One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has entered into an agreement with Microsoft governing the installation of Windows XP on the nonprofit organization’s low-cost XO laptops for use by impoverished children around the world.

The partners, which are scheduled to start conducting pilot programs in emerging markets next month, expect the Windows-powered XO …

On Thursday, a Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges for fraudulently using an detail on MySpace. The woman posed as a teenage boy who feigned romantic interest in a 13-year-old girl, Megan Meier, who later committed suicide after the “boy” spurned her and told her, among other things, that the world would be a better place without her.

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Creative, today announced the PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series and PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series sound cards, unleashing the full capability of Creative X-Fi hardware audio processing for PCI Express-based PCs. The PCI Express Creative Sound Blaster X…

Fujitsu announced today, as an industry first, the development of a new image-sensing technology that can thoroughly and accurately track - without blind spots - the motion paths of multiple individuals as they move while indoor. By employing ceiling-mounted multiple compact surveillance cameras to monitor designated areas, and enabling s…

Cox Communications appears to be interfering with file-sharing by its Net subscribers in the same manner that has landed Comcast Corp. in hot water with regulators, according to research obtained by The Associated Press.

A study based on the participation of 8,175 Net users around the world found conclusive signs of blocked file-sharing connection…

Ask.com has bought a stable of Web reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google Inc. and other much larger rivals.

Besides Dictionary.com, Ask is picking up Thesaurus.com and Reference.com in its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group LLC. Terms of the deal, set to be anno…

The company that runs many of the Internet’s core directory systems has won a patent for its controversial service that helps Net users find sites even when they mistype addresses.

VeriSign Inc. said it has no intentions of resurrecting the Site Finder service, but it declined further comment on its plans for the patent, including bloggers’ specul…