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Fueled by strong product sales and an increase in gross margins, Apple on Wednesday solidly beat Wall Street estimates for its fiscal third quarter, reporting earnings of US$472 million, or $0.54 per share.

NEC will be flooding the desktop market with seven ValueOne MT models on sale at the end of July. The PCs are to be split into “Advanced” types, which use a Pentium 4 and Pentium Ds, and “Basic” types, which ship with AMD’s wares.

Sony will begin selling an after-market Blu-ray Disc drive next month that can be added to existing desktop computers.

Despite a pledge to the contrary made 16 months ago, Google is still returning links to Agence France Presse (AFP) articles on its Google News website.

A well-known security researcher has released code that can be used to mine Google’s database for malicious software.

Keeping data centers up and running during power outages traditionally has required banks of batteries to feed gear while generators are spooled up. There is an alternative, however.

Skype is dismissing a claim by a small team of Chinese engineers who say they have reverse engineered the protocol used for Skype Internet phone calls.

Microsoft and Yahoo for the first time will allow interoperability between the consumer versions of their instant-messaging clients, the companies said Wednesday.

Intel will launch its next-generation “Conroe” chip for desktop PCs on July 27, marking the company’s second step to recover from slumping sales with new products.

Software developer Six Apart introduced a blogging product in the U.S. designed for enterprise use, the company announced on Wednesday.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation that would ban most forms of Internet gambling and require banks to develop systems to block their customer’s transactions to gambling websites.

Microsoft on Tuesday released its monthly round of security patches, fixing a number of widely reported bugs in its Office products.

I love using Gmail, Google’s email service. It’s fast, easy to access from any computer, and I can even download my messages via POP into Mail.app. But by far one of the largest features of Gmail is that it’s constantly growing…

IBM is to announce Monday that its Lotus Notes desktop collaboration software will finally fully support the Linux operating system.

Yahoo is set to launch a service that helps consumers plan trips online the way they do in real life: by finding out where other people went and what they did there.

EBay customers won’t be able to use the newly launched Google Checkout service to buy products, according to the auction website. Google Checkout is now listed among other payment services such as Netpay.com, Qchex.com, ePassporte.com and BillPay.ie that are not permitted on eBay.

Microsoft announced Wednesday the creation of the Open XML Translator project, so its Office suite will support the open-source OpenDocument Format (ODF).

The eMac was the last of a venerable breed. It was the last Mac to feature a CRT, and one of the few remaining to boast a PowerPC processor (the Xserve, and soon-to-be-replaced PowerMac G5 being the others). And as of today, the last nail on its coffin is being pounded shut.

Microsoft has been hit with a second lawsuit over Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), its antipiracy program that checks if the Windows operating system on a machine has a valid license.

If your chips are nearly down and out with heat exhaustion, you might try seeing how Scythe’s mighty Silver Knight CPU water cooler deals with them.

BenQ plans to launch a Blu-ray Disc writer at the end of August, one of the first companies to release such a device.

Microsoft has denied speculation that it plans to cripple copies of Windows XP for users who refuse to install its controversial antipiracy tool, Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA).

Office 2007 has hit another delay and will now probably ship a few months later than previously expected, Microsoft said Thursday.

Ending more than a year of speculation and rumors, Google plans to release on Thursday its much-awaited online payments system, likely surprising many because its reach will extend further than previously thought.

A successor to Vista being planned already? Surely some mistake, Ms Moneypenny?

Responding to pressure from irked Windows users, Microsoft on Tuesday released an updated version of its WGA anti-piracy program that changes the frequency with which the program checks for pirated or counterfeit copies of Windows XP.

You are on a U.S. military aircraft, transporting hard drives with important, classified information, when you collide with another plane and are forced to land near an enemy intelligence agency.

Microsoft is hoping to fire up a community of developers on a code-sharing forum the company has been testing since May but rolled out officially on Tuesday.

In an unprecedented move, Microsoft Tuesday will allow users to test the next version of Office online without having to download software.

As it seeks to fend off competitive threats from AMD, chip maker Intel Monday released its dual-core Xeon processor, code-named ‘Woodcrest,’ the first based on its new Core microarchitecture.

After years of dipping its toe in the waters of unified voice and data communications, Microsoft is ready to dive in headfirst, and will unveil its Unified Communication Product Roadmap and Partner Ecosystem on Monday.

Intel Monday is expected to release its long-awaited Woodcrest chip, a dual-core Xeon processor that uses the chip maker’s new Core microarchitecture to provide customers with better performance in cooler-running packages.

A free web browser that bills itself as a tool for privacy protection is, in fact, a click-fraud engine for pornographic websites, security vendor Panda Software warned at the weekend.

Google is launching a public test to show display and video ads on Google Video, another step in the search giant’s slow exploration of graphical ads on its own services.

Chances are if you’re watching highlights from the FIFA World Cup matches on television, you are seeing Apple technology hard at work.

Bhutan, a country of 700,000 inhabitants that sits between China and India, now has its own Debian-based operating system in the national language, Dzongkha.

Users looking for a new PC might want to wait for a round of price cuts that are expected soon from Intel, the world’s largest maker of microprocessors.

Adobe has agreed to distribute Google’s browser toolbar with some of its products, starting immediately with downloads of the Macromedia Shockwave Player.

As of right now Japan residents in the market for a low-end PC bargain are in luck as Sotec is shipping a customizable lineup of budget WinBook notebook PCs and a series of desktop PCs.

Soccer purists can breathe a sigh of relief. There is no Naked World Cup. IT professionals, on the other hand, may want to be a little more vigilant.