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Universities have begun thwarting the operation of software that promises to accelerate Internet performance and protect its users from malware infections because they feel the program is actually spyware A number of schools, including Columbia University, Cornell, Indiana State and Penn State, have advised their students to avoid using, or have bl...

In the not-too-distant past, search toolbars were risky specialty add-ons offered by Internet marketing mavens. Users who installed search toolbars often were granting permission without knowing it to intruders harvesting data on addresses and surfing habits and opening the backdoor to their computers Spyware typically went hand-in-hand with toolba...

If a couple of guys build a company from scratch and then do a billion dollar IPO, where does the market value come from? More importantly, what does the valuation process mean to the typical business employee? I got to thinking about this during a review of online gaming a couple of weeks ago because the business models underlying games developmen...

Hewlett-Packard has worked out the bugs in software it says will slow down the spread of worms and viruses within servers Virus Throttler -- which HP had said it was shelving back in August because it was having trouble integrating it with Microsoft Windows server software -- is now back, HP CTO Tony Redman said Tuesday at the company's Software Un...

Three holiday shopping indices are reporting a sluggish start to the giving season, with some analysts trimming holiday sales forecasts after a disappointing Thanksgiving weekend in brick and mortar stores Meanwhile, online data crunchers are reporting a much different story for e-commerce stores. VeriSign's data demonstrates that online shipping p...

The ESPN sports television network is teaming up with Sprint to create its own brand of mobile phone service. The new service, to be called ESPN Mobile, is expected to launch in the second half of next year Sprint, the country's third-largest wireless carrier, will allow ESPN to use space on its network in return for a share of profits earned via t...

The group Reporters Without Borders is blasting search engine leader Google for its supposed complicity in government censorship, requesting that the popular Web tool provider pull its news service that excludes content not approved by the Chinese government The group, which has been critical of content and technology providers including Yahoo, Goo...

In a record-breaking spree, over 5 million domain names were registered in the third quarter of 2004, according to a report from VeriSign ...

Singingfish.com is fine-tuning its image with the launch today of a revamped multimedia search engine on its Web site that specializes in finding audio and video content This marks the AOL property's transformation from developer and marketer of multimedia search services to companies like RealNetworks to a strategically positioned player in the co...

Bidding to solidify and expand its new role as market leader in the wake of its merger with AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless has announced plans to roll out faster wireless service and more broadband-dependent services nationwide Cingular said its completion of the US$41 billion merger with AT&T Wireless gives it the spectrum space it needs to fost...

How will this holiday season pan out for online retailers? That depends on whom you ask An NPD Group survey of consumer holiday buying intentions reveals that the 2004 holiday shopping season could be challenging for retailers....

The same group that said that free and open-source software was a bigger security risk than commercial software and also claimed that Linus Torvalds ripped off the Linux kernel plans to release a new report in a few weeks Ken Brown, director of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution's technology program authored the study, tentatively titled "Intell...

"'Regardless of what people found in the early days of lawsuits,' says Eric Garland, head of research firm BigChampagne LLC, which tracks Internet activity, 'the consensus now is that file sharing is hitting all-time highs.'" That's Garland quoted in Canada's MacLeans and he's referring to the fact that, claims from the Big Four music cartel notwit...

Is this the dawning of the age of branding or just another black hole? The term "Le Branding" started out in the Dark Ages, where marks were burned onto cattle. On ever-so-slowly-evolving minds of the Homo sapiens, this word also made a solid impression and provides a daily dose of comfort Belonging to a product and a brand name, providing taste an...

Microsoft will not produce a fifth service pack for Windows 2000, opting instead to provide a less extensive "rollup" of patches as the software giant phases out support for the aging operating system Microsoft had previously announced it would end free technical support for Windows 2000 in June of 2005, a plan that calls for it to stop issuing rou...

The battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD to define the next generation DVD format shows no signs of cooling off. While electronics and computer companies such as Sony, Dell and HP back the Blu-ray specification, proponents of the rival high-definition HD DVD format, including NEC and Toshiba, can now claim movie support from four of the five major Hollywood film studios...

Sybase said today that it has struck a deal with IBM in which Big Blue will market and distribute Sybase's Linux database management software IBM will market the Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) solution from Sybase for use on its eServer OpenPower platform. The customized version of the software is slated to be available pre-loaded onto IBM server...

Lycos Europe yesterday announced that it has created a downloadable screensaver aimed at putting spammers out of business with distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks Available for both Mac and Windows, "Make Love, Not Spam" works by flooding a spammer's Web site with requests for data. The theory is that a very large number of requests sen...

Linux solutions developer Xandros today announced that Wal-Mart's online store is carrying a full range of Linux desktop computers with the pre-installed Xandros Desktop Operating System Built by Microtel and available at Walmart.com, the offerings provide a range of inexpensive home, school, and small office desktop machines loaded with Xandros De...

Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled network management software developed from tools it acquired when it bought Novadigm and Consera Software earlier this year OpenView Automation Manager is part of HP's plan to build a set of individually available components as a replacement for the unwieldy Utility Data Center, which HP discontinued in September....