Toyota launches the Auris HSD Hybrid and the Lexus CT 200h hybrid at the 2010 Geneva auto show.

Following the iPhone, MLB At Bat makes it to Android and BlackBerry phones in time for Spring Training.

YouTube is holding a press conference Thursday morning to discuss something. We'll be there live to bring you more details on, well, whatever it is.

Google comes up a bit short after looking at its own search engine optimization. As a result, it's made available a public version of the report for Webmasters to use on their own sites.

Federal judge issues a permanent injunction against RealDVD sales and Real agrees to pay $4.5 million to reimburse Hollywood studios for legal fees in copyright suit.

Google publishes an API for PowerMeter to entice software developers and device makers to feed data to its Web-based energy-monitoring application.

On March 10, Best Buy will officially start selling Panasonic's new 3D TVs at a store in downtown Manhattan. Panasonic has invited the press to take pictures and shoot video of the first person to buy one of the new sets.

Although the annual science fair isn't open to the press, company is releasing details on projects on display, including a phone that does language translation on the fly.

New HD Series4 product integrates with online content now.

A small but significant update lets you bookmark businesses and draft a review for later publishing.

McAfee's analysis of Perforce software, which is used to house source code, finds numerous security weaknesses.

roundup Seems everyone's got cybersecurity on the brain--politicians, Web giants, and security vendors alike, all descending on RSA this week.

Despite a spat between Google and the Chinese government, state-owned telco China Unicom said it will sell phones using the Google Android OS.

Viacom content is leaving Hulu next week, though users will still be able to watch those shows over at ComedyCentral.com. What this really could end up hurting are bloggers and other people trying to share specific clips, which Hulu was able to do.

Swiss scientists declare that the perfect bride should be five years younger than the groom, from the same cultural background, and smarter by at least 27 percent.

Michael Chertoff, former head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, talked of the difficulties in creating a national cybersucurity plan during an interview with Computerworld.

Way back in the Mesozoic era of computing (also known as the early 1980s), we didn't have slick little netbooks or big, powerful desktops. Businesses that used computers at all generally relied on Unix servers or ancient mainframes driving terminals at employees' workstations. Meanwhile, home users could choose from a narrow assortment of systems, none of which bear much resemblance to the array of computers for sale today; and one of the most popular models back then was the Commodore 64.

The BlackArmor PS 110 USB 3.0 Performance Kit lets -notebook users with ExpressCard slots to connect the portable external hard drive to their notebook to achieve faster USB speeds.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission lacks the statutory authority to make network neutrality rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing some Internet traffic, a former U.S. solicitor general said Wednesday.

The news from Chile on Saturday morning, appearing on the Associated Press app on my iPhone as I read it half-asleep, was tragic but distant: An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale had rocked central Chile and the capital city of Santiago, and dozens were already confirmed dead.

Most of the developers whose browsers have been relegated to a second screen of the ballot Microsoft is now pushing to Europeans are mad as hell, and they won't take it anymore.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the recent cyberattacks against Google and more than 30 other high-tech companies were carried out by relatively unsophisticated attackers using outdated botnet tools, according to an Atlanta-based security firm.

Opera Software today said that it has seen a three-fold increase in downloads of its browser since Microsoft started pushing a ballot screen to European who run Windows.

Computerworld joins forces with CSO, the IDG News Service and Network World for full coverage of the annual security show RSA Conference.

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The companies have created a non-profit to manage the process of certifying identity providers.

Software for the Skype VoIP calling service, available as a free download in the Nokia Ovi store, will operate on about 200 million handsets at launch.

Big Blue's buyout of NISC deepens its presence in sensitive areas like homeland security, defense, and intelligence.

The TiVo Premiere digital video recorder combines TV and the Internet into one device that could replace the PC for entertainment.

A year and a half after the depths of the financial crisis, independent financial advisers are slowly shifting client assets out of cash and back into the market, brokerage giant Charles Schwab Corp said this week.

Chilean rescue crews fanned out with sniffer dogs Wednesday around quake-ravaged cities and villages, some still hoping to find survivors and others facing the daunting task of recovering bodies buried under mountains of rubble.

State government agencies must support telecommuters with standard and secure IT infrastructure.

But lawmakers want companies to take the lead against online censorship.

CIOs report they're finding it hard to recruit IT talent with the skills to work on EMRs and physician order entry systems.

The five-year, $7 million contract covers services for Sapiens INSIGHT for Closed Books, which is used to administer 3 million LV= policies.

Eight months into the job, CIO Richard Spires discusses plans for creating a 'center of excellence' for program management, department-wide services, and other steps.

Instead of a three-step process of submitting username, password and PIN, members can now access their accounts through a secure four-digit PIN, making the log-on process simpler and safer, according to USAA.

Microsoft CFO says demand for the software will increase further as enterprises upgrade their PCs.

The enterprise software firm said its board will review the unsolicited $2 billion offer from a hedge fund.

The company uses passive fiber wavelengths, with microsecond speeds demanded by high frequency traders, market making and buy-side customers.

AP - Hulu's days as a free online video site could be ending soon.

AP - RealNetworks Inc. said Wednesday that it will stop selling technology that lets consumers copy DVDs to their computer hard drives, settling a handful of lawsuits filed against the company by Hollywood's six major movie studios.

AP - Spanish authorities who dismantled a network of up to 12.7 million virus-infected, data-stealing computers said Wednesday the mastermind of the scam remains a mystery, even though three alleged ringleaders have been arrested.

AP - TiVo Inc., the pioneer of the digital video recorder, hopes its new DVRs coming out this spring will keep the company relevant in an age when broadcast and broadband will be combined in TVs.

AP - Facebook and Omniture, the Web analytics software maker, said Wednesday they are working together to help companies use the world's largest social network as a marketing channel.

AP - Because startups aren't required to report regular financial results the way publicly traded companies are, it can be hard for outsiders to get a sense of what hot ones like Facebook and Twitter are really worth.

AP - A Los Angeles man charged with running a massive online concert ticket fraud has posted bail in New Jersey.

Macworld.com - Larry Ellison may not be too keen on cloud computing, but his next-door neighbor Stephen P. Jobs certainly is. MobileMe (and its predecessor, .Mac) offer cloud storage and a range of other services for an annual fee. Apple’s acquisition of Lala suggested that iTunes may someday offer storage and streaming of music over the Internet-about which Apple has apparently been talking to content providers. Now there’s a new twist.

PC World - The Bluetooth 4.0 wireless specification could start to appear in devices such as headsets, smartphones and PCs by the fourth quarter, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group said on Wednesday.

AP - Rep. Pete Stark is the California Democrat captured on YouTube in a steamy argument about body fluids, politics and lying. He challenged one colleague to a fist fight and called others an assortment of names through the years.

AP - Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. posted a smaller net loss for its fiscal first quarter Tuesday as its sales climbed and expenses declined.

Macworld.com - Western Digital on Wednesday announced a new line of 2.5-inch solid state drives (SSDs) that use a SATA 3GBps interface. The SiliconEdge Blue SSD is a consumer focused drive meant for use in both portable and desktop computers.

Reuters - Apple Inc sued Taiwan's HTC Corp, which makes touchscreen smartphones using Google software, accusing it of infringing 20 hardware and software patents related to the iPhone.

Reuters - The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Facebook, Israel's Army Radio reported on Wednesday.

NewsFactor - Spanish authorities say they have nabbed the hackers behind the Mariposa botnet. The botnet, which was developed for large-scale theft of information, took control of more than 13 million computers in 190 nations.