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In a move to enhance its search and advertising businesses, Yahoo announced today it would offer free Web hosting to small businesses. The Internet company said any small business can sign up for a free Web page that will appear in Yahoo's Local directory Yahoo Local general manager Paul Levine said providing small businesses with free Web sites he...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana have developed a super-fast transistor, the building block of computer chips, that they say could have applications ranging from aiding in medical diagnoses to reducing the power consumption of cell phones The microscopic transistor can process more than 600 billion operations a second -...

Consumers around the world are becoming increasingly concerned about the trustworthiness of e-commerce. They may have good reason: Cases of identity theft appear in the daily headlines, and we are only now starting to understand exactly how difficult it can be to restore one's name and credit rating In recent weeks, we have learned that millions of...

"I want my MTV" is being replaced with, "I want my Xbox," as Microsoft plans to unveil the second version of its Xbox video game console with a half-hour MTV television show hosted by "Lord of the Rings" star Elijah Wood next month Although gaming enthusiasts still do not know the name of Microsoft's new gaming hardware, its price, or actual releas...

"I want my MTV" is being replaced with, "I want my Xbox," as Microsoft plans to unveil the second version of its Xbox video game console with a half-hour MTV television show hosted by "Lord of the Rings" star Elijah Wood next month Although gaming enthusiasts still do not know the name of Microsoft's new gaming hardware, its price, or actual releas...

In a bid to drill into two fertile growth markets with a single service, Google has unveiled a version of its local search tool designed specifically for users of mobile devices The mobile version of Google Local went live this week and seeks to extend many of the same features available at the Web-based local search product to hand-held devices in...

Netline Internet Service today released Open-Xchange Server 5, a platform-agnostic open-source collaboration system The software is designed to allow IT administrators to create applications without changing existing infrastructure components. In other words, administrators don't have to switch databases, directory services, message transfer agents...

The debate over whether bloggers should have the same rights and protections as professional journalists continues to rage, particularly via Apple's case against three online reporters who revealed what the company has proclaimed were "trade secrets." On Thursday of last week, a group of media companies, including eight of California's largest news...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has responded to criticism that its system for approving patents is flawed That reproof was reportedly leveled at the office last week by IBM Vice President for Intellectual Property and Standards Jim Stallings at a media event in New York City....

Adobe Systems today launched its free Adobe Reader 7.0 for the Linux operating system, allowing users to view and print content published in PDF format. Novell and Red Hat applauded the move, but analysts said not to expect heavy Linux investments from Adobe going forward Adobe Reader 7.0 joins Adobe LiveCycle software on Linux designed to help org...

During the last century, mega corporations throughout the world followed the prime rules of building corporate image and name identity in the strictest sense Their goal was simply to achieve an elite, world-class image by having their name and logo brightly displayed on skyscrapers in every city. They ran massive advertising campaigns to promote th...

Police in India announced on Thursday that they had recovered 1 million Indian Rupees (almost US$23,000) in funds allegedly stolen from Citibank customers in the U.S. by employees of an Indian call center firm The case highlights the need for a reexamination of corporate cultures and corporate ethics, as well as the sorry state of the Indian judici...

It's good to be the king. Pack leaders get to set the pace, choose which trail to take and be the first in line when everyone arrives Of course, it is important for pack leaders to constantly pay attention to the pack. Being in front often means being the last one to notice when the pack takes off in another direction. If a frontrunner forgets to p...

Wireless Wide Area Networks (WANs) have so far garnered only niche acceptance: They are used in rural areas where wired telecommunications services are not available and in select instances where companies deem them less expensive than other options, like T1 lines Wi-Max, short for "Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access," was crafted to m...

Canadians concerned about attempts to have Canada's Copyright Act re-written to suit the entertainment industry's desires are marshaling their efforts to make sure it doesn't happen Member of Parliament Peter Julian has introduced "Petition for Users Rights" signatures in Canada's Parliament. More than a thousand people have signed so far, and MPs ...

More than a year after the CAN-SPAM Act became law, e-mail users say they are receiving slightly more spam in their in boxes than before, but they are minding it less, according to a new survey Nevertheless, analysts warn that spam is a vehicle for worms, trojans and other malicious activity on the Internet that should not be treated lightly....

In a move that is seen hastening the alignment of the Internet into deep vertical segments based on relatively narrow content parameters, the Web's governing body has cleared the way for two new top-level domains exclusively for jobs and travel information The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gave final approval to t...

Looking to spark growth in what has proven to be a relatively difficult market niche to crack and to provide boosts to their respective bottom lines, America Online and XM Satellite said they would team to create a new online radio service The co-branded service, to be available this summer, will include a free Web-radio offering as well as an enha...

A new research collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Quanta Computer aims to tackle the fact that most users' information such as contacts, calendar and projects, is typically spread across multiple devices, all of which can be troublesome to update and backup MIT and the Taiwanese computer company said their "TP...

In a move to jumpstart their chances in the software ecosystem, Microsoft today said it would license its intellectual property to eight high-growth IT firms. The announcement marks a shift in the software giant's policy of licensing only to larger corporations and governments Microsoft is licensing its Windows fonts, a set of traffic-related techn...