A thief operating in North Texas has managed to steal over one hundred iPad tablets, totalling up to a value of almost $60,000 without being caught. More...

Target, upset at some of Amazon's business practices, has severed their agreement to sell Amazon's line of e-readers in their stores. More...

Target confirmed Thursday in New York that the previously rumored "store-within-a-store" expanded displays featuring Apple products are indeed coming to 25 Target locations later this year. More...

Web sites addresses with the .xxx domain went on sale to the public this week, but schools and businesses have been purchasing those names to avoid them being bought by the porn industry. More...

It's not supposed to be on sale but reports are that at least some Target and Walmart retail stores are selling the Kindle Fire for $123.38, well below its normal $199.99 price tag. More...

Wal Mart and Target have started selling the Nintendo 3DS portable console for $170, well ahead of the official price cut date which is supposed to start on Friday. More...

Two retailers, Target and Radio Shack, could be dropping the price of the iPhone 4 on Sunday if Internet rumors are to be believed. More...

In the enterprise virtualization world VMWare is the dominant force but companies like Microsoft have been working to change the virtual world. With acquisitions and improvements in their software and licensing structure Microsoft's Hyper-V has... More...

Targeted advertising is everywhere on the web, your browsing habits help ad engines decide what content you are most likely to click on. This alone bothers some people, but how would you feel if advertisers... More...

Wikimedia Foundation, the company behind the Wikipedia website, set themselves a target in 2008 for donations and announced today they reached it. Running a website like Wikipedia costs a lot of money and asking... More...

Now taking a different approach, Apple has released 2 new ads not only targeting Microsoft's OS, but their advertising methods as well. Microsoft's first line of ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld was much hyped, but... More...

Controversial Silicon Valley advertising startup NebuAd drops its plan to sell deep packet inspection technology to ISPs after Congress and public interest groups slam the privacy implications of deep packet inspection. NebuAd suffered through a... More...

The Scottish government plans to pay for inserting advertisements discouraging drinking and driving into video games. The 10,000 pound ($20,000) trial project will see the ads appear on virtual billboards within several games for Microsoft... More...

Microsoft has warned that attackers are actively targeting a security vulnerability in the SafeDisc DRM technology that ships as part of Windows. The problem affects the 'secdrv.sys' file, a component of the SafeDisc copy encryption... More...

Thanks to the simultaneous release of Windows Vista and Office 2007, Microsoft Corporation has managed a 65% profit increase in its fiscal third-quarter. The world's biggest software maker said it earned a record-high $4.93 billion,... More...

AT&T Incorporated, formerly (or so AT&T hopes) known as Cingular, plans to market the iPhone to business users and is now working hard to ensure that its backend enterprise billing and support systems will accommodate... More...

World of Warcraft players are being targeted by hackers exploiting flaws in how Windows handles animated cursors, a flaw which has recently been patched by Microsoft. Warcraft players seem to be one of the targets... More...

Belgium's copyright enforcement group, Copiepresse, first attacked Google and is now moving onto Yahoo. Copiepresse argued that Google's summarizing and linking to Belgium's newspapers constitutes as copyright infringement. A Belgian court agreed, ordering the search... More...

Sony had originally planned to ship 2 million units between North America and Japan by the end of calendar 2006. The company was able to meet its 1 million-unit North American goal by... More...

Customers of the Fifth Third Bank in America were the most at risk from phishing attacks in August, according to figures from antivirus firm McAfee. The top two institutions targeted in August accounted for a... More...

On the heels of Apple's announcement that it sold 14 million iPods and achieved revenues of $5.7B last quarter, UBS Investment Research on Wednesday raised estimates and increased its target price on the company's shares... More...

Although two updates to Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X Tiger have fixed many compatibility problems, enterprise networking problems persist. A new update, version 10.4.3, is expected this summer, and will address some of the... More...

