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JB Hi-Fi's websites in Australia and New Zealand were redirecting customers to malicious web pages over the weekend in a cyber attack in the lead-up to Christmas.

Psystar sold PCs that ran Apple's OS X software. The computers functioned essentially the same as standard Macs, but were sold for less than Apple-built machines .

Microsoft's latest round of security patches appears to be causing some PCs to seize up and display a black screen, rending the computer useless.

Cyber Monday is the online counterpart to Black Friday, minus the long lines. The bureau urges consumers to trust their instincts because offers that sound too good to be true often are.

The Windows Device Manager can help you fix hardware problems, manage drives, and more. Check out this article with a detailed description of what you can do with the Windows Device Manager.

Excess heat from hundreds of computer servers to be located in the bedrock beneath Uspenski Cathedral, one of Helsinki's most popular tourist sites, will be captured and channelled into the district heating network, a system of water-heated pipes used to warm homes in the Finnish capital.

U.S. retail sales on Black Friday and the weekend after Thanksgiving advanced 0.5 percent as discounts on electronics and toys drew budget-conscious crowds, according to the National Retail Federation.

A combination of advanced accelerometer functionality and automated data upload are solving a long term concern over the accuracy of self-reported data.

Cyber Monday 2009 ads and specials coming soon. deallocker.com The hype around Black Friday is fading away only to be replaced by the mounting anticipation for Cyber Monday and a brand new set of bargains for holiday shoppers.

New Delhi, Nov 29 : The highly competitive Common Admission Test , which went online for the first time this year, was once again hit Sunday by technical problems and poor management, affecting students in as many as 24 test centres in 13 cities across the country.

Computer hacker Gary McKinnon wants to face court for hacking into the Pentagon's computer system but should not be tried in America, his mother said.

As Bill Carini exited Walmart in Rostraver Township this morning, he summed up his Black Friday shopping experience in one word.

The Portland Water Bureau issued a "Boil Water Notice" Saturday for all customers west of the Willamette River, including the Valley View, Burlington and Palatine Hill Water Districts.

Digital screen users get computer vision syndrome because their eyes have to work harder compared with reading paper.

It's 5:30 a.m. Friday and Ethiopia native Asad Abdi, with a blanket over his shoulder and a Sony laptop computer under his arm, is the picture of American life.

New Delhi, Nov 28 Notwithstanding the hiccups faced by thousands of students on day one of the Common Admission Test , an Indian Institute of Management director said the online examination is a "democratising process" and "all the problems will be sorted out quickly". "CAT on computer is a democratising process and aims at benefiting students in a ...

"Defense analysts can understand the repercussions of their proposed recommendations for policy options or military actions by interacting with a virtual world environment....They can propose a policy option and walk skeptical commanders through a virtual world where the commander can literally 'see' how things might play out.

Background The question that this review will ask is: Should you get or upgrade to Windows 7? The answer could depend a lot on what operating system you currently use.

Black Friday shoppers looking for deals on laptop and desktop computers have plenty of options to choose from.

Work Vessels for Veterans was started two years ago by Connecticut lobsterman John Niekrash, who donated a boat to Richard Giguere, a Marine reservist from Rhode Island who served two tours in Iraq.

Personal computer maker Lenovo Group said Friday it is joining the race to develop products that link phones and PCs by buying back a mobile phone business that it sold last year.

The iPhone's arrival in South Korea is generating considerable buzz among consumers and industry watchers amid expectations it will shake up a market dominated by world-beating domestic manufacturers.

Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods.

If you happen to own one of the new 27-inch iMacs , you may have heard that you can also use it as an external display for your other computers and devices .

The British government said Thursday it will not prevent the extradition of an autistic hacker accused of breaking into U.S. military computers.

The Mac clone maker now fighting for its life in federal court pitched an extremely aggressive business plan to potential investors last year, claiming that it would sell as many as 12 million machines in 2011.

The growth points to a strong recovery' says IDC; notebook PC sales cross 7 lakh units for the first time in a single quarter BANGALORE, INDIA: Raising hopes of a strong economic recovery, the overall India PC market sales touched 21.9 lakh units during July-September 2009 quarter, recording a 24 per cent quarter-on-quarter growth.

