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Yahoo took its turn this week at raising its level of e-mail storage space, announcing that paying customers would get 2 GB of storage -- double what Google's beta Gmail service provides. Users of Yahoo's free e-mail service will also get a boost -- up to a whopping 100 MB of free storage The move to the 2-GB limit follows Google's announcement of ...

IBM announced Tuesday that its Linux Center of Competency is now officially open in Bangalore, India. Like other Linux centers that IBM has created around the world, the Bangalore facility will be geared toward helping Big Blue customers in industry, government and academia move toward open-source computing. The center also will have two branches ...

Hot spots for making wireless connections to the Internet are popping up in places like MacDonald's, Starbuck's and Panera's, but WiFi remains just a side dish for outfits trying to make a buck from the technology The hot spots are a premium service used to attract customers to their sponsors' locations, explained Roberta Wiggins, an analyst with t...

Consumer prices surged higher in May, driven mainly by rising fuel and food costs, the government said in a report that is seen as the final piece of evidence needed to justify interest rate hikes The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.6 percent last month, the largest one-month jump in retail prices since January of 2001. Forecasters had called for...

From the Sasser worms to phishing attacks, the Internet has been crawling with malware this year. Fortunately, there are people like Ken Xie who are ready to fight the good fight As founder, president and CEO of network-protection firm Fortinet, Xie has seen more than his share of the techno-enemy. In an exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Time...

Sun recently announced it would open-source its Solaris operating system. While declining to get specific about timetables and the type of open-source license the company plans to use, John Loiacono, executive vice president of Sun's software group, promised that Sun will "be very aggressive and progressive in our approach." For now, all we can do is speculate...

At Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI), the numbers told the story: About 180 customer-service reps were using old "green screen" technology. With dumb terminals connected to a claims-processing system, trying to handle a total of 900,000 calls per year Each call took about 10 minutes, and customers were kept on hold while reps navigate...

Broadcom announced today that it has settled all outstanding patent and antitrust litigation with Microtune. Under the settlement agreement, all outstanding claims in pending litigation between the parties will be dismissed with prejudice. The parties also entered into reciprocal releases covering all asserted and unasserted claims Additionally, Br...

The first week of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) trial against Oracle's US$7.7 billion hostile takeover attempt of PeopleSoft has proven to be as much a high-stakes poker game as the enterprise software market in which the two compete Oracle opened its case with the previously undisclosed Microsoft and SAP merger talks -- dragging both compan...

Two orders have been issued in SCO Group's cases against IBM and Novell that could impact how the legal wrangling proceeds U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball is hearing both cases, which involve contract and copyright infringement claims and counterclaims against IBM, and slander claims against Novell....

Great Britain's On Demand Distribution (OD2) might be the biggest online music downloader in the region right now, but the company is preparing for battle with the likes of Apple's iTunes and the reborn Napster, unveiling this week its own digital jukebox that will provide pay-as-you-go music for about a dollar per track OD2 said its SonicSelector ...

At its customer conference this week, Hewlett-Packard announced that it will expand its partner program, as well as add new products, to spark sales of its OpenView management software OpenView is a suite of products for corporate network management, and is considered to be the core of the company's "Adaptive Enterprise" push, a strategy that HP cl...

Details of five new mobile devices, a software roadmap overview, new mobile infrastructure equipment and updated 2004 volume projections all featured prominently among the news at the annual Nokia Connection conference held today simultaneously in Singapore and Helsinki Chairman and CEO Jorma Ollila introduced the new products, claiming that the fi...

Last week I attended the HP analyst conference and I suddenly realized that the dynamic surrounding the mess we currently have with consumer electronics has changed. For some time I've been concerned that we have been focusing, as an industry, way too much on technologies that engineers care about and not enough on the wants and needs of real peop...

German-language spam containing right-wing messages and proclaiming disapproval with the presence of Turks and other immigrants in Germany were being received worldwide today The barrage began on Wednesday and initially inundated e-mail accounts of users in the United States, the Netherlands, Finland and several other countries....

One of the great promises of the Internet has always been that it can bring people together, no matter their location or technology. Social network sites like Friendster, Orkut and LinkedIn are making this promise into a reality every day by attracting millions of members that spend hours chatting with prospective friends and potential love interests...

Arrests have been made in several countries stemming from the October 2003 theft of computer source code for a Half-Life 2, a much-anticipated sequel to the popular computer game Half-Life Tips from an online gaming community led to the arrests after an eight-month investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation into the theft, according ...

In the U.S. government's case to block Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft, the federal judge overseeing the proceedings has pushed for both sides to make more information public, and has taken an active role in questioning witnesses In the case's first week of testimony, Judge Vaughn Walker told lawyers that the amount of material being filed unde...

Among the first to realize the potential of a computer that could be used by individuals and learning students, Alan Kay has been awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for his life's work at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and elsewhere, which laid the groundwork for today's PC As the winner of the 20th annual award, Kay is being recognized for h...

Linus Torvalds, the inventor of the Linux kernel, is moving to Portland from California next week. He will oversee the Open Source Development Labs in Beaverton Portland's newspaper, the Oregonian, reported that Torvalds said he wanted to be in a location that is saner and calmer than Silicon Valley, and that he would move after his children finish...