Executives from a Seattle-area consulting company are facing prison time after pleading guilty to charges that they wiped a client's Web site off the Internet following a contract dispute.

It turns out that kicking Telstra out of the bidding race for the National Broadband Network may benefit Australian Internet users more than previously thought. Not only does it mean Telstra doesn’t have a monopolistic control over the future backbone of local Internet services, but it has forced the telco to reveal its hand — the roll-out of DOCSIS 3.0.

The Vietnamese government will move to several open-source applications by the end of next year as the country also tries to reduce the use of pirated software.

After selling them for just a few months, Nokia has decided to stop making its N810 WiMax Edition handheld computer.

Sure, there a lot of problems with using the iPhone as a GPS -- no turn-by-turn navigation and no text-to-speech or voice guidance are notable ones -- but the ability to combine GPS data with Google Maps has still been a godsend at times.

Google has added a new feature to enable users to find and access their Google documents straight from the desktop.

Fewer than 60% of European Web users run Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a French-based metrics company reported yesterday, while more than 31% have switched to Mozilla's Firefox.

A picture may tell a thousand words, but all too often it's not that flattering a story. As many of us have learned to our cost, having the whole world see what we've been up to, courtesy of tags added by well-meaning friends, is not always cause for celebration.

IPNetInfo is a small and focused network tool that can be a big help if you want to get information about an IP address, the string of numbers that computers use to locate each other on the Internet. Give this free tool an address you see in a URL, e-mail header or other location, and it will quickly return available registration information for it.

After selling them for just a few months, Nokia has decided to stop making its N810 WiMax Edition handheld computer.

We know: You mean to do all kinds of things to keep your IT infrastructure in peak condition, but when the office gets busy, things fall through the cracks. The problems won't go away on their own, though. If you need help compiling a list of what you have to accomplish, here are our top ten New Year's resolutions that you can implement to get your business in tip-top shape.

The Vietnamese government will move to several open-source applications by the end of next year as the country also tries to reduce the use of pirated software.

Sony has brought to CES a flexible color OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen that could be seen in future, highly portable electronics devices.

SanDisk unveiled its next-generation solid-state drives (SSDs) at the International CES. One series is aimed at the hot netbook market and the other at laptops. The company's new higher-performance SSD for laptops are priced at less than US$250 for a 120GB model and are being positioned as a "drop-in replacement" for hard disk drives to extend the life of existing hardware.

Microsoft Thursday said two smaller Taiwanese hardware makers will ship PCs preloaded with its year-old Windows Home Server operating system, joining PC market leader Hewlett-Packard and others.

Google is building its own routers because of dissatisfaction with Juniper's systems, according to a blog in SD Times.

NTT this week disclosed technical details about what it claims is one of the largest, most successful commercial applications of IPv6, the next-generation Internet network protocol.

The Vietnamese government will move to several open-source applications by the end of next year as the country also tries to reduce the use of pirated software.

Red Hat is stealing a page from the Second Life playbook and will host an online conference for users and partners of its JBoss Java-based middleware products in which people will have their own avatars and can virtually attend a conference as if it was a live trade show.

Maksym Yastremskiy, the Ukrainian accused of being a key figure in the infamous TJX Maxx Wi-Fi hack of 2005, has been sentenced to 30-years in prison by a Turkish court.

Hackers have launched a large-scale spam attack masquerading as CNN.com news notifications about the Israeli invasion of Gaza, security researchers said Thursday, in a repeat of a massive campaign last summer that also posed as CNN alerts.

Executives from a Seattle-area consulting company are facing prison time after pleading guilty to charges that they wiped a client's Web site off the Internet following a contract dispute.

The Vietnamese government will move to several open-source applications by the end of next year as the country also tries to reduce the use of pirated software.