It was stone age by today's standards, but a milestone in the development of what was to become the internet in Australia.

The Virtual StreamLab, which demonstrates the physics of natural water flows at an unprecedented level of detail and realism, was unveiled for the first time this week at the 2009 American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Minneapolis, one of the largest conferences in fluid dynamics with more than 1,500 attendees from around ...

The GPU cluster will be able to speed up the reconstruction of 3-D images, such as this wood microstructure created from many 2-D images.

Dismissive ... Steve Jobs replies to a plea from the Little App Factory. A long-time Apple software developer from Sydney fears he may have to lay off most of his staff after draconian Apple legal threats and a rare personal email from Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs.

You have to give HP and AT&T some credit: it takes guts to call your new smartphone the HP iPAQ Glisten .

Being the huge internet user that I am, I have specific sites that I always go to. Search engines probably taking up the most of my time. I might search for products or do various other types of research. Therefore, instead of going to a news site like CNN, I would rather go straight to Google's page. This guide shows you how to set up your browser homepage to go to the page you want when you open your browser.

AFP, New York US computer giant Hewlett- Packard posted a 14 percent rise in quarterly net profit yesterday as slumping personal computer sales were offset by a solid performance in its services division.

The Better Business Bureau has some advice for shoppers on Cyber Monday. That's the popular online shopping day that falls the Monday after Thanksgiving.

So you jailbroke your iPhone. Maybe you wanted to try out some of the third party apps.

A visitor looks at laptops at a computer fair. Worldwide sales of personal computers, which had been forecast to decline this year, will instead post modest gains, Gartner research group said Monday.

US technology giant Hewlett-Packard has said a strong performance in China and improved profit margins in its services business helped to push its quarterly profits 14% higher than a year earlier.

We take a detailed look at the differences between AGP and PCI-e to show you why your next video card should use the PCI-e connection.

Opera just announced the release of Opera 10.10 . This latest version of Opera's desktop browser now includes Opera Unite , the company's browser-based web server.

Comment about "Google says PC will start in seven seconds or less" Phone Name Comment 0 Monday, 23rd November 2009 Google says PC will start in seven seconds or less Reuters New Google Inc.

A HONG Kong resident and three other men, including the self-proclaimed "Godfather of Spam", have been sentenced to prison for their roles in an email stock fraud scheme, the Justice Department said.

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s profit jumped 14 percent in the latest quarter, helped by cost-cutting and better results from its technology services division.

Microsoft's next browser, Internet Explorer 9 , will offload image and text rendering chores to the PC's graphic processor, one way the company plans to increase the browser's overall performance, according to the firm's top IE manager.

Have you ever wondered or heard of Windows SuperFetch and wondered what it was? If so, check out this article with a detailed description of SuperFetch and its predecessor, Prefetcher.

Apple owners claim that their Applecare warranties have been refused due to "health risks of second hand smoke." The Consumerist has reported that two separate readers have sent in accounts of being refused computer repair service due to the presence of damage related to smoking.

Share + Nov 22, 2009 5:38 pm US/Eastern SAN FRANCISCO Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain - an effort that tests the limits of technology.

So what is Google Chrome OS? Get your head around Google's high-speed web browser and revolutionary new operating system.

I'm spending the weekend at my parents' house in York and so my duties as the person who knows about computers come into play.

Cyberattacks on the U.S. Department of Defense -- many of them coming from China -- have jumped sharply in 2009, a U.S. congressional committee reported Thursday.

In the year 2000, Sony's PlayStation 2 was launched worldwide, and over its lifetime it's accrued quite a library of classic titles, from your Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid games, to Gran Turismo and Resident Evil, as well as Devil May Cry, God of War, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, amongst many, many more.

A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming.

The San Diego City Attorney's and District Attorney's offices are now sharing a merged computer system to track criminal case information.

Article:Sony's Hirai hopes for quick start to online content se:/g/a/2009/11/20/urnidgns852573C400693880002576700016132E.DTL Article:Sony's Hirai hopes for quick start to online content se:/g/a/2009/11/20/urnidgns852573C400693880002576700016132E.DTL 02:15 PST -- Sony is hoping to launch its planned online content service early next year and expects ...

