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Time Warner has apparently decided not to sell off part or all of America Online, but instead is looking for a new search and advertising partner and may be putting the finishing touches on a deal to switch its search provider from Google to Microsoft's MSN Despite months of reports and rumors that all or part of AOL would be sold, with suitors inc...

Media giant News Corp. is looking to weigh in bigger online, telling investors this week that it intends to build on the success of its MySpace.com site, will show some of its television programming exclusively on the Internet, and will try its hand at Web search There was speculation that the search part of the equation would most likely come thro...

A new breed of malicious IM bots are duping users into activating and spreading IM worm payloads with interactive chat, according to IMLogic A malicious bot dubbed "IM.Myspace04.AIM" is being broadcast over the AOL Instant Messaging network. Once one computer is infected, the bot targets its next victim with messages that appear to come from a frie...

Red Hat this week announced a new service to provide full certification and production support for key open-source software stacks Starting in early 2006, Red Hat will offer three new stacks aimed at simplifying and standardizing open-source application stacks. The company said its goal is to allow developers to focus on their applications instead ...

Summer is behind us, but recent memories of credit card processing breaches are still haunting security-conscious consumers, safety-minded merchants and bustling banks While CardSystems Solutions made media headlines in June after a computer virus captured the private information of millions of consumers, it was certainly not the only security brea...

A new study released this week by Boston-based Strategy Analytics offers an ominous warning -- companies focused on supplying light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for liquid crystal displays (LCD) and keypad backlighting functions will see their revenues plummet an astounding 41 percent in the next three years Diversification is needed, right now, for comp...

In a move to compete with Verizon, Cingular Wireless today launched its third-generation wireless network The new service is called Cingular BroadbandConnect, and is available to nearly 35 million throughout the United States. The company said it would continue to extend the network rapidly next year....

Microsoft's latest CRM release takes a giant step from previous versions, adding several key functions to its Dynamics CRM 3.0. Although the company said the new version will be more competitive with CRM giants Oracle and SAP, one analyst said Microsoft is still playing mostly in the small and medium business (SMB) market "We will see some traction...

Sun plans to roll out its first servers based on the new multicore UltraSPARC T1 today. The company has its sights set on gaining market share in sectors dominated by x86 machines Formerly code-named Niagara, Sun has been playing up the new eight-core processor for more than a year and officially introduced it as the UltraSPARC T1 in November....

Threats from malware -- viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and such -- climbed 48 percent in 2005, compared to the previous year, according to the annual Sophos Security Threat Management Report The report, expected to be released today and a copy of which was obtained by TechNewsWorld, noted that there were 15,907 new malware threats this year compa...

Leet has outgrown its roots as an obscure communication system for computer bulletin board users and has become a broad cultural phenomenon. It is expressed by acronyms and synonyms, and by substituting letters with numbers, punctuation marks, and phonetic combinations. In leet, leet itself can be expressed as l33t or 1337. The full formal long form is elite or 31337...

Industry insiders think it's going to be a big holiday season for Bluetooth wireless technology -- which is showing up in a wide range of gadgets, from mobile phones to audio players to personal digital assistants to personal computer keyboards and even cars Christophe Dissaux, executive vice president at Paris-based Parrot S.A., said Bluetooth -- ...

Liberty Media, parent company of the QVC home shopping network, became the latest traditional media company to make a strong push into the Internet space, buying food-based e-tailer Provide Commerce, Inc. in a deal worth US$477 million The all-cash deal gives Liberty Media control of Provide's family of perishable-goods e-commerce sites, which incl...

IBM announced its latest "self-healing" software, touting a sidestep to IT staff-stealing glitches and other outages through managed monitoring, application manager, and multi-platform system automation software Big Blue said by freeing IT teams from finding and fixing glitches in typical, sophisticated systems and networks, its simplified manageme...

An Internet Explorer bug has put Google users at risk of a phishing attack, according to a security researcher in Israel Matan Gillon published an article detailing a method for exploiting an unpatched Internet Explorer flaw. The flaw could allow hackers entrance into computers running Google's desktop search tool....

In a bid to boost the profile of its subscription streaming music offering by making it available to all computer users, RealNetworks said it is testing a Web-based version of its Rhapsody service Making a version of Rhapsody work with most Web browsers would make the service more mobile -- users could access it from any PC with an Internet connect...

JBoss today said it has acquired distributed transaction monitor and Web services technologies from Arjuna Technologies and HP. JBoss plans to open-source these offerings for its Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) JBoss executives believe the strategic move will propel JEMS further into the high-end market long dominated by proprietary application ...

Raising the possibility that it will change course once again on a hotly debated move meant to give adult content Web sites their own Internet realm, the net's governing body has decided to shelve a plan to discuss how to create a ".xxx" domain The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had intended to discuss how to proceed wi...

Seoul, South Korea-based wireless carrier SK Telecom is planning early next year to deploy new technology that reduces the need for cell phone towers -- so-called "antennae diversity" technology, which may soon also be installed throughout the U.S. and Europe, experts tell TechNewsWorld The technology, developed by Bedminster, N.J.-based Magnolia B...

Imagine strolling through the front door of your favorite department store, but instead of finding yourself amid a comforting cacophony of display counters, merchandise, and bustling people, you're instead all alone in a strangely geometric room featuring a series of doors labeled "Women," "Men," "Kids," "Casual Wear," "Formal Wear," and "Cosmetics."