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In a plot twist reminiscent of a soap opera, domain registrar GoDaddy is throwing its support to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is being sued by dominant registrar VeriSign, the overseer of the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs). The web of alliances involved in the dispute is tangled. GoDaddy is not a n...
Michael Dell will relinquish the title of CEO at the company he founded in a dormitory room 20 years ago but will remain actively involved in day-to-day operations as chairman of the board, Dell Computer announced Thursday Longtime executive Kevin Rollins, who joined Dell full-time seven years ago, will take over as CEO. The company said the change...
Like a city corner that has fallen victim to the graffiti tag signs of rival gangs, the Internet has now become the basis of a war of words and worms between virus writers, who are unleashing virus variants to eat one another's work and spread to more computers The exchange among virus writers and the release of several variants taking part in the ...
Signaling its intention to remain a player amid the giants in the search engine battle, Ask Jeeves said it will acquire the parent company of the Excite Network of search engines for about US$343 million in cash and stock Ask Jeeves said the acquisition of privately held Interactive Search Holdings will provide an immediate boost to its earnings an...
An attempt to exclude evidence from a music piracy case seized in sweeping raids by the Australian recording industry has been rejected by a federal court judge The evidence was gathered February 5th by Music Industry Privacy Investigations (MIPI), the enforcement agent of Australia's recording industry, in court-ordered raids at 12 locations throu...
For years, Juniper Networks has been known as much for its desire to trump chief competitor Cisco as for its technology. With the company's recent acquisition of NetScreen Technologies, Juniper seems to have bought some clout that could make a difference in that fight. The US$3.4 billion NetScreen deal brings Juniper into the security and low-end corporate sectors, expanding its offerings and, potentially, its future market position.
The evolution of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags into a viable enterprise enabler is almost complete. The pressure put on suppliers by such companies as Wal-Mart and Tescos will, through commercial inertia and economies of scale, ensure the price of individual tags and associated readers and writers will come down to a level that is acceptable to more and more companies.
Want to know why most business analysts and venture capitalists simply don't get it with respect to Unix? Take a look at the computer books they study while working toward their MBA, financial analysis certificate or accounting designation, and you'll understand that their ignorance isn't entirely their fault Each of these professional qualificatio...
The number of broadband digital subscriber lines (DSL) connecting users to the Internet grew 78 percent worldwide last year to more than 63 million, according to research from Point Topic and the DSL Forum, a consortium of DSL companies China led the way and now holds the world's largest DSL market, with increases in North America -- which has more...
Key the words "free porn" into a search engine on your home PC. Most likely, you will obtain a list of more than 6 million URLs, the government's top lawyer said this week "Internet porn is persistent and unavoidable," Solicitor General Theodore Olson, the lawyer for the Bush Administration, in cases before the federal courts, told the U.S. Supreme...
In a reminder that the rising tide of technology recovery is not lifting all boats, Gateway said it will slash another 1,000 jobs over the next few months as it tries to bring its costs back in line with revenues. Gateway CFO Rod Sherwood said in a financial update that the company could have a total of just 5,500 employees within the next "few mo...
When the Internet first emerged into the mainstream, companies like Yahoo evolved rapidly from startups into successful corporations by helping users sift though mountains of information to find the data they needed. But as the Internet grew, many of those companies shifted their attention away from pure search technology to become what we now call portals...
They may not wear capes, carry futuristic laser guns or live in underground lairs, but members of Internet Security Systems' (ISS) X-Force team are accustomed to being summoned to work in the wee hours of the morning, on holidays and on weekends to fight crime and save the world -- or, at least, the business world as we know it ISS formed X-Force i...
To online file-traders, it is the original, pure file format for digital music. To the recording industry, it is a pirate ship that has been the basis for copyright violation and lost revenue. Regardless of what it once was and is now, the MP3 format is getting a facelift to include copy protection The move -- reportedly under way by MP3 patent hol...
A healthy balance between the interests of copyright creators and of users is key to fostering innovation in the Internet environment, according to a report published this week by the Committee for Economic Development The Washington, D.C.-based think tank, which is made up of senior business executives, warned in its report, entitled "Promoting In...
In a move apparently designed to quell fears about widespread outsourcing of U.S.-based tech jobs to other countries, IBM has established a US$25 million worker retraining fund The fund, dubbed the Human Capital Alliance, will be made available to IBM workers whose current positions or skill-sets are being outsourced to such places as India, Pakist...
The recent rush to adopt technologies for countering e-mail abuses like spam and phishing could pose a dangerous threat to freedom on the Internet "These proposals are extremely dangerous," Eric Johansson, a networking consultant for the TriArche Research Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told TechNewsWorld....
Touting findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project and other Internet use researchers, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has credited its controversial strategy of suing individual file-sharers with cutting the number of illegal trades in half Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking providers, meanwhile, point to courtroom af...
Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps recently lamented that "the Internet may be dying," but he might as well have said "the sky is falling." Indeed, Copps seems to see his position as one of two Democrats on the five-member commission as a reason to stir up fear, uncertainty and doubt. In a series of speeches on topics including the ...
Since the last U.S. presidential election, e-business has evolved from dot-com buzzword into thriving industry, and it is difficult to ignore its increasing impact on the world economic scene. As the 2004 presidential campaigns heat up, therefore, it seems logical to question where the leading candidates stand on this issue So far, however, George ...
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