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AOL CTO Resigns in Wake of Privacy Breach

Maureen Govern, chief technology officer at AOL, resigned from the company on Aug. 21, following a disclosure that AOL accidentally released keyword search data...

Survey: Working 8 to 6 the New Way to Make a Living

Nearly one-third of American workers say they are putting in longer hours and suffering more stress while at work, according to the findings of...

Outrage in Laptop Land

I guess I touched a nerve when I wrote about ways to check your laptop safely when you find that you cant take it...

The Case of the Missing Red Hat

Dont be cruel," cried the Kitty. But Spencers editors once again rejected his pleas that the annual Elvis Week in Memphis in remembrance of...

Microsoft Dismisses PowerPoint Zero-Day Warning

Microsoft is pouring cold water on a warning from anti-virus vendor Trend Micro that a new PowerPoint zero-day attack is under way. The Trend Micro...

HD DVD vs. Blu-ray Media Disk War Heats Up

The long, hot summer may be winding down, but the HD-DVD-versus-Blu-Ray optical media marketing wars are just starting to heat up. Five days after Sony...

Widescreen Notebooks to Spread

Notebook PCs are rapidly moving toward a future filled with more pixels and more screen real estate, thanks to the unexpectedly rapid proliferation of...

Omens Abound as PC Turns 25

In August 1981, IBM introduced the IBM 5150, ushering in the corporate personal computing age. This month has seen lots of nostalgic recaps of...

FDA, MIT Announce Drug Safety System

At a recent conference held by Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Center for Biomedical Innovation, the university and the Food and Drug Administration announced that...

Flame Wars: Dells Battery Woes

Editors Note: This story has been changed to reflect Apples recall on Aug. 24 of Sony-manufactured batteries. Dell announced last week that it was recalling...