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Google Apps, first launched as a free service in August 2006, is now a commercial product available to users for $50 per user account per year. It debuts with Procter & Gamble Global Business Services as a marquee account -- not that Google needed one. Since its initial launch in August, more th...
Less than two weeks have passed since Viacom demanded that YouTube take down 100,000 clips of its copyrighted content. Yet, the media giant is now providing Joost with basically the same content through an agreement announced Tuesday. Neither Joost nor Viacom is revealing financial details about the...
A Texas judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who allegedly was assaulted by a man she met through the social networking Web site MySpace. Part of the case was dismissed with prejudice, a decision that will likely be appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court, according to...
Microsoft on Tuesday issued 12 software patches, six of which covered vulnerabilities the company designated as "critical." The patches were part of Microsoft's regular Patch Tuesday security bulletin. TechNewsWorld spoke with Ashar Aziz, CEO and founder of network malware security firm FireEye, to...
Just in time for the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, McAfee has released new research that points to a recent increase in mobile malware attacks. Additionally, nearly half of the operators who have been the recipients of mobile malware experienced an attack within the last three months, acc...
Details about the forthcoming Windows Mobile 6, a platform that has been code-named "Crossbow," have been leaked days before Microsoft's planned formal release at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The operating system will begin shipping on mobile devices worldwide by the second quarter.
Hackers on Tuesday launched a denial-of-service attack against at least three of the 13 root servers that maintain the Internet's domain name system. The attacks, which lasted for 12 hours, reportedly targeted the server that maintains the dot-org suffix, and the servers at the Department of Defense...
The government of India has asked Google to blur sensitive images of its military bases and offices that can be seen with its mapping application, Google Earth -- a source of concern to many government officials since at least 2005. Google has reportedly agreed to show fuzzy, low-resolution pictures...
Adobe Systems is moving to have its PDF Version 1.7 specification certified by the global standards setting body -- the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO. As the first step in what typically is a long process, Adobe will release the specs to the AIIM international document manag...
IBM has donated code to the Higgins Trust Framework Project that it could potentially develop into a tool to allow users to hide or make anonymous their personal information as they conduct business on the Web. Although a product release is about a year or more away, its potential is intriguing, esp...
The good news, according to a new recording industry report, is that record labels around the world registered $2 billion in digital sales last year -- either through music online or mobile phones -- nearly doubling the market in the previous year. The bad news is that these sales have not totally c...
A Northern California man was badly burned when his cell phone spontaneously combusted. The man was sleeping with the phone in his front pants pocket when it exploded and caused his clothes to ignite, according to reports, and he awoke in flames. He reportedly has second- and third-degree burns on a...
Consumers -- at least those that own either Motorola's new MotoRazr maxx V6 and MotoRazr V3xx devices -- are starting to download Yahoo's beta version of its Go For Mobile 2.0, which launched this week at the International CES. Key among the new features in this version is Yahoo's oneSearch search e...
More than half of all American teenagers network online, according to new research conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. In growing numbers, teenagers are using the Internet to form and maintain friendships, network and get advice and information about nearly any subject, accord...
Are you already breaking some of your New Year's resolutions? Don't fret -- just go to the Internet. You'll find a multitude of Web sites available to help people who have promised themselves that this is the year they will lose weight, quit smoking, adopt a greener lifestyle, get their finances in ...
A hacker who calls himself Muslix64 has Hollywood and music studios on edge this New Year's Eve weekend as they wait to see whether their latest digital rights management software standard will work as designed. Muslix64 has posted on the Internet the tools and title keys he said he has used to decr...
An application that Microsoft filed last year with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could be interpreted to give the software giant broad rights to RSS, or really simple syndication, technology. The possibility that Microsoft might wind up charging license fees for any RSS-type application has c...
Google upgraded its Blogger service from the beta that had been in place. The new Blogger is still only available to a select user group, with Google planning to make the upgraded version generally available in the future. Now, though, "New Blogger" -- as the application is called -- is only availa...
Nintendo is providing Wii users with a beta version of Opera's Web browser that has been specifically developed for Wii games and software. Wii's customer base -- a huge group, considering the product has been on the market for barely a month -- will be able to download the beta starting Friday in ...
Cingular and MySpace are teaming up to offer Cingular customers the ability to navigate social networking site MySpace from their devices. MySpace is one of the fastest-growing Web sites as well as among the most trafficked with more than 130 million user profiles. For US$2.99 a month, users will be...
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