Whether your primary computer is in the next room or the next country, sometimes remote access can save the day. Citrix Online's GoToMyPC allows you to control a Windows PC (Windows 95 or above) from any online computer using only a browser, as well as from some Windows Mobile hand-held devices

Microsoft online local search and mapping service, Windows Live Local, launched CelebFavorites, a Web site that pinpoints the favorite haunts of eight of the world’s top athletes and entertainers, including Eva Longoria, Anna Kournikova, Jeff Bridges and Alex Rodriguez. Each celebrity has used the site to highlight his or her favorite restaurants, hotels, clubs, shops, museums or places to hang out. CelebFavorites

China has manufactured its first personal robot that can live at home as a partner and help out with domestic chores. "Liangliang", the silver-coloured 80 cm tall robot, is able to walk, navigate through obstacles at ease and perform duties as instructed by humans. The personal robot can provide services of education, entertainment, security and as a personal assistant, said an official of the Xinsong Automation Company, which has created Liangliang

Pirated software products worth 140 billion yuan (around $17.5 billion) were sold in China in 2005, accounting for 26 percent of the country's total sales in the software industry. Among the pirated software products, 47 percent are system software, 43 percent application software and 10 percent are supportive software, said a report by the leading group for intellectual property right management

A High Court judge is due to rule Monday in the legal fight between Apple Computer and the Beatles' Apple Corps record label over the use of the apple logo. Apple Corps Ltd. is suing Apple Computer Inc., claiming that the U.S.-based computer company has broken a 1991 agreement in which each agreed not to enter into the other's field of business

Intel Corp. on Monday plans to unveil a single brand name for a new generation of chips for laptop PCs and desktop machines, calling them the Core 2 Duo. The company is counting on the chips, which are based on a new design, to regain market share lost to several high-performing chips made by competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Intel's new architecture, dubbed "Core," delivers two processors on a single chip, driving better performance while consuming less power

John Thys still hasn't figured out how much his company has paid Google Inc. for bogus sales referrals caused by "click fraud" - a sham aimed at a perceived weakness in the Internet search leader's lucrative advertising network. But Thys says he has uncovered enough of it to conclude that Google is trying to shortchange his company and thousands of other advertisers by offering refunds totaling $60 million to settle a lawsuit

IBM has launched a new System z9 Business Class mainframe starting at around $100,000 (about £56,000), and a new database-optimised processor for the z9 Enterprise Class. The z9 Business Class is designed to tackle what IBM dubbed critical computing challenges of the future: automated Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), new heightened expectations for data security and the rapid expansion of emerging markets

An Israeli firm that specialises in bouncing spam in aggressive fashion, has had its own “do-not-spam” user list targetted by an angry spammer. Blue Security launched its “do-not-intrude registry” last July, which critics said amounted to vigilantism because it traced and sent opt-out email to the senders of unwanted email

Two years after conceding his company erred in not developing its own search engine, Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer boasted Thursday of progress in fighting industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. Ballmer said that Microsoft has, in a relatively short time, advanced in two key areas by creating its own search engine and online advertising platform