After months of bantering about wireless security issues, Apple and security research firm SecureWorks are now working together, the companies confirmed on Friday.
“SecureWorks and Apple are working together in conjunction with the CERT Coordination Center on any reported security issues,” SecureWorks said in a statement provided to Macworld. “We will not make any additional public […]
The U.S. government will remain involved with the management of the Internet’s domain name system after its current agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) expires on Saturday.
The decision comes despite international pressure advocating for the U.S. government to bow out and make ICANN a totally autonomous entity.
The U.S. Commerce Department […]
A map of the mouse brain down to details of individual cells has been completed, the first project of an institute funded by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul G. Allen, it was announced Tuesday.
The new Allen Brain Atlas is being made available online without cost to neuroscientists studying brain circuits and chemistry, a potential boon to […]
Enterbrain, publishers of leading Japanese game magazine Famitsu, surveyed Japanese retailers for some surprising results.
Question 1: which new console will sell better this holiday season?
* 88% Wii
* 11% PS3
Question 2: including all hardware, which system will generate the most sales?
* 60.7% Nintendo DS
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Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard have signed a deal to feature Yahoo services, including search, on the HP PCs sold into the US and European consumer markets.
Under the agreement, HP PCs will feature Yahoo search as the default search box on the Internet Explorer 7 browser and there will be a co-branded tool bar which will give […]
In a bid to fulfill the performance requirements of latest usage models, such as visualization and extensible markup language (XML),IBM and Intel Corporation have teamed up to develop a proposal to improve PCI Express technology.
According to a press release, the proposal codenamed “Geneseo” defines improvements facilitating faster connectivity between the processor and application accelerators. Geneseo […]
Microsoft unveils Mac Messenger 6, an update to the Mac OS X version of its Windows instant messaging client.
Microsoft has unveiled Mac Messenger 6, an update to the Mac OS X version of its Windows instant messaging client. Initial reaction from users was unenthusiastic.
The update is the first Universal application launched by Microsoft […]
SPY SCANDAL-ROCKED HP has taken time out from its busy schedule of litigation to sign a deal with the search outfit Yahoo.
Under the deal, Yahoo will be installed on every computer that HP flogs. The move is widely seen as both Yahoo and HP playing catch up on their rivals of Google and Dell.
HP will […]
Apple is previewing an update to the webmail component of its .Mac service that will bring the Web client more in line with the Mail application included with Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger.” Apple said it’s coming soon.
.Mac webmail enables you to read your .Mac e-mail messages using a supported Web browser on any Mac […]
Get this fix right away: Microsoft released an unusual out-of-cycle patch yesterday for the latest zero-day hole in Internet Explorer 6 that can hit fully patched systems (up until yesterday) with a drive-by-download.
The threat involves images in a little-used Microsoft format called VML, for vector markup language. Microsoft had originally said it would release a […]
