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Why are most technology corporations so stubborn to admit puzzling marketing issues? They are somehow used to a torturing path, all in the name of "tough times and rough markets." It's a puzzle, especially when in relation to creating a new innovation, solving such marketing issues are the easiest t...

Security firms are warning of a new e-mail worm that began infecting computers just days after the vulnerability it exploits in the Internet Explorer (IE) browser was made public. The worm, which some information security experts say is a variation of the MyDoom virus that ravaged the Web earlier th...

In a boon for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today ruled as expected to bar states from imposing telecommunications regulations on Internet phone providers. "This landmark order recognizes a revolution has occurred," FCC Chairman Michael Po...

In just the latest example of a technology company aggressively protecting its intellectual property, Toshiba has filed lawsuits alleging that Hynix memory chips violate Toshiba patents. Japan's Toshiba filed suits in Tokyo and in U.S. District Court in Texas charging patent infringement. The Japane...

The information technology (IT) industry in Pakistan faces challenges that need to be understood by everyone preparing to send or receive IT services from that country. Restrictions on funds transfers from the U.S. to Pakistan, implemented after 9/11, are causing problems for firms in Pakistan that ...

In one of the largest instances to date of widespread big-rigging on auction site eBay, eight sellers have been ordered to pay US$90,000 in fines and restitution after admitting to engaging in practices that artificially drove up the prices of their auctions. The sellers began to pay restitution to ...

Microsoft has agreed to pay Novell US$536 million to settle a long-simmer private antitrust claim over its NetWare operating system, a deal that also calls for Novell to withdraw from the European antitrust proceedings against Microsoft. Microsoft said the deal, which came about after lengthy privat...

I met Steve Wozniak after he spoke at last month's MIT Emerging Technologies conference. Standing on the stage, trying to jockey my way among the pack wanting to greet "Woz," I was torn between wanting to talk to this luminary of Electronic Design's Hall of Fame and feeling I was adding to his hound...

Amazon.com, the owner of the "1-Click Shopping" patent, is no stranger to either side of patent infringement battles. Now it finds itself in yet another dispute, this one against Cendant Publishing. Cendant filed suit in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Del., Oct. 29 against the e-commerce giant c...

Microsoft is again pledging to improve the security of its software by starting to notify customers of upcoming patches. However, the promise came just as experts warned that attack code exploiting a known flaw in Internet Explorer has begun to circulate. The US-CERT and Secunia said the newly disco...

In a move to cash in on a booming market for local business searches, SBC Communications and BellSouth plan to acquire YellowPages.com. Together, SBC and BellSouth plan to develop a comprehensive, nationwide online business index that leverages the Yellow Pages brand name. The acquisition will combi...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) -- following in the footsteps of its recording industry counterpart, the RIAA -- announced today its intent to file a series of lawsuits aimed at stopping the sharing of films over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. The MPAA claims to lose more than US$3 mi...

Joining forces in the hope of advancing a strategy both companies have been plotting for some time, Microsoft and Intel have said they will work together to promote cutting edge digital home entertainment options. Dubbing the effort "Digital Joy," the companies said they would launch a television, p...

Just over a week after Apple launched its much anticipated photo iPod -- without video capability -- Nokia has announced a smart phone that streams and records video. "Smart phones are now at the heart of the industry," said Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president and general manager of Nokia's mult...

Security's ongoing movement from a technology-dominated discipline to one that falls under the bailiwick of a company's CEO, CFO and COO is good news for Solutionary, a managed security service provider that views security as part of an overall business problem, rather than a gee-whiz technology. Th...