File this under: Don't believe everything you see. The anonymous blogger who earlier today posted "screenshots" of an early build of Google's Chrome OS has admitted he faked the images. Before he ...

Oracle recently halted work on a green data center project in a suburb of Salt Lake City, but it is not clear why. The data center in West Jordan, which is supposed to support Oracle's on-demand ...

Google Inc. says its coming Linux-based Chrome operating system will "start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds." If Chrome can fulfill that promise, that could render the cut-down, ...

Microsoft Corp. will price a multi-license "family pack" for Windows 7 at $149.99, according to at least one online retailer that has posted pricing details prematurely. Fadfusion.com, a ...

Two major opposition political parties in the United Kingdom are in a debate over how to maintain electronic health records, according to a report in The Guardian. The Conservative Tories would ...

Surging prices for NAND flash memory have hurt what was a promising market for solid-state disk (SSD) drives in laptops this year, according to market research by iSupply Corp. In a report on ...

Now that Google has shaken the tech world with its Chrome OS announcement, what's the best way for Microsoft to turn the spotlight back on itself and protect its Windows empire? Here are five ways ...

Storage vendor Data Domain has agreed to be acquired by EMC for US$33.50 per share, ending a bidding war that had pitted EMC against NetApp. Data Domain said Wednesday it has signed a definitive ...

Growing companies need many things, including passion, drive, focus, money, and luck. One of the other things they need is guidance from an experienced advisor or three, for help avoiding potholes ...

The timing and targets in a recent wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has some security experts pointing the finger at North Korea. After all, the attacks coincided with the rogue ...

Google's entry into the operating system market poses a long-term threat to Microsoft, analysts who cover the maker of Windows said today. "Will Microsoft be worried? Microsoft will always be ...

A botnet composed of about 50,000 infected computers has been waging a war against U.S. government Web sites and causing headaches for businesses in the U.S. and South Korea.The attack started ...

Google plans to announce within the next day or so the names of PC makers in Taiwan and China that have already signed on to work with its new Chrome operating system, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. ...

Google is likely to continue gaining market share in China despite a recent row with the government over pornographic search results, analysts said Wednesday. China blasted Google last month for ...

Just more than a year after it launches, Windows 7 will account for nearly half of all the client operating systems Microsoft ships to corporate users, according to forecasts by IDC. In 2010, ...

The woman ordered to pay $1.92 million in fines for illegally distributing 24 copyrighted songs said she will appeal, and called the June 18 jury verdict "excessive, shocking and monstrous." In a ...

There is keen interest in whether the U.S. Department of Justice Department will investigate large telecom companies for anticompetitive practices, which could prevent exclusive cell-phone deals ...

The Opera Mini browser will soon have widespread distribution on mobile handsets in the U.S., according to the company's chief executive. At the CTIA Wireless conference earlier this year, Opera ...

Google will drop the "beta" label from Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Talk in one fell swoop on Tuesday to rid its Apps communication and collaboration suite of this problematic tag that spooks ...

It's interesting that Facebook board member Marc Andreessen is willing to comment on the company's revenue potential--he says it's $500 million in 2009 and billions in the future. With 225 million ...

Beijing's Internet clampdown appears to have succeeded in shutting out dissenting views over deadly riots in western China that claimed at least 156 lives. Internet and some phone service was cut ...