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A startup promises a painless way to move existing software.

Ongoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost U.S. companies US$25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

A new crop of startups aims to bring artificial intelligence to the masses.

(!)Simple Beam-Break Detector For Camera Shutter Or Flash Control; (2) Capacitance Meter Is Based On Reactance; (3) Discrete Low-Dropout Voltage Regulators; (4) Simple FM Receiver Has Pulse-Counting Detector 

IT professionals looking for a little love (read: more money) may want to look at stocking up on technical certifications. But not just any certifications. Dice Learning, a search engine that helps connect technology workers with the training and certific

Contrary to the widely held belief that the majority of business-related blog traffic is made up of loyal audiences, a recent study reveals just the opposite. Marketers must develop blog and social media content for first-time visitors in order to be effe

You can use a dedicated application like FBReader or Calibre to read and manage ebooks on your machine, or you can do it without leaving the convenience of the Firefox browser courtesy of the EPUBReader extension.

Easy-to-build unit allows a standard digital multimeter to measure low-value capacitors from less than one picofarad to over 10nf. It also allows you to measure stray capacitance in switches, connectors and wiring 

Several major media properties have undergone redesigns within the past year or so; including a handful of Tribune properties, CNN.com and ESPN.com. Now you can officially add MSN to the mix. And all of these redesigns share some commonalities; including

Worried about preserving your privacy in an online world where privacy is disappearing? Here are seven Firefox add-ons that will help.

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud and on mobile devices. But what went largely unsaid was that the indus

The latest version of ZeuS botnet toolkit includes a $10,000 module that can let attackers take complete control of a compromised PC.

Windows IT ProThurrott, PaulAn often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including a rainy week in Redmond, the Apple iPad preorder begins, Windows Phone 7 device resolution support, Microsoft loses another Word appeal, Xbox 360 on top of t

Browser provider Mozilla is reworking its MPL open source license. The process should be open and public and lead to modernizing and simplifying the document.

The SystemRescueCd, a Live CD for troubleshooting computers, comes with new boot methods in version 1.4.0.