He has spent the last six weeks holed up in his Dallas townhouse, using the Internet for everything: food, clothing and furniture. more »
Software that can help Web sites neutralize the sort of denial of service attacks that felled Yahoo and others in recent days has been posted by the FBI and computer service organizations. more »
The Business Software Association and Microsoft released a study showing that pirate software remains a big problem in the Baltics. more »
A sort of "free Napster" movement is surfacing to counter efforts by record companies and universities to quash access to the software, which lets online users swap digital music tracks. more »
The software giant has settled on a name for its next consumer operating system: Windows Me, short for Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition. more »
Following a recent spate of attacks on Web sites operated by its agencies and departments, the Japanese Government said it would wage war on hackers. more »
Polish computer maker Optimus is in talks with more than ten potential partners to jointly develop the Internet portal onet.pl. more »
If certain technological hurdles can be cleared, processors running at a mind-boggling 20 gigahertz could be commercially available in the next eight years. more »
Mozilla.org has released the long-awaited "alpha" version of its open source Web browser, dubbed M13, in a signal that the troubled project may finally be putting some of its problems behind it. more »
Microsoft achieved a dubious milestone last week, releasing the first security patch for its Windows 2000 operating system, despite the fact that the OS is still a few weeks away from its official release. more »