Microsoft on Monday continued its foray into the world of online applications with a program that allows Office users to access their documents online and share with others.
A Los Angeles academic may have been a driving force behind the move by Myanmar's 19-year-old dictatorship to shut down Internet access after bloggers posted images of soldiers killing civilians.
The images included footage of a Japanese photographer for the Agence France Presse shot dead at point-blank range by a soldier chasing demonstrators.
Longtime rivals and occasional collaborators Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have announced that Sun will ship 64-bit servers with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system.
Within 90 days, Sun will offer Windows Server 2003 on its entire line of Sun x64 systems. Sun already certifies that Windows Servers will run on its hardware, but this agreement will allow Sun to preinstall the software and offer support to customers.
In an unexpected twist of events, Pacific Internet successfully moved the Singapore court to dismiss Odex's bid for the names of its subscribers accused of illegally downloading anime content.
District Judge Earnest Lau ruled that Odex had "no right of civil action" against the downloaders, according to press reports. This means that Odex, being a sub-licensee, did not hold sufficient rights because it was neither the copyright owner nor the exclusive licensee of the Japanese anime.
Hijackers are getting access to Xbox Live gaming accounts, credit cards and PayPal accounts
Hijackers are getting access to Xbox Live gaming accounts, credit cards and PayPal accounts with repeated calls to support staff, who are easy prey for social engineering stunts.
Xbox Live telephone support personnel are giving away gamer tags based on made-up information. One gamer who requested anonymity shared with eWEEK a taped telephone conversation in which he called the Xbox Live phone support number on March 21 and wound up getting a valid gamer tag based on simply making up a name and the state in which he supposedly lives.
Hijackers are getting access to Xbox Live gaming accounts, credit cards and PayPal accounts 