Articles by Lisa Gill

The sticker price of high-speed Internet access remains too highfor a majority of U.S. residents, although the service is now available in most areas of the country, according to a government report released by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Technology Policy The Commerce Department said that more than half of American homes have Inter...

Detecting and preventing online fraud is like fighting neighborhood crime. Residents can put locks on doors and windows, install a security system to detect intruders, and train a dog to monitor the yard. If a break-in occurs despite those precautions, police will investigate and track down any suspects. A local organization may help deal with the loss and provide educational material to help prepare for the future...

Further entrenching itself in the open source software market, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has inked a multiyear deal that calls for the technology giant to offer Red Hat's (Nasdaq: RHAT) top-of-the-line Linux operating system as an option on all of its eServer machines. Specifically, Red Hat will deliver its Linux Advanced Server software to run on IBM's eSe...

Perhaps bowing to a sluggish PC and hardware economy, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) on Thursday announced plans to move to a direct sales model for more than 2 million small businesses. Previously, such a model had been reserved for the company's largest enterprise customers. In fact, this initiative marks the first time HP has specifically targeted...

Despite computer makers' best efforts to entice business andconsumer spenders with sleek new hardware, upgraded operatingsystems and bundled software packages, growth forecasts for theworldwide PC market have been slashed again, according toresearch firm IDC's most recent study IDC cut its worldwide PC buying forecast for consumer and businesssecto...

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said Tuesday that he believes a surge of programmers will cross party lines and begin using Linux in the coming years McNealy told an audience at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo that he expects to see a 30 percent increase each year, and he urged companies to get behind the Linux wave of popularity....

Spending on Web security efforts is expected to triple in the next four years, according to a new report released by research firm IDC The report predicted that security spending will increase 60.5 percent annually to nearly US$700 million by 2006, compared with $65 million in 2001....

Fearing a monopoly by cable broadband companies and a resultant loss of freedom of speech, civil liberties groups said they will fight federal measures that would let cable Internet providers retain control of their networks and bar competing Internet service providers (ISPs) from using their lines The American Civil Liberties Union and other group...

One in five users in the United States accesses the Internet with a cable modem, DSL (digital subscriber line) connection or other broadband device, up nearly 25 percent from the beginning of this year, according to a newly released study of Internet usage habits The study, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, also found that br...

Consumer protection advocate Ralph Nader told the U.S. government Tuesday to consider curbing its technology spending with Microsoft in order to better control the software giant's "monopoly abuses." In a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Nader and James Love, director of the Consumer Project on Technology, outlined their concern...

Internet radio advocates told a U.S. panel Wednesday that a mandate requiring Web stations to pay for songs they broadcast could put many such stations out of business. But representatives of the recording industry countered that Internet piracy threatens their bottom lines as well A forthcoming decision by the U.S. Copyright Office, scheduled to b...

In a campaign to compete directly with Microsoft Office, SunMicrosystems released its new StarOffice suite of applicationsWednesday, touting the package as an alternative to proprietarysoftware and noting that StarOffice has fewer licensing restrictions With enterprise pricing as low as US$25, StarOffice 6.0 canrun on Linux, Solaris and Windows pla...

They may be bitter rivals in some ways, but Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT),IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and a host of other tech companieshave agreed to cooperate -- at least until they can comeup with a set of open standards to ensure Web servicescompatibility The new alliance has given itself a catchy name: Web ServicesI...

Popular search engine Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) will trade high-profile positioning for dollars under a new agreement with Overture Services -- formerly known as GoTo.com Beginning Thursday on Yahoo's main search page, Internet users will see both the company's own keyword matches, compiled by Yahoo! staffers, and the top five paid listings from Overtu...

The quest to be No. 1 in the online job recruitment space is now essentially a two-party race. The corporate backers of CareerBuilder announced Friday that they are acquiring job site Headhunter.net (Nasdaq: HHNT) in a direct attempt to dethrone the current online job leader, Monster.com.