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Bidding to one-up rival Google, Yahoo is rolling out enhancements to its Yahoo Mail search functions, enabling users to search attachments and e-mail text for specific words, phrases and photos Yahoo said the upgrade is an acknowledgement that many users are stuffing their mailboxes full of messages, an outgrowth of the race to provide nearly unlim...
Internet backbone provider 3Com announced a new voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) applications package aimed at connecting remote workers more efficiently and effectively through "converged communication networks." The company, which made the announcement at the VoiceCon conference in San Diego this week, said its IP Telecommuting module would al...
Microsoft made the first beta of its new file system available to the Microsoft Developer Network ahead of schedule. But analysts still have questions about the functionality of the program WinFS is a relational file system for Windows. Microsoft calls it an essential piece of its Integrated Storage strategy that bridges the gap between file system...
Publishers continue to line up in opposition to Google's ambitious efforts to digitize and make public the content of several major libraries, saying an olive branch recently extended by Google doesn't go far enough to assuage copyright concerns Within the past week, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and the Ass...
Will camera phones replace digital cameras for the average consumer? Not by a long shot, according to a new study from IDC. The study refutes what it refers to as a myth about the digital technologies and affirms the notion of peaceful co-existence between the two According to IDC's Mobile Imaging Survey, the myth is suspect at best, especially sin...
Although law enforcement officials have arrested two men they believe wrote the Mytob and Zotob worms, one security expert said there may not be much enterprises can do to stop such infections from striking again "There's little to learn," Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research, F-Secure, told TechNewsWorld about the lessons of the malware ...
How big of a problem is spam? The 2004 National Technology Readiness Survey estimated that spam costs the United States economy US$21.58 billion per year in lost productivity That estimate is based on the assumption that United States Internet users spend an average of three minutes sorting through and deleting spam every day they go online. It doe...
Universal Pictures has already started touting its US$150 million re-hash of "King Kong," due out around Christmas. But how will the mighty ape be kept safe from the Evil File Sharing Villains? High-speed Internet connections can mean huge, extremely fast downloads and, as a result, movie studios are now faced with the "same thorny challenges that ...
There is no doubt that technology -- e-mail, instant messaging (IM), Internet relay chat (IRC), virtual private networks (VPNs), encryption and more -- has made telecommuting, or more appropriately teleworking, more appealing for both workers and industry Employees looking to balance their own time and employers looking to get the best people where...
News syndication and Web logs are two of the hottest technologies on the Internet today Syndication commonly referred to as RSS or Atom, has become a significant vehicle for delivering news and analysis directly to information hounds and for sharing intelligence within corporations....
A new study says that eDonkey has become the most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) network for sharing video files, a sign file-swappers are changing tactics and technology amid a crackdown on unauthorized sharing of copyrighted material Cambridge, England-based CacheLogic said that P2P traffic makes up the majority of all data traveling among Internet s...
Have IBM and Hewlett-Packard outpaced Sun in the worldwide market for Unix servers? IDC declared it so on Friday, but Gartner's numbers tell a different story Generally speaking, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew at 5.6 percent year over year to US$12.2 billion in the second quarter of 2005, marking the ninth consecutive quarter o...
Although law enforcement officials have arrested two men they believe wrote the Mytob and Zotob worms, one security expert said there may not be much enterprises can do to stop such infections from striking again "There's little to learn," Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research, F-Secure, told TechNewsWorld about the lessons of the malware ...
Hoping to grab as many customers for its wireless broadband service before key competitors push into the market, Verizon Wireless cut monthly prices as it rolled the high-speed service out in several additional cities The price cuts of 25 percent drop the price of the service, known as BroadbandAccess, from US$79.99 per month to $59.99 per month fo...
In a move that expands its decade-old data storage management software portfolio, IBM on Friday announced a new application designed to continuously protect information -- on laptops, desktop PCs and file servers -- from viruses, file corruption or accidental deletion IBM is billing its Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files as a "data safety ...
With more than 40 million recently compromised credit cards available to fraudsters, merchants are faced with the challenge of preventing the use of these cards on their Web sites. What once was considered a rather insignificant cost of doing business online, has become a highly organized and profitable criminal endeavor. With worldwide credit card fraud surpassing US$2.5 billion last year alone, merchants must be prepared to fight off more fraud than ever...
In a series of columns this month, we started out by talking about the future of desktop computers, moved to laptops, and we'll conclude by talking about the future of convergence, or the melding of the PC and consumer electronics (CE) industries into what is hoped will be a compelling set of products for the home Let's start with a refresher on wh...
It has kept domain disputes involving huge companies and small profiteers known as "cybersquatters," as well as other Internet address disputes, out of court, but is the domain arbitration that is mandatory for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) domain registrants fair? Legal observers indicated the simple process, whereby ...
Sirius Satellite has announced a new portable player, touted as a wearable satellite radio that allows users to capture and store Sirius content as well as MP3 and WMA files The company -- which beams songs, talk and more via its satellite radio service -- said the Sirius S50 device was scheduled to be available in stores for US$350 in October....
An adult publisher that has sued Google and Amazon for copyright infringement is now pressing for an injunction to stop the companies from linking to unauthorized copies of its soft-porn images Perfect 10 has asked a court to set a Nov. 7 date for a hearing on its request for preliminary injunctions to stop both Google and Amazon's A9 search engine...
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