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A Congressional hearing on Tuesday investigating inadvertent file sharing over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks unexpectedly put a spotlight on LimeWire Chairman Mark Gorton over the government and personal information that can be acquired over P2P networks without users' knowledge. Gorton's company makes the peer-to-peer software LimeWire. He is also CEO of the parent company, Lime Group...

Electronic Arts, going wide and deep with in-game advertising, announced Wednesday that it will use Microsoft's Massive in-game advertising division to put ads in its sports titles The titles include the Xbox 360 and/or PC versions of the biggest sports video games coming in the fall, including "Madden NFL 08," "NASCAR 08," "NHL 08," "Tiger Woods P...

Networking hardware and software maker Cisco announced an array of data center products gathered under the umbrella moniker Data Center 3.0 The vision for Data Center 3.0, says the company, entails the real-time, dynamic orchestration of infrastructure services from shared pools of virtualized server, storage and network resources....

New laws and regulations inevitably follow massive and profound technological changes as societies come to grips with how new technologies may be used Given the extent of changes the Internet has fostered across nearly every aspect of modern life, it comes as no surprise that innovations dealing with Internet-related technologies are proving very f...

The need to support a 24/7 global environment has forced companies to reinvent how they approach the various components of a successful call center Determining the right combination of people, processes and technologies is critical to the effectiveness of the virtual call center -- a call center that functions in every respect as a single logical e...

Five years ago, the only engineering or computer science majors setting their sights on a career in writing software code for an open source company were the most hardcore of computer nerds. That was something done only by the true computer geeks, and it usually required an independent source of income. Experienced programmers knew the gravy train existed at proprietary companies, most of which avoided experimental operating systems that nobody in the business world would ever use...

Colleges and universities narrowly escaped being forced to implement campus antipiracy technologies in exchange for funding Tuesday when a scaled-back version of a proposed piece of legislation, substituted at the 11th hour, won Senate approval The original amendment to the Higher Education Reauthorization Act (HERA), proposed last week by Senate M...

Amazon.com blew by Wall Street expectations Tuesday when it reported its second-quarter sales for 2007 were up 35 percent year-over-year Media sales grew 27 percent, no doubt boosted by 1.5-plus million Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows prerelease orders made by the quarter ending June 30. However, growth in electronics and other general merchan...

During a congressional hearing Tuesday before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) came out in favor of a plan that would bring open access to one-third of the airwaves set for auction in January The 700 MHz band spectrum used by broadcast television stations will be a...

In the search for a new chief technology officer, The Linux Foundation (LF) has nabbed Markus Rex, a long-time Linux executive from Suse Linux and, more recently, Novell While Rex will be working for the Linux Foundation, technically he's only on loan to the non-profit organization that's dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. He will retur...

With its sex appeal, direct conduit to YouTube and ability to store videos and music -- advantages hardly conducive to productivity in a work environment -- it would not seem likely that many businesses would want to incorporate the iPhone into their operations Then there is the not small matter of security; the latest news is that a bona fide vul...

XM Satellite Radio's cofounder and longtime Chief Executive Officer Hugh Panero will vacate the CEO post in August, the company announced Tuesday XM did not immediately name a full-time replacement, instead saying it would use its second quarter earnings conference call scheduled for Thursday morning to outline its plans for the "management transit...

Social networking Web site MySpace has found and purged more than 29,000 sexual predators using the site, a number described by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as an "exploding epidemic." The figure is more than quadruple the amount MySpace said it found two months ago. In May, MySpace -- which allows users to create their own Web p...

Yahoo became the latest major Internet search provider to alter its user privacy policy Monday. Under the new plan, the company said, it will anonymize search histories after only 13 months, five months earlier than its search competitors at Google, Microsoft and Ask.com "One of the core tenets of this company is the relationship and trust we have ...

Five million is a lot of anything That's why the folks at Boston-based software maker IObit caught my eye recently when they announced they had just cracked the cinco millones mark in downloads for their free Windows maintenance program Advanced WindowsCare Personal....

Revenues from advertising at sports sites on the Web will catapult in the next five years to more than US$1 billion, according to a report from a New York marketing research firm The report from eMarketer predicts sports sites will rake in $1.1 billion in ad revenues in 2011, up from $400 million in 2006....

Taking credit is something we human beings love to do even when we might not have a great deal to take credit for -- unless there's bad news and then no one wants to own up I always liked the description of the rooster taking credit for the sunrise for the former case -- Al Gore famously used it in a 1992 vice-presidential debate. Then there was Jo...

The number of consumers downloading music from authorized sites could exceed that of peer-to-peer (P2P) users this year, according to research conducted by the NPD Group The growth rate of downloading of copyrighted material via file-sharing services may have slowed down last year to around 8 percent, according to NPD. However, the number of P2P do...

A joint sting operation by the FBI and the People's Republic of China netted more than half a million dollars' worth of counterfeit software, the FBI announced Monday The unprecedented cooperative effort, code-named "Summer Solstice" and dating back to 2005, resulted in the arrest of 25 people and the seizure of assets in China worth over US$7 mill...

Mobile phone powerhouse Nokia has acquired the small, privately held media sharing company Twango -- a 10-person outfit that currently works out of a cofounder's basement in Redmond, Wash Despite the company's small size and basement digs, Nokia clearly sees potential in Twango's solutions and vision....