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America Online has announced it will expand its relationship with Google and will use the search leader's technology as the foundation for enhancements to its own search offering. According to the agreement, AOL Search will feature both search results from Google's algorithmic engine and sponsored l...

Who owns this crazy Internet, anyway? That's a complicated question, but we may be closer than ever to an answer, thanks to typos. It seems that about 20 million of them are made every day when people incorrectly input a Web site address. On September 15th, VeriSign launched a service that brought e...

As chips are inserted into all manner of everyday appliances, from refrigerators to phones, the semiconductor industry is not the only one that will heat up. The market for motherboards, which link all the components of a computing device, including processors, chipsets, memory and peripheral cards,...

In response to its recent loss to Eolas Technologies in a $521 million patent case, Microsoft has announced it will make "modest" changes to Windows and Internet Explorer to address issues raised in the case. Many of the planned code changes will affect various plug-ins, such as Macromedia Flash, Ap...

Consumers finally are gaining more widespread access to WiFi high-speed wireless networks as vendors install this technology in airports, hotels and restaurants across the United States. The main challenge faced by these vendors is economic, rather than technical, in nature. The consumer market is n...

In a deal that could help reshape a growing segment of the network security space, NetScreen Technologies plans to buy SSL virtual private network firm Neoteris for $265 million in stock and cash. NetScreen said Neoteris' secure sockets layer (SSL) technology will become increasingly important as mo...

Competitors IBM and EMC have announced they will share some of the code underlying their storage and server software in a bid to make their systems work together more smoothly. The companies said the deal will provide enterprise customers with more flexibility by allowing them to mix and match stor...

Cisco Systems has been synonymous with routers for nearly 20 years and commands more than 90 percent of the enterprise market. Still, the company does have competitors, especially in sectors that crave speed. For example, when service providers like MCI/WorldCom, Sprint and AT&T update their inf...

Corporate demand for computer security experts is growing -- and so are the options available to higher-education students and IT professionals. Rice University in Houston, Texas, offers courses in cryptography, viruses, spam, intrusion detection, tamper resistance, wireless security, untrusted plat...

In conjunction with WebEx, Yahoo is now taking orders for its Business Messenger service. The company will demonstrate the service during the Instant Messaging Planet Conference October 15th and 16th at the San Jose Convention Center. Yahoo also announced that two clients already have started using ...

IBM and Siebel Systems have announced plans to work together to offer low-cost, on-demand and hosted customer relationship management services, a move the companies say will bring world-class software within reach of many small and mid-size companies. The offering, known as Siebel CRM OnDemand, will...

A California woman has filed what could become a class-action suit against Microsoft, claiming the software giant's flaw alert and patching system is inadequate and fails to protect consumers. The action, being handled by a California attorney known for taking on big business on behalf of consumers,...

When the Web was young and hotshot designers were eager to prove their talents, chaos ruled. Pages often featured unwieldy graphics that brought visitors' browsers to a halt, and nonstandard layouts forced users to hunt for information. Since then, certain design conventions have been adopted, makin...

Seeking an advantage in its brutal battle with Dell for dominance in the consumer computing market, Hewlett-Packard has announced it will launch a $300 million worldwide ad campaign aimed at the average technology user. The push is designed to support HP's August release of nearly 150 different cons...

In mid-September, U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Mozelle Thompson kicked off the Strategic Global Summit for E-Commerce with a keynote address that touched on several pertinent e-commerce topics, the role the FTC has assumed as the Internet has developed into a business channel, and issues that leg...