Stories by Gregg Keizer

Microsoft pursues webOS devs, offers free phones

Taking advantage of Hewlett-Packard's departure from the tablet and smartphone market, Microsoft has offered webOS developers free phones, tools and training to create apps for its Windows Phone 7 platform.

Chrome tips users to dangerous Windows downloads

Google on Tuesday said it will add malware download warnings to its Chrome browser.

Microsoft warns of Word attacks

RTF-based exploits making the rounds, apply Nov. patch pronto, says MMPC

Calif. woman sues Microsoft over XP downgrades -- again

Rerun of lawsuit tossed by federal judge last February

Paul Allen revises patent suit, targets Android, Apple iTunes

Beats deadline for filing amended complaint, lists wide array of online software, services Beats deadline for filing amended complaint, lists wide array of online software, services

Skype blames buggy Windows software, swamped servers for outage

Promises to look into auto-updating its Windows client software to prevent another blackout

Apple's smart move: Buy Netflix, says analyst

iTunes' TV and movie rental business already one-tenth the size of Netflix, says expert

Microsoft may face resistance to Windows 8

Enterprises now in the midst of migrating to Windows 7 are unlikely to repeat that same work in just two years with Windows 8, an analyst said today.

New Firefox add-on hijacks Facebook, Twitter sessions

A new Firefox add-on lets "pretty much anyone" scan a Wi-Fi network and hijack others' access to Facebook, Twitter and a host of other services, a security researcher warned today.

Stuxnet worm can re-infect scrubbed PCs

A security researcher today revealed yet another way that the Stuxnet worm spreads, a tactic that can re-infect machines that have already been scrubbed of the malware.

Apple patches months-old QuickTime bugs

Apple patched a critical vulnerability in QuickTime on Wednesday that was reported to the company by a bug bounty program months ago.

Microsoft's IE9 off limits to most Windows PCs

Microsoft may have a tough time building significant market share for its new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser because eligible users are in the minority.

Google patches Chrome second time this month

Google patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome this week, including one pegged critical on the Mac.

Apple to restrict iPhone, iPad multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0

If Apple announces multitasking for its iPhone and iPad tomorrow, it will be a limited version that the company controls, allowing some applications to run in the background but denying others, experts said today.

Court rejects Microsoft appeal, bans Word sales

A federal appeals court today ordered Microsoft to stop selling its popular Word software in less than three weeks, rejecting the company's appeal and confirming the ruling of a lower court.