IDG News Service - If you get busted for drunk driving in Montgomery County, Texas, this holiday season, your neighbors may hear about it on Twitter. That's because the local district attorney's office has decided to publish the names of those ...

In today's podcast: Microsoft has patch for Custom XML injunction; Twitter buys GeoAPI developer; and Google purchase of AdMob faces antitrust scrutiny.

I'm just throwing this thought out there for consideration, I have no information outside of our random speculation and I am fully prepared to be proven 100% wrong on this...

IDG News Service - China's state news channel has blamed hugely popular online games for problems including drug addiction, teen pregnancy and even murder this month as regulators crack down on allegedly harmful content in games. In a program titled ...

IDG News Service - Sony's PlayStation 3 got a boost from last week's launch of "Final Fantasy XIII" as Japanese consumers snapped up special-edition consoles to give the PS3 its best week since a relaunch several months ago, according to data ...

IDG News Service - An online retailer is taking orders for a Hewlett-Packard laptop that includes Intel 's latest Core i3 processor, providing details of the chip maker's next-generation laptop processor ahead of the product's official launch. ECost ...

IDG News Service - Internet users in Northern California were unable to reach properties including Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services for a time Wednesday evening, as their DNS provider was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack. The ...

Computerworld - The Canadian developer that won a $290 million court judgment against Microsoft will be going over future Microsoft software "extremely carefully" to make sure its patent hasn't been infringed, the chairman of i4i said today. Although ...

Another day, another software patent mess, but this time Microsoft and its customers are on the receiving end.

Computerworld - Fact: Everyone who patches is safer. Fact: Not everyone patches. The gap between the two facts is too deep for even security experts to explain, although they try, with theories running from the conspiratorial -- pirates hate to patch ...