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On the heels of last week's revelation of a potential security breach in the form of a code leak, Cisco Systems on Tuesday is expected to unveil a new high-end router for large telecommunications carriers. Code-named HFR (Huge Fast Router), the product will be part of an event to mark the company's ...

Lucent Technologies said Monday that it will pay about $295 million to acquire Telica, a provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gear, in the latest deal to underscore the emergence of the Internet as a tool for traditional telecommunications. Lucent will dish out 92.7 million stock shares a...

The following is a transcript of the radio address of President Bush to the nation on Friday: THE PRESIDENT: "Good morning. This week brought further evidence that across America, more citizens are finding jobs. The Department of Labor reported state-by-state job results, and these figures show that...

As part of its legal wrangling with The SCO Group, IBM has filed a motion for summary judgment in an attempt to remove copyright claims from the multibillion-dollar lawsuit. In its request, Big Blue cited a lack of evidence from SCO that would prove wrongdoing on IBM's part. The copyright claims in ...

Corporations will replace 100 million personal computers this year and even more in 2005, helping to drive a 14 percent year-over-year increase in PC sales in 2004, according to a report from research firm Gartner. Overall, the research firm expects worldwide shipments to total 186 million units dur...

Symantec has announced it will buy spam-filtering company Brightmail in a deal worth $370 million, adding spam-stopping capabilities to its antivirus and security gateway. The all-cash deal is expected to close in July, and Symantec said it is "too early to estimate" the impact of the acquisition on...

Hewlett-Packard posted its best sales figures in company history during the second quarter, exceeding analysts' revenue expectations and matching profit forecasts as demand for printers, servers and outsourcing services remained strong. Offering more evidence that its 2002 merger with Compaq was a g...

Thanks to eBay and its competitors, online auctions have become a common way for individuals and companies to sell goods. More recently, nonprofit organizations have begun to see the light as well, supplementing their fundraising efforts by auctioning big-ticket items and services online. The move t...

Saying the market for sending voice, video and other communications over the Internet is enormous but largely untapped, IBM and Cisco have announced they will work together to help companies make use of the money-saving option. As part of the deal, IBM will market its consulting and integration serv...

Cisco Systems is investigating whether part of the source code that powers its networking hardware has been revealed on the Internet -- a potentially embarrassing development for a company making a huge push into the network security business. Reports swept the Web last weekend that the code had bee...

Phishing -- a tactic in which fraudulent email directs users to a malicious Web site that masquerades as a site belonging to a legitimate company, such as a credit card firm or bank, while stealing users' personal data -- is unquestionably on the rise. Fortunately, as strategies employed by phishing...

Yahoo will unveil an upgrade of its Web-based e-mail service this summer that includes greatly expanded storage capacity for free users and "virtually unlimited" storage for paid customers. The upgrade is seen as a direct response to Google's controversial Gmail service. While Yahoo did not specify ...

In the first installment of this two-part exclusive interview, the E-Commerce Times spoke with Gomez CEO Dr. Alex Stein about the Internet performance management industry -- a field that is booming as more companies see a need for this sort of technology. In today's edition, Stein discusses the natu...

The United States has set its sights on becoming the country with the fastest supercomputer. The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been chosen to lead a partnership toward that goal. The Department of Energy awarded the lab a $25 million contract for the effort. The five-year ...

Taking its AdSense program in a new direction that could inject a breath of fresh air a traditional Internet-advertising style, Google has said it will begin testing banner ads. The move comes as a surprise because Google's AdSense, which places ads based on the Web page content with which they app...