Opinion: Mobile carriers ring up big money on customers' backs
Mobile carriers have their customers in something of a death grip, between their exclusive phone deals, lengthy contracts, exorbitant fees and iffy service. While Congress is looking into exclusivity deals now, competition from VoIP could change the mobile phone landscape quickly.
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Microsoft to rush out emergency IE patch
Microsoft is taking the unusual step of rushing out two emergency security patches ahead of its regularly scheduled updates on Aug. 11.
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Security certificate warnings don't work, researchers say
Every Web surfer has seen them. Those "invalid certificate" warnings you sometimes get when you're trying to visit a secure Web site.
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Microsoft's stunner, Zer01 questions
Microsoft kicked off the week of news with the surprising revelation that it had submitted source code for the Linux kernel. But this being Microsoft and open source, the news set off a little back and forth regarding the company's motives. In other news, an investigation into Zer01's mobile service claims raised questions that have yet to be satisfactorily answered. Otherwise, there was a wide variety of IT news this week, including some that involves shoes.
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Free Windows 7 upgrade may not reach $298 laptop buyers
Wal-Mart will start selling a fully loaded laptop from Hewlett-Packard for a breakthrough price of $298 on July 26, but it may have a caveat: The Windows Vista OS included with the machine may not qualify for a free upgrade to Windows 7.
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In India, Gates criticizes U.S. immigration policies
In back-to-back speeches this week Bill gates called for education reform in the U.S. and criticized immigration policies set in Washington.
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Privacy matters: When is personal data truly de-identified?
Jay Cline looks at a question on identity and privacy that HHS will soon rule on.
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Haptics: The feel-good technology of the year
A transformational new generation of haptics technology is about to emerge from at least two Silicon Valley companies: Immersion and Apple. You can already feel the buzz, says columnist Mike Elgan.
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Microsoft offers choice of browsers in Windows 7 to satisfy EU
Microsoft has offered to provide a choice of Web browsers with its upcoming Windows 7 OS to ease the concerns of competition regulators in the European Union, the EU's competition authority confirmed Friday.
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Get me rewrite: Microsoft alters Laptop Hunter ads
Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner may have done "cartwheels down the hallway" when Apple called him to complain about the Redmond, Wash.-based company's "Laptop Hunters" campaign. But he must have cartwheeled past Microsoft's legal department because, as Advertising Age reports, the company has quietly altered its ad campaign in an apparent response to Apple's complaints.
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