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RealNetworks has released several updates to close security gaps in its media players, including RealPlayer Enterprise and the beta version of RealPlayer 10. The vulnerabilities, if exploited, could give attackers control over victims' computers. The Seattle-based company said it has received no rep...
In a move reminiscent of government tactics used against drug dealers and organized crime, an Australian group working on behalf of the recording industry there raided offices and homes belonging to executives of the Kazaa peer-to-peer (P2P) network operator, Sharman Networks. Using a search order s...
The new offering by Sun Microsystems -- StarOffice 7 for the Solaris x86 desktop platform -- might be embraced by some corporate users as a way to provide leverage in future negotiations with Microsoft, computer industry analysts said. The move also could pave the way for Sun's planned Java-based de...
Imagine a war in which the combatants are invisible and the weapons they bear are hidden in trickery and stealth. Now picture that war being waged on a battlefield consisting not of desert fields but of thousands of ragtag computers in bedrooms, dens and corporate cubicles across America. These batt...
Diverging from its usual dedication to Intel-based machines, Microsoft has made public a beta version of Windows XP for use on 64-bit computers running the AMD Athlon 64 and Opteron processors. Microsoft said its Windows XP 64-Bit Edition is designed for technical workstation users who require large...
As the entertainment industry attempted this week to overturn a court ruling protecting the operation of file-sharing services on the Internet, peer-to-peer outfits rolled out new products that could cause more hand-wringing among movie and music execs. StreamCast Networks released a new version of ...
In stark contrast to statistics released by Netcraft, a survey conducted by San Diego-based Port80 Software indicates that Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) server is used by more high-traffic Web sites than the rival Apache server. Port80 Software polled the 1,000 most-visited Web sit...
It may already be the de facto voice platform for the Internet, but this week the Voice XML 2.0 specification has moved closer to becoming an official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard. The W3C, the body responsible for maintaining many of the core standards and protocols at the heart of the ...
Spammers are now targeting mobile phone subscribers throughout Asia, sending text messages through the popular short message service (SMS) system. The practice is generating concern at major technology companies like Microsoft and NTT DoCoMo about a potential emerging tsunami of unwanted e-solicitat...
Major ISPs -- including Microsoft and Yahoo -- have indicated interest in an e-mail "stamp" approach that would charge bulk e-mailers 1 U.S. cent for each piece of e-mail in an effort to differentiate legitimate e-mail marketing from spam. However, critics of the stamp approach -- which, in theory, ...
Big Music and Big Movies will square off once again with Internet file-sharing services Grokster and Morpheus today in a California courtroom over what the "bigs" say is rampant copyright infringement taking place on those networks. A lower court dismissed contentions that the owners of the services...
Laying the groundwork for the next generation of computer microprocessors that will push clock speeds higher, Intel has released new Pentium 4 desktop chips -- code-named "Prescott" -- that promise improved performance for both consumer and business users. Intel said the desktop processors are the r...
While Apple may have lost the operating system battle to Microsoft, it has become a major player in the digital music market, thanks to the company's successful iPod player and iTunes online music store. However, Microsoft has managed to make its Windows Media Audio (WMA) music format the standard o...
Last Thursday morning, the topic on the Today Show was the MyDoom worm. Matt Lauer, one of the show's two anchors, was interviewing an Internet expert and asked a question near and dear to my own heart: "Is this new virus cyberterrorism?" The expert said no, it was more like cyber vandalism. Clearly...
In the face of criticism that any legislative efforts to curb spam will be limited by national boundaries, the Federal Trade Commission has announced collaboration with 36 agencies in 26 countries to inform ISPs and other organizations that their servers can be used to relay spam with spoofed Intern...
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