Windows XP users who install the operating system’s third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned.

Big businesses need to start planning now to handle changes that will take place when a new version of the Internet’s fundamental routing protocol becomes ubiquitous, or risk losing online customers, according …

Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones.

A California man who has defaulted on nine homes and expects banks to foreclose on all of them, forcing him into bankruptcy, says he now considers it a mistake to have invested in the real estate market.

Technical skills may never die, but areas of expertise wane in importance as technology advances force companies to evolve and IT staff to forsake yesterday’s craft in favor of tomorrow’s must-have talent.

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Pa. - A minivan crossed an interstate median, flipped and was hit by another vehicle in western Pennsylvania, killing six of seven people on board, state police said Sunday.

The smartphone market grew 67.8 percent in the first quarter over the same period in 2005, far exceeding analysts’ expectations, according to IDC.

It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned. He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security …

ONE of Scotland’s most prestigious business awards programmes has revealed the shortlist for the long-established competition.

Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer’s microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products.