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Just in time for Halloween, a new spam relay worm has begun to circulate via e-mail attachments, aiming to turn PCs into e-mail-spewing zombies The worm, dubbed "Mimail.C," is yet another iteration of the hearty W32 malware strain. It affects PCs running Windows 95 through Windows XP and was first discovered spreading through Europe and the United ...

Buzz about Microsoft seeking to partner with or purchase search-superstar Google startled Internet users this week. However, despite rumors to the contrary, Microsoft might wind up using its own technology to compete against Google and other major Internet vendors, such as Yahoo and Amazon Most reports indicate Google is proceeding on its own towar...

Cable giant Comcast increased the amount of attention directed toward broadband Internet services this week by announcing it had picked up nearly a half-million high-speed Internet customers in the last quarter -- a 39 percent gain from last year's third quarter Comcast credited "integration success" for its gains in broadband Internet and video su...

Hewlett-Packard has announced it plans to stop actively selling its e3000 servers, which have a history stretching back more than 30 years However, the company said it will continue to offer service support for the product line for another three years and may extend software updates and patches beyond that time frame. HP initially signaled its inte...

After closing the controversial merger with Compaq engineered last year by CEO Carly Fiorina, HP has become one of the world's largest technology companies, with US$71.8 billion in annual sales But does HP really lead the world in any new technology fields, and does it have the right technology strategy to sustain it through the coming years? Or ha...

When it comes to buying and selling products, companies seem to have turned away from each other -- and the bigger the companies are, the less they want to talk This decline in personal interaction during the sales process may be due partly to the rise of business-to-business, or B2B, exchanges. These automated online marketplaces have moved past e...

After a slight slip of the tongue associated with disclosure of its plans and program for speech-command software, Microsoft has confirmed it will release the new software for Pocket PC handhelds and phones on Monday Information about the new Voice Command software -- which will allow users to verbally access contacts, calendar and media player -- ...

A request to federal regulators by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to invalidate a controversial patent rests on shaky ground, according to an attorney representing the patent holder That patent for embedding components into Web pages must be revoked to "prevent substantial economic and technical damage to the operation of the World Wide Web," ...

Perhaps the most significant event at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, which ran from Sunday through Thursday in Los Angeles, was the company's release of a developers version of its upcoming Windows OS, also known as Longhorn In his keynote address Monday, Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates introduced Longhorn, which is slate...

Virginia Tech's decision to build a supercomputer out of 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5s -- a true break from the architecture of traditional, mainframe supercomputers -- allowed the university to cut its costs in half. According to researchers, the supercomputer represents a new model for ultra high-end computing in science and research Virginia Tech's ...

Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- into the developer community, Microsoft has released previews of the software The actual Longhorn operating system, the company's next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company's next-generation development tools code-named Whidbey are as many as two t...

Oracle has opened a second business development center on the Chinese mainland and has unveiled a program to help Japanese companies tackle this emerging marketplace. The company said its second China Development Center (CDC) is now open for business in Beijing, offering China-based companies an opportunity to accelerate their emergence into the w...

The power blackout that struck the northern United States and Canada in August shocked industry executives into acknowledging the need to upgrade outdated circuitry and power-generating equipment However, analysts and security experts now are warning that the outmoded, intrusion-prone computers used to control the grid pose a greater risk than the ...

Napster has carried its famous name into the legitimate music download arena, officially launching Napster 2.0 and challenging a sea of Windows competitors, including Apple's sweet-sounding iTunes service that sold 1 million songs to Windows users in its first three days of operation Yankee Group senior analyst Mike Goodman told TechNewsWorld that ...

X10. Just the company name is enough to send some Internet users into convulsions. The firm was, for all intents and purposes, the first major user of the dreaded pop-under ad, which, at the time it was introduced, easily ranked as the most obnoxious and intrusive form of online advertising ever invented.

University of California Berkeley researchers report that the amount of new information stored on paper, film, optical and magnetic media has doubled in the last three years to five exabytes -- or 5 million terabytes The researchers, supported by tech giants Microsoft, Intel, HP and EMC, said the amount of new information produced in those forms la...

In an effort to downplay rumors that Hewlett-Packard will seek to beef up its consulting division by purchasing a major computer services company, such as EDS, HP CEO Carly Fiorina said she has passed on opportunities to make additional acquisitions. Instead, she said, she will focus on her company's ability to innovate and adapt to changing market conditions.

In part 1 of this article, "The High-Stakes World of Online Gambling," the E-Commerce Times looked at the state of the Internet betting industry and its remarkable popularity. David Carruthers, CEO of Internet gambling site BetonSports.com, told the E-Commerce Times that his site has seen meteoric growth in the last three to five years Carruthers a...

Storage vendor Brocade Systems has unveiled a new platform, called the SilkWorm Fabric AP, that is designed to run storage-management applications, including volume-management, data-migration and data-replication programs. In addition, the company announced it will deliver a set of multiprotocol routing services to run on the new platform The goal ...

By responding to IBM counterclaims against it and arguing that the General Public License (GPL) that covers Linux is not enforceable and in fact violates the U.S. Constitution, Lindon, Utah-based SCO has put itself in a tough position, intellectual property and software lawyers told TechNewsWorld In its response, SCO argued that the GPL is "selecti...