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In a move to compete in one of the Internet's fast-growth markets, IBM yesterday announced plans to start offering hosted service for its Web conferencing. Big Blue will target small- to mid-sized businesses (SMB) with an offering planned for December. Web conferencing software integrates teleconfer...

Skype Technologies, viewed by many as a pathfinder in the bid to bring voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) calling to consumers, said it has collaborated with Siemens on technology that will enable traditional cordless phone users to have their calls sent over the Internet. The product, being made a...

Confident that its technology now is on a par with its competition, Microsoft reportedly plans to formally launch its long-awaited new search product tomorrow, taking the search wars to a new level in the process. Microsoft reportedly has been working on the search engine for 18 months and made a be...

An alleged Microsoft hacker was arrested yesterday on charges that he illegally sold a secret source code used for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 programs. The United States Attorney's Office in Manhattan charged William P. Genovese, Jr., 27, of Connecticut, with unlawfully distributing a trade sec...

"Guilty" on all three counts was the finding of the Virginia jury on November 3 in the nation's first felony spam prosecution. The greatest shock was when the jury returned a sentence of nine years against Jeremy Jaynes when many on the jury did not even know what spam was prior to the eight-day jur...

Why are most technology corporations so stubborn to admit puzzling marketing issues? They are somehow used to a torturing path, all in the name of "tough times and rough markets." It's a puzzle, especially when in relation to creating a new innovation, solving such marketing issues are the easiest t...

Security firms are warning of a new e-mail worm that began infecting computers just days after the vulnerability it exploits in the Internet Explorer (IE) browser was made public. The worm, which some information security experts say is a variation of the MyDoom virus that ravaged the Web earlier th...

In a boon for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today ruled as expected to bar states from imposing telecommunications regulations on Internet phone providers. "This landmark order recognizes a revolution has occurred," FCC Chairman Michael Po...

In just the latest example of a technology company aggressively protecting its intellectual property, Toshiba has filed lawsuits alleging that Hynix memory chips violate Toshiba patents. Japan's Toshiba filed suits in Tokyo and in U.S. District Court in Texas charging patent infringement. The Japane...

The information technology (IT) industry in Pakistan faces challenges that need to be understood by everyone preparing to send or receive IT services from that country. Restrictions on funds transfers from the U.S. to Pakistan, implemented after 9/11, are causing problems for firms in Pakistan that ...

In one of the largest instances to date of widespread big-rigging on auction site eBay, eight sellers have been ordered to pay US$90,000 in fines and restitution after admitting to engaging in practices that artificially drove up the prices of their auctions. The sellers began to pay restitution to ...

Microsoft has agreed to pay Novell US$536 million to settle a long-simmer private antitrust claim over its NetWare operating system, a deal that also calls for Novell to withdraw from the European antitrust proceedings against Microsoft. Microsoft said the deal, which came about after lengthy privat...

I met Steve Wozniak after he spoke at last month's MIT Emerging Technologies conference. Standing on the stage, trying to jockey my way among the pack wanting to greet "Woz," I was torn between wanting to talk to this luminary of Electronic Design's Hall of Fame and feeling I was adding to his hound...

Amazon.com, the owner of the "1-Click Shopping" patent, is no stranger to either side of patent infringement battles. Now it finds itself in yet another dispute, this one against Cendant Publishing. Cendant filed suit in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Del., Oct. 29 against the e-commerce giant c...

Microsoft is again pledging to improve the security of its software by starting to notify customers of upcoming patches. However, the promise came just as experts warned that attack code exploiting a known flaw in Internet Explorer has begun to circulate. The US-CERT and Secunia said the newly disco...