It has taken more than five years, about $6 billion and over 5,000 developers around the world (300 in India) and now Microsoft is ready to release, on January 30, the retail version of its operating system called Windows Vista. The enterprise version was launched in December, but companies are not really in a hurry […]

Apple Inc. on Thursday released a security update to patch a hole in the wireless Internet software built into many of its computers running Mac OS X.
The update applies to Core Duo versions of the Mac mini, MacBook and MacBook Pro computers equipped with wireless. Affected Mac users can download the patch via OS X’s […]

Intel is ramping up its 45-nanometer generation of chips, which will result in smaller, faster and more energy efficient chips. Tom Krazit covers the announcement:
The Penryn chips are the first iteration of the new manufacturing strategy outlined by [Intel CEO Paul] Otellini earlier this year. Intel wants to introduce new […]

Increasing legal action in the United States over piracy on YouTube, the video-sharing website, could set the scene for a test case against a British bootlegger, lawyers said.
In the latest move, Twentieth Century Fox has demanded that YouTube reveal details of an American user who posted episodes of 24 and The Simpsons on the site.
With […]

Just a few days before Windows Vista release, the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), which includes IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Oracle and Red Hat, said that the very same practices the European Commission found to be illegal almost three years ago have now been implemented in Microsoft’s new OS. ECIS warned in statement […]

Upcoming rollout not stirring much interest yet.
Back in college, Jonathan Prentice was intrigued enough by Windows 95 to go to a nearby store as soon as it came out. That eagerness, and his time zone, earned the New Zealand resident international media attention as the first person in the world to buy the program.
But don’t […]

Intel claims major advancement in the 45nm technology for processors, but IBM and Intel’s rival AMD had already claimed the same thing last December.
The 45 nanometer (45 nm) process is the next milestone (to be commercially viable in mid 2007 to early 2008) in CMOS fabrication. Intel stated in 2003 that high-k gate dielectrics may […]

Two days after issuing a fix for the QuickTime bug discovered earlier this month, Apple released another patch Thursday, this time to repair a vulnerability in Apple’s AirPort WiFi software. In this case, an attacker in local proximity may be able to trigger a system crash by sending a maliciously-crafted frame to an affected system.
Apple […]

It’s been a long wait, but Windows Vista PCs are here. We evaluated the first batch of desktop systems preloaded with Microsoft’s new operating system — and the results of our exclusive benchmark performance tests show that even sub-£600 systems can ably handle Vista. But some of the new OS’s highly touted features aren’t present […]

Some films in the new high-definition formats are being copied after software code is cracked.
The much-vaunted anti-piracy protection on the next generation of DVDs has been cracked, leaving films in the new high-definition formats vulnerable to copying.
Hackers have defeated the core means for protecting the medium seen by Hollywood as a major new source of […]