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Data security giant McAfee said Wednesday it has fired its president and accepted the resignation of its CEO after an internal investigation into stock options accounting turned up problems that will require extensive restatement of past earnings. CEO George Samenuk, who also held the position of ch...

Small and medium-sized businesses are frequently slow to adopt new technology because of the cost, manpower and lengthy deployment cycles that can be involved, but Internet telephony is one technology that deserves serious consideration for two related reasons. First, an increasing number of SMBs ha...

Microsites -- highly focused mini Web sites within larger ones that encourage consumers to create content -- will be growing in popularity among larger online advertisers in the coming year, according to a report from JupiterKagan. "The use of promotional microsites will grow most strongly among the...

Google's US$1.65 billion purchase of video-sharing site YouTube -- made official late Monday after several days of speculation -- could dramatically alter the playing field for competing Internet giants. The YouTube acquisition is being hailed as a bold thrust that could turn two weaknesses in the G...

The adaptation of technologies that were once exclusive to big science and the military for commercial public use has become a characteristic of our times. Notable among them are global positioning systems and geographic information systems, both of which have been growing in adoption as their tec...

Third party antivirus vendors are becoming increasingly convinced that Microsoft's rigorous security protocols for its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system are in effect a back-door effort to gain market share in the computer security space. Symantec -- and more recently, McAfee -- have charg...

In the latest sign of shifts in how established media companies view free online video sharing, YouTube Monday announced content distribution deals with two record labels and a major U.S. TV network. CBS said it would use YouTube to distribute short clips of its shows and those from its premium cabl...

Search giant Google is reportedly close to a deal to purchase video sharing site YouTube for an estimated US$1.6 billion. Neither company would comment Monday on published reports that suggested the two sides are deep into talks about a YouTube acquisition, one that would dramatically alter the onli...

Biometric security provider UPEK announced on Monday a partnership with Internet security firm Pay By Touch to bring an integrated biometric security service called "TrueMe" to online transactions. UPEK makes a fingerprint reader that is preinstalled in some laptops and is also available on separate...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is a congressional act passed to prevent future scandals of Enron proportion and is considered to be one of the most significant changes to federal securities law in the United States. The Enron scandal and other similar scandals damaged investors' confidence in the ac...

The founder of popular social networking site MySpace.com is claiming the site is worth 100 times what it sold for last year and is prodding federal agencies to probe the sale of the company to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. News Corp. purchased MySpace last year for US$580 million. Founder Brad Greens...

After months of back-and-forth negotiations, the United States and the European Union have reached an agreement on the sharing of data pertaining to airline passengers flying to the U.S. from Europe. The new agreement gives more U.S. government agencies access to data collected by European agencies,...

By now, it's understood that technology has forever changed the advertising and marketing industries. The range of choices consumers now have for consuming media -- and the accompanying marketing messages -- has forced marketers to rethink entire branding strategies. One way to look at the change is...

Leading electronics retailer Best Buy said Thursday it would partner with MP3 player maker SanDisk and RealNetworks to create and promote a subscription and buy-to-own music service. The collaboration is the latest effort to dethrone Apple from the top of the digital music market. The Best Buy Digi...

The California Attorney General's office late Wednesday charged former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, a second high-ranking HP executive and three others with felony fraud and conspiracy. All five face four felony counts of fraudulent wire communications, wrongful use of computer data, id...