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Lawmakers are ratcheting up their attempts to provide some level of protection to minors who might be victimized by online predators. Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., has introduced a bill that would prohibit anyone under 18 from using school or library computers to access online communities such...
Microsoft is highlighting its latest advances in collaboration technologies at its Center for Information Work -- a four-year-old, 3,500-square-foot technology laboratory. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant uses the facility to develop futuristic technologies and demonstrate to its customers, p...
"Strange Bed Partners" sounds like a viable name for a good movie. It also characterizes the new business alliance formed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and its erstwhile enemy BitTorrent -- a peer-to-peer network that has become synonymous with online trading of pirated movies. The movie studio is a...
Gartner has delivered a whammy to Microsoft that could dampen its efforts to reposition itself as a media-centric platform. The consulting firm released a note suggesting that Microsoft is not on track to make Windows Vista broadly available until at least Q2 2007 -- some nine to 12 months after Bet...
Phishers are targeting potential victims through yet another channel: voice over IP systems. Cloudmark, a provider of messaging security applications, this week discovered two separate e-mail schemes that direct recipients to VoIP systems in an effort to steal their personal data. The scam works lik...
Amazon has developed an elegant solution -- albeit a temporary one -- to a problem that has been nagging electronics goods retailers: what to do until the high-definition DVD format struggle reaches its conclusion. For retailers, the unresolved war between Blu-ray and HD DVD formats means they will ...
Microsoft has released a beta version of its Windows Live Academic Search service -- an unusual move for the company, which tends to hold back from releasing its products until fully developed. The search tool, the result of a cooperative effort between Windows Live Search, industry association Cros...
Google has introduced a beta version of its latest productivity tool -- an online calendar that allows users to easily update and share their schedules with friends and family. It can be integrated into Gmail, for instance, allowing someone to create a calendar notation directly from a message. Anot...
MySpace.com has taken several steps to secure its popular service against online predators trolling the Internet for new victims -- a danger that critics say the company has done little, up until now, to forestall. The company has appointed Microsoft veteran and former Justice Department trial atto...
MySpace.com has taken several steps to secure its popular service against online predators trolling the Internet for new victims -- a danger that critics say the company has done little, up until now, to forestall. The company has appointed Microsoft veteran and former Justice Department trial atto...
Silicon Valley startup Webaroo is angling for position in the search industry with an approach that is based on storage capacity. The company has introduced a software service that allows laptop and handheld users to search a portion of the Web without an Internet connection. It's entirely differen...
Silicon Valley startup Webaroo is angling for position in the search industry with an approach that is based on storage capacity. The company has introduced a software service that allows laptop and handheld users to search a portion of the Web without an Internet connection. It's entirely differen...
San Francisco has selected a joint proposal from Google and EarthLink to run its citywide WiFi network. A panel of tech and municipal experts, which remained anonymous until the decision was announced, selected the two companies over MetroFi and four other bidders. Now city officials will begin neg...
San Francisco has selected a joint proposal from Google and EarthLink to run its citywide WiFi network. A panel of tech and municipal experts, which remained anonymous until the decision was announced, selected the two companies over MetroFi and four other bidders. Now city officials will begin neg...
New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer has filed suit in the New York Supreme Court against Direct Revenue, an Internet pop-up advertising company, for surreptitiously installing spyware on unsuspecting users' computers via free games or software. Adware accompanying the free downloads tracked Web ...
MapQuest is expanding its services in one of the fastest-growing navigational subsectors -- smartphones and handsets with navigational applications. The company announced it is introducing two new products, MapQuest Navigator and Web-based mobile services. MapQuest Navigator will give users turn-by-...
Moviegoers that happened to miss "Brokeback Mountain" when it ran in the theaters this winter get another chance on Tuesday to see the film. The movie will be among the first sold to consumers via the Internet -- on the same day it is released on DVD. Seven studios -- including Universal Studios, wh...
Moviegoers that happened to miss "Brokeback Mountain" when it ran in the theaters this winter get another chance on Tuesday to see the film. The movie will be among the first sold to consumers via the Internet -- on the same day it is released on DVD. Seven studios -- including Universal Studios, wh...
A new flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer has come to light, but the software giant does not expect to issue a patch for it until April 11. However, at least two outside firms have issued patches that may be used in the interim. The Microsoft vulnerability exploits the way Internet Explorer handle...
Search engine users concerned about the government's new interest in search term data were relieved by a Federal judge's ruling on Friday. Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said Google must provide the government with 50,000 Web addresses in its sea...
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