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Homeland Security Moves to Harden Open-Source Software

The widespread adoption of open-source software by corporations and governments has raised some security concerns in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the agency is responding ...

Search Engine Ads Garner $5.75 Billion in 2005

North American advertisers spent US$5.75 billion on search engine marketing in 2005, a 44 percent increase over the previous year, according to a report released Monday by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) ...

Pornographers Turn to Click Fraud

Peddling pornography has always been big business on theInternet, but apparently it isn't lucrative enough for some skin merchants ...

Disconnected Products Cost Gadget Shops Billions

Cool electronic gadgets can be seductive not only to consumers, but to the makers of the gadgets themselves. And that is costing those makers money ...

Happy Past Year for Open-Source Community

As revelers wish each other happy New Year this weekend, members of the open-source community will be reveling in events from the past year -- a year that saw their movement make significant strides in strengthening its position on the technology landscape ...

Thuggery Thrives on the Internet

Blackmail, the shakedown and the sting are age-old forms of thuggery in theanalog world, and now they're finding the digital world a fertile place fortheir poisoned fruits, according to security experts interviewed byTechNewsWorld ...

SOFTWARE TOOLBOX

Corel Improves a Classic

There are lots of software heavyweights in the digital imaging editing field -- sluggers such as Microsoft, Adobe and Ulead -- so it's a wonder that a fine program like Paint Shop Pro has continued to chug along over the years without being derailed as has been the case with so many worthwhile independents ...

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Pop-Up Ads Top Web Surfers’ Pet Peeve List

Web surfers are annoyed as hell and they're doing something about it ...

Analysts: PC Growth Will Slow Next Year

Falling prices, the limping economy, natural disasters -- nothing has been able to put a crimp in the double-digit growth of the personal computer market over the last three years. Analysts expect a significant slowdown in 2006, but that is not to say that the worldwide growth rate for the market won't be one that many industries would kill to have...

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Command Center Will Elicit Excitement From Bloggers

Although blogging has gained a certain amount of notoriety in the media, its tool base remains relatively immature. There are some viable tools available to bloggers offered by hosting services like Blogger and Typepad, but a truly integrated approach has been lacking ...

Google Set to Flank Rivals With AOL Deal

For the last several days, Google has set the online and financial worlds buzzing with an expected deal with America Online that could be cut as early as today. Although opinion varies on the wisdom and impact of the move, there's one point on which everyone agrees: The maneuver will add fuel to the simmering feud between Microsoft and the Net's favorite search engine...

Holiday Shopping Season Enters Home Stretch

As the holiday shopping season starts its last leg today, online merchants are smiling and offline retailers are preparing for the annual Saturday surge ...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Palm’s Latest Offering Breathes New Life Into Handhelds

If handheld computers survive the onslaught on their market by mobile phones with their panoply of features that seem to multiply on a daily basis, it will be in large part, ironically, to their wireless capabilities ...

Online Holiday Sales Set to Hit $26 Billion Target

Online holiday sales are on a pace to crack US$26 billion this year -- an 18 percent leap over last year, according to JupiterResearch in New York City ...

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Voodoo Brings Luxury to the Laptop

Listen. Do you hear that yowling?No. That's not your neighbor's cat in heat. It's mainstream computer makers taking a gander at the latest margin figures on PCs ...

Security Firm Reports Malware Threats Jump 48 Percent

Threats from malware -- viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and such -- climbed 48 percent in 2005, compared to the previous year, according to the annual Sophos Security Threat Management Report ...

Microsoft Not Out of Bay State Woods Yet

In recent days Massachusetts has softened its tough stance on what file formats it will store its documents in -- a stance that placed it squarely at loggerheads with Microsoft -- but, according to one state legislator, the software giant should not start breathing easy yet ...

Black Friday Golden Day for Net Merchants

High oil prices. Natural disasters. Slumping economy. Pink slip epidemics. None of that appeared to bother shoppers as they stormed Web outlets on the day after Thanksgiving, the day that's become known as Black Friday ...

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Software Tool Fights Information Overload

Electronic information has its advantages over paper, but it has its share of snags, too. One of them is finding saved items ...

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Bloggers Cautioned on Copyright Concerns

Sloth can be a deadly sin, or at least a potentially litigious one, and the rise of blogging on the Internet has peaked concern about this pitfall ...

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