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Dan Kaminsky, the security researcher who first sounded the alarm that the entire Internet was in grave danger due to a widespread vulnerability, has revealed in front of a packed audience at the Black Hat security conference the details behind the initial subterfuge -- and potential problems that could still pick apart the Web world as we know it.

Search engine giant Google has launched a new music search service in China that enables users to legally download online music Music OneBox is backed by some of the major global music labels, as well as Chinese basketball star Yao Ming, who plays for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. The service is available at Chinese mu...

Google on Tuesday unveiled Insights for Search, a new tool designed for marketers that expands upon Google Trends with new search analysis capabilities Google Insights for Search "provides more flexibility and functionality for advertisers and marketers to understand search behavior, and adds some cool new features like a world heat map to graphica...

Finding the right balance between privacy and convenience online is best left to individual consumers; they are more vested than anyone in protecting their personal information. More control will enable them to decide what information they want to share and how they want to share it The Internet, since its early days, has been largely shaped by the...

What is unified communications (UC) and why do you need it? UC is not unified messaging, and it isn't a unified desktop. But both of these technology solutions help to support a unified communications architecture. In fact, according to Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company, UC is the convergence of such technologies as instant messaging, e-mail, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), presence and e-commerce in or near real-time.

The latest release of Barry Kauler's Puppy Linux version 4.0 has a lot to bark about. Installed directly on a hard drive, it lacks some of the bells and whistles found in more popular Linux desktop versions. But run it from a USB (universal serial bus) drive in RAM (random access memory), and Puppy growls impressively The ability to carry an entire...

Since the first supercomputers came online in the 1960s and '70s, they have earned a reputation as high-powered workhorses helping researchers conduct complex calculations Typically found at major universities and research facilities, the massive machines -- which at one time could occupy more than an acre of space in a data center -- were often us...

PC gamers will see the release of "Grand Theft Auto IV" ("GTA IV") for their platform of choice this fall. Game developer Rockstar Games and parent company Take-Two announced Wednesday that the popular title will hit store shelves on Nov. 18 "[That] is the perfect time to release this game -- well, next to perfect. I think perfect would have been d...

The Department of Justice has charged 11 people with the theft of millions of account numbers from a long list of U.S. big box retailers including TJ Maxx, OfficeMax, Barnes & Noble, Boston Market, BJ's Wholesale Club, Forever 21, DSW, Dave & Buster's and Sports Authority. Albert "Segvec" Gonzalez was the ringleader, according to the indictments, ...

Sprint Nextel continues to shed wireless customers despite efforts to improve service and lure high-end subscribers to its network The number of mobile subscribers at the carrier declined to 51.9 million in the second quarter ended June 30, down 3.9 percent from the 54 million it reported during the same period in 2007, according to the company's f...

With the Olympic torch now in Beijing, residents there are wondering: Who will carry it those final few steps to light the cauldron in China's Olympic Stadium? Meanwhile, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft face their own burning question regarding China: Can an agreement on a code of conduct for business dealings with the country's Communist government di...

Google is amping up its corporate search tool by more than tripling its capacity compared to previous models. The newly launched Google Search Appliance boasts the ability to index up to 10 million documents with a single, bright yellow server The development -- Google's fifth offering in the Search Appliance family -- is also said to deliver resu...

It's no fun shopping alone. That's the theory behind social shopping, a trend that combines social networking with e-commerce. It's a trend that's coming into its own as increasing numbers of online shoppers turn to the sites for fun, companionship, and camaraderie with other shoppers "Shopping is a very social, interactive experience," Manish Ch...

This summer, I have been doing a lot of research into sustainability and have developed some thoughts that relate to CRM, especially CRM 2.0 The whole idea of "sustainability" deserves some contemplation. Too often we see the word applied to just about anything that needs to look a little bit green. Sustainability and related words absolve a multit...

Bob Weiss knows a thing or two about dreams "I grew up with the promise that if one wanted to go to space, they would get the chance," said Weiss, president of the X Prize Foundation. The trouble was that nobody kept the promise....

A Type 2 diabetic for more than 14 years, Sherman, N.Y.-resident John Morris thought he had everything he needed to manage and treat his disease. He was wrong. It wasn't until he became a member of the recently launched social networking Web site Diabetic Connect that he realized how essential the support of like-minded people was in dealing with diabetes.

By now, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang must be feeling as though he simply cannot catch a break. He has weathered a succession of setbacks over the past few months, since Microsoft launched its unsuccessful bid to acquire the portal. Now it turns out that he doesn't have as much shareholder support as he thought A tabulation error by an outside company resul...

IBM fired the opening salvo at this year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, and to the surprise of no one, it was aimed squarely at Microsoft Sure, it was the low-hanging fruit -- Microsoft's an easy target. It's kind of like taking pot shots at John McCain at an Obama fund-raiser. But here, the ammunition was more notable than the target....

U.S. television programming is moving toward on-demand status, judging from a federal appeals court ruling Monday in favor of Cablevision's proposed network-centric digital video recorder Concluding a two-year legal battle, U.S. Circuit Court Judge John M. Walker Jr. found that Cablevision's plans to store recorded programs on a central server inst...

AT&T announced its new cloud computing service on Tuesday, dubbed "AT&T Synaptic Hosting." With the new offering, the telecommunications company joins Amazon, Google and IBM as a service provider in the nascent application hosting market The service is aimed at providing companies with greater flexibility, improved performance and cost savings by e...