Apple Computer has announced the next version of its flagship Mac OS X operating system will support Sun Microsystems' open source DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool.
Sales of unprotected music at retailers could help determine whether record industry adopts open MP3s.
Sometimes, it's not easy to leave the Googleplex. Even for the many millionaires among the search giant's pre-IPO employees, there's great appeal to a workplace that prizes creativity and rewards its employees -- of course, there's also the cachet of working at one of the hottest tech companies in the world, a virtual Shangri-La for the geek set.
It's probably not the first time that record company executives have been likened to Al Capone, but this time a judge might have to agree or disagree.
Microsoft has been ordered to pay US$1.5 billion to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute over MP3 audio technology used in Windows.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
There's no mouse or keyboard needed for Microsoft's new tabletop computer, which is entirely controlled through touch.
Smartphones, or phones that enable Web access and e-mail, are heading for the mass market.
Attorney Eric J. Sinrod explains why legal woes are mounting for the record label over its CD fiasco.
Desktop search apps represent next frontier in jointly navigating the Web and operating system.
Consumers wait weeks for Apple's tiny music player.
At a press event in San Francisco, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs introduces a small new iPod called the iPod Nano. The gadget can hold up to 1,000 songs and is about 80 percent smaller than the original iPod.
iTunes 7 includes some great updates, like gapless playback, games downloads and a better interface, but Australian users so far miss out on the movie downloads available to American users.
The new low-price iPod Shuffle has no display -- it just shuffles through your tunes.
Apple Computer has unveiled its latest line of digital music products, including a long-awaited Internet music store and ultrathin versions of its popular iPod portable MP3 player.
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