North American stock markets looked set for another day of declines Friday as the U.S. dollar strengthened, commodities fell and investors looked over a disappointing earnings report from computer maker Dell Inc.

After two strong weeks, investors tried unsuccessfully to extend the market's rally after major stock indexes closed at 13-month highs on Tuesday.

Prices for the latest hot digital gadgets have been falling, allowing consumers to trade up at lower prices, says the research firm NDP Group Canada.

Barbara Frale, a Vatican researcher, claims to have discovered Christ's 'death certificate' on the Turin Shroud.

New MIT research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of the wasted heat produced by everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, and turn it into usable electricity.

Microsoft Corp. is giving away nearly 24,000 vouchers to North Carolina residents who want to improve their computer skills so they can improve their lot in the work force.

Asia's stock markets mostly retreated Friday following a glum session on Wall Street as evidence of a weak economic recovery continued to pile up.

As the year comes to an end, you probably must be making plans as to what to get for the festive period and where to spend the holiday. Office 10 and Chrome are two great pieces of software for late 2009.

Signs of a subdued economic recovery sent investors out of stocks Thursday and in search of safer assets like the dollar.

A software problem that caused flight delays across the country today was not the first serious hiccup Federal Aviation Administration computer systems have suffered in recent years.

Air Canada said Thursday it has begun trial offers of Internet service onboard some flights between Los Angeles and the cities of Toronto and Montreal.

Google expects lightweight computers powered by its new operating system to be on sale in time for next year's holiday season.

Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their travel plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months.

The situation often occurs in which you would like to access your work computer from home or vice versa. This guide can help you do this with the Windows remote desktop program.

The European Ombudsman, Nikiforos Diamandouros, has gone public in saying he has found the European Commission Competition Directorate guilty of maladministration on one count in a complaint brought by Intel Corp.

The fad for mini desktop computers and/or small media centres has blossomed over the last 12 months and Dell is looking to take advantage after giving an official launch to the Zino HD .

Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile phones is now available for immediate download on a smartphone near you.

Have you ever wondered what cache memory is and what the differences between L1, L2, and L3 cache are? If so, check out this detailed article that tells you all you need to know about cache memory.

BlackBerry and smartphone security in general hasn't garnered much attention or concern over the past few years--at least from a consumer, or user, perspective; enterprises have been invested in mobile device security since the advent of the PDA.

Apple's line of laptops ranked fourth in a multi-year reliability survey of nine notebook makers, according to a study of 30,000 portable computers published today by a company that provides after-sale warranties.

Stung by an embarrassing electronic leak last month revealing ethics investigations into dozens of lawmakers, Congress moved Tuesday to prohibit federal employees from using the same type of Internet file-sharing software blamed for the disclosure.

Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain - an effort that tests the limits of technology.

Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system.

Researchers from the universities of Bristol and St. Andrews in the UK have found that the color of a person's skin affects how healthy and therefore attractive they appear, and have found that diet may be crucial to achieving the most desirable complexion.

"Birther " was in the running, so was "death panels," but in the end the New Oxford American Dictionary can only pick one word of the year.

Hackers are increasingly targeting law firms and public relations companies with a sophisticated e-mail scheme that breaks into their computer networks to steal sensitive data, often linked to large corporate clients doing business overseas.

Bamboo has sprouted all over. It's being used everywhere from floorboards to tableware to inline skates and T-shirts, as consumers increasingly seek out products considered gentler on the Earth.

A North Dakota utility regulator is praising new computer software that's intended to help utility ratepayers reduce their energy use.

While PC users were upgrading to Windows 7 and quad-core processors this fall, Cray and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge, Tenn., lab upgraded an XT5 supercomputer nicknamed "Jaguar" to more than 224,000 processing cores.

POMONA, Calif. a " The California Institute of Technology in Pomona says personal information for hundreds of student applicants was made available on the Internet for five years.Officials say Social Security numbers, home addresses and other information for as many as 355 applicants were inadvertently left in a publicly accessible computer folder ...

More than four out of every five supercomputers on the TOP500 list are powered by Intel processors.

