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On the heels of Red Hat's foray into China last week, Microsoft today announced that it will hire hundreds of new employees at its Indian campus next year. Microsoft currently employs 800 people at its US$400 million 28-acre campus just outside India's high-tech hub of Hyderabad in Manikonda. Compan...

In separate moves that suggest strong desire among media giants to position themselves in the online news and information fields, Dow Jones agreed to buy MarketWatch in a deal worth US$519 million, while Yahoo announced it had hired a former Wall Street Journal Online executive to head its own news ...

Today is the federally mandated deadline for investment companies and other publicly owned firms to be in compliance with internal auditing controls stipulated by the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2004. However, it appears many companies might miss the deadline. Under terms of the SOX law, otherwise k...

In retrospect, it seems obvious to match the capabilities of Windows with secure messaging software. However, in 1995, when Windows NT first burst into the marketplace, IT managers at first did not have many -- if any -- options to help their users easily and safely communicate with each other. This...

Is Yahoo going Hollywood? It's a question that analysts are increasingly asking after the Sunnyvale, California, Web portal's hiring two weeks ago of Lloyd Braun, a former chairman of ABC television. He is charged with overseeing Yahoo's entertainment and media properties, including movies, music, g...

Some Internet security experts don't place much hope for pending antiphishing legislation to do much to prevent ID theft and related scams. They view the prospect of new laws as being too little, too late to stop an out-of-control problem. Phishing scams trick e-mail recipients into clicking a link ...

Hoping to grab a piece of a business that combines two of the hottest Web sectors -- travel and search -- America Online has purchased a stake in a startup software company already backed by the founders of Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz. AOL made an undisclosed investment in Kayak Software as part...

Despite increased revenue, Opera Software, maker of the No. 3 Web browser, has posted a third-quarter loss triple that of the same period a year ago, something the Oslo-based company said was partly due to a significant increase in operating expenses as well as the weak dollar. Shares of the company...

Culminating its months-long investigation into the theft of Microsoft's viciously guarded Windows source code, the FBI has arrested a Connecticut man it said used a Web site to distribute parts of the operating system. William O. Genovese Jr., 27, faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of US$250,...

Today, with the pressures on business executives to meet their projections and to always present a glowing picture to analysts, it is understandable how some succumb to the temptation to present a rosy outlook when things actually might be deteriorating. This article analyzes ways by which the CEO o...

Security software firm Finjan said its research lab has turned up 10 "serious" flaws in Microsoft's Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, an upgrade that Microsoft is touting as a way to better secure its flagship platform. The vulnerabilities allow a range of attacks to be successful, in some cases giving...

Google has announced plans to snap up its Gmail service with POP, or post office protocol, over the next couple of weeks. The feature, announced yesterday, will allow users to check e-mail via other e-mail programs, like Outlook and Eudora -- and, thus, to download e-mail and view it offline -- or v...

Leading chipmaker Intel did not have to search far and wide for a replacement for its outgoing CEO, naming longtime executive and current president and chief operating officer Paul Otellini to the top post. Intel's Board of Directors elected Otellini to take over from Craig Barrett effective in May ...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) yesterday ruled that the United States violated its international trade obligations by prohibiting online gambling. The WTO said the U.S. should open its borders to international online casinos. The office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) vowed to v...

In a highly anticipated ruling, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declared on Tuesday that Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government. The five-member panel unanimously decided that VoIP services are interstate in n...