AP HEADLINES Japan extends oil reserve release to U.S.

Electronic Arts said Wednesday it will pay $15.6 million and re-classify some salaried employees as hourly workers to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by artists against the world's largest video game maker for unpaid overtime.

In the coming weeks, entry-level computer graphic artists in the United States will be able to s...

Terry Semple, the man who installed Australia’s first fibre channel SAN, is the new managing director at storage integrator Enstor.

On 13 May, Semple made a substantial investment in Enstor giving him majority stake in the company, diluting the shareholdings of Ken Wood and technical director Bart Steanes, who founded the company in 1998.

Wood has been away from the business for t...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian shares rose slightly in choppy trade on Friday on hopes for strong second-quarter earnings, but concerns about weakness in the U.S. economy may cap the upside, traders said.

A U.S. Federal Reserve official expressed concern about inflation on Thursday, increasing expectations for more interest-rate rises, while disappointing economic data have fuelled worries abo...

"It does not affect the average user," said , a principle software engineer at Symnatec. "This is the first time we have seen a Trojan on a gaming device." It disguises itself as a file to let users run their own code on a PSP . "It goes to show malicious code writers aren't just targeting personal computers and aren't just trying to get some replicating code to infect the machines," Chien sa...

Recently a reader took offense at a comment I made when I suggested that a well-defended trademark could help win Linux "a seat at the grown-ups' table."

"What makes a commercial product inherently more 'grown-up' than its open source counterpart?" the reader asked.

The answer, of course, is nothing. It isn't hard to come up with examples of industry-leading software born of the...

Internet security provider Check Point Software Technologies and Sourcefire, creator of Snort and a provider of intrusion prevention and real-time network awareness solutions, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Check Point to acquire privately held Sourcefire for a total consideration of approximately US$225 million.

Internet security provider Check Point Sof...

SAN FRANCISCO - Device software optimization provider Wind River Systems Inc. has introduced a Linux device software platform for consumer devices.

According to Wind River (Alameda, Calif.) the platform is the industry's first true commercial-grade Linux product line and scales to support a full range of device requirements from the smallest handhelds to the most robust network equipmen...

But Jane feels as if she's fallen through the cracks in society's network.

The divorced 44-year-old hits one roadblock after another while trying to support her children. The list of available programs is endless, but none quite fit "Jane,"a Decatur mother of two teenagers who asked that her real named not be used.

If she had never finished high school, Calhoun Community College a...

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Federal authorities arrested five Northern California residents Thursday on charges of producing and selling pirated music and movie discs that made their way into retail stores across the country, according to the U.S. Attorney's offices in San Francisco and Sacramento.

Three of the suspects - Ye Teng Wen, 29 and Hao He, 30...