Authorities in 11 countries, including Canada, carried out raids Wednesday that were aimed at stopping the illegal distribution of first-run movies and other copyrighted material over the internet. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation,... More...

Forgent Networks, which has so far garnered more than $100 million dollars in fees on its so-called JPEG patent, is going after the digital video recorder industry. The Austin, Texas-based maker of... More...

It's only a matter of time before Apple's newly redesigned Mac operating system becomes a happy hunting ground for malicious hackers, according to a research report from security vendor Symantec. The Symantec Internet Security Threat... More...

Hundreds of times a day, hackers try to slip past cyber-security into the computer network of Constellation Energy Group Inc., a Baltimore power company with customers around the country. The hackers have caused no serious... More...

Microsoft researchers showed off some forward-looking technologies this week, including new ways to protect systems against Internet worms, prevent hacker attacks, and measure available bandwidth on home networks. At its fifth annual TechFest, Microsoft Research... More...

The Register is reporting that the first trojan to specifically affect Microsoft's Anti-Spyware program has been released. Called BankAsh-A, the trojan steals credit card and other info, turns off anti-virus programs (and disables the beta... More...

Security experts are warning that virus writers could use new desktop search tools to make their malicious software more efficient. Foad Fadaghi, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan Australia, said that... More...

While computer game fans shell out tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars for the latest shoot-em-up release, a little-known patent holder is hoping to make a different kind of computer game killing. ... More...

The trade group that represents Hollywood's major motion picture studios is expected to announce Thursday that it intends to file as many as 230 lawsuits in coming weeks against individuals who have illegally shared copyrighted... More...

Firefox advocates' call for donations to pay for an advertisement in The New York Times has more than reached its target, only three days into the campaign. The campaign, run by Spread... More...

Microsoft may be unlawfully wielding its desktop dominance to put the squeeze on search engines and on document formats like Adobe Acrobat, the state of Massachusetts claimed on Friday. Massachusetts, the only... More...

The small and midsize business market has been getting a lot of attention from vendors looking to take advantage of growing backup and recovery needs. Maxtor is now putting hard drives with... More...

The Australian Democrats are trying to embarrass governments into supporting legislation mandating open source software, by asking questions in parliament about how much departments spend on Microsoft products. And Democrats in NSW, the ACT and... More...

THE ATHLON 64 processor AMD is readying is on target for a September launch, representatives of the firm confirmed earlier this week. But so far there's not that many samples of the Athlon64 out there... More...

Get-rich-quick schemes, explicit pornography (or the @neowin.net ever popular penis enlargement), urgent appeals for help from Nigerian colonels. Coming soon to a cell phone near you? The bulk "spam" that now accounts for... More...

Sales figures for the Xbox are likely to fall over a million units short of Microsoft's goal of selling nine million units by June unless the company cuts the price drastically, according to the latest... More...

New software, such as Windows Server 2003, slated for release in April, should be more hacker-proof than any other version, Microsoft's Steve Lipner said, just as Windows XP is considered Microsoft's most stable PC operating... More...

Internet activists have a message for John Poindexter, the head of a controversial Pentagon research project to find terrorists by searching the everyday transactions of Americans: Threaten to invade our privacy, we'll invade yours. ... More...

Arguing that Amazon.com is not doing enough to protect customer privacy, two privacy groups are urging state and federal regulators to force the e-tail giant to live up to past privacy promises and allow customers... More...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc will steer clear of established 64-bit computing vendors when its launches its Opteron architecture later this year, and will instead aim its attack squarely at long-time 32-bit rival Intel Corp ... More...

But Nintendo said nah... Thanks Frankie for sending us this news.. A REPORT ON GAMECUBE EUROPE said that Microsoft seriously considered buying Japanese console maker Nintendo for $25 billion. The report... More...

Sony Corp on Friday launched new versions of its Vaios personal computers for the Japan market and said it was sticking to this year's PC shipment targets, which were set in April, despite recent profit... More...