Stories by Network World staff

Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition launches

Guinness World Records is giving Xbox, Halo 3 and other gamers everywhere a book full of goals to shoot for with the launching this week of its first Gamer's Edition.

Microsoft's Ballmer: More investments coming

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday future growth for the company hinges on continued investment that matches the company's multi-billion dollar revenue and operating income, and that the company will be very active in pumping money into eight co...

Experts chime in on aspects of Microsoft/Yahoo deal

Microsoft's US$44.6 billion offer to buy Yahoo has analyst tongues wagging, here is a sample of what they are saying:

Rock on Gramps: iPods won't hurt your heart

A Food and Drug Administration-led study refutes claims that the magnetic fields produced by <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/apple.html">Apple</a> iPods and other such portable music devices interfere with cardiac pacemakers.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's letter to Yahoo

Below is the text of the letter that Microsoft sent to Yahoo's Board of Directors:

FLASHBACK SLIDESHOW: Hottest tech M&A deals of 2008

Our running list of buyouts and mergers in IT for the year. History now. But what history.

Security dominates 2008 IT agenda

Will 2008 see the first serious security exploit in corporate VoIP networks? Or will network security breakdowns cast a pall on the upcoming presidential elections and Olympic games? Will users' Web 2.0 forays open the malware floodgates?

Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus storage drive

While the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus can be used simply as an external storage device connected to a PC via USB, the true benefit comes from its software and OneTouch system to create a well-configured backup device.

Using wireless to make bridges safer

Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) have received US$1 million from the Federal Highway Administration to build a network of Internet-based wireless sensors and databases that would alert authorities in real time about the h...

Microsoft hires supercomputing guru

With AMD and Intel duking it out on the multicore processor front, and server and PC makers pushing ever more scalable systems, Microsoft is looking to stay in lockstep.

Security architecture emerges for first responders

Princeton University researchers say they have come up with a new way to securely transmit crucial rescue information to first responders to situations such as natural disasters and terrorist attacks.

Building quantum computers from scratch

A University of Maryland researcher has come up with a method that he says could one day be used by companies to build nanoscale computer and mobile phone components faster and less expensively.

SMB - Computer-generated horror stories

The words "horror," "Hell," and "torture" have popped up in headlines more often than one might think. Since it's Halloween week, we thought it would be a good time to reflect on just how scary computers can be.