If you want to hack a corporation fast, Social Engineering techniques work every time and more often than not it works the first time.

  The Cray XT5 supercomputer known as Jaguar at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility has become the fastest in the world.

  Its romantic to think that all people need is the thought of contributing to the preservation of our planet for them to invest in climate change.

  It's good to have allies and Microsoft's Bing is ensuring it has as many companies on side as possible in a bid to defeat Google by providing the most relevant search results.

  Russiancrime gangs are making millions by selling counterfeit Tamiflu to paranoid Britons online.

  Firefox, which just turned five, now claims 25% of end users, according to market research firm Net Applications. Calm down though: it was about a year ago that Net Applications said Firefox hit 20%.

  I've just set up a new consumer Windows 7 PC - " it was HP's Compaq Presario CQ5231UK, not bad value at 399 with Core 2 Duo E7500 , 3GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit - " yes, 64-bit Windows really is mainstream now - " 500GB hard drive and NVIDIA G210 graphics.

  AT&T continues to blast (and sue) Verizon over its recent ads, which make a point of hammering home the 3G coverage holes in AT&T's network. AT&T has said that the ads are misleading, and on Friday, AT&T said it wanted to set the record straight regarding its lawsuit.

  Advanced Micro Devices is not the only large Intel competitor to rail against Intel's alleged strong-arm tactics.

  Microsoft on Friday confirmed the first Windows 7 unpatched security bug. It was first reported by Canadian researcher Laurent Gaffie on Wednesday, when he revealed the bug and posted proof-of-concept attack code to the Full Disclosure security mailing list and his blog.

  Canada's first space clown can brag that his recent trip into the cosmos generated at least 23 times more international news coverage this year than this country's mission in Afghanistan.

  WASHINGTON: Is Rupert Murdoch bluffing? Making a bold high-stakes gamble that will save the troubled newspaper industry? Or pursuing a pipe dream that can only end in failure? The News Corp.

  In June, lithium-ion battery maker Boston-Power Inc. unveiled plans for a new manufacturing plant in Auburn that it said would employ 600 workers -- a big gain in the state's drive for green jobs.

  Psystar, the little company in Florida that seemed for a while to be based in the back of a truck while it made Apple clones based on PC hardware, has lost all its claims against Apple in a legal victory that is an important ruling against would-be clone makers.