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Check Point Software Technologies has announced it will bolster its security product portfolio by buying privately held Zone Labs, the market leader in personal firewalls, in a deal worth about US$205 million in stock and cash Zone Labs specializes in so-called endpoint security, with a focus on desktop firewalls for home and business users. The co...

Claiming that industry-accepted, association-endorsed CD burning technology in use by several hardware and software companies is infringing on its own 1997 patent, Optima Technology has sued rival Roxio in an attempt to enforce its patent protections The suit, filed in federal court in Orange County, California, late last week, could have implicati...

It may have been a long time coming, but Microsoft's newest Service Pack 2 for Windows XP -- soon to be released for beta testing -- represents several significant changes to the software Many of the updates and new features, which analysts have said could amount to an entirely different operating system altogether, center on security: default fire...

Didn't Netscape lose the browser war? Mozilla, the technology that lies underneath Netscape products and a slew of its own products, just gets better and better. Netscape is effectively dead, but Mozilla keeps on keeping on. Here's a look at why In 2010 we'll look back and say 2003 was the year that Mozilla really began. Mozilla-based products have...

Customers of big banks, beware. You might be surfing the Web with a bull's-eye on your browser. That's because Internet scam artists have targeted the customers of large financial institutions for their nefarious efforts The technique used by the grifters is a cyberspace version of the old bait-and-switch tactic that in the Internet age could be ca...

In a move designed to prevent its ever-growing range of products from drawing attention away from its core operating system, Microsoft has announced it will form a division solely focused on improving the Windows OS software. In a widely circulated memo to employees, Microsoft said the division will become "a center of gravity for advancing engine...

Still looking for the perfect gift for that special someone? If that person is a fan of technology, you might want to consider giving him or her one of the latest gadgets to hit the market. Many new products have been released this holiday season. To help you narrow the search, TechNewsWorld talked with several technology vendors to help spark some gift-giving ideas...

Part 1 of this two-part series detailed five ways companies can improve their position in search engine rankings, including URL submission, paid inclusion, content tailored for Web "spiders," a well thought-out page title and the nuances of META tags. Note that none of these methods is more valuable than the others, but in combination they can pro...

In clarifying what is legal for Canadian online music fans, the Canadian Copyright Board ruled that downloading music files from peer-to-peer networks is acceptable. However, the board declared that uploading music files is illegal and also approved a levy on digital music players based on their storage capacity The government fees -- charged to ma...

During the holidays, many consumers create product wish lists at Amazon.com. There may be no Amazon equivalent for CTOs, but high-level executives still whip up mental wish lists detailing what they want from software and hardware vendors With the makings of an economic recovery on the horizon, IT budgets are beginning to grow again after a three-y...

In a move that falls in line with analyst predictions about offshore outsourcing, IBM plans to move nearly 5,000 software programming jobs to India and other foreign nations beginning next year, according to a published report Yankee Group program manager Andy Efstathiou told TechNewsWorld that in addition to the cost-savings advantages of offshori...

I spent the middle part of last week at Microsoft headquarters. For the first time in a long while, I saw an energy that few firms I've covered or worked for have been able to match. It struck me that most of the folks who disagree with my perspective about Microsoft are thinking of the company the way it was about five years ago, which isn't accurate. A five-year-old viewpoint wouldn't accurately characterize Apple, HP, Dell or SCO either...

In a bid to break into the market for alternative online payments, in which several companies already have failed, Yahoo said it will launch an international version of its PayDirect service, using disposable ATM cards as the method of transferring payments Billed as a lower-cost alternative to money transfers, especially for international transact...

The ways in which people search for information on the Web have changed. Web content (text, images and audio) is being created and uploaded at a rate faster than the ability of search engines to index this data. As a consequence, it is getting more and more difficult to be "found" in an ever-larger mass of unindexed and unconnected pages.

Those wanting to represent the Internet graphically to a lay audience are fond of animations showing a spinning Earth criss-crossed by a network of buzzing, vibrating lines. Lift those animations up from the planet a bit, and you get a picture of what space someday could become -- a place where common Internet protocols are the norm for information exchange...

IBM has unveiled new grid and autonomic computer services that, according to Bruce Williams, the company's general manager of integrated technology services, will "bring together industry specific business consulting knowledge with advanced technology skills ... [to help] companies ... improve core business processes that are critical to their success and growth."

An alleged sender of unsolicited e-mail whose success earned him the title of "spam king" has been arrested in Virginia in what is being called the first felony prosecution of a spammer in the United States Virginia officials, who announced the arrest with AOL, MCI and UUNet -- charged that Jeremy Jaynes, 29, also known as Jeremy James and Gaven St...

Portability and price have combined to fuel consumer thirst for personal computers, according to IDC findings on worldwide PC shipments -- a trend the company says will be matched by more corporate spending through 2004 Updating its Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, IDC forecast "record levels" for 2003 and 2004, with the total number of PC shipments...

Seeking to retain its edge in the fiercely competitive search engine world by expanding its pool of engineering talent, Google has said it plans to open a research and development facility in India next year. The company has settled on Bangalore, a city often referred to as India's Silicon Valley, as the location for its first non-sales office out...

Seeking to retain its edge in the fiercely competitive search engine world by expanding its pool of engineering talent, Google has said it plans to open a research and development facility in India next year. The company has settled on Bangalore, a city often referred to as India's Silicon Valley, as the location for its first non-sales office out...