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Business executives often can be found in airports pecking away at their BlackBerry devices or laptop computers, checking e-mails, reserving their next plane tickets or just surfing the Web. Now, a San Francisco start-up hopes to recreate that scene on freeways by turning cars into WiFi hotspots ...

Social networking is meeting an unfriendly visitor -- social engineering ...

In what marks one of the new year's first public relations blunders,Microsoft's move to buddy up with bloggers has backfired ...

Professional cyberthieves and organized crime rings are looking to cash in on stolen identities, and are releasing an increasing amount of malware in the process ...

Ford is jumping on the Bluetooth bandwagon, and it is betting on Microsoft to help it gain momentum. The companies have reached a deal to put the software giant's technology into some Ford cars, according to a Wall Street Journal report ...

Beware of e-mails with the subject line "Happy New Year!" ...

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday announced that he will propose nearly US$95 million in the state budget to create the Governor's Research and Innovation Initiative ...

Samsung Electronics has developed a docking station complete with a fuel cell that can power a laptop computer for up to a month. Samsung plans to launch the product at the end of 2007 ...

Spam, or unsolicited e-mail, is an old Internet nemesis, but spammers have come up with a new twist, and it's causing corporate and individual users alike e-heartburn. It's called "image spam," and it's waiting in an in-box near you ...

For all the talk about safety andsecurity as a foundational promise of Windows Vista, Microsoft's new operating system, released to business users in late November, has already been found to contain several potentially serious vulnerabilities ...

Two billionaires are burying the technology hatchet this holiday season. Rupert Murdoch and John Malone ended a two-year battle over Liberty Media's stake in News Corp. with a US$11 billion deal ...

Opera Software on Thursday announced a deal with Samsung Electronics to deliver Opera Mobile on Samsung mobile handsets -- two days after it launched a browser for Nintendo's Wii gaming console ...

Microsoft on Tuesday fixed at least one of the issues with the Zune digital media player: a compatibility problem with Windows Vista, its new operating system scheduled for release on Jan. 30 ...

Sony BMG on Tuesday settled lawsuits with consumers in Texas and California whose computers were infected with spyware hidden on CDs ...

Samsung Electronics' latest mobile phone sports a gaming element -- a joystick. The company on Tuesday released the SCH-V960, which features a unique "optical joystick" to help users navigate the wireless device's menu and user interface ...

Two Republican lawmakers launched an initiative on Tuesday to overturn a voter-approved amendment protecting embryonic stem cell research in Missouri ...

WebSense on Monday identified a Trojan horse that targets Skype IM users in what marks the latest in a series of instant messaging attacks this year ...

NASA Ames Research Center signed a Space Act Agreement withGoogle's on Monday that may pave the way for the search giant to explore space. The organizations will collaborate on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing to human-computer interfaces ...

Skype's founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, plan to launch a new Web-based broadband television service next year, according to a Monday report in the Financial Times. The two have invested part of the US$2.6 billion they made from the sale of their Voice over Internet Protocol company to eBay to develop the new service ...

With buzz aboutApple's rumored iPhone growing, Linksys, a unit ofCisco, on Monday announced new additions to its own iPhone product line. The company introduced a series of Web-enabled telephone handsets designed to work with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services ...