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EARLY voting in the US presidential race yesterday was marred by reports of problems with touch-screen machines.

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Microsoft is giving away free software to early-stage Web start-up companies as part of a worldwide program called BizSpark launched on Wednesday.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, cycling legend Lance Armstrong and several technology industry CEOs will discuss this week how Internet technologies can help solve global problems.

Sun Microsystems and IBM are expected Wednesday to announce the Open document Format Toolkit Union, an open-source project aimed at making it easier for developers to use ODF.

Mozilla gets its jiggy on Popular browser Firefox has snatched more than 20 per cent market share during two separate weeks in October, according to new statistics..

DID Barack Obama's MySpace and Facebook friends help put him in the White House? Did he Twitter his way to the top?

Terminal jive Redmond is giving a select bunch of software startups thousands of dollars worth of development tools and server software at a big discount for up to three years..

Loses touch with reality World of Warcraft creator Blizzard Entertainment's lawsuit against MDY Industries is getting a little dose of bat-shit insane before the case rolls to trial..