Bill Gates, chairman, co-founder, and former head of Microsoft, has predicted that continual expansion of Internet services will provoke a revolution in software development. During a visit to Hong Kong, Gates attended a forum on August 12 to celebr

The Khanya Project, a project of the Western Cape Department of Education, is to install software to track the thieves who steal computers and computer parts from schools in the province.

It takes surprisingly few pixels of information to be able to identify the subject of an image, a team led by an MIT researcher has found. The discovery could lead to great advances in the automated identification of online images and, ultimately, provide

, the popular free software license. "Since we founded the free software movement, over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful programs that respect the user's freedom.

Q. I recently had Zone Alarm on my computer, and one of their updates stopped me from being able to access the Internet or e-mail. I removed the software, and they came right up. Can you recommend a free firewall download? — Ken