capitalizing on...

AVON, Ind. (WISH) - Laptops loaded with classified and personal information were swiped over the weekend from the Department of Child Services in Hendricks County. The initial concern was identity...

The Alberta government, keen to sell its oil to Asian markets, recognizes that it will have to share with British Columbia some of the "rewards" it will glean from the construction of a...

VFCache went on sale Monday as a PCIe card for cached data in servers, which will use EMC's FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) software. In the second quarter, the company will start...

At least three months after it was scheduled to allocate the next round of funding for the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) project, the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA)...

Microsoft has opened its C++ AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing...

Users are no longer ignorant about technology. Many are both passionate and knowledgeable. And consumer-grade tools are more and more capable for business usage -- and sometimes even superior than...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), together with Senator Stephen Conroy, have launched Safer Internet Day, an initiative designed to encourage cyber...

With new CEO Rory Read at the helm for about six months, Advanced Micro Devices has turned its attention to the lucrative and burgeoning tablet...

"The design of this sandbox is similar to what Adobe delivered with Adobe Reader X Protected Mode and follows the same Practical Windows Sandboxing approach," said Peleus Uhley, platform...

Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world's largest...

Telstra Corporation is expected to report a double-digit increase in first half profit as the telco grows market share, particularly in mobile, and keeps costs in...

Small businesses have embraced the internet but 16 per cent don't use anti-virus software and 30 per cent don't use a protective firewall, a new study...

BTJunkie, a popular file-sharing indexing site, says it is voluntarily shutting down, less than three weeks after the US closure of Megaupload in a crackdown on piracy of music, films and other...

The researchers said internet dating was a great help to single people in Western societies, for whom matchmaking was "grossly inefficient" after leaving school or...

Australia's number two telco, Optus, has launched a range of internet plans over the National Broadband Network's (NBN) first five mainland release sites targeting small...

Despite global economic uncertainty, Australian chief information officers (CIOs) and chief technology officers (CTOs) are looking to 2012 with confidence in their business' growth prospects,...

For many years, Macs were perceived as being more for the creative folks, such as art designers, but had no role in a workplace where data processing was the main job. So when companies made bulk...

Follow this company in San Jose. The store has been under renovation for some time but posters went up in the past week announcing that it will be a Microsoft store. The San Jose store...

Follow this company that owns Blockbuster Express movie kiosks - a key competitor to Redbox. The deal is subject to regulatory approval but is expected to close in the third quarter of...

Follow this company said on Monday it has sued smart thermostat developer Nest Labs Inc. for patent infringement. The lawsuit filed at United States District Court for the District of...

The Verge website reported that the survey asked customers if they would be interested in spending $1,499 for an HDTV from Apple and listed various features, some of which are considered highly...

Some 20 years ago, technologists with their heads in the clouds began predicting that the advent of the World Wide Web would mean the end of shopping malls, schools and universities, phone companies...

Anamitra Banerji has joined the firm as an entrepreneur in residence (EIR). In his role with Menlo Park-based Foundation Capital, Banerji is expected to focus on online collaboration and mobile...

Follow this company had roughly 100 stories on its Web site this past week that attracted visitors to read about the breaking news of the day in the business...

Follow this company Inc. said Monday it plans to refinance $300 million in existing debt. The holding company for Hawaiian Telcom plans to refinance a term loan that matures on Oct. 28,...

Follow this company regained profitability in the fourth quarter as its revenue soared 47 percent. The North Palm Beach-based financial website company (NYSE: RATE) posted net income of...

Moul had joined appRenaissance , I talked to Moul and was able to ask him some questions about the company and why he decided to become its president and CEO. He said the company, which is based in...

Java is barely hanging on to its ranking as the most popular programming language, edging out C in this month's Tiobe index of programming language...

The Verge yesterday and then followed by other blogs -- all seemingly based on screenshots posted in a Chinese forum that claim the images are from the newest private "build" of the beta --...

Azure cloud service to keep safe the application that tracks where the money is as it travels to and from customers and the company's vaults in armored...

According to an informal survey of advertised global broadband speeds conducted by IDG publications around the world (IDG publishes Network World and ARN), East Asian countries boast some of the...

Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile...

The global semiconductor market is showing signs of a healthy recovery after a rough 2011 in which year-over-year growth was flat, the Semiconductor Industry Association said on...

Apple iOS devices will find they need a special digital certificate from Apple to activate it, a requirement that doesn't apply to the same MDM software that would be used to manage...

The company's record sales - the majority of them the new iPhone 4S - in the three months ending December 31, 2011 translated into the top spot among smartphone manufacturers globally and in the...

The report said Facebook has been in contact with advertising agencies regarding what would be "featured stories" in users' news feed. The ads reportedly would launch in early...

Pennsylvania State University researchers have devised a technique for embedding an electronic junction directly into optical fiber, which potentially paves the way for more streamlined optical...

Contrary to reports, the Kelihos botnet has not crawled out of the grave, Microsoft said last week. But the company acknowledged that a new botnet is being assembled using a variant of the original...

Google's grand fiber network experiment is now one step closer to becoming a reality as the company announced that it is "ready to lay fiber" in Kansas City,...

Solve for X project, which the company says is "a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global...

Honeywell International Inc. on Monday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs Inc. and Best Buy Co. Inc., which sells a Nest thermostat that competes with...

The semiconductor industry set a record for revenue in 2011, hitting sales of $299.5 billion for the year, a slight increase from last year. The...