Three hours after getting my hands on one, I am ready to drop the thing from the 44th floor of the New York Hilton.

Malware installed by fake MySpace navigation bars has infected several thousand PCs, according to the SANS Institute.

Program offers mapping software, services free to nonprofit organizations for promotions.

Microsoft is adding photo sharing and web-based hosted storage to Windows Live on Wednesday, though for now the services will be limited to a few thousand preselected testers.

Handsets that offer only Wi-Fi connectivity have been a failure, according to the director of home and office communications devices for Siemens.

By now, WiMax was supposed to be big, going on huge. As it is, it remains effectively stuck in trial phase and very far from revenue rich; with around 270,000 subscribers worldwide last year, the main beneficiaries have probably been the vendors of WiMax market reports at $3,000 (£1,502) a pop.

Vodafone is deploying a WiMax-based network on the island of Malta, in what is seen as a testbed for wider deployment.

The European Union's data watchdog said on Thursday that it will expand its investigation of how search engines retain information on internet surfers to other companies beyond sector-leader Google.

Wireless internet services, currently available on Japan's Tsukuba Express, are slowly making their way onto other public train networks in Asia.

Microsoft files suit against a company and individuals accused of sending debt relief and porn spam to Hotmail accounts.

The managing director of the Wi-Fi Alliance has defended his organisation's decision to start certifying draft 802.11n equipment before the standard is finalised.

Google now has 56.3 percent of the share of Web searches in the United States, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Yahoo's share is 21.5 percent, followed by Microsoft at 8.4 percent, AOL at 5.3 percent and Ask.com at 2 percent. Google had nearly 45 percent growth year over year in the number of searches conducted on its site.

The battle between 3G and Wi-Fi for dominance of the wireless internet world will all come down to which offers the broadest benefits to individual users, analysts have predicted.

Squabbling within the international IT standards body IEEE looks set to derail efforts to clarify the next Ethernet standard.

SonicWall has announced a new version of its e-mail security software that runs on Windows servers or the company's own appliances.

European businesses are being held back from migrating to IP version 6 due to the way IP addresses are being allocated, according to the director of IT at the UK internet registrar, Nominet.

This week the FBI sent out a press release stating that 1 million homes may be infected with bots. Arbor Networks' chief research officer talks with CNET editor Robert Vamosi about "Operation Bot Roast."

The number of wireless access points in London has increased by 160 percent in a year, according to a survey conducted by RSA Security.

Hollywood studios have enlisted one of the nation's largest Internet Service Providers to help fight illegal file sharing, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

TripAdvisor, that sea of au courant and sometimes complaint-driven posts about hotels, is making it easier to find like-minded travelers. The subsidiary of Expedia plans to roll out a social-networking component Friday that should help you avoid those less-than-helpful "no ice in the water" comments about foreign hotels.

Google and its allies may have lost key Capitol Hill votes on Net neutrality laws last year, but now they're mounting a counterattack: a lobbying effort to extend similar rules to forthcoming wireless broadband networks.

It was a pro-copyright ruling that stunned nearly everyone dealing with the issue of online piracy.

The new high-speed Wi-Fi standard, 802.11n, has been controversial to say the least. Although the standard is only due to be ratified in 2009, a plethora of 802.11n-based products is already on the market, leading the Wi-Fi Alliance to start "certifying" equipment that conforms to a draft version of the standard.

More than one billion PCs will be in use worldwide by the end of 2008, fuelled by high growth rates in emerging markets such as the Bric bloc of countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China.

Google is changing its Google Ads marketing services to allow advertisers to see on which Web sites their ads appear, something many of them have been clamoring for. Not only will advertisers be able to make sure their ads are appearing on sites that are appropriate, but they also will be to get performance metrics for each site. So a company that sells electronic test equipment can make sure its ads appear on sites targeted at manufacturers of electronics, potential customers, and not on sites that, for example, offer tests for electronics students, said Brian Axe, director of product management for Google Ads.

Several antispam organizations have been targeted by an attempt to knock them offline.

Yahoo fixes a serious vulnerability in its Messenger instant messaging client.

A court decision reached last month but under seal until Friday could force Web sites to track visitors if the sites become defendants in a lawsuit.

First, Yahoo was notified that its Messenger IM client was vulnerable to attack. Then, a researcher fingered two ActiveX controls as flawed and posted exploit code.

Companies that deploy Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista in tandem could see more than a threefold increase in networking performance, according to a Microsoft-commissioned study.

China seeks to put technical Internet management issues on the agenda of a U.N.-run forum concerning the development of the Internet.

Want to bend Firefox to your will, keep yourself safer while you surf, and customize how Google works? These great Firefox extensions will let you do it.

Five of the largest ISPs in the US are to start charging businesses for guaranteed delivery of their emails, in a bid to combat spam.

Mozilla Corp. is considering adding a tool to Firefox 3.0 that would automatically block Web sites thought to harbor malicious downloads, but the company's security chief refused to spell out details, saying Mozilla is "not ready to talk about the feature."

Responding to recent launch of Mahalo.com, Google clarifies that its search engine also uses human interaction.

IT managers in search of software for managing their computer systems, especially those from Lenovo Group Ltd., might want to check out a trial version of LANDesk Management Suite for ThinkVantage.

Spammers are increasingly targeting individual companies' domains with large volumes of concentrated spam.

Hackers trying to host malicious code on otherwise innocent websites are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to avoid detection.

A porn director has been indicted on obscenity charges for distributing films over the Internet.

Controversial book search engine can be co-branded and embedded on publishers' sites.

Ambitious municipal wireless project may include eight technologies and take longer than expected.

Faster ADSL2+ service promises 8M to 15Mbps of dedicated Internet access in 11 markets.

Alleged spam mogul Robert Alan Soloway was arrested on Wednesday after being indicted by a US federal grand jury.

A top official from the banking industry has said the public sector is a major target for online fraud.

Dell is to upgrade its wireless cards to support an unratified standard.