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Another strain of the MyDoom worm is on the loose and is spreading quickly today, according to antivirus firm Sophos. The new MyDoom variant emerged yesterday and can use search engines Google, Yahoo, Lycos and AltaVista to try to gather e-mail addresses to send itself to The original version of the MyDoom worm disrupted Google for a short while la...
In response to high double-digit growth in 2004 in the number of customers deploying IBM collaboration software on the Linux platform, IBM today announced plans to invest US$100 million over three years to expand Linux support and technology across its Workplace software portfolio Big Blue said the expanded Linux support will help give customers th...
IAC/InterActiveCorp, the parent company of Expedia, the Home Shopping Network and Hotels.com, posted a quarterly loss today. IAC said operating income before amortization was strong at Home Shopping Network, but its travel business made only slight increases IAC recently announced plans to split in two by spinning off Expedia and related businesses...
Worldwide PC shipments are expected to slow in 2005 as the latest replacement cycle ebbs, Gartner says. However, the research firm still predicts 9 percent growth as compared to last year Gartner expects shipments of mobile PCs, such as laptops, to drive market growth by increasing 17.4 percent in 2005. Meanwhile, desk-based PC shipments are only f...
Sparked by growth in its European operations, Yahoo announced today it will open a European operations headquarters in Ireland to provide support to its main European headquarters in London Yahoo plans create almost 400 new jobs in the Dublin office over the next five years....
EBay, Microsoft, PayPal and Visa are hooking up to catch some phishing fraudsters The high-tech heavyweights yesterday became the first participants in a new anti-phishing aggregation service dubbed the Phish Report Network and organized by WholeSecurity, an Austin, Texas-based company that screens Web sites for suspicious behavior....
Hewlett-Packard has announced antivirus software aimed at controlling the spread of viruses across corporate networks in an apparent bid to boost its server sales The company also announced that HP Labs is collaborating with two prominent partners to test new damage-containment security software aimed at preventing certain viruses from corrupting e...
The Liberty Alliance has released the second version of its identification standards for Web services technology, marking what analysts said is another step toward the convergence of identity specifications that will simplify processing The global consortium's latest release of ID-WSF 2.0 is a publicly available framework that has been extended to ...
A week after the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament demanded that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive be rewritten, the European Union has delayed plans to approve the controversial rules providing for patenting computer software Observers expected EU ministers to endorse the bill next Thursday and send it to a second read...
Yahoo today announced the beta release of the Yahoo Toolbar for the Firefox Web browser, giving the Mozilla Foundation's platform what analysts said is an endorsement of the alternative browser that should help it take more market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer "The Yahoo Toolbar provides Internet users with a faster, safer and personaliz...
Call it a triple whammy against spam. EarthLink today announced four more lawsuits in its continuing fight against fraudulent and deceptive commercial e-mails. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Pfizer announced parallel lawsuits against two international pharmacy spam rings. It is just the latest barrage of lawsuits by each in the fight against spam The Ear...
What do New York and Nigeria have in common? Something far more serious than beginning with the letter "n." Both of these regions have earned the dubious distinction of ranking among the riskiest places in the world for e-commerce, according to a survey by CyberSource Corporation The Big Apple was chosen as the riskiest North American metropolitan ...
Nokia and RealNetworks have announced an expansion of their long-term relationship to enable Nokia to ship RealNetworks' media formats on a wide variety of its advanced phones "The new licensing and development model with Real fully supports Nokia's multi-format strategy and our commitment to respond to our customers' needs with best-in-breed solu...
Ask Jeeves announced today that is has acquired privately held Bloglines, a free online service for searching, publishing and sharing RSS feeds, blogs and rich Web content. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed Bloglines will continue to operate as an independent brand in the Ask Jeeves portfolio and retain its name and unique URL....
It's anything but smooth sailing for COAST these days. Members of the Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology Vendors are dropping like flies. Analysts said a factor in the controversy could be Microsoft's entrance into the multi-million-dollar market On Friday, Computer Associates International, which owns Pest Patrol anti-spyware software, resigned...
Google today said it has not yet decided whether to appeal Friday's ruling by a French court that ordered it to pay US$260,000 plus costs to luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton for breach of trademark The high court in central Paris also ordered Google to stop displaying advertisements for Vuitton's rivals whenever Web searchers typed the plaintiff's ...
In the wake of widespread complaints about fee increases on sellers, eBay has said it will reduce some of the charges and boost customer service in the U.S. and Canada. However, the online auction giant is standing firm on its move to hike Final Value fees on inventory format listings and Store subscription fees It is unclear if threats from the co...
We've come a long way, baby! Indeed, e-commerce has evolved from online billboards to a fully functional, personalized shopping experience over the past decade. While there were admittedly a few bumps along the road, the path from 1994 through the 2004 holiday shopping season is full of crucial milestones of Internet pioneers and technology innovat...
The landmark settlement between class action plaintiffs and 10 former WorldCom directors fell apart yesterday after a federal judge rejected a key aspect of the deal. Directors had agreed to pay US$54 million, including $18 million of their own money, to settle the suit U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York, presiding...
In an ongoing battle to keep software patents out of Europe, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament has voted unanimously to restart the legislative process and request a rewrite of the European Commission's proposed Computer Implemented Inventions Directive The decision yesterday is a boon for software patent opponents but a setbac...
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