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New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and Facebook announced Tuesday an agreement that calls for increased enforcement of safeguards aimed at protecting children and adolescents on the site from sexual predators, obscene content and harassment Under the terms of the settlement, Facebook will begin enforcing its safety procedures by responding t...

Bolstered by a 20 percent increase in mobile product revenues, Intel late Tuesday issued a strong third-quarter earnings report that discussed record-level shipments of processors, chipsets and flash memory The Santa Clara, Calif., company's Q3 revenues came in at US$10.1 billion, a 15 percent increase on a yearly basis and a 16 percent uptick when...

IBM's hardware sales fell in its third quarter, but stronger software sales and service contracts helped the company post positive results Big Blue attributed the drop in hardware sales -- revenue fell 10 percent in total and 6 percent when adjusted for the sale of its printing line to US$4.9 billion -- in part to the subprime credit problems plagu...

Millions of MySpacers will be able to jazz up their profile pages with streaming videos and select audio material from Sony BMG artists, MySpace announced Tuesday. The deal between the No. 1 social networking site and Sony, the second largest recording label, will make content from artists including Britney Spears, Beyonce Knowles and Bruce Springsteen available via the artists' MySpace profile pages...

When it comes to slim and sleek in digital cameras, Casio is king. Oneof its latest offerings, the Casio Exilim EX-S880, illustrates why Not only does the new 8.1 megapixel bytecam sport the Twiggy proportionsthat Casio is known for -- it measures 3.72 by 2.38 by .68 inches andweighs a feathery 4.51 ounces -- but it's bristling with state-of-the-ar...

Have you seen the "change of plans" commercial? I can't remember what it's an advertisement for, but the ad consists of a series of clips of two businesspeople in a series of airports talking to each other via cell phone. Every time they talk, they say things like "change of plans, going to Singapore" or "change of plans, on my way to Australia." Like post-modern "Carmen Sandiegos," they "pop" around the world from city to city, never quite knowing where they'll wind up...

Linux and Apple OS X users are usually insulated from the security woes of their Microsoft Windows counterparts, but that doesn't seem to be the case with a recent vulnerability involving the handling of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocols Those protocols instruct a browser to perform certain tasks. The most common task would be "http" to r...

Don't look now, but social search is pervasive. It's taking hold in large part because the Web itself is changing What is social search? Broadly speaking, social search enables the masses to have greater influence on the results of a search, and in so doing, enables better, more interesting and more targeted search results....

AT&T is revamping its policies to allow consumers to prorate their early termination fee according to how long he or she has been on the plan The company is also allowing customers who switch plans or change phones during the course of their contract to maintain the same contract instead of re-starting with a new commitment....

Google has launched a beta version of video identification technology designed to flag unauthorized content on YouTube. The move follows its implementation of audio fingerprinting software from Audible Magic earlier this year By filtering out pirated videos, Google aims to further cement YouTube's compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Ac...

Within just three days of issuing its global, online appeal for public help in identifying a suspected pedophile last week, Interpol had already determined the suspect's name, nationality, date of birth, passport number, and current and previous places of work, the agency announced Monday Images of the man had been posted online showing him sexuall...

Media company EW Scripps announced a plan to split into two separate public companies: one for national media efforts and the other for local and community brands The proposed split, expected to be completed early next year, is designed allow the two separated companies to bring "sharpened strategic focus" said Scripps President and CEO Kenneth W.

Many e-commerce sites are terrible, but they don't have to be that way, according to Jim Wehmann Wehmann is vice president for strategic marketing services for Minneapolis-based Digital River. The company, founded in 1994, is well-known around the world for building and managing online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, consumer t...

CorraTech, an open source software services firm, introduced Opensuite, a pre-beta release of its latest open source endeavor The project is an open source-based integration of -- for now -- three of the leading open source applications in rich e-mail, document management and CRM....

If Chris Gladwin has his way, how health, research, oil, multimedia and other companies with heavy storage demands choose to store their data will never be the same again Gladwin is CTO of Cleversafe. His company's software is now in its most advanced stage to date, from an open source project at developer stage to "advanced-alpha" status, download...

Memo to small business owners: If you are spending a fortune on software to run your business, you'll be interested to know you may be able to get almost everything you need for free With more than 25.8 million small businesses currently in the U.S. and 671,000 new companies getting started every year, purveyors of free business software have lots ...

Time Warner's AOL unit will reduce its workforce by 2,000 more workers as the once massive Internet company continues a transformation designed to better enable it to compete in the current Web marketplace This time, the 2,000-person reduction in headcount amounts to a 20 percent cut and will bring AOL's worldwide employee base below 10,000 for the...

Two men have been successfully prosecuted for sending out millions of unsolicited e-mail messages promoting pornographic Web sites, and reaping millions of dollars as a result Jeffrey A. Kilbride of Venice, Calif., was sentenced to six years, and James R. Schaffer of Paradise Valley, Ariz., was sentenced to five years and three months, to be served...

Broadcom announced on Monday a new, single-chip HSPA (high-speed packet access) processor that integrates multiple 3G cellular and mobile technologies on a single, low-power, 65 nanometer complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) die The "3G phone on a chip," which Broadcom says is the world's first such single-chip solution, enables manufactu...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has developed the world's smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which the company expects will let it deliver small form-factor hard drives with up to four terabytes of space for desktop PCs and up to one terabyte for notebooks The leap, which Hitachi projects will occur by 2011, would...