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The Federal Trade Commission is mulling a plan to target companies that advertise through adware and spyware, hoping to shame those companies into discontinuing the practice. That approach would use economics to curtail the spread of spyware and adware -- programs that are installed on a users' comp...
Changes to some versions of the Office productivity suite may affect more businesses than originally believed, as Microsoft revises certain versions of the software to address a patent ruling. Microsoft warned of the upcoming switch last month, saying that corporate customers who move existing softw...
IBM has won a key ally in its quest to turn around the fortunes of its PowerPC processor, which suffered last year when Apple announced it would use Intel chips instead in its machines. Freescale Semiconductor, which helped develop and proliferate the Power platform, has become the latest company to...
Tech heavyweight Google and Skype, a subsidiary of eBay, have invested in a Europe-based startup that hopes to revolutionize the WiFi business, though it has yet to roll out a key part of its technology. Google and Skype joined venture investors in pouring some US$21.6 million into Fon, a startup th...
Cambridge, Mass., is moving to become the latest U.S. metropolitan area entirely covered by WiFi wireless Internet access. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the major universities that call it home, said it would work with the city to bring Web access to all, including those living i...
Microsoft has pulled a well-known Chinese blogger's site off the Internet -- a dramatic reminder that doing business in the booming Chinese economy comes with significant strings attached. Microsoft removed the blog of Chinese journalist Zhao Jing from its MSN Spaces service at the end of December, ...
The New Year may bring yet another threat from the Sober family of worms, according to security researchers who say a recently discovered variant of the worm contains code that could unleash a new round of attacks on Jan. 5, 2006. Security firm iDefense, which is owned by VeriSign, said a variant of...
Raising the possibility that it will change course once again on a hotly debated move meant to give adult content Web sites their own Internet realm, the net's governing body has decided to shelve a plan to discuss how to create a ".xxx" domain. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number...
Young people in Europe are three times more likely to illegally swap songs than they are to download them from legitimate sites such as Apple's iTunes Music Store, according to new data that suggests the music industry has yet to solve its lingering digital conundrum. Jupiter Research said file-shar...
Young people in Europe are three times more likely to illegally swap songs than they are to download them from legitimate sites such as Apple's iTunes Music Store, according to new data that suggests the music industry has yet to solve its lingering digital conundrum. Jupiter Research said file-shar...
In a move that underscores the growing importance of flash memory chips as consumer electronics devices continue to shrink in size, Intel and Micron Technology announced a joint venture that will create flash chips for the likes of Apple and others. The two chip makers will contribute up to US$5.2 b...
Hoping to boost mobile Web use and unlock potentially massive revenue in the process, Cingular Wireless has revamped its mobile Web services with an eye toward making it faster and easier for users to access the Internet from the phones. Cingular, the largest U.S. mobile carrier in terms of subscrib...
Hoping to boost mobile Web use and unlock potentially massive revenue in the process, Cingular Wireless has revamped its mobile Web services with an eye toward making it faster and easier for users to access the Internet from the phones. Cingular, the largest U.S. mobile carrier in terms of subscrib...
Lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that would offer providers of fast-growing Internet calling services the same access to E-911 service that traditional phone companies have and give them more time to put the emergency service in place. The legislation, which was approved by the Senate Commer...
IBM and Sun Microsystems are apparently banding together to spur adoption of the OpenDocument platform, a standard that is seen by many as one of the true threats to Microsoft's dominance of the office productivity and document management niche. Executives from each of the technology companies have ...
The Internet's governing body has agreed to settle several outstanding lawsuits involving domain registrar VeriSign, an agreement that will keep that company in charge of the key dot-com domain until 2012. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the settlement is still s...
IBM said it had created a computerized approach to help the National Football League organize, store and retrieve a massive catalog of game footage, a project Big Blue hopes can become a model for others with similar expanses of data to store. The company said the solution, known as Digital Foundati...
Sun Microsystems and Google Tuesday announced a multi-year deal to promote each other's software, a deal seen by many as the possible groundwork for a direct attack on Microsoft's market dominance in the desktop productivity software space. Under the terms, financial terms of which were not disclose...
Further honing its focus on video search and making a play to become a hub of Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), Blinkx has launched a service that lets users upload video blogs that can then be searched by the public and gives users the ability to control video they find through online searches. My Blink...
Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP), which the electronics and entertainment company hopes can rescue it from financial doldrums, staged a record-breaking launch in the United Kingdom, shattering existing sales records as gamers scooped up the console and compatible games as soon as they became availa...
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