Brian Livingston

Laws in the People's Republic of China allow anyone to copy Microsoft software (and many other things) without paying for a license. Ironically, the laws

A European agency has thrown out Microsoft's registration of the new font that's a trumpeted feature of the upcoming Windows Vista and Office 12. This

Spam has gotten so out of control that some companies are not only deleting all the spam they receive every day, they're deleting their own e-mail address

If you don't have a ton of funds, but the drone of the PC fans in your office is driving you batty, it's isn't necessary to spend a lot of money to get a

I wrote last week that the drone from PC fans is getting so loud in some offices that it's a serious work distraction. But a specialty manufacturing

Workers! If your office space sounds like the inside of a wind tunnel from the incessant hum of all the PCs surrounding you, lend me your ears. A small

Businesses that offer poor search features -- or none at all -- may be missing out on more than they think. In the last three months of 2005, visitors to

Giant search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, get almost all the publicity these days. But the big news soon to come, I predict, will be in

A small company will ship next month a tiny device that clips onto any phone line, offering unlimited long-distance calls to any number in the U.S. and

In the next few weeks, a service that's been methodically testing Web sites for spyware, spam, and other problems will be gearing up for a big launch.

Can you trust a major corporation to keep your e-mail address out of spammers' hands after you fill out the company's unsubscribe form? Not always,

E-mail newsletters like mine -- the ones that are sent by legitimate publishers, anyway -- proudly proclaim, "You can unsubscribe at any time!" But how do