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Citigroup said it is likely Microsoft Corp will raise its $31-per-share offer for Yahoo and upgraded Yahoo shares to "buy" from "hold." The brokerage also raised its price target on Yahoo's stock to $34 from...

eBay spokeswoman Nichola Sharpe announced that the company's security experts have determined that it's highly likely that whoever posted confidential information about 1,200 eBay members in the company's Trust & Safety discussion forum this week...

While the RIAA has been making headway in the United States by suing anonymous alleged file sharers with just an IP address and obtaining their names and addresses from the Internet service providers, things could...

Demand for draft 802.11n (pre-N) devices is expected to start picking up momentum in the second quarter of this year, buoyed by the launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista OS (operating system), according to sources at...

Apple Computer Inc. said on Thursday it would likely need to restate earnings and will delay filing its quarterly report because of additional irregularities it found in its accounting of stock options and its shares...

Will Microsoft soon be charged $2.5 million a day for allegedly flouting the European Union's demand to provide documentation about Windows' inner workings? Microsoft officials are preparing for that scenario, according to an e-mail update...

When the Green Goblin from Santa Clara launched its succesfull nForce4 chipset, it had an ultimate companion: Green Arrow from Sunnyvale launched Athlon 64 4000+ on the very same day. During Computex in Taiwan, one...

It's looking more like Longhorn will get key orchestration features derived from BizTalk Server. Microsoft is working on workflow and orchestration technology, called WinOE, or the Windows Orchestration Engine, for the Longhorn/Orcas timeframe, several sources...

Yet more evidence Longhorn will slip & slip & slip... A first beta release of the next version of Windows likely will be delayed until next year because Microsoft Corp. is concentrating...

The Gnome Project said Tuesday that its servers have apparently been breached, potentially delaying the latest release of its desktop system for Linux. In a e-mail alert sent Tuesday, the managers of...

Sony will take Apple head on next year with the launch of new portable music players that pitch directly against the Mac maker's iPod. So much the consumer electronics giant admitted at its Transformation 60...

As you know, the Athlon 64 processor is slated to launch on September 23rd. You may recall what I suggested as prerequisites for the Athlon 64's success a while back. Now it looks like AMD...

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...

Sun Microsystems will likely adopt the Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices as it extends into new branches of the server market. Menlo Park, Calif.-based Sun has been testing the forthcoming Opteron chip for servers...

If Bill Gates bought the online albatross, he'd acquire the subscribers to make MSN a winner. And Time Warner? Its stock would soar Even before the dot-com bubble burst, the Internet service...

AMD ROADMAPS show that the firm is positioning its ever growing family of server products while it is also, we believe, following Intel's pattern of printing slower frequency, but server capable processors with the desktop...

To thwart hackers and foster online commerce, the next generation of computers will almost certainly cede some control to software firms, Hollywood and other outsiders. That could break a long-standing tenet of...

Thanks to Borg77 for posting this on the forum. The new version, code-named Jaguar and officially known as Mac OS X 10.2, is now expected to ship in early August, barring unforeseen difficulties,...

Talking to a number, and that's quite a large number, of vendors and chipset manufacturers here at Computex, it appears that AMD might be in some trouble delivering their up coming Hammer family in a...

Thanks Christopher Coulter for the heads up on this one. Price cuts for two video game consoles, the Xbox and the PlayStation 2, are likely to kick in as soon as this month, due to...

(Ed - brought to you by my, myself, him and I) Teenage girls are more likely to maintain multiple online personas than other groups, according to an unexpected finding from an...

Is the question on every news agency workers lips at this moment. :( An American Airlines Airbus a300 has crashed in the Queens borough of New York City. Port Authority officials say the...