Among the new offerings being unveiled this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: lightweight, medium-sized laptops meant as a step above netbooks in price and performance. There also will be at least one “smartbook” – a tiny computer that combines elements of netbooks and so-called smart phones.
That is not to say [...]

Cybersitter LLC, whose software is designed to help parents filter content seen by children, seeks $2.2 billion in damages in the federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles.
The company alleges that the Chinese copied its codes and incorporated them into software used to block Chinese citizens access to sites deemed politically undesirable by the government. [...]

Cybersitter LLC, a closely held company, seeks $2.2 billion in damages in a complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Los Angeles. The company accuses China and computer makers, including Lenovo Group Ltd. and Acer Inc. whose products include the Green Dam program, of stealing its trade secrets, unfair competition, copyright infringement and civil conspiracy. [...]

Albert Gonzalez, a one-time federal informant from Miami, faces a prison sentence of up to 25 years under the terms of separate plea agreements. He is tentatively scheduled for sentencing in March.
“This is a young kid who did some reckless things and hes going to pay a price for it,” said Gonzalezs attorney, Martin Weinberg, [...]

Although it should come as no surprise that the computers that can run games consistently well are the ones at the high end of the price spectrum, I found machines for about $1,000 that can give you decent play.
The cheapest ones, though, were disappointing when confronted with complex games that can push a system to [...]

Obama has tapped Howard A. Schmidt, longtime computer security executive who worked in the Bush administration and has extensive ties to the corporate world, according to a senior White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement will not be made until Tuesday.
Schmidts selection comes more than 10 months after Obama declared [...]

“We are definitely seeing customers back buying,” Oracle President Safra Catz said on a conference call. “No giant deals of any sort, but lots of very nice-size transactions for every size of company. We are really seeing a recovery.”
Second-quarter net income [...]

The recession has dampened demand for Creative Suite 4, the latest version of the software package targeting professional designers and developers that brings in the bulk of Adobes revenue. It happened to launch in the fall of 2008, right as the financial meltdown hit.
But the company said Tuesday it saw demand pick up in the [...]

Over the next decade, the evolution of computing and the Internet will produce faster, increasingly intelligent devices. More of our possessions will contain sensors and computers that log our activities, building digital dossiers that augment our memories, help us make decisions and tame information overload.
Such ideas may sound futuristic and excessive today. And technological predictions [...]

The worlds biggest provider of computer services is violating the U.S. Lanham Act and state competition laws through its unfair practices, which are aimed at protecting a monopoly worth billions of dollars, closely held Neon said in its complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Austin, Texas.
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