Will it, won't it? If so, when? If not, why not? An entire cottage industry of speculation has built up around the public debut of Facebook, arguably Silicon Valley's hottest Internet company. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's... More...

Adobe's ubiquitous Flash has never had serious competition, which allowed it to become the dominant technology for Web multimedia, even though its complexity causes some headaches for developers. Yet Microsoft's Silverlight stands to give Flash... More...

Symantec on Monday said that while worm-scanning activity against its corporate antivirus software had increased over the weekend, the number of infected systems had dropped. According to the security company's own DeepSight sensor network, scanning... More...

35 days before Windows XP was officially released, a pirated key, called the "devils0wn", began circulating around the web which allowed users to run a pirated copy of the operating system. Since then, the key... More...

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) isn't the only Microsoft anti-piracy scheme that might raise the hackles of future Vista customers. Volume Activation 2.0 is worrying some Vista testers who've had a chance to dabble with early... More...

Windows Vista shows a lot of promise. With beta 2 of Microsoft's much anticipated operating system nearly ready to be released to the public, users will soon have the ability to judge for themselves how... More...

Samsung and Apple may be investigated by South Korean anti-trust authorities, a report claims. If it happens, the investigation will focus on the deal reached between the two companies under which Samsung reportedly sold Apple... More...

Neowin member jorgeivan2k3 has posted about an Australian programmer, Geoff Vass, who believes that text files are no longer harmless. "So I had an email conversation with the fellas at secure@microsoft.com and they... More...

Nintendo's been rather busy down at the patent office. Find out what they've been up to inside... FYI...It's been reported that Nintendo submitted nine (yes, nine) different trademark applications concerning the name... More...

Apple has a possible fix for users experiencing problems using the iPod Updater 2004-04-28, requiring users to delete the "iPodDriver.kext" driver file using the Terminal and reinstall iTunes. "iPod's disk icon appears in the Finder,... More...

Thanks ooo for this interesting piece of news. You know how you can fire off an email to betareq@microsoft.com right? the auto-answer service that tells you what details you need to email back in order... More...

Business users download sensitive data, but ignore security Companies are risking legal action by failing to protect data held on personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones, according to a survey. ... More...