The U.S. website of the Russian antivirus vendor was hacked and the company’s customer database exposed, but Kaspersky denies data was compromised. Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs’s US website was hacked over the weekend, exposing the company’s customer database, but Kaspersky has denied data was compromised and says the…

At the TED 2009 conference, Nicholas Negroponte says that OLPC’s open-source hardware design will result 5 to 6 million new machines every month within three years. The One Laptop per Child initiative seems to have found that imitation isn’t simply a form of flattery, it’s grounds for a new…

Hewlett-Packard unveiled Proactive Select, a new component in its strategy to help midsize and large businesses keep their systems and technology running in a tough economic climate. SINGAPORE–Hewlett-Packard has announced a new service initiative that it claims provides flexibility to customers during the current economic climate. …

The latest postponement means the world’s largest particle accelerator will be back online a year after an electrical malfunction forced its shutdown. The Large Hadron Collider could be restarted at the end of September — a year after the world’s largest particle accelerator was knocked off line…

Google has unveiled a new Gmail Labs feature that allows users to have more than one inbox in their default Gmail view. Google has unveiled a new Gmail Labs feature that allows users to have more than one inbox in their default Gmail view. …

Intel says the price cuts are the result of Intel’s solid-state drive production now being fully operational. Intel has cut the prices of many of its solid-state drives by around a third, claiming that its SSD production is now fully up and running. In the…

The new server chip, codenamed Tukwila, has had its release date pushed back to around the middle of this year. Intel has again delayed the latest version of its Itanium server chip, codenamed Tukwila, which was originally supposed to appear towards the end of last…

crazyeyes writes “With Windows 7 set for release in Dec. 09, Microsoft is getting ready with their free upgrade program, which allows Vista users to switch to Windows 7 when it arrives. The folks at TechARP have consistently scored accurate scoops on Microsoft software releases. They have now revealed Microsoft’s upgrade plans, schedules and even screenshots of the upgrade process.”

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Windows Secrets writes “After two straight years of taking dead aim at Macbooks and Windows-powered machines, hackers at this year’s CanSecWest conference will have shiny new targets: Web browsers and mobile phones. According to CanSecWest organisers, there will be two separate Pwn2Own competitions this year — one pitting hackers against IE8, Firefox 3 and Safari and another targeting Google Android, Apple iPhone, Nokia Symbian and Windows Mobile.”

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kokito writes “OSNews managing editor Thom Holwerda reviews Haiku, the open source successor of the Be operating system. According to the review, Haiku faithfully/successfully replicates the BeOS user experience and ‘personality,’ boasting very short boot times, the same recognizable but modernized GUI using antialiasing for fonts and all vector graphics as well as vector icons, a file system with support for metadata-based queries (OpenBFS) and support for the BeAPI, considered by some the cleanest programming API ever. The project has also recently released a native GCC 4.3.3 tool chain, clearing the way for bringing up-to-date ports of multi-platform apps such as Firefox and VLC, and making it easier to work on Haiku ports in general.” (More below.)

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