Search has also improved to be more like the Web. Think of e-shopping sites that let you narrow your choices by clicking on a specific brand name or price range to the left.

"SOME of the best-loved technology on the planet" is how Apple describes its products when recruiting new employees.

NIST postdoctoral researcher David Hanneke at the laser table used to demonstrate the first universal programmable processor for a potential quantum computer.

JOHN STARK Hydrologic techs monitor river speeds and levels EVERSON, Wash. - EVERSON, Wash.

They plan to let loose with electronic messages a ' provided they aren't so swept away by the afternoon liftoff that they fall uncharacteristically silent for a moment or two.

Is ADC Telecommunications a possible buyout target? Analysts -- and the company's stock price -- say no.

14-20, in Portland, Ore. The on-site project will be a demonstration of high-performance computing and open source solutions in the cloud.

Psystar, the little company in Florida that seemed for a while to be based in the back of a truck while it made Apple clones based on PC hardware, has lost all its claims against Apple in a legal victory that is an important ruling against would-be clone makers.

Google's Chrome OS project , first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we've heard from a reliable source.

HP is attacking Cisco's dominance of the market for gear that connects computers just as Cisco moves more aggressively into the market for computer systems, where HP is strong.

You have good reason to be skeptical when someone says millions of ordinary television viewers are about to start surfing the Internet on the living room's electronic hearth.

AMD has laid out its road map for processors through 2011, with an emphasis on a complete computing experience featuring stunning graphics and video.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 blasted past US$300 million in sales on its opening day, the videogame s publisher said on Thursday, blowing away even Hollywood films to become the highest-grossing entertainment launch ever.

Two computer programmers who the government has charged with creating and maintaining the software that enabled Bernie Madoff perpetuate his long-running Ponzi scheme were arrested and taken to Manhattan federal court today.

Google is bulking up its phone offerings with the acquisition of Gizmo5, a company that offers voice-over-IP software for mobile phones and computers.

Organizations, and even home users, are aware that sensitive data should not be available for other users. Windows has a built in way to encrypt your data so that only you can view sensitive information. Check out this guide to see how to do this.

Dell on Thursday officially announced its new Inspiron Zino HD mini desktop PC, an inexpensive Windows-based machine that targets the living room and the Mac mini.

In this product image provided by Dell Inc., the Dell Mini 3 smart phone, the company's first entry into the market, is shown.

Boxee , maker of free "media center software" , has been gaining in popularity. But potential customers have one big request for the company: Give us a dedicated Boxee box, rather than requiring us to run your software on our laptops.

When it comes to Microsoft, it pays to be careful what you say in public. That's what Simon Aldous found out the hard way recently when he proclaimed that Windows 7 "borrowed" a little bit of the Mac mojo during a recent reseller's conference.

There's a downsizing trend under way at many small businesses: Moving to smaller offices because of shrinking staffs and as more workers telecommute.

Intel To Pay AMD $1.25 Billion Erin Geiger Smith Nov. 12, 2009, 11:00 AM 322 An epic chip battle ends with a $1.25 billion settlement.

The comments would not stop pouring in of the alleged "flaws" of Windows 7 on the Netbook. Netbook users are making accusations that Microsoft has gone back on its promise made to Vista users, to provide a major upgrade for the OS. The latest controversial study comes from Retrevo and was recently released.

Cisco itself this year pushed into the server market, of which HP is a major player.

Nov. 11 -- Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Courtney Donohoe report on Hewlett-Packard Co.'s agreement to buy 3Com Corp.

Over the years, Web-based e-mail services have gotten much better, sporting many features once available only with the e-mail programs that reside on the computer desktop.

Hewlett-Packard Co., looking to expand into a business long dominated by Cisco, said Wednesday it has agreed to buy networking software and equipment maker 3Com Corp.

In a way to reduce cost, major IT companies have outsourced many jobs abroad. No doubt, such jobs now provide bread on the table for millions of Non-American families. Read on...

An Australian student sparked fears of a new era of computer viruses on Tuesday after creating a worm which infects Apple's iconic iPhone with pictures of 1980s pop star Rick Astley.

Apple on Monday updated Snow Leopard for the second time, fixing a data deletion flaw and an iMac performance issue, while blocking Atom-based netbooks from running its operating system.

