REDMOND, Wash.–Microsoft said on Friday that it will charge $149 for the family pack version of Windows 7, which allows users to upgrade up to three PCs to the Home Premium edition of the operating system.
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The software maker had previously said it would offer the family pack, but had not said how much [...]

I had just been poured a drink at a bar Saturday night, when the man to my left tapped me on the shoulder.
“That’s an 8,” he said.
Unsure as to what he was evaluating–my beauty out of 100, perhaps?–I turned toward him very slowly.
“Er, excuse me?” I muttered, squinting at the man’s long, straggly hair [...]

The mystery surrounding Apple’s approval process on the App Store is legendary. What gets approved or rejected on any given day can be a source of bewilderment for developers and consumers alike. But the company still surprised everyone when it rejected Google’s Voice app for the iPhone on Tuesday.

The story doesn’t end there. Apple [...]

A federal appeals court in Denver on Friday ordered a reduced prison term for Joseph Nacchio, the former Qwest Communications chief who had been sentenced to six years for insider trading.
The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the trial court had overstated Nacchio’s stock market gains and he was therefore entitled to [...]

It would have been the most far-reaching case of computer sabotage in history. In 2003, the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies made plans for a cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in the bank accounts of Saddam Hussein and cripple his government’s financial system before the United States invaded Iraq. He would have [...]