Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working.

In a bid to cut down on fraud and inappropriate content, the organization responsible for administering Russia's .ru top-level domain names is tightening its procedures.

Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of MySQL who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion, has taken a new job as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company said Friday.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's national broadband plan captured our attention this week and will undoubtedly continue to do that in the weeks (and months and years) ahead. In other news, Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein says that his company could have given the Droid a run for it's money, only if. And the week ends with reports that Google will announce its intentions regarding business in China on Monday.

Mozilla confirmed a critical vulnerability in the newest version of Firefox, and said it would plug the hole by the end of the month.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research's Large Hadron Collider set a new speed record today when two protons sped around its 17-mile loop at speeds reaching 3.5 teraelectronvolts.

Parents representing about a quarter of the high school students in the suburban Philadelphia school district accused of spying on teenagers using their laptops' cameras said they're "outraged" by a lawsuit seeking monetary damages.

After yesterday's post about tweaking Firefox 3.6 so that it opens new tabs to the far right, just like all previous versions of Firefox, I realized there's one other tip that goes hand-in-hand with that: tweaking Firefox to immediately switch to the newly opened tab.

For years, one of my favorite Gems has been MondoMouse, a utility that lets you move, resize, or identify windows without having to first switch to them, and without having to position your cursor over a thin title bar or a tiny resize corner. Unfortunately, a number of readers have had problems using MondoMouse in Snow Leopard, and I've recently experience a few such problem myself. (A Snow Leopard-compatible beta version of MondoMouse was released back in September, but it hasn't been updated ..

EMC chief Joe Tucci's total compensation declined 23% compared to his $11.7 million package in 2008.

Apple's patent filing for a technology called iGroups suggests the iPhone maker wants to get into the business of mobile social networking because it will sell music and will become a standard on all contacts applications.

Color e-reader screens that can imitate video playback were on show Thursday from the company that makes the Kindle for Amazon.com, as similar technologies move closer to debuting in finished products.

Since the dawn of Firefox time, new tabs have opened at the far right of the tab bar. But with the introduction of Firefox 3.6, which was pushed out a few weeks ago, new tabs open to the immediate right of the current selected tab.

With Google said to be working with Intel and Sony to develop a way to bring the best of the Internet to television, industry analysts wonder if the time for a smart TV has finally arrived.

We're roughly two weeks out from the arrival of the iPad, and the pre-orders are apparently pouring in. So far, most of the focus has been on the three Wi-Fi versions of the device, mostly because those of us who want to get our hands on an iPad now don't want to wait until later in April, when the 3G-capable models arrive.

Executives from Verizon and AT explained the LTE plans of their companies during a Web conference sponsored by the GSM Alliance.

The vintage Commodore 64 personal computer is getting a makeover, with a new design and some of the latest computing technologies, as the brand gets primed for a comeback.

A knock-off MacBook Air running Windows, a tablet computer shaped like a big iPhone and another tablet meant to rival Apple's iPad were all among the devices shown off by a small Chinese gadget maker on Thursday.

Two former computer administrators who worked for convicted financial fraudster Bernard Madoff's investment firm were indicted this week on charges of conspiracy and falsifying financial records.

Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee.