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Mozilla, maker of open source Web browser application Firefox, released a new version of the program that fixes a security issue stemming from an interaction between Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox. Version 2.0.0.5 of Firefox was made available for download on Wednesday The problem -- first reported by security firm Secunia -- arises...

Google is expanding the size and scope of its newspaper advertising program to include users of its online AdWords service In the immediate term, the expansion will increase the number of marketers using Google's Print Ads service. In the long run, the move could help meld the once-disparate audiences to create even larger efficiencies of scale. I...

It seems like everybody's talking about e-discovery nowadays -- just take a look at any IT trade journal or IT news source and you're likely to see at least one article about what e-discovery is and how to prepare for it However, despite all this attention, both in IT and legal circles, there are still a number of unanswered questions from folks se...

An offer made earlier this month to pay whistle blowers US$1 million for reporting companies using unlicensed software has met little or no public outcry, unlike lawsuits initiated by the music industry against illegal music downloaders The Business Software Alliance (BSA), a global organization representing leading software manufacturers, is inten...

Yahoo reported financial results for the second quarter of 2007 Tuesday, bringing the company a rise in revenue over the same quarter of last year as well as a significant drop in profit Overall revenues rose 8 percent for the quarter, up to US$1.7 billion, while marketing services revenues rose $1.49 billion, a 7 percent increase. Net income, on t...

The newest -- and thinnest -- BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM) includes GPS (Global Positioning System), new media player enhancements, an expandable memory slot and the ability to connect to the Internet via WiFi The BlackBerry 8820's multiple methods of connectivity are "unprecedented," for a RIM smartphone, said RIM President ...

Microsoft and game software developer Electronic Arts (EA) announced changes in the upper echelons of their executive suites Tuesday. Peter Moore, the chief architect behind Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming platform and the Xbox Live online gaming site, will take the helm at EA's sports division. Meanwhile, Microsoft tapped Don Mattrick, former president of EA's Worldwide Studios, to lead Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB)...

Battle-weary Intel emerged from the price-war trenches Tuesday to report that its profits increased 44 percent and revenues were up 8 percent in the second quarter With revenues of US$8.7 billion and net income of $1.3 billion for the quarter, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker also reported that operating income increased 26 percent to $1.35 ...

While looking for information about writing for Web pages, you simply cannot avoid the topic "keyword density." Let's start with a definition: Keyword density measures the percentage of keywords and key phrases compared to the total number of words in your Web page body There are many opinions about what percentage is the so-called "magic number." ...

Some 9.1 percent of families in the U.S. do not have a deposit account of any type, according to a recent household survey from the Federal Reserve. This market segment lives check to check and typically avoids opening bank accounts because of a lack of funds combined with a deep distrust of banks For the unbanked, even a simple transaction -- such...

With the arrival of high-definition cameras, the push for video-to-go (V2G) and, of course, Windows Vista, makers of video editing software have been handed a ticket to introduce new versions of their products. Canadian application architect Corel has done just that with the new version of its VideoStudio VideoStudio, which entered the Corel corral...

Revenue from search-related advertising on mobile phones will crack the US$2 billion mark in 2011, according to a report released last week by a market and trend analysis firm Search-related advertising -- which has made outfits like Google revenue powerhouses -- will grow mightily worldwide during this decade, from $6.8 million in 2006 to $2.4 bil...

London-based Openads, the developer of a free, open source adserver used by more than 20,000 publishers in 140 countries, announced on July 5 the appointment of James Bilefield as CEO Bilefield brings more than 15 years of entrepreneurial, management and media experience to Openads from his work at two top Internet companies, Skype and Yahoo. At Op...

Legal and medical professionals are often criticized for being way behind the times in terms of thetechnologies they use in their offices. It seems as though any doctor's or lawyer's office you enter hasreams of papers and mountains of file cabinets taking up space just waiting to be lost, stolen ordestroyed in a disaster Based on trends with softw...

Answers Corp., which owns Answers.com, plans to acquire Dictionary.com for a cool US$100 million, the company announced Monday. Technically, Answers will buy Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com In June, Lexico's sites attracted 11.5 million unique monthly users in the U.S., according to comScore Med...

Microsoft's search unit scored significant gains in June thanks to its newly launched Live Search Club, according to new data that also showed Google's share of the Web search market slipping below 50 percent Google is still the dominant search player, according to data from comScore, accounting for 49.5 percent of all U.S. searches conducted last ...

Salesforce.com has introduced its Summer '07 release, dubbing it a "Platform as a Service" product because of the presence of the developer code Apex in the application While Apex has been released before, this is the first time it has been live for customers in a production environment. The multiple sandboxes included in the release are another co...

Harry Potter may have the Marauder's Map to show him where his friends are, but Sprint customers will soon have Loopt to help them find and connect with each other Mountain View, Calif.-based Loopt announced Tuesday that it has launched its namesake service on Sprint technology, using the GPS (Global Positioning System) capabilities on select Sprin...

Google decreased the length of time and amount of information the company holds on users' preferences and searches Monday with the announcement that it will shorten the lifespan of the small parcels of information it stores on users' computers, known as "cookies." The lifespan of Google's cookies will be shortened from more than 30 years to a comparatively brief two years, the company said...

Firefox is gaining ground in Europe, according to a report released Monday by French Web analytics firm XiTi Monitor, and at least some of that progress seems to be coming at the expense of Internet Explorer Mozilla's Firefox accounted for nearly 28 percent of the browser market in Europe in the first week of July, XiTi reported, compared with 24 p...