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Webroot Software, a provider of anti-spyware software and other security technologies for consumers and enterprises, announced today that it has secured a US$108 million investment from a syndicate of top venture capital firms to be used largely to expand its enterprise business and its international reach The investors include Technology Crossover...
We've come a long way, baby! Indeed, e-commerce has evolved from online billboards to a fully functional, personalized shopping experience over the past decade. While there were admittedly a few bumps along the road, the path from 1994 through the 2004 holiday shopping season is full of crucial milestones of Internet pioneers and technology innovat...
2005 will see two big waves of new laptop computers. The first, based on Intel's new Sonoma platform, rolled in last week. The second, based on AMD's new Turion processor, is still several weeks off Sonoma is the code name for Intel's Centrino bundle, which remains one of the most effectively sold concepts from that company in some time. This rec...
Uploaders to eDonkey.com, Bit Torrent and other file-sharing networks beware: The commercial equivalent to Big Brother is watching you BayTSP, a leading provider of online intellectual property monitoring and compliance systems, last month began offering a service aimed at software, movie and music pirates. FirstSource is an automated system that i...
Spamhaus, an authoritative force against the unwantede-mail that accounts for more than half of all mailsent on the Internet, sounded an alarm this week overthe problem of Internet service provider (ISP) e-mailrelays being used by spammers The so-called "proxy" spam -- which is sentby machines compromised by malicious software,sometimes without com...
Bill Gates has taken another jab at Linux in an e-mail to customers publishedon Microsoft's Web site Thursday in which he sings the praises of software interoperability and hiscompany's ability to provide it "Open source is a methodology for licensing and/or developing software --that may or may not be interoperable. Additionally, the open sourcede...
The latest worm to wriggle its way around the Web is spreading as quickly as an instant message. A new variant of Bropia, first discovered by Symantec on Jan. 19, has mutated and is whipping around the Internet via MSN Messenger communications Several antivirus companies, including Trend Micro, Symantec, Secunia and F-Secure, have all labeled the w...
Well, we have yet another definition to add to our technology lexicon: click hijacking. With the advent of powerful and profitable search engines, like Google, Internet schemers have come up with yet another way to illegally make a buck This article looks at this new phenomenon, what gave rise to it, how it works and what companies are doing to pr...
What makes channel, sales and service partnerships messy? Contracts, lots of them, for office leases, for equipment, even to prove the partnerships' existence to local, state and national governments Problems coordinating all these commitments -- buried in contracts that are stuffed into filing cabinets and forgotten -- cost companies millions of d...
This year will see many important battles in the communications industry, one of which is currently playing out in the Virginia state legislature. On one side are cable companies and on the other telecommunications firms, but both sides should realize they have a common goal. If they do, and work together, everyone will benefit, including consumers. The immediate controversy involves municipal franchise fees...
The landmark settlement between class action plaintiffs and 10 former WorldCom directors fell apart yesterday after a federal judge rejected a key aspect of the deal. Directors had agreed to pay US$54 million, including $18 million of their own money, to settle the suit U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York, presiding...
Napster has unveiled its new "To Go" technology, calling it the first, portable music subscription service, and it is backing the effort with a US$30 million multimedia marketing campaign aimed at biting away at Apple's dominance in the music download space Napster, which is a legitimate song-swapping service using the outlaw original peer-to-peer...
In an ongoing battle to keep software patents out of Europe, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament has voted unanimously to restart the legislative process and request a rewrite of the European Commission's proposed Computer Implemented Inventions Directive The decision yesterday is a boon for software patent opponents but a setbac...
Bidding to keep its edge in the rapidly evolving search space, Yahoo has started to test what it calls a "contextual" search function aimed at helping users find more relevant results The service, known as Y!Q, is now available in beta form. Users can download a "demo bar" from Yahoo and also use the feature on the Yahoo News site....
Once thought of as the next big thing in the technological evolutionary chain, hand-held devices are quickly being elbowed out of the market by smarter mobile phones that bear many of the same features A report from market research firm IDC said sales of hand-held devices have fallen for four straight quarters and dropped nearly 19 percent in the f...
Federal regulators launched a two-prong attack this week on the US$200 million diploma mill industry, an industry populated with online enterprises where students can purchase a degree with minimal or no course work The first prong was spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), which keyed up a searchable, online database of educational...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will use RFID chips on a trial basis to track the arrival and return of visitors from abroad. The testing phase, which will begin this spring and is expected to last one year, will occur at selected points of entry across the U.S., and it will complement the current U.S.-VISIT scheme The U.S.-VISIT sch...
Some friends of mine are considering setting up a new company around an e-commerce idea and asked me to research the cost of the IT infrastructure needed. As part of that, I went Web shopping for a low end server to get them started, and found some surprises Note that all pricing data shown below is from the Apple, Sun, Dell, IBM, and Red Hat Web s...
The Princeton Review is aiming to simplify the college admissions process with a free online tool designed to help students find the right college. Simultaneously, for a fee, colleges can search for students who match their needs and specialties The New York-based publisher and provider of test preparation services says the service is similar conce...
Microsoft has announced that it will share information on security-related issues in its software with government agencies using its products Through the Security Cooperation Program, Microsoft will provide early warnings of security threats to participating agencies and alert them about security updates in advance. The company also said it wants t...
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