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Does being a Web user in 2008 automatically mean giving up your right to privacy? A growing chorus of voices says the evolution of the Internet, the increasingly cozy relationship between search and advertising companies and the rise of Web 2.0 social networking technologies adds up to an environment where true privacy may be but an illusion....

Swedish prosecutors are charging owners ofThe Pirate Bay, a peer-to-peer Web site, with "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws." Hans Fredrik Neij, Per Svartholm Warg, Peter Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstroem operate what is reportedly the world's largest BitTorrent tracker, connecting users to music, movies and other content on each others' PCs...

For weeks, the war between Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola and maverick investor and corporate raider Carl Icahn, who owns nearly 3 percent of the company's shares and last year waged a proxy war against its board of directors, has been escalating On Thursday, Motorola announced that it would explore structural and strategic realignment of its busi...

Search giant Google missed analyst forecasts for fourth-quarter profit -- even as it slowed its hiring growth to curb expenses -- and executives cited the difficulties of making social networking advertising work as one of the factors for the miss The longtime Wall Street darling joined a long list of tech companies to disappoint analysts recently ...

Intel and Micron Technology have developed a high-speed NAND flash memory technology the two said is five times faster than conventional NAND The technology, jointly developed by the two companies as part of their IM Flash Technologies joint venture, will allow data to be transferred faster for computing, video, photography and other applications, ...

Seeking to reshape the online landscape and create a serious challenger to Google with a single bold stroke, Microsoft has made a US$44.6 billion unsolicited bid to buy struggling portal Yahoo The offer -- shareholders can choose either cash or the equivalent amount of Microsoft stock -- valued Yahoo at $31 per share, a 62 percent premium over the ...

Recruiting and what has more broadly come to be known as "human capital management" is an area rife with IT activity, as was seen in Part 1 of this series Database vendors, as well as human resources (HR), customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and specialist recruitment management systems (RMS) developers are al...

Software as a Service (SaaS), service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technology are fundamentally changing the way people and organizations work, enabling greater degrees of collaboration and restructuring everything from business and operational processes to the way software is licensed and priced, according to recently released research from Forrester Research...

The 2008 presidential primaries capture the lion's share of election season media exposure, but an equally critical campaign is running quietly in the background The controversial decision to implement various types of electronic voting machines in place of paper ballots is garnering little public attention, while many states hastily implement flaw...

There is no question that the marriage between consumer electronics devices and broadband content will be a key trend in 2008. For content providers and aggregators, a "go-to-TV" strategy solves at least one of the early challenges facing broadband video services -- the requirement to watch the content on a PC. The hope is that if the industry provides a more seamless video-on-demand experience, consumption of video and other broadband services increases...

Sprint will write down nearly US$31 billion worth of goodwill value it has carried on its books since it purchased Nextel Communications in a deal that has failed to help the No. 3 telecom firm compete with larger rivals In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Sprint said that an annual internal review of the goodwill -- the intang...

The Federal Communications Commission received a US$4.7 billion bid for Block C, a swatch of spectrum being auctioned that is mandated to operate as a national wireless network that works with any mobile device The auction started on Jan. 24, but the FCC won't announce which company submitted the bid until after the auction closes at a yet-to-be-an...

If you think the Apple iPhone is cool, wait till you see the Nuvifone thatGarmin announced Wednesday in New York It combines GPS (Global Positioning System), mobile phone, still and video camera, and MP3 and video player functionality with Internet access capability....

Severe Internet and phone service outages hit Egypt and India Wednesday after two submarine cable communication lines were severed Submarine cable lines are the main connection lines for Internet service providers (ISPs) and telephony companies. The two lines that connect Egypt sit just off the coast of Alexandria. They were severed at approximatel...

Dell announced Wednesday it will shutter its retail kiosks in shopping malls across the U.S. as it continues with its six-month-old retail store and direct-sales strategy Dell launched the Direct Store kiosks in 2002 as a way to give consumers who may have been unfamiliar with its computers the opportunity to touch and try out the systems before ma...

Aided by a more stabilized sales showing for its video game category, Sony reported a healthy bounce in profits for the third quarter The Tokyo-based firm's PlayStation business halted a streak of six consecutive money-losing quarters, while its core electronics segment -- which includes liquid-crystal display televisions, cameras and computers -- ...

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Amazon.com doubled its fourth-quarter profit as international sales fueled growth, but the e-tailer's outlook raised questions about its continued reliance on discounting as it expands into new markets and product categories The company met analyst expectations for fourth quarter earnings with net profit of US$207 million, or 48 cents per share. It...

2007 turned out to be "one of the most remarkable years in the history of malware," according to the recently released "ESET Global Threat Report 2007." The movement of new digital devices, social networking channels, operating systems and platforms into the mainstream is providing malware creators with a broader canvas on which to work. Yet relati...

The growing popularity of Software as a Service (SaaS) is having a significant impact on data security and regulations compliance. Most companies are concerned -- and rightly so -- about the legal and security issues raised when company data is located outside their firewall Software as a Service is increasingly popular, and for good reason. Its ad...