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Should Steve Ballmer step down as Microsoft's CEO? While his tenure continues to see Microsoft rake in billions of dollars in profits every quarter,...

Type: News story Tags: Software Windows

Greetings from Damage Labs, where I sit in my storm-hardened bunker while no less than five active tornado warnings cover my area, as the sirens...

Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems

Could years of relative immunity to the viruses and malware that have plagued PC users finally come back to bite Apple? ZDNet's Ed Bott...

Type: News story Tags: Software

Cha-ching! LimeWire has settled with the music industry and agreed to cough up $105 million for its role in promoting piracy. As...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

You know the tagline—you don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. Mark Zuckerberg might have made a mighty foe indeed out...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

Over the past little while, I've caught glimpses of rumors about Skype being up for grabs. Well, last night, the Wall Street Journal chimed in...

Type: News story Tags: Software

Apple and Intel aren't the only tech companies posting eye-popping financial results every quarter. Microsoft is part of the club, too, and it has once...

Type: News story Tags: Game consoles Internet Software

Vista users getting the short end of the stick? Truly shocking, I know. Still, Microsoft has made it official: the next version of Internet Explorer...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

The Mozilla folks aren't the only ones trying to keep up with Chrome's frantic release schedule. Microsoft is hard at work on the next version...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

You know what they say—good artists copy, great artists steal. Microsoft might be about to prolong its history of goodness and greatness by building an...

Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Windows

At the moment, Lucid's Virtu software is the only way to enjoy Sandy Bridge's video-encoding logic in systems running discrete graphics cards. Licensing the...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Software

No doubt about it, Firefox 4 is a worthy competitor to other browsers out today. Mozilla still appears to be in partial catch-up mode, though....

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

Reading and replying to e-mails with your keyboard and mouse is so last century. Google has announced the addition of a new, Kinect-like motion-sensing technology...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

Intel motherboards tend to be shunned by enthusiasts, but select models based on H67 and upcoming Z68 chipsets will look a little more appealing thanks...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Software

When comparing web browsers, most folks tend to focus on features, user interfaces, standards compliance, and how quickly pages are rendered. What about power...

Type: News story Tags: Software

In the last few weeks, we've been treated to a bevvy of major browser releases: Chrome 10, Internet Explorer 9, and Firefox 4. If...

Poll Question: • What's the best web browser?

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

After 12 betas and two release candidates slowly let loose over the course of eight months, Firefox 4 has gone gold at last. You may...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

Breaking news in the benchmarking world. Futuremark has announced the incoming release of PCMark 7, the next major version of its popular PC benchmarking suite,...

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