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Google's YouTube is seeking to depose high-profile comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as part of its defense of a US$1 billion copyright infringement suit filed by Viacom, parent company of the Comedy Central network where they serve up their fake news and political digs Stewart, who hosts "The Daily Show" and Colbert, of the show's spinoff ...

Some Facebook users are too friendly and play too loose with necessary security precautions, concluded a Tuesday report released by computer security firm Sophos In the report, the company warns social network users about the dangers inherent in giving cyber-strangers access to their online profiles. Those overly trusting individuals could be discl...

After four and a half years, the long, torturous and often twisted legal battle between SCO and Novell came to an end Friday when a federal district court judge put the kibosh on SCO's claims that it owned copyrights to the Unix code and operating system (OS), upon which some of the code in Linux is based SCO's stock dropped more than 70 percent in...

Google may be No. 1 in terms of overall usage of its search engines, based on a number of recent surveys. However, it appears to be falling short in one very important, non-tech metric: customer satisfaction For the first time, Yahoo has overtaken Google to claim the top spot in this area, according to the University of Michigan's American Customer...

VMware, the server virtualization firm spun off by EMC with the help of some high-profile industry backers, made an impressive debut on Wall Street Tuesday, with the company's shares rising 90 percent in early trading VMware shares priced at US$29 late Monday -- the high end of a $27 to $29 range -- giving the initial public offering a value of aro...

Internet users spend nearly half of their time online viewing content, according to a study by the Online Publishers Association. That's up from just over a third of online time spent with content in 2003, according to the group's Internet Activity Index Overall, Internet users are spending more time online, which means more minutes dedicated to al...

Finnish cell phone giant Nokia will replace for free 46 million batteries due to an overheating problem, even though incidents of the batteries malfunctioning have been "very rare." The company will replace any Nokia-branded BL-5C battery made by Matsushita Battery Industrial between December 2005 and November 2006. About 100 of these 3.7 volt batt...

One of the hard realizations that most new e-commerce companies must make sooner or later is that simply creating a Web site does not mean customers will visit it Sure, there are hundreds of millions of potential customers online, but there are also billions of other Web sites competing for their attention. "The odds of people finding you accidenta...

IBM upgraded the functionality in its RFID (radio frequency identification) technology tailored for the pharmaceutical industry that it introduced in December The company's WebSphere RFID Information Center version 1.1 will now help pharma companies comply with the ePedigree laws going into effect in California and elsewhere. The application also h...

Virtualization rootkits, Web application security and Voice over IP (VoIP) attack vectors topped Gerhard Eschelbeck's list of the top three biggest issues at this month's Black Hat USA conference, held Aug. 1 and 2 in Las Vegas Eschelbeck is chief technical officer and senior vice president of security vendor Webroot Software. Shortly after the eve...

ReachForce, an on-demand provider of marketing databases, is making the jump into a related software niche Last month, it made available on a limited basis Fountainhead, an on-demand marketing predictive campaign engine customized for the Salesforce.com portfolio of products. Next month, according to CEO Suaad Sait, the firm will make this version ...

The release of a beta version of the BBC's new iPlayer late last month has reportedly drawn the ire of UK Internet service providers upset over the media player's bandwidth requirements and added more fuel to the fire in the net neutrality debate Broadband providers including Tiscali UK have charged that downloads via iPlayer require so much bandwi...

A group of hackers infiltrated the United Nations' Web site over the weekend, defacing the page of Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon with antiwar political graffiti Hackers reportedly replaced portions of recent speeches made by Ban with accusations that the United States and Israel are killing children. An Italian software developer first reported the...

Completing its largest acquisition ever, Microsoft closed its US$6 billion purchase of digital advertising player aQuantive, then created a new business unit to encompass aQuantive and its three companies: Avenue A | Razorfish, Atlas Solutions and DRIVE Performance Solutions Formed in 1997 and based in Seattle, aQuantive is a veteran and big player...

Regulators from the European Union (EU) have given their blessing for a plan by Intel and STMicroelectronics to spin off and combine their respective flash memory chip units The proposal, which also calls for a major cash infusion from a private equity firm, would not pose an unfair risk to competition in the robust flash memory market, the EU said...

After a suffering a setback last month when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) found flaws in a new Microsoft-produced wireless broadband device that could enable the use of the so-called white spaces in radio spectrum airwaves for high-speed Internet traffic, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant is getting set to try again this week Mi...

Regional telecommunications provider Qwest Communications has named a veteran telecom executive with recent experience running a retailer as its new CEO and chairman, as the company hopes to gain a fresh start and put an insider trading scandal and years of red ink in its rear view mirror Edward Mueller will succeed Richard Notebaert, who announced...

A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for linking to images of its content that have been published without permission by other Web sites The company,Perfect 10, has filed similar suits seeking injunctions against Google and Amazon.

E-mail and other forms of electronic communications have become pervasive andessential to business growth and operational productivity. Today, with more than 170billion e-mails and 580 billion IMs exchanged daily, companies have seen a 334percent annual increase in bandwidth, processing and storage requirements in thelast year This new dependency o...

Nokia Siemens Networks has joined the Linux Foundation and will become active in efforts to developCarrier Grade Linux (CGL) 5.0 standards Nokia Siemens Networks will work with the Linux Foundation specifically on Linux-based technologies for use in user plane and control plane network elements, as well as embedded applications. This is expected to...