An international team of researchers has started to collect imaging data on the Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat which erupts regularly since 1995. They're using the equivalent of a CAT scan to understand its internal structure and how and when

In yet another reprieve for Windows XP, Microsoft is allowing system builders to continue to obtain copies of Windows XP to preload on PCs through June 30, 2009. by Mary Jo Foley

I like using Pandora on my Apple iPhone and read this week that there is now support for a couple selected Windows Mobile devices. Unfortunately, I don't have either of these two selected devices (HTC Touch and Motorola Q9C on

Microsoft has announced that an out-of-band (non-Patch Tuesday) patch is coming down the pipes to Windows users tomorrow (December 17). This patch fixes a serious vulnerability discovered in Internet Explorer. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Mozilla is joining Microsoft and Opera on the browser patching treadmill. The open-source group has rolled out the final security fix for the Firefox 2 branch and a new version of Firefox 3 to plug about a dozen security holes

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DigitalTrends shows you how to get lots of (legal) content for free. You can check it out over here . With worse economic news darkening the tickers on CNN every day and companies collapsing like cardboard boxes in the icy

ABI Research claims the number of online video viewers will grow to 941 million by 2013, up from 563 million this year. All stakeholders in the online video ecosystem are eyeing the living room, says research director Michael Wolf. With

Indonesia hold firm on its refusal to share its H5N1 virus samples until there are guarantees over a share of the potential benefits

Darwin or Galileo: who did most to cut us down to size? and a host of thinkers decide who really deserves 2009's anniversary crown

WFTL Bytes!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, December 19, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne. This is episode 40. In today's stories, we get a breath of fresh Air from Adobe, montrously

developerWorks beginsa series looking at Python 3. "This article - the first in aseries on Python 3 - covers the new print() function, input(), changes toinput/output (I/O), the new bytes data type, changes to strings and stringformatting, and finally, changes

Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism technology Apple spearheaded for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is destined to also play a significant role in

RIM has admitted it's struggling to keep up with BlackBerry demandResearch In Motion (RIM) has admitted it's struggling to keep up with demand for the BlackBerry Storm in the run up to Christmas, but said supply problems should clear up

Apple update process may stop respondingApple confirmed a glitch that prevents some users from updating their Mac OS X Leopard machines using the built-in software update mechanism.

Of all the phones in the BlackBerry lineup, the Curve is the one that makes or breaks RIM's performance as it's the most universally appealing: it has to suit not only the corporate rank and file but also those texting

Of all the phones in the BlackBerry lineup, the Curve is the one that makes or breaks RIM's performance as it's the most universally appealing: it has to suit not only the corporate rank and file but also those texting

Lenovo Group Ltd. today announced the release of a ThinkPad laptop that takes the "desktop replacement" category of notebook PCs to a new level.The ThinkPad W700ds appears to be the first laptop ever to sport two LCD screens -- a

Information is seeping out about the release candidate for Internet Explorer 8, said to be "just Around the Corner."

Final Fantasy Fighter for the PSP will ship in the U.S. next year, Square Enix confirms.