
The 21-year-old hacker, Ashley Towns, has written a worm - a type of self-replicating computer program similar to a virus, that changes the iPhone's wallpaper to show a picture of '80s pop singer Rick Astley and displays the message "ikee is never going to give you up." Mr Towns told Australian...

When the data is before you, it's clear to see how agile can improve productivity and time to market. If you're considering a transition to agile but don't know how to make the case to upper management, this week's column by Johanna Rothman provides you with the data you'll need.

A year after it first slithered onto the Internet, the Conficker worm remains as virulent as ever, despite an unprecedented eradication campaign. Meanwhile, a similar, though less heralded worm, Taterf, is gathering steam...

No, you won’t need an oracle or a tricked-out DeLorean to peer into the future. It turns out you’re already using a great tool for simulating time travel.More...

Contrary to popular belief, the Internet and mobile phones are not isolating people but enhancing their social worlds, according to a U.S. survey. The survey was sparked by a 2006 study by U.S...

Google this week unveiled Google Dashboard, which brings all of the information that we knew Google was collecting about us into one convenient, tidy browser window...

In the backdrop of so much of 21st-century life, computers are an unseen hand that guides the day in ways we rarely know about. Until they crash. Wednesday provided one such rude awakening for commuters in Montgomery County...

On Wednesday, T-Mobile said it had discovered the root cause of the outages on Tuesday: a software glitch. The explanation was posted on T-Mobile's support forums at 3:30 PM PT on Wednesday...

European lawmakers on Thursday agreed on new protections for Internet users, striking a compromise between national governments seeking to impose tough anti-piracy laws and consumer organizations that wanted to enshrine Internet access as an unassailable right...

A hacker in the Netherlands broke into some jailbroken iPhones and sent text messages to the owners asking them to pay to find out how to secure their phones, according to postings in a Dutch forum called Tweakers.net. One of the victims posted a screenshot from his iPhone of the SMS received...

When a man named Gary started work at a new company, he went to the technical support group and introduced himself. They chatted and had a few laughs. In the process.... More...

Apple has removed all support for Intel Atom processors from the latest developer build of Snow Leopard, according to a blog post by Stellarola. Apple's motives for removing the functionality are not clear, but the move is sure to fuel more conjecture about the company's much-fabled tablet device...

Microsoft has cut in half its per user per month list price for Exchange Online services and cut by 33 percent the price of its Business Productivity Online Services suite of online productivity applications...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc's website is experiencing technical issues that are keeping some customers from making online purchases, the company confirmed on Thursday...








