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Phishing -- a tactic in which fraudulent email directs users to a malicious Web site that masquerades as a site belonging to a legitimate company, such as a credit card firm or bank, while stealing users' personal data -- is unquestionably on the rise. Fortunately, as strategies employed by phishing...

Yahoo will unveil an upgrade of its Web-based e-mail service this summer that includes greatly expanded storage capacity for free users and "virtually unlimited" storage for paid customers. The upgrade is seen as a direct response to Google's controversial Gmail service. While Yahoo did not specify ...

In the first installment of this two-part exclusive interview, the E-Commerce Times spoke with Gomez CEO Dr. Alex Stein about the Internet performance management industry -- a field that is booming as more companies see a need for this sort of technology. In today's edition, Stein discusses the natu...

The United States has set its sights on becoming the country with the fastest supercomputer. The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been chosen to lead a partnership toward that goal. The Department of Energy awarded the lab a $25 million contract for the effort. The five-year ...

Taking its AdSense program in a new direction that could inject a breath of fresh air a traditional Internet-advertising style, Google has said it will begin testing banner ads. The move comes as a surprise because Google's AdSense, which places ads based on the Web page content with which they app...

Reflecting businesses' growing need to wring ROI from Web operations, subscriptions to Gomez' Internet Performance Management grew 51 percent in 2003 from the prior year. In addition, the privately held company received two rounds of financing, added 90 new clients and claimed subscription renewal r...

Nintendo and Sony took the stage with competing announcements at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Each game console maker detailed specs of a new portable gaming device, but the proposed gadgets differ in important ways. Nintendo said its dual-screen entrant in this mar...

Powered by a slightly better than expected earnings report and expectations that tech spending will remain strong, Cisco Systems has said it will add 1,000 workers in 2004, in addition to 200 positions it filled during the first quarter. Although it did not provide a specific breakdown, the company ...

In the face of today's attacks on computer information, we should expect legislators to enact laws to protect our privacy. However, any law that fails to recognize three things -- who owns a computer, who uses it and for what purposes -- is unlikely to fit the privacy needs of both corporate and ind...

Microsoft has said it will stop making high-speed wireless networking products, phasing out a family of routers and network interface cards less than two years after it entered the booming WiFi market. Jennifer Hakes, a spokesperson with Microsoft's external public relations agency, said the softwar...

Gateway has filed suit against rival Hewlett-Packard, broadening a patent dispute that arose nearly two months ago. In the claim, the company alleges HP violated five separate patents held by Gateway. Gateway is seeking unspecified damages and asking that all of the claims HP filed in its own mid-Ma...

Small businesses are the true success stories of the Internet revolution, and further attempts to level broad taxes on Web sales and access would harm the ability of entrepreneurs to compete, according to eBay CEO Meg Whitman. Whitman used a high-profile speech before the National Press Club in Wash...

Intel will change its future chip product strategy, moving away from its workhorse and power-hungry Pentium 4 line in favor of the more versatile, mobile-friendly Pentium M design. Several reports said that Intel would announce as early as today that it would not pursue development of some planned a...

For all that Google has done to revive interest in technology and IPOs in recent weeks, it also has provided new fodder for a long-running debate: Is going public the ultimate goal for all companies, or are some businesses better served by staying private? Google's founders say they will remain focu...

In a recent report, Gartner estimated that 57 million U.S. adults received a "phishing" attack e-mail within the past year, and half of those who responded became victims of identity theft. Phishing is a tactic used to get credit card information from consumers who believe they are visiting legitima...