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Social networking is meeting an unfriendly visitor -- social engineering. Social engineering tactics -- scams that depend on user-interaction to execute an attack against them -- rose dramatically in 2006. Over the past 12 months, Internet users got a little savvier to fake e-greetings and breaking ...
In what marks one of the new year's first public relations blunders, Microsoft's move to buddy up with bloggers has backfired. The software giant recently gave dozens of expensive laptops loaded with its new Windows Vista operating system to bloggers. Instead of goodwill, the gesture generated conte...
An application that Microsoft filed last year with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could be interpreted to give the software giant broad rights to RSS, or really simple syndication, technology. The possibility that Microsoft might wind up charging license fees for any RSS-type application has c...
For all the talk about safety and security as a foundational promise of Windows Vista, Microsoft's new operating system, released to business users in late November, has already been found to contain several potentially serious vulnerabilities. A programming flaw, thought to be the first identified ...
Google upgraded its Blogger service from the beta that had been in place. The new Blogger is still only available to a select user group, with Google planning to make the upgraded version generally available in the future. Now, though, "New Blogger" -- as the application is called -- is only availa...
Opera Software on Thursday announced a deal with Samsung Electronics to deliver Opera Mobile on Samsung mobile handsets. Opera Mobile, the company's standards-compliant Web browser for advanced mobile phones, uses Opera's small screen rendering technology to reformat Web pages, and it allows users t...
There are only 10 days left in 2006, ample time to review -- and hopefully learn from -- past mistakes, including at least five policy blunders that should not have happened in California this year. For example, by preemptively classifying nanotech products as "hazardous materials," Berkeley politic...
Social networking is going mobile and is poised for spectacular growth over the next five years, according to a research report released Monday. The report from ABI Research predicts that mobile social communities will be attracting members in swarms, more than tripling in size worldwide from some 5...
Nintendo is providing Wii users with a beta version of Opera's Web browser that has been specifically developed for Wii games and software. Wii's customer base -- a huge group, considering the product has been on the market for barely a month -- will be able to download the beta starting Friday in ...
WebSense on Monday identified a Trojan horse that targets Skype IM users in what marks the latest in a series of instant messaging attacks this year. The security researcher first reported the attack as a self-propagating worm called "sp.exe." After a full day of investigation in cooperation with Sk...
Cingular and MySpace are teaming up to offer Cingular customers the ability to navigate social networking site MySpace from their devices. MySpace is one of the fastest-growing Web sites as well as among the most trafficked with more than 130 million user profiles. For US$2.99 a month, users will be...
Skype's founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, reportedly plan to launch a new Web-based broadband television service next year. The two have invested part of the US$2.6 billion they made from the sale of their VoIP company to eBay to develop the new service. Codenamed "the Venice Project," it ...
With buzz about Apple's rumored iPhone growing, Linksys, a unit of Cisco, on Monday announced new additions to its own iPhone product line. The company introduced a series of Web-enabled telephone handsets designed to work with Voice over Internet Protocol services. The new phone family lets users d...
Blogging has taken the Internet by storm over the past few years as part of the social networking phenomenon, but Gartner analysts predict that the number of community contributors will peak in the first half of 2007. Less than 2 percent of all Internet users are frequent content contributors, accor...
Microsoft on Tuesday opened a private beta of its new enterprise voice communications server to 2,500 IT professionals. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 allows companies to integrate Voice over Internet Protocol technology into existing telephony infrastructure. The software giant hopes t...
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