The shipments of the Nokia N900, Nokia's latest mobile computer based on open source Maemo 5 software, have now started.

Microsoft's newest computer operating system has survived its first month on the market without needing any security fixes.

Amazon Kindle App For Windows Now Available Nov. 10, 2009, 7:40 AM 210 Amazon's Kindle e-reader app for Windows PCs is now available for free download from Amazon's site .

Dell and Hewlett-Packard customers are angry that they have not yet received the Windows 7 upgrades promised them when they purchased new PCs earlier this year, according to messages on the companies' support forums.

Electronic Arts Inc has acquired privately held Playfish for $275 million in cash plus other considerations, as the maker of the "Madden NFL" series extends into the growing social gaming sector.

Georgia State University is joining with 16 other colleges across the country to form a network of virtual computer labs that make educational and research resources available online 24 hours a day.

The state is charging a North Georgia judge with 12 counts of misconduct. The state Judicial Qualifications Commission on Monday alleged that Oliver Harris Doss Jr.

European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S. The so-called "statement of objections" that Sun received Monday from the European Commission isn't entirely surprising, since the commission already ...

PC processors are the latest tech segment bouncing back from the recession. Third-quarter shipments of computer processors, or CPUs, climbed 23 percent over the second quarter of 2009, doubling typical growth and setting a record for sequential growth, according to an IDC report released Monday.

A group of IT workers from Liverpool have won a 45.5 million share of the Euromillions jackpot, sources said.

Apple TV users running the recently released Apple TV 3.0 update need to update again, according to Apple.

The new multipurpose Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, purpose built for the FIFA 2010 World Cup, will have a voice, data, cabling, satellite master antenna television and computer network as well as printing and server solutions.

Computer giant Apple Inc will open its first French store beneath the Louvre museum on Saturday just two weeks after Microsoft opened a theme cafe to promote its Windows 7 software.

The Indian Institutes of Management are doing a last round of checks of the computer-based system they will use for the first time this year for their common admission test .

Mac cloner Psystar is seeking an injunction against Apple that would preclude them from tying OS X to Apple hardware on the grounds that Apple has a monopoly in the market for premium computers., reports Edible Apple .

A two - year probe of the restaurant industry in Canada has uncovered at least $40 million in "phantom" cash sales so far, says the Canada Revenue Agency.

Hamburg, Nov 8 : Ever wonder where you stored a certain file on your computer? If you have the new Windows 7 or even Windows Vista on your computer, you won't need any extra software to answer that question.

Despite the economy, worldwide smartphone shipments in the third quarter set a new quarterly record, according to IDC.

Parallels on Wednesday released Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac, a new version of its virtualization software that allows Intel-based Macs to run Windows and Linux alongside Mac OS X. According to Parallels, the new version of its software is up to 300 percent faster than the previous version, Parallels Desktop 4. The company also hired Crimson ...

Hoping to build on the success of netbooks like Acer's AspireOne, Intel wants to prove that its Pine Trail chip package can do for desktops what the first Atom processors did for laptops.

With another tough holiday season looming, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is ratcheting up a price war that could be good for shoppers but has competitors fearing the worst.

Dell Inc., one of the world's major personal computer makers, foresees a bright future in China, which is already the second largest market for the company, a Dell executive has said.

This work, developed at the department of Computer Architecture and Technology of the UGR, has designed several algorithms that permit to look for the best route path within a particular environment.

Most eyewear improves vision or cuts through solar glare, but a new gadget from Japan may soon sharpen linguistic skills and cut down language barriers instead, inventors said today.

Consumers looking to upgrade their cellphone have a new acronym to learn: HSPA. All three of Canada's big wireless providers are buzzing about the new technology - high speed packet access - which promises to make smartphones even more fun and powerful with blazing download speeds far faster than most home Internet connections.

Comment Much better than Vista, and the best Windows yet. That seems to be the consensus view on Windows 7, and after two and a half months with the final build, I more or less agree - despite the niggling voice that says behind the new taskbar it is not really so different from Windows Vista.

Measuring just 9.99mm in thickness, Dell Adamo XPS packs in 4GB of memory and relatively powerful fully-fledged dual-core microprocessor.

