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As the opening day of Apple's annual Macworld conference approaches, a growing number of iBook notebook computer users are threatening protests and mulling class-action lawsuits. They say the company has not done enough to address, or even acknowledge, serious flaws in the iBook that have caused som...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by America Online against a group of Florida computer technicians, whom AOL had accused of maintaining computer networks that were used to batter its e-mail servers with spam targeting its millions of users. AOL had claimed the defendants violated Virg...

Early reports suggest holiday e-commerce sales grew well over 30 percent from 2002 levels, helping the e-tail industry record its best-ever season, even without the type of must-have gift items that have driven sales in past years. Total holiday season spending online -- measured from November 1st t...

Amid budgetary constraints, enterprise application snafus, and vendors that are slick with their PowerPoint presentations but AWOL with their implementations, the put-upon CIO has become as common a high-tech archetype as the teenage hacker or the jeans-clad, headstrong, bullying CEO "evangelist." W...

Last week, several users began receiving messages from "Visa International Service" that appeared to direct them to www.visa.com, the company's official site. However, when users clicked on the link, they were sent to a site that looked like Visa's but did not belong to the company. E-mail security ...

Microsoft has agreed to settle a patent infringement lawsuit filed by software firm SPX, which already has convinced a jury that Microsoft infringed its patents related to online meeting software, which SPX sells under the NetMeeting name. The settlement between Microsoft and SPX came not long after...

Although worms can create media furor and disrupt business, to date they have adhered to a strange dichotomy: A given worm may spread rapidly or deliver a destructive payload -- but no worm has accomplished both tasks with equal aplomb. August 2003 was the worst-ever month for malware attacks, tha...

Overstock.com, which offers up to 80 percent off the sticker price of items ranging from dresses to computers, has become a favorite bargain-hunting destination for many online shoppers. Yet the road was not always so smooth for the company. Unlike some of its e-commerce brethren, it did not have ab...

Just as Las Vegas pioneer Bugsy Siegel imagined a city of dice games and slot machines in the middle of the desert, entrepreneurs looked at the Web a few years ago and saw an audience hungry for online gaming. They were right to suspect there was gold in all those clicks. A December 2002 report by t...

In the e-business realm, unique challenges abound for firms that are trying to build a loyal customer following. Consumers may be wary of e-commerce in the face of identity theft, network security breaches, poor online customer service and the lingering shadow of failed dot-coms. However, some compa...

Recently, many traditional firewall vendors have been adding more capabilities, such as antivirus and antispam, to their security offerings. This all-in-one approach has both proponents and opponents. Proponents say more all-inclusive security devices can simplify the all-too-complex life of an IT m...

As companies have grown more confident in their business process planning, the integration industry has worked to refine its products and services to serve enterprise needs, optimizing relationships between customers, partners and suppliers. As a 25-year veteran in the integration space, Sterling Co...

Saying its business would be much larger today if Microsoft had not pushed to create a "new monopoly" in the media player market, RealNetworks said it has filed a civil suit against the software giant seeking $1 billion in lost revenue and damages. The complaint alleges that Microsoft restricted how...

It's about time now for news organizations to start collecting their biggest stories of the year. Those lists do more than just fill pages during the slow holidays, of course -- they lay the foundation upon which future historians can build a rich portrait of what life was like in any given year. It...

Just two days after President Bush signed national antispam legislation, Microsoft has announced that a six-month investigation it conducted with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer led to a slew of lawsuits against an e-mail marketing ring believed to be responsible for sending billions of spam...