The open-source enterprise content management firm Alfresco has announced what it claims is the first enterprise application to use the Facebook platform.

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Hideaki Asada bought his second radio-controlled helicopter in two months last week. The first one broke after his 8-year-old son, Keito, crashed the toy during landing.

"This one is just for me. Keito has shown he can't be trusted yet," said Asada, 39. Dad likes to fly the 15-centimetre (6-inch) chopper at night, after a long day in the accounting division in an IT consulting company.

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The US is to review its multi-billion dollar aid package to Pakistan after President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency on Saturday.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stressed that some aid was directly linked to tackling al-Qaeda and Taleban militants - a major US priority.

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Apple's unveiling of the Macintosh nearly a quarter century ago heralded a new era of computing.

The Mac was the first computer to use a graphical user interface and a mouse. It was the computer for the masses that didn't want to bother with command line interfaces and balky hardware.

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Microsoft Corp. introduced software on Monday to manage advanced mobile phones much like personal computers, taking aim at a business dominated by Research in Motion's BlackBerry.

Mobile devices are acquiring the computing firepower to become crucial productivity tools for business people and management nightmares for technology administrators.

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Have fun with this one. As seen on Slashdot and sent in by a few different readers, it appears that IBM is trying to patent the process of using a large patent portfolio for patent extortion. Technically, the patent is for "A system and method for extracting value from a portfolio of assets." Of course, if any company can claim credit for such a thing, it's IBM.

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Back in 2005, the BBC made all nine of Beethoven's symphonies available for free download -- a move that made classical record label executives absolutely livid. We thought that their fear was short sighted, considering that the BBC was helping the classical music genre gain millions of listeners for free.

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Well, It doesn't appear that Microsoft will be taking direct aim at the iPhone on Tuesday.

Rather, the software maker is playing to its strengths, announcing a new piece of server software to help businesses manage a company's worth of smartphones.

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Fernando Alonso says McLaren would be celebrating a world championship victory instead of bemoaning a shock defeat had they used different tactics this season.

"McLaren got it wrong, they lost the championship for the mistaken decisions they made in the second part of the season," the Spaniard told Radio station Cadena Ser on Monday. "It isn't a secret that they haven't helped me much."

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A critical factor in the Manmohan Singh government backing out of its confrontation with Left over the India-US nuclear deal was the Congress core group's assessment that there was no certainty of UPA being able to score a clear-cut victory if polls were held soon.

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Blogs were buzzing this week with reports that Windows users who thought they had automatic updates set to either not install or get permission before installing nonetheless had their machines patched and rebooted.

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Suddenly all those discussions about the discordant ways of open-source software and patent law have become a lot less abstract.

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With Halo 3 hype soaring, people are already dreaming about fragging aliens, dual-wielding machine guns and taunting 12-year-old kids when they sneak up behind them and put one in their head in a massive online battle.

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A group of online ad industry veterans launched a private beta this week of their latest venture--a service that helps Web sites make more money off ads by managing multiple ad networks.

The Rubicon Project was founded by Frank Addante and other members of the team that created the L90/adMonitor advertising platform, which was bought by DoubleClick in 2001.

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Toshiba's U.S. subsidiary is recalling 142,000 AC adapters sold with the company's portable DVD players, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Tuesday. The adapters can fail, causing the portable DVD player to overheat and posing a burn hazard to consumers.

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Google's Enterprise Search Appliance customers are being notified of a free upgrade that's now available. It adds new features to the buttoned-down, behind-the-firewall search appliance designed for giant companies and their IT departments.

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IBM released on Tuesday a tool that it says will let businesspeople, rather than professional programmers, build their own Web applications.

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IT company HCL Infosystems Ltd on Tuesday introduced a new range of environment-friendly desktops.

The new desktops -- 'HCL eSafe' are compliant with Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive as they have negligible or zero quantities of hazardous materials like lead, cadmium and mercury and are therefore cleaner and easily recyclable.

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Although HR departments should be aware of questions that are illegal to ask prospective employees, some hiring managers aren’t so savvy. Many illegal questions are easy for just about anyone with elementary social graces to avoid, but others might surprise you. In general, you should not ask interviewees about their age, race, national origin, marital or parental status, or disabilities.

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Citizen's micro robots come in peace.

The watch company, which also makes a wide variety of industrial-grade precision components, has come up with a couple of robot kits designed to get kids interested in the field.

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