By Joe Wilcox, Betanews On Friday, I bought a Zune HD 32, so that you wouldn't have to. On Monday, I may return it. The Zune HD is perhaps the best portable media player released by any vendor -- even better than iPod touch. Microsoft finall...

Telecommunications company Verizon will be eliminating 8,000 positions in the next six months, said CFO John Killian in the company's earnings call this morning. "Although we are taking steps to mitigate the ne...

Addressing attendees at a tech-and-telecom conference on Tuesday, Adobe EVP and CFO Mark Garrett spoke of the challenges ahead. Microsoft's software doesn't appear to be one of them.

A missive from the office of Joe Lieberman on Thursday credits the Connecticut Senator as the direct reason Google changed its Community Guidelines to disqualify terrorist training videos from b...

A British hacker who broke into 97 military and NASA computer systems -- looking, he claims, for evidence about UFOs -- will be tried in America, where if convicted he may face a sentence of up to 70 years. Gary McKinnon has been appealing in the...

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Microsoft's 2009 developer conference wrapped up yesterday in Los Angeles. Not since PDC 2003 has Microsoft talked so much and said so little. As I listened to the keynotes and have reviewed the sessions, words "series...

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Black Friday is just a week away and the demand for ebook readers looks to already be too great. Earlier this week, Sony said its 3G-connected Daily Edition Reader may not arrive in time for the holidays. Preorders for...

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Sony yesterday discussed its plans to open a download shop similar to iTunes or Amazon Digital Downloads. Reportedly given the tentative name "Sony Online Service," the online store would make the many different types of...

By Carmi Levy, Betanews I'm sure I'm not the only one who looks at renderings of Apple's long-rumored tablet - or iTablet, or whatever name the faithful have assigned to it this week - and wishes the FedEx truck would pull up to my door with an...

By Ed Moyle, TechNewsWorld Every year around this time, everyone from antimalware companies to analyst firms line up to tell us about the top IT and security trends -- what they are and why we should care. This year, chances are they'll tell us all...