Personal computers are changing--and not just because of the recent launch of Windows 7. Visit an electronics store and you might also find that laptops are missing a familiar component.

A sales representative talks to a customer as Lenovo laptops are displayed at a computer store in Hong Kong yesterday.

NEW YORK, USA: According to the latest market data from ABI Research , almost 35 million netbooks will be shipped by manufacturers in 2009; a forecast the firm first made in February.

LaCie has announced the availability of the Network Space 2 . At first glance it looks like just like the original Network Space with its minimalist glossy black enclosure, but LaCie has added some new features that may entice buyers.

Sometimes, just when you thought your computer is in a perfect condition, your windows explorer stops working, freezes up, and restarts and you get the error message "windows explorer has stopped working". Check out this guide for how to fix this problem.

An antitrust lawsuit filed Wednesday by the New York attorney general alleges a longstanding symbiotic relationship between Intel and Dell.

Sales of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 operating system have been "fantastic" in Japan since its launch last month, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company spent nearly $1.1 million trying to influence lawmakers and regulators in the third quarter, a 50 percent increase from the July-September period last year, according to a recent disclosure statement.

Cisco Systems Inc. is forecasting revenue growth for the first time in a year, offering further evidence that orders are rising again after passing what CEO John Chambers called a "tipping point" in the downturn this summer.

Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan's economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company's first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry.

Sixteen-year old Keegan Donahue and his sister, 15-year-old Rylee, are active Facebook users.

Some semiconductor stocks finished lower Tuesday after a Morgan Stanley analyst downgraded the sector and individual stocks including Intel Corp.

Scientists need the same sort of computer breakthrough that the spreadsheet brought to business users decades ago, says Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer.

The latest developer versions of the Google Chrome browser come with the build in option to synchronize bookmarks across multiple computer systems by utilizing a Google account to store the data.

City and county officials are giving Dell Inc. a discount for repaying more than $26 million in local incentives early.

For those us of that are familiar with the hippy features that Google voice has to offer such as call blocking, listen in, call recording, conferencing calling, call screening and lots more, we definitely would attest to the fact that Google Voice from Google is off the hook.

Federal prosecutors allege that a 26-year-old man and the company he founded developed and distributed products used to hack cable modems.

Best Buy Co. is trying to nudge consumers away from its stores' DVD aisles by making it easier for them to rent and buy movies over high-speed Internet connections.

A Microsoft security report released Monday warns that cyber crooks are digging into computers for weak spots to penetrate with worms -- malicious software that steals control or data.

Last week I complained about Microsoft's shoddy documentation of how its upgrade procedures are supposed to work.

Microsoft released the newest Security Intelligence Report, which focuses on trends in malicious software and other computer threats in the first half of 2009 .

Simply put, when you insert a USB device, external hard drive, Compact Flash or Smart Media drive on your system, a window pops up asking if you would want to open a file or play a DVD. This guide shows you how to disable this if you choose to do so.

Global semiconductor sales continued to improve in the third quarter, according to an industry trade group, though revenue remains below year-ago levels.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday corporate spending on information technology will not recover to levels seen in recent years before the global economic slowdown.

Published: Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 2:07 a.m. The Social Security numbers and family information of every master sergeant in the U.S. Army, federal tax forms, medical records, FBI surveillance photos, the location of a safe house for the Obama family, and now a secret report of the House ...

Personal computers are changing - and not just because of the recent launch of Windows 7. Visit an electronics store and you might also find laptops are missing a familiar component.

Businesses are finally willing to spend more money on equipment, a healthy sign for the economic recovery.

Apple Inc's Mac computers have steadily gained market share over the years, a winning streak that may be tested by next week's launch of Microsoft Corp's new Windows 7 operating system.

Asia Pacific News.Net Friday 30th October, 2009 New Delhi, October 30 : China has unveiled its fastest supercomputer, which at its peak speed can do more than one quadrillion calculations per second, known as a petaflop.

Owners of Apple's new iMacs, including the pricier 27-in. model, have reported major performance problems with their machines, including extremely sluggish playback of Flash-based video, according to posts on Apple's support forum.