It's illegal for US citizens to place bets on the Internet -- or is it? A Seattle attorney thinks he's found a million-dollar loophole. (Page C4, 664 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 22, 2007

Chelsea Hauston stands in a crouch, her hands lifted away from her body like a gunslinger in a western movie. She's staring straight ahead, not at a dusty street but at a large TV monitor, waiting for the go signal. (Page B5, 1186 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Mar 14, 2005

A Boston computer entrepreneur says a software glitch at PayMaxx Inc., a Franklin, Tenn., payroll processing company, has accidentally revealed personal financial information on as many as 100,000 Americans. (Page E1, 787 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Feb 25, 2005

E-mail inquiry yields 2d computer Boston officials acknowledged yesterday that they have discovered a second computer used by chief mayoral aide Michael J. Kineavy, a hard drive tucked away in a sixth-floor office that may contain the bulk of the e-mail subpoenaed by federal authorities and formally requested by the Globe. (Page A1, 1001 words)By: Donovan Slack and Hiawatha Bray|Date: Oct 6, 2009

Verizon cuts violate pact, union says Verizon Communications laid off about 200 technicians in Massachusetts and Rhode Island yesterday as part of an effort to cut its workforce by 8,000 workers nationwide. But officials of the union that represents those employees plan to challenge the layoffs, saying they violate the terms of its contract with Verizon. (Page B5, 405 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Oct 10, 2009

Nikon is projector and camera in one My wife takes pictures of everything. Then she immediately shoves her camera under my nose to demand I admire the digital view. Drives me nuts. (Page B7, 738 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Oct 8, 2009

Two years after being hired by Microsoft Corp. to head a laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts tech industry veteran Reed Sturtevant has left the company, as Microsoft restructures its research operations. (Page B7, 421 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Oct 9, 2009

Raytheon Co. has struck an agreement to buy BBN Technologies, a privately held Cambridge firm that played a vital role in the creation of the Internet. (Page B5, 350 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Sep 2, 2009

Boylston Street sold - on online Monopoly game For decades, fans of the real estate board game Monopoly have squabbled over ownership of Park Place or Virginia Avenue. But a new Internet version of the game lets players bid for control of such familiar streets as Boston’s Massachusetts Avenue, Chicago’s State Street, or New York City’s Broadway. The game uses Google Inc.’s Internet mapping service Google Maps to ... (Page B5, 331 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Sep 9, 2009

LogMeIn Inc. of Woburn, which makes software for the remote control of computers, is promoting two executives and bidding farewell to a third. Kevin Farrell has been promoted to general manager of endpoint solutions, and Kevin Bardos has been named general manager of support and collaboration technologies. (Page B5, 107 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Oct 10, 2009

Novell’s claim on Unix in jeopardy A bankrupt Utah software company has been given a new lease on life, at the expense of Linux software vendor Novell Inc. of Waltham. (Page B5, 387 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Aug 26, 2009

Elegant new Zune HD just a little late to the game If someone had handed me Microsoft Corp.’s new Zune HD back in 2006, he would have had to mug me to get it back. Thin, elegant, stuffed with advanced features, the new Zune is one of the best portable media devices yet. It’s certainly far better than Apple Inc.’s 2006 line of iPod media players. (Page B5, 752 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Sep 17, 2009

Ready for more football? FOXBOROUGH - They play a lot of football in this town - and not just in Gillette Stadium. A couple of miles away, at a company called Quick Hit Inc., a team of software developers oversees hundreds of games a day, played in virtual stadiums on the Internet. They hope to soon grow that number into the millions, as they ... (Page B5, 864 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Sep 22, 2009

The world around us is getting something it’s needed for a long time: captions. Yes, captions - the explanatory text that accompanies images in newspapers and magazines, and on Web pages. (Page B7, 791 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Sep 24, 2009

Once again, users of Microsoft Corp. computer software find themselves under siege from a dangerous virus program that attacks Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program. But at least Microsoft's misery has company this time. That's because the new attack software, called Goner, also goes after users of the ICQ instant messaging software produced by AOL Time Warner.

Antivirus companies scrambled to create repair files to fend off Goner, after receiving thousands of customer complaints yesterday. The virus usually arrives as an e-mail message titled "Hi," with a file attached. "How are you?" the message reads. "When I saw this screen saver, I immediately thought about you."

By: Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff|Date: Dec 5, 2001

Mayor Thomas M. Menino will make it official today at a news conference in the North End: The Macworld computer trade show is coming back to Boston.

