When you’re in third place, nobody takes you seriously. In the case of Nintendo (OTC BB: NTDOY.PK) and its risky Wii console, things are only made worse by the fact that you are putting out a console that lacks the DVD gadgetry of its larger competitors and is being marketed around quirky controllers and motion-activated [...]

Portable software may be wave of the future for consumers, firms
Lots of people own two or three computers. But thanks to a powerful new technology anybody can make any computer their own, just by plugging in a common digital device.
A new product called MojoPac lets iPod users take control of any desktop computer running Microsoft [...]

Sony today announced that its new VAIO VGN-TX series of ultraportable notebooks will include integrated broadband-capable wide area network technology.
The company said that the TX laptops will be able to easily connect to Sprint’s EvDO Power Vision Network, which the communications company expects to upgrade later this year with EvDO Revision A technology (only in [...]

Three AOL subscribers whose records of Internet searches were made available online are suing the company under privacy laws and are seeking an end to its retention of search-related data.
The lawsuit is believed to be the first in the wake of AOL’s release of about 19 million search requests made over a three-month period by [...]

Good news for home Internet users who don’t bother to secure their computers or their Web connections: They are slightly less likely to be attacked then they were last year. The bad news, according to computer security firm Symantec: The hackers who do visit them are more likely looking for money than they have been [...]

Nintendo, the No. 3 video game consolemaker, has always been known in the industry for being different. But never before has the company bet so much on being unique as it has in its next-generation platform, which it plans to unveil on Nov. 19.
While Microsoft and Sony duke it out for video game supremacy with [...]

IBM on Tuesday plans to unveil the first in a new line of product bundles encompassing hardware, software and technical assistance as it looks to increase its sales to small and medium-size companies.
The world’s largest computer services company plans to launch more than 30 such bundles over the next eight weeks. Two product bundles introduced [...]

Advanced Micro Devices and Intel Corp. will square off over quad-core processors this week as each side tries to position itself as leading the race for multicore x86 processors.
Intel is expected to demostrate at the Intel Developer Forum Tuesday (Sept. 26) its Clovertown and Kentsfield server and desktop processors which essentially pack two existing dual-core [...]

The incident involved the same Sony battery that was at the center of recalls last month by Apple Computer and Dell.
PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd. on Monday left open the possibility of a recall stemming from a smoking laptop that sent sparks flying at Los Angeles International Airport.
Lenovo is investigating the Sept. 16 [...]

Online banking security systems designed to thwart keystroke-logging programs may not be as safe as banks and consumers would like, according to recent findings by Gartner security analyst Avivah Litan and Hispasec Systems, a spanish security company.
Some online banking sites make customers use “virtual keypads” — a method of entering passwords on the screen, generally [...]