World’s top software manufacturer Microsoft Corp. said that it is set to launch the new and full version of the antivirus computer software called Security Essentials on Tuesday, to help users shield their PCs from malwares. In a statement, Microsoft executives said that users can start downloading... 

University of Alabama research in computer forensics Director Gary Warner on Friday said the e-mail spam that pose as an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection scheme has now become the world’s biggest e-mail virus problem. In a statement, Warner said that the spam e-mails used by cybercriminals... 

World’s largest search engine provider Google Inc. has launched on Wednesday an added feature to its toolbar, called the SideWiki. The innovative feature would allow online users to input comments on any webpage they are viewed. According to Google Lab executives, the new SideWiki feature of the website... 

The United States Justice Department on Friday told the New York District Court to reject the proposed settlement of the controversial book deal of Google Inc. with authors and publishers in Europe, which would allow the Internet giant to create digitized copies of books that were already out-of-prints. In... 

World’s most dominant search engine website Google Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has acquired a anti-fraud and spam program developed by Carnegie Mellon University called ReCAPTCHA, which would allow them to cut down unwanted spam while it digitize copies of books. The ReCAPTCHA program works... 

Google Inc., the world’s largest search engine provider, on Monday launched an “experimental” news-reading hub called Fast Flip, which allows online users to browse news and feature stories from dozens of sources like newspapers and magazines. It will be recalled that Google earned the ire... 

The world’s most popular Internet search engine Google.com has got a new facelift as the company introduced a much bigger search box on its home page (http://www.google.com). Google Inc., which is based in Mountain View, California, said that it has decided to remove the cluttered look of the search... 

Mozilla, the maker of the popular Firefox web browser, has released on Wednesday a new security update for its flagship browser’s Flash Player to fix all the critical software vulnerabilities. For the first time in company history, Mozilla announced the release of a new security update for the flash... 

US Software giant Microsoft Corp. on Friday revealed that cyber-criminals and hackers have started their attacks in one of the unpatched bug in its Internet Information Services (IIS) server software, which was earlier launched to the public in September. In a statement, Microsoft said that the flaw... 

Popular website Wikipedia.org on Tuesday said that it will now require further research and proofreading to all public changes before it could be disseminated to the online public. In a statement, Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization who is in charge of the user-generated encyclopedia in the...