The announcement of Macworld's return in 2004 caps months of intense negotiations between the mayor's office, the embattled Boston Convention Center Authority, the city's hotels, and Charlie Greco, chief executive of IDG World Expo, sponsors of Macworld. At issue were difficult questions of space and time. Would Boston have enough hotel space, at reasonable rates, for thousands of enthusiastic users of Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh machines? And would the convention center, still under construction on the South Boston Waterfront, be completed in time for the July 2004 Macworld show?

By: Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff|Date: Oct 17, 2002

Apple Computer Inc. is still at odds with IDG World Expo, producers of the Macworld trade show, about attending the Macworld show planned for Boston in 2004. But one dispute between the two companies has been settled: Apple will be on hand at the San Francisco Macworld show next January.

Apple and IDG World Expo issued a statement yesterday saying that Apple CEO Steve Jobs would give his customary Macworld keynote address on Jan. 7 at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, will speak later in the week.

By: Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff|Date: Nov 8, 2002

Boston semiconductor test equipment maker Teradyne Inc. eliminated another 230 jobs worldwide this week, knocking down the firm's global head count to just over 8,000, compared to a peak of around 12,000.

"The growth that we had seen in the first half of the year had slowed or stopped," said Teradyne vice president of corporate relations Tom Newman.

By: HIAWATHA BRAY|Date: Nov 14, 2002

It's the dark dream of the world's computer vandals: the dream of tearing the Internet up by its roots. On Monday, someone tried - and failed - to make that dream come true.

Federal investigators don't know who launched the massive attack on the Internet's 13 "root servers," the basic directory system of the network. But they're worried about the sheer ambition of the attack, one that could have disrupted the entire global Internet if it had worked.

By: Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff|Date: Oct 24, 2002

AOL Time Warner Inc. has joined the ranks of American corporations whose accounting practices are being reviewed by government investigators. Chief executive Richard Parsons said yesterday that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has begun "a fact-finding inquiry" into the way the company accounted for a series of financial transactions described in published reports last week.

Parsons made the announcement during a second-quarter earnings report that showed AOL Time Warner turning a profit of 9 cents a share. Strong results in the company's movie business helped offset continued weakness in advertising sales at the America Online Internet unit.

By: Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff|Date: Jul 25, 2002

The executives at Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp. think they've successfully closed the deal of the decade. But their ultimate success isn't up to them, or the shareholders of the two companies, who apparently approved their $20 billion merger.

The real deciding vote will come from the marketplace, from the thousands of corporations and institutions that rely on HP and Compaq products and services, and must now decide whether they can go on depending on the new merged company. The new HP-Compaq wants to position itself as a global computing titan to rival IBM Corp. But IBM and other industry leaders could actually take advantage of the inevitable post-merger confusion to woo nervous HP-Compaq customers.

By: Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff|Date: Apr 1, 2002

Members of the US House of Representatives are launching a bipartisan assault on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a controversial federal law aimed at stamping out digital piracy of music, movies, and books.

California Democratic Representative Zoe Lofgren yesterday introduced legislation that would weaken a key portion of the act. A similar bill, cosponsored by Virginia Democrat Rick Boucher and California Republican John Doolittle, will be filed today.

By: Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff|Date: Oct 3, 2002

What's it going to take to get people buying new computers again? How about a new kind of computer chip that pretends it's two processors in one?

Nope. It'll take a lot more than that.

By: HIAWATHA BRAY|Date: Nov 18, 2002

President Bush's point man on computer security says the nation has a long way to go in securing its data networks but new federal regulations would be a step in the wrong direction.

Richard Clarke, head of the White House Office of Cyber Security, also said the government should modify a controversial law designed to prevent exploitation of software security flaws because it can be used to stifle research to improve computer security.

By: Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff|Date: Oct 17, 2002

TAIPEI - The gunfire never stops, and neither does the chatter. After all, there's no point shooting at your best friend if you can't tease him about it afterward.

The high school boys sit at their keyboards, twitching their computer mice, flinching involuntarily as their buddies' bullets rip them apart. The weapons of choice are 9mm pistols, AK-47s, Colt carbines. Each death brings groans, shouts, laughs of triumph. Their game of Counter-Strike goes on until one team has wiped out the other - an event that rarely takes more than a couple of minutes. The computer totals the body count and launches a new round of slaughter. And on it goes, hour after hour, sometimes 24 hours a day, in Taipei's cybercafes.

By: HIAWATHA BRAY|Date: Jun 10, 2002