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In a bid to display its suitability for consumer users,antivirus giant Trend Micro has announced it will provideantivirus scanning and cleaning protection forMicrosoft's MSN Hotmail Internet e-mail customers, whonumber nearly 190 million. Such services had been provided by McAfee Trend Micro, based in Japan with U.S. headquartersin Cupertino, Calif...

In a move to distinguish itself from its successful travel properties in an increasingly competitive landscape, IAC/InterActiveCorp. will spin off Expedia and its other related travel Web sites next year as a separate publicly traded company, company officials said "We believe greater value can be created in the configuration," IAC chairman and CEO...

Taking a stab at being near the forefront of the mobile commerce and streaming music movements, Sprint today launched Music Choice, a mobile music service that gives users of its multimedia phones access to a catalog of digital music feeds The service, the first streaming music service available for mobile phones in the U.S., will give customers ac...

Recent activity in the business process management (BPM) space signals a coming of age for an application that until recently was the focus of pure-play BPM providers. So says Chuck Ames, president and CEO of Oak Grove Systems, a BPM software company based in Calabasas, California JBoss' recent jBPM announcement, along with acquisitions like Tibco'...

From sports to gossip to business, it is a time-honored New Year's tradition for columnists to prognosticate on what we can expect in the coming year. Tabloids tell us which celebrity marriages will break up, where aliens will appear next, and what famous personalities will dominate the news. Fortunately for the tabloids, not too many readers bother to compare their predictions a year later with what actually happened...

In a battle to establish a de facto standard, is it better to deliver technology first or to have the greater number of supporters? The emergence of ultrawideband (UWB) products, which allow a wide variety of PC and consumer electronics devices to exchange information over high-speed wireless networks, may provide an answer to that question Thwarte...

Cisco Systems today announced plans to buy privately held Protego Networks, part of a year-long acquisition spree aimed at rounding out Cisco's network security offerings Cisco said it would pay US$65 million in cash for Protego, which was founded in 2002 by two former Cisco executives and makes security appliances that monitor networks and detect ...

Microsoft reportedly has sold a Utah-based development studio that makes its sports video games, the second time in recent months that the company has sold off a game-development operation, effectively changing the gaming industry landscape The studio, known as Indie Built, was sold for an undisclosed sum to Take-Two Interactive Software, the New Y...

Search engine leader Google has been forced to respond to a security vulnerability in its Google Desktop Search software, which reportedly made it possible for computer intruders to view desktop search results via the Web The hole was discovered by security researchers at Rice University and reported this week by the New York Times. Google says it ...

For Microsoft, Christmas might come early this week -- or the ghosts of market dominance past might come back to haunt the software giant -- as a key court ruling is expected Wednesday that will determine whether the penalties assessed by European regulators are set aside while a trial unfolds in coming months and years European Union (EU) official...

EBay has expressed "outrage" over the arrest of the chief executive of its operations in India because a user of its shopping and auction portal, Baazee.com, listed a controversial pornographic video clip EBay said in a statement that it was "outraged" that Avnish Bajaj, an Indian-born U.S. citizen who had voluntarily traveled to New Delhi to furth...

It's that time of year again. Shoppers go into a frenzy trying to juggle all the other chores in their life and yet get gifts for everyone on their list -- especially that last minute gift for Aunt Tilly! But years after its inception, online shopping remains a challenge for retailers and Web users alike Web retailers want to produce a shopping exp...

Many retailers already use automation in their supply chain and inventory management. Vendor-managed inventory (VMI), for example, has made its way into many retailers. It optimizes supply-chain performance by keeping the responsibility for restocking with the manufacturer, not the distributor. The manufacturer has access to the distributor's inventory data and is responsible for generating purchase orders...

The end of this year marks the halfway point in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the tech industry has already gone through a number of dramatic changes Compaq has ceased to exist as a company, having been fully integrated into HP, while IBM has gone the other way, divesting itself of both storage and personal computers. Apple has ...

Move over all you unsolicited ads for Vicodin and Viagra. Make way senders of ads for phony Rolex watches and new mortgages. You are about to share in-box space with something much more ethereal. Spiritual spam is on the rise Managed e-mail and Internet security firm MessageLabs has spotted an emerging trend for unsolicited e-mail containing religi...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has announced that its member companies filed a new wave of copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 individual file-sharers A share of this wave of lawsuits filed Wednesday was brought against users of university computer networks. Twenty individual file sharers at the Columbia University, Ol...

Hoping to expand its customer base while also enhancing the so-called front office services it already provides, Siebel Systems said it will buy e-billing service provider eDocs in a deal worth US$115 million Siebel will take control of Natick, Massachusetts-based eDoc's 180 employees and gain access to its 116 customers, most of which are mid- to ...

The recent wave of mergers crashed into the e-commerce space today when auction giant eBay said it would acquire Rent.com for US$415 million in cash and stock The purchase extends eBay's already sprawling reach into the rental real estate industry. Rent.com lists apartments and homes for rent, relying on a business model that allows free listings a...

Microsoft beefed up its security offerings, buying the anti-spyware companyGiant and announcing it would make available for free a beta version of thesoftware for Windows 2000 and later. The test version will be availablewithin a month, Microsoft said Microsoft will use Giant's intellectual property and technology to developits anti-spyware product...

Cisco Systems said today that it will invest US$12 million to build a research and development center in Tokyo, Japan. The facility is slated to open in February 2005 and work there will focus on the development of Internet Protocol-based networking technologies, including routers and Cisco IOS(R) and IOS XR software, the company said According to...