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Attack code has been released for a major flaw in the Internet's DNS software.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul to a faithful throng of software developers at the Internet firm's annual "F8" conference..

A new charger developed by Sanyo makes replenishing the batteries in Nintendo Wii controllers as easy as placing them in a...

Motorola unveiled on Thursday in South Korea a new version of its PEBL cell phone with a outer display that's hidden under the...

Four of Japan's biggest comic book publishers are coming together to bring digital versions of their magazines to Nintendo's...

A new charger developed by Sanyo makes replenishing the batteries in Nintendo Wii controllers as easy as placing them in a...

Four of Japan's biggest comic book publishers are coming together to bring digital versions of their magazines to Nintendo's...

LOS ANGELES - "Watchmen" is already getting a prequel — and the film's not out until next year.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - The Chrissie Hynde-led rock band the Pretenders will roll out their new album, "Break Up the Concrete," as one MP3 per week leading up to the September 23 release of the CD via Shangri-La Music.

LONDON (Reuters) - More than one in four Europeans regularly watches online video on sites such as Google's YouTube but the medium has a long way to go to catch up with regular TV, according to Internet research firm Jupiter.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NBC and Fox News Channel sued video-sharing service Redlasso for copyright infringement on Wednesday, accusing the website of showing programs like "The Tonight Show" and "The Fox Report with Shepard Smith" without permission.

Banking Web sites suffer from design flaws that can undermine their security exclusive of software vulnerabilities, according...

A survey by McAfee found that SMBs in North America wrongly conclude their revenue is too low to draw the attention of...

A court ordered "spam king" Robert Soloway to serve 47 months in prison for spamming.

Griffin Technology on Wednesday announced Lucky 7 Slots for the iPhone, a game that simulates casino slot machine action. It costs $1.99.

Security researcher Aviv Raff said on Wednesday that the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are prone to URL spoofing and could allow phishing attacks against iPhone users.

Last week's iPhone 3G launch appears to have been a success, with the device sold out in virtually all U.S. locations. Calls to local AT&T stores in the metropolitan Chicago area, for example, turned up no phones, and long wait lists. Reasons for the shortage range from Apple underestimating demand to a shortage of components from overseas suppliers.

One year after announcing its homegrown mobile Linux project, Intel prepares to hand Moblin over to the open source community.

A new open source project is develoing a new micro-kernel database based on MySQL, targeted at large-scale Web applications.

Open-source software, such as Linux, often claims enterprise-class capabilities, but it isn't adopting enterprise-class security standards, according to a study by security tools supplier Fortify Software. Fortify says the free software often comes with hidden costs because businesses end up having to fix unexpected security problems. The security concerns come amid increased adoption of open-source programs, with more than half of CIOs saying their enterprises run such software.

SAN FRANCISCO - Many banks are unwittingly training their online customers to take risks with their passwords and other sensitive account information, leaving them more vulnerable to fraud, new research shows.

NEW YORK - The old song had it right: Breaking up is hard to do. But a free new phone service called Slydial might make it easier to get through that and other awkward moments — without actually having to talk to anyone.

Security researcher Aviv Raff said on Wednesday that the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are prone to URL spoofing and could allow phishing attacks against iPhone users.