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The Federal Trade Commission is mulling a plan to target companies that advertise through adware and spyware, hoping to shame those companies into discontinuing the practice. That approach would use economics to curtail the spread of spyware and adware -- programs that are installed on a users' comp...
AOL and Yahoo will soon roll out a new program to charge advertisers for guaranteed access to users' e-mail boxes. It's not the perfect spam-fighting program that some would have hoped for, but those critiquing the plan on free speech and other grounds are out to lunch. The reason most people's inb...
The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was just three years ago. So says Technorati, a firm that tracks 27.2 million Web logs, or blogs. The firm's latest report indicates that the blogosphere continues to double about every five and half months. In fact, Technorati's "State of the Blogosp...
IBM is trying to prove that its powerful, multi-tasking Cell computer chip is not just about fun and games. The company, whose Cell chips will be incorporated into the next-generation PlayStation 3 from Cell collaborator Sony, announced this week a new family of blade computing systems -- thin, ligh...
Significant concentrations of the Blackworm virus remain in Peru, India and the United States -- currently infecting about five percent of the world's PCs overall -- though the coordinated "disinfection" of most enterprise PCs was successful, according to new research provided to TechNewsWorld. The ...
Dell on Wednesday said it is in the testing stage of a program to load Google's search and other branded software onto new Dell PCs. While Google has repeatedly denied rumors of its supposed plans to market hardware of its own in the future, the company joined with Dell to affirm that a deal is inde...
In a move to round out its Information Lifecycle Management strategy, HP on Tuesday signed a definitive agreement to acquire a provider of archiving software for enterprise applications and databases. HP will purchase OuterBay for an undisclosed amount. OuterBay's Application Data Management Suite, ...
Intel and AMD are duking it out again, this time putting the additional processor cores and capabilities they've built into hardware to deliver virtualization -- the running of multiple operating systems and applications on processors that are virtually carved up to carry the load. Intel this week a...
Did Recording Industry Association of America spokesperson Jonathon Whitehead switch the names of two completely different P2P applications in a deliberate bid to fool a court hearing a P2P file-sharing case? The question is raised in an affidavit presented in the latest stage of Atlantic Recording ...
Mark Twain once said that the rumors of his death had been "greatly exaggerated." The same can be said for the desktop PC. Sleek laptops are certainly sexier than bulky desktops, but recent research proves that small businesses need both to create a more efficient and productive office. With the exp...
Intel and AMD are duking it out again, this time putting the additional processor cores and capabilities they've built into hardware to deliver virtualization -- the running of multiple operating systems and applications on processors that are virtually carved up to carry the load. Intel this week a...
Changes to some versions of the Office productivity suite may affect more businesses than originally believed, as Microsoft revises certain versions of the software to address a patent ruling. Microsoft warned of the upcoming switch last month, saying that corporate customers who move existing softw...
In the midst of Google's battle with the U.S. government to keep its users' search records private, British Telecom on Tuesday reported some disturbing figures about child pornography online. While the Bush Administration seeks to revive an online pornography law struck down by the U.S. Supreme Cour...
IBM has won a key ally in its quest to turn around the fortunes of its PowerPC processor, which suffered last year when Apple announced it would use Intel chips instead in its machines. Freescale Semiconductor, which helped develop and proliferate the Power platform, has become the latest company to...
A maker of software to manage music CD copying has agreed to make its protection scheme less vulnerable to computer crackers. After the Electronic Frontier Foundation released an open letter raising security concerns about the MediaMax application, its developer, SunnComm Technologies, announced it ...
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