Brian Livingston

They say the cobbler's children have no shoes. In a similar way, it may be that Microsoft, the world's largest software company, doesn't have enough

If you're thinking of buying new personal computers for your employees, what kind would you get them? Desktop computers, handhelds, laptops, laptops that

With all the brainpower in the computer industry, don't you think our supposed experts would have invented by now a standard way to get off an e-mail list

Is it safe to use an "unsubscribe" link to stop getting e-mail from a particular sender? Or will clicking the link just get you more spam? One firm's

Microsoft isn't getting everything it wants these days, and this month provides yet another example. In the space of a few days, its "Sender ID" proposal

Just as antivirus and antispam vendors must constantly upgrade their products to detect new kinds of attacks, an escalating battle of software is raging

Imagine that every time you made a deposit of $100 to your bank account, you found out later that the bank had credited you for only $98.50. That's

You've probably written one of those no-holds-barred e-mails to your boss or some other company mucky-muck. As soon as you clicked Send, you panicked when

What happens when a major computer security firm issues a report showing that its latest software is vastly superior to other, competing products? The

The market for software that prevents attackers from gaining access to corporate networks has just become a lot more interesting with the introduction of

Somewhere around 10 percent of the billings charged to pay-per-click advertisers by Google.com and Overture (a subsidiary of Yahoo.com) are based on

SAN JOSE — The Web e-conomy is heating up. There now are plenty of people, just as there were during the Internet bubble of the '90s, who'd like to help