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Microsoft is making greater portions of its Sender ID framework, a security standard designed to ensure that e-mails come from legitimate sources, available under its Open Specification Promise program. At one time, the standard -- which is used alone or in combination with others by most of the ma...
Yahoo has launched what it ambitiously calls the largest time capsule in the history of the world. It is encouraging people from around the globe to contribute personal photos, stories, thoughts, ideas, poems, home movies -- the flotsam of every day life, in other words -- to its site, timecapsule.y
MySpace.com may have been discovered and popularized by younger people, but adults over 25 years old comprise a surprising portion of its user base, according to new figures released by comScore's Media Metrix. According to the firm, visitors to MySpace.com and Friendster.com generally tend to be ol...
Today, search giant Google occupies a state-of-the art complex at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Calif. However, when the company was first founded in the late 1990s by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two recent Stanford grads had to make do with a garage that they reportedly rented for...
The Internet, a ubiquitous and essential fixture in just about every developed nation, is slowly but surely reaching into some of the world's most remote outposts -- courtesy of such companies as Intel, Cisco and Embratel. As part of World Ahead, a new initiative established earlier this year to bri...
For the second time in three years, Segway has issued a recall of its popular personal transporters, prompted by a series of injuries, some requiring hospitalization, that some riders have suffered when performing certain maneuvers. A software glitch is responsible for the defect. Specifically, th...
AT&T and MobiTV are now offering a mobile television service to broadband users. Called AT&T Broadband TV, it is available to subscribers of any broadband service. AT&T and MobiTV have already partnered to offer MobiTV's content to users of AT&T's WiFi hot spots; this new offering is...
Surprised by a rapidly building revolt brewing among its normally loyal customers, social networking site Facebook has agreed to offer users privacy options with its news feed tool. Introduced just last week, Facebook's news feed provides updates to members every time a change is made to a friend's ...
AOL is embracing third-party developers who would like to extend its AIM Phoneline service or build new products on the platform. The Dulles, Va.-based ISP plans to introduce new APIs to facilitate the creation of higher-end offerings for the Voice over IP service of its AIM instant messaging produc...
It is difficult to imagine the users of social networking site Facebook becoming protective about content they post on the Internet. After all, its user base is mostly Gen Y consumers who have grown up surfing the Web and think little of posting pictures of themselves or keeping readers -- both frie...
Continuing its quest to index all of the world's information online, Google has released Google News Archive Search, a service that offers a wide selection of previously published material, some of it dating back centuries. Articles that are already offered for free elsewhere on the Web will be avai...
Google has announced that it will comply with a Brazilian court's order to turn over data that could identify users of its social networking site, Orkut, who are suspected of illegal activities such as child pornography. A Brazilian judge hearing the case had threatened to levy a US$23,000 fine for ...
There is a new browser available for Internet users seeking a more private way to surf the Web -- a group that has suddenly become much larger in the wake of AOL's accidental disclosure of some members' search terms. Called Browzar, it has been launched by Ajaz Ahmed, founder of the Freeserve ISP in...
Computer hackers stole the credit card information and some personal data of approximately 19,000 customers who purchased DSL equipment via AT&T's online store. Subscribers to its service, though, were not affected. The company is offering credit monitoring services to customers who were affect...
Microsoft is preparing a patch for a vulnerability in its digital rights management application that is currently being exploited by a program circulating the Web. The program, called FairUse4WM, disables the DRM protections in Windows Media Player 10 and 11 files and has been used to access music p...
YouTube is exploring ways to monetize its traffic flow of 100 million downloads a day by launching a pay-for-play video advertising service. Its inaugural spot is a promotion for Paris Hilton's new album, "Paris." YouTube will feature one ad each day, which site visitors can rate and comment on in ...
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of Detroit has ruled that the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program -- uncovered by a media investigation some eight months ago -- is unconstitutional. Civil libertarians are hailing the decision as a major victory. The suit, brought by the Ameri...
Microsoft has released the beta of a desktop blogging application that it hopes users will use in conjunction with either Windows Live Spaces, its own browser-based blog application, or a third party application such as Blogger, LiveJournal, Typepad or WordPress. Microsoft is positioning the beta o...
In what appears to be a victory for plaintiffs, a decision was made last week to consolidate seventeen class action lawsuits against telecom providers that are cooperating with the U.S. government's widespread surveillance of its customers. These cases will be moved to the California federal court w...
Logitech and Skype have developed a new product to target Skype consumers who miss the sophisticated call features of their traditional, deskbound telecom systems but still want to use the Internet-based network. Named EasyCall Desktop, the product includes a mouse, headset and speakerphone. It als...
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