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AOL's accidental release of search term queries made by its members over the course of three months -- many of which were specific enough to identify actual users -- is bound to cause trouble for the search engine industry in Washington. Privacy advocates have already starting calling for stricter c...
Google is issuing warnings to Web surfers when they are about to click on a Web site that could be hiding malware able to infect their computer. Google has launched this initiative as part of its partnership in StopBadware.org, a malware clearinghouse established by Harvard Law's Berkman Center for ...
Microsoft is steadily advancing its plan to make Windows Live an entertainment and communications hub with its rollout of Windows Live Spaces. The next generation of the company's blogging service, it now focuses heavily on social networking. Microsoft is approaching the concept of social networks a...
Microsoft is going to start charging users who download its Office 2007 Beta 2 version US$1.50, starting August 2. The application, which has been downloaded by some 3 million people over the last two months, has been available for free. Microsoft said it was surprised by the interest in beta 2 and ...
Kazaa, an Australia-based peer-to-peer Web site that managed to elude the legal reach of the music recording industry for many years, has agreed to an out-of-court settlement of US$100 million. Owner Sharman Networks also agreed to prohibit illegal file sharing on the Kazaa network going forward. In...
Google has launched a new service for the visually and learning impaired designed to make search easier by ranking search results according to how clean, or easy-to-read the Web pages are. Called Accessible Search, Google's latest tweak to its search engine comes out of Google Labs. According to its...
Microsoft announced it has filed 26 lawsuits against alleged dealers of illegal software. These suits are more than double the number of cases Microsoft has filed on any one day -- in fiscal year 2006 it filed 10 cases at one shot. The suits represent the launch of Microsoft's latest and, it says, ...
The blogsphere is buzzing with a report made by a Skype competitor -- who also helpfully provided screenshots illustrating the event -- that Skype's protocol has been cracked by a Chinese engineering team. Charlie Paglee, head of VoIP provider Vozin Communications, claims in his blog, that a team at...
The Department of Homeland Security is testing a new digital emergency system that, once implemented, will deliver alerts to any device that can receive a text message. It is expected to go into effect by the end of 2007 after testing, largely carried out through its partnership with the Association...
The minute he heard someone use "I googled him" in a sentence, Robert Beard, president of Lexiteria, knew the word was likely to be a keeper. "It's a very good sign," he told TechNewsWorld, "when a word assumes its own characteristics. When it expands or contracts in meaning, for instance, it has a ...
Two class action lawsuits are targeting Windows Genuine Advantage, one of Microsoft's initiatives to stem the massive piracy of its applications. Both suits claim that WGA, which is just a year old, functions essentially as spyware on licensed Microsoft users' PCs in violation of California and Wash...
A post made to Microsoft's blog, IT BlogWatch, indicates the company is quietly abandoning WinFS, its once-heralded search and data management technology for Vista. It is not a stretch to say the blog posting was more an exercise in public relations spin than an informative read. "As most people wh...
Novell has fired its CEO and CFO after several quarters of anemic growth during which its main competitor, Red Hat, has grown significantly. Novell's Board of Directors has replaced CEO Jack Messman, who has been with the company for decades, with chief operating officer and president Ron Hovsepian,...
A group of high-tech companies including Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, eBay, Google, Sun Microsystems, HP and Symantec have formed the Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum with the goal of promoting the adoption of a nationwide privacy law. At this early juncture, there are few specific tenets the Legisla...
U.S. District Court Judge James Brady in Baton Rouge has granted a temporary stay on a new Louisiana law signed last week that would outlaw the sale of violent video games to children under 18. The request for a stay was made by two industry organizations -- the Entertainment Software Association an...
Google has updated its Google Earth product, a satellite-based mapping application, with a Linux version that includes language capabilities in French, Italian, German and Spanish and -- perhaps of most interest to its millions of users --- a huge influx of new data images. The application, which ha...
Google is getting ready to launch a test version of an online spreadsheet similar to Microsoft's Excel program. Google Spreadsheets is a Web-based application that is still in the early stages of development, offering simple functionality in two common spreadsheet and data formats, Excel and C.S.V.
Internet telephony company Net2Phone has sued VoIP vendor Skype in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, alleging patent infringement of what appears to be almost its entire operating system. There is also a reference in the suit to John Doe defendants, which is unusual in a patent infringement cas...
eEye Digital Security has discovered a critical vulnerability in Symantec's antivirus enterprise software -- a remotely exploitable flaw that provides system level access to affected machines. Following expected protocol for such discoveries, eEye notified Symantec on Wednesday evening, Mike Puterba...
The Internet domain registry that sought to create a .xxx extension for pornographic Web sites is giving the effort one more try despite the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' recent denial of its request in a 9 to 5 vote. ICM Registry has asked for a reconsideration by ICANN. It a...
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