The European Union wants member states to back an industry-led US$3.24 billion research program for embedded computer systems that control household appliances, consumer gadgets and cars.
Notebooks and low-cost computers led to higher-than-expected PC shipments in the second quarter of 2005, and many of these machines appeared to go to first-time buyers.
Research confirms that teleworking increases quality of life and another report points to workplaces becoming more stressful every year.
Analyst Gartner believes Microsoft is planning to delay its new operating system again for political rather than technical reasons.
Microsoft has invested in a project that will help scientists at the Queensland University of Technology build the southern hemisphere's first advanced eResearch facility, which will be located in Brisbane.
An encryption standard widely used in digitally signing documents and programs has a flaw in it that could allow for the creation of forgeries, sources said on Wednesday.
A Trojan horse that exploits a recent critical flaw in Microsoft Windows' handling of JPEG images has been posted to several newsgroups, but it has no way to spread, security experts said Tuesday.
Technical innovation is being hindered by a lack of coordination between government, academia and industry, according to a joint team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Cambridge University.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday detailed just how much of Microsoft's extra spending will be devoted to bulking up its Internet services business.
Microsoft customers should brace for an onslaught of security updates.
The International Organisation for Standardisation is unlikely to adopt Microsoft Office Open XML format, now that it has approved the OpenDocument Format, according to analyst group Gartner.
Any talk of Apple's Boot Camp software exposing the company's operating system to security risks is just hype and should be ignored, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Microsoft has taken another step in its effort to bring Windows in the world of supercomputing, having finished development of its computer cluster operating system.
The wait for Microsoft's delayed Windows Vista could be even longer than expected, according to a research report issued this week.
Microsoft plans to start selling Windows OneCare Live in the US on Thursday, three years after it announced its intent to move into the antivirus space.
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