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Increasing the security of eBay's massive and growing auction and fixed-price sales platform will be a top priority during 2007, according to company executives. The recent announcement of an enhanced password program for PayPal users is just one example of a larger effort to curtail phishing and fr...

Some Internet security companies are warning about the dangers they say exist from a new level of cyber attacks based on dynamic code obfuscation. However, makers of top-rated antivirus protection software claim such warnings only amount to a new spin on an old hacker tactic. Dynamic code obfuscatio...

Fierce price competition in the computer chip sector caused market leader Intel to see far lower profits in the fourth quarter, even though sales were up strongly. Intel said Wednesday that revenue for the quarter was $9.7 billion, 5 percent below the same quarter a year ago but up 11 percent from t...

More job seekers than ever descended on employment Web sites during the first week of the new year, according to an online competitive intelligence service. Visits to electronic emporiums for employment climbed 31 percent during the week of January 6 compared to the same period a year ago, Hitwise r...

When your company name is already synonymous with "search the Internet," it's safe to say you're king of that realm. Further proof that Google tops the heap of search engines came Tuesday, as comScore Networks reported the company increased its share of the U.S. Web search pie by 0.4 percent last mo...

The creators of the peer-to-peer VoIP network Skype and the controversial file-sharing site Kazaa have unveiled their latest startup: Joost, an Internet TV company that they claim will revolutionize Internet-based television. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom formally announced Joost Tuesday, after m...

Hoping to keep itself relevant as more consumers seek video on demand via the Internet, Netflix launched a Web initiative Tuesday that gives subscribers the option of downloading and instantly watching movies online. The company will roll out the service to subscribers over the next six months. User...

For better or worse, 2006 is going to be remembered as the year the U.S. court system should have set up a special turnstile for patent cases; litigation in this usually less-than-sexy body of law seemed to continually challenge once-established points of law. The result? Major case law was establis...

A Colorado-based private investigator has become the first person convicted in the Hewlett-Packard boardroom leak and spying scandal. Bryan Wagner, 29, pled guilty to identity theft and conspiracy charges in San Jose federal court, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California f...

Intending to boost consumer confidence in its online payment system -- and to thwart the scourge of phishing attacks aimed at its users -- eBay's PayPal will begin offering customers the option of using a password-generating device to beef up security. The system will use a key fob, known as the Pay...

Utilizing a little-known Pentagon power, the military and the CIA are obtaining and scrutinizing the banking and credit records of Americans in their search for terrorist and spying suspects. Officials confirmed over the weekend that the practice of using "national security letters" to obtain financ...

Now that media companies are exploring Web distribution models and using new technologies, a great deal is being discussed about who controls what when it comes to content. Digital rights management has its advocates and detractors, but some type of gateway for the management and monetization of con...

In the first major move since its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T is folding the 6-year-old Cingular wireless brand name into its 100-plus-year-old telecommunications brand. AT&T purchased all rights to Cingular with its US$86 billion acquisition of BellSouth last month. Beginning Jan. 15, th...

In the first major move since its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T is folding the 6-year-old Cingular wireless brand name into its 100-plus-year-old telecommunications brand. AT&T purchased all rights to Cingular with its US$86 billion acquisition of BellSouth last month. Beginning Jan. 15, th...

In the first major move since its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T is folding the 6-year-old Cingular wireless brand name into its 100-plus-year-old telecommunications brand. AT&T purchased all rights to Cingular with its US$86 billion acquisition of BellSouth last month. Beginning Jan. 15, th...