Ed Oswald

CNET News.com claims that Apple will announce a switch to Intel x86 processors on Monday at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference—a move that has been rumored for years yet never materialized. According to the report, the switch would start with Apples low-end computers by the middle of next year, with higher end systems following in […]

Events are being planned ahead of tomorrows launch of Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” across Apples 105 worldwide retail stores and in participating resellers such as CompUSA beginning at 6 pm EST. At that time, Apple will unleash the new version of its operating system, said to include some 200 new features. Reviews thus far […]

Microsoft on Monday announced the start of a design competition to rethink the desktop computer. The company thinks it is time to move beyond the big beige box, offering a top prize of $125,000 to the group or person with the best PC design. Microsoft hopes that the contest will challenge participants to think outside […]

An open source system that helps find connections between cases of child exploitation, known as the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS), was officially launched Thursday. Jointly developed by Microsoft Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Toronto Police Service, the system has already helped to catch criminals. In November 2004, while the project […]

AOL officially launched its RED Blogs service Tuesday, aimed at capturing some of the growing popularity of online Weblogs by focusing on the teen segment. AOL members can create fully customizable journals and choose among keeping them completely private, opening them only to friends or maintaining them as normal blogs that anyone can view. Before […]

Search giant Yahoo announced Monday that it has finalized terms of a multi-year agreement with Verizon to become the default Web portal for the companys new DSL customers. This will also take effect for customers who sign up to Verizon FIOS, a super-fast broadband connection to be rolled out this year. MSN previously provided the […]

UNIX developers HBX Networks have stumbled upon a bug within Googles Gmail that allows access to other users personal e-mails. By altering the “From” address field of an e-mail sent to the service, hackers could potentially find out a users personal information, including passwords. At first glance, to the average user the e-mail would appear […]

Auction site eBay announced to members on its Web site Wednesday afternoon that it will drop support for Microsofts Passport and .NET Alerts by late January. Users were told that “once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page with […]