Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

In the midst of Google's battle with the U.S. government to keep its users' search records private,British Telecom on Tuesday reported some disturbing figures about child pornography online While the Bush Administration seeks to revive an online pornography law struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, British Internet users are attempting to violate ...

Could GoogleTunes be in the future for digital music fans? Will the company buy Napster or start its own service? Should Apple be concerned, or is the possibility of Google entering the space just another unsubstantiated rumor? There are many questions today and fewer answers. Though Napster's shares spiked by as much as 50 percent on Tuesday in th...

The Google rumor mill is churning again. Google has reportedly confirmed it is using Ubuntu desktop Linux technology internally, but has not divulged its purpose Google did not return calls seeking comment....

In a move to keep up with the competition, IBM on Monday introduced a free version of its DB2 database product. Big Blue hopes to win the favor of more software developers in smaller companies and projects The "express" version provides the same core data server features as DB2 Universal Database Express Edition. That means developers can work fro...

America Online on Monday announced that it has teamed up with Mark Burnett Productions, the company that propelled the concept of reality television into the mainstream The companies have signed a major production deal to develop a real-life treasure hunt airing exclusively on the AOL.com Web site. "Gold Rush!" will track competitors searching for ...

Enterprises today have a number of key questions when it comes to setting up and maintaining an online presence. Some of these concerns include critical Web-related security problems; scalability; and being aware of new online challenges expected in 2006 Who better to ask about these issues than Akamai? Described as an "Internet network accelerator...

Don't count America Online out of the broadband Internet access business just yet. Despite its focus on new offerings, the media giant on Friday announced plans to expand its broadband network coast-to-coast AOL will partner with BellSouth, Time Warner and Verizon (NYSE: VZ), as well as other major DSL suppliers, to complete its broadband mission.

Be especially wary of unsolicited e-mails claiming to contain obscene pictures and sex movies this week. The W32/Nyxem worm is set to trigger its data-destroying payload on February 3 The W32/Nyxem-D worm -- also known as "Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi," "Blackworm," "W32.Blackmal.E@mm," or "Grew." -- can spread via e-mail using a variety of pornographic ...

Yahoo and Linksys on Thursday said they have developed a new plug-in that allows people to stream music from Yahoo Music on a PC to their home stereo. The transfer is made possible using Linksys' Wireless-G Music Bridge The software is integrated into both the Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge and the Yahoo Music Engine. The Yahoo Music Engine allows...

EMC on Thursday introduced a new suite of storage and virtualization solutions for the enterprise. EMC hopes its new product lineup will help customers bring more of their information together for improved economics and management The new solutions are designed to extend the benefits of information lifecycle management (ILM) to more applications an...

The Internet and e-mail help to expand and strengthen the social ties that people maintain in the offline world, according to a new report released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project The report, "The Strength of Internet Ties," highlights how e-mail supplements, rather than replaces, the communication people have with others in their...

Imagine a world where you could run bothLinux andApple operating systems on the same high-performance Mac laptop. That day may be coming sooner than Mac fans think. Red Hat has confirmed it is pursuing the development of a Linux distribution for the new Intel-based Macs Red Hat is no stranger toMacintosh -- Fedora and other Linux distributions supp...

As the dust settles on this latest season's holiday shopping data, there is yet one more issue to consider before this time next year: conversions The recent release of the Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index, a study produced by ForeSee Results and FGI Research, revealed that consumer satisfaction with most of the top 40 retail Web sites dropp...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced a decision to license all the Windows Server source code for technologies covered by the European Commission's legal decision of March 2004 The voluntary move is designed to address categorically all of the issues raised by the Commission's December 22, 2005, Statement of Objections, the company said....

Ask Jeeves this week announced the launch of its first proprietary image search technology. The company also unveiled plans to move into Germany with a locally targeted search site Ask Jeeves' new technology includes its first internally created index of Web images, further improvements to its image search ranking algorithms and new search suggesti...

Recent research suggests that satisfaction among customers of 40 top retail Web sites dropped over the holiday season So says the Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index, a study produced by ForeSee Results and FGI Research. The Index measures the top 40 retailers by revenue and provides a comparison of online shopper satisfaction between the holid...

Opera Software is going smaller in order to get bigger The Norwegian browser maker on Tuesday announced the worldwide release of Opera Mini, a full Web browser that runs on a wide variety of mobile phones, including low- and mid-end handsets....

IronPort Systems has launched a new anti-spam system for its e-mail security appliances that employs reputation assessment technology to filter unwanted messages. The company announced this latest enhancement to its SenderBase technology on Monday The new technology measures the behavior and traffic patterns of a Web site to assess its trustworthin...

Open-source database deployments rose dramatically in the last half of 2005, and as one might expect, as more IT pros get acquainted with these non-proprietary systems, security is a chief concern. Open-source database makers like MySQL and PostgreSQL simply must answer some of the most prevalent security-related questions in order to win more market share...

The day when TV fans watch their favorite prime-time shows on handheld portable devices may be coming sooner than expected. A group of wireless and entertainment companies banded together on Monday to promote the growth and evolution of a digital-video broadcasting standard already in use in Europe The Mobile DTV Alliance, withIntel,Motorola,Nokia,...