Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules...

A government-affiliated research institute in Japan says it has developed a chip that blocks viruses before they enter the computer, thus doing away with the...

Kaspersky Lab has launched a new web portal for its technical support service. The portal shows visitors how to protect all types of IT systems,...

Microsoft filed revised documents with the European Commission on Thursday aimed at complying with a landmark antitrust decision from 2004, the European Commission said. Microsoft...

Symantec today launched the public beta of its new all-in-one consumer security service. Norton 360 combines Symantec's proven, industry-leading PC security and tuneup technologies with...

One of the two new heads of Microsoft's Office software team downplayed the threat from Google's Web-based word processing and spreadsheet applications, saying they are...

Microsoft is helping law enforcers hunt down criminals who try to steal bank account details on the Internet and has initiated 129 lawsuits in Europe...

As part of Vista's heuristic memory management system, the ReadyBoost technology promises significant improvements in performance, Jim Allchin, Co-President of Microsoft's Platform and Services Division...

Internet campaigners welcomed a California court ruling that protects service providers and online publishers against defamation lawsuits for posting content written by someone else. In...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that every user of the open source Linux system could owe his company money for using its intellectual property...