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A large part of the appeal of blogging is its simplicity. Setting up an account at one of the large blogging services like Blogger.com is as untaxing as filling in a few fields in an online form. As uncomplicated as blogging can be, however, once the bloom fades on its novelty, it can become a chore...
Internet users are under attack -- and what's more, there's no bulletproof defense against hackers on the horizon. Despite hype to the contrary from marketing departments at Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla, Web browsers themselves -- not just the operating systems that run them -- are to blame for many...
Browser maker Opera has released in Europe a specialized browser for the two-screen Nintendo DS handheld, touting features that let users comfortably browse the Web from either the DS or slimmer Nintendo DS Lite. Opera, which has decidedly set its sights on the mobile handset market with its Opera M...
In a growing digital media market that has witnessed YouTube carve out a niche for viral video, Blinkx is looking to make those videos easier to find online. The firm, which has indexed more than 6 million hours of audio, video and TV programming to make them searchable, announced this week that Mic...
MySpace.com may have been discovered and popularized by younger people, but adults over 25 years old comprise a surprising portion of its user base, according to new figures released by comScore's Media Metrix. According to the firm, visitors to MySpace.com and Friendster.com generally tend to be ol...
RealNetworks on Friday released an enhanced version of its Rhapsody digital music subscription service optimized for MP3 music players. The upgrade adds a more customizable user interface and an easier method for transferring music to portable players using a drag-and-drop feature. Rhapsody 4.0 also...
Fox is tapping its sister social networking site MySpace as an outlet for free downloads of some of its fall prime time series, including "Bones," "Prison Break," "Standoff" and "Vanished," when the shows are pre-empted by Major League Baseball games and the World Series on the network this fall. Th...
Cell phone worms and VoIP fraud are among the top 10 security threats to watch next year, according to a panel of experts assembled by the SANS Institute. The panel's findings were released Sunday at the SANS Network Security 2006 conference in Las Vegas. Cell phone worms will infect at least 100,00...
Microsoft on Tuesday released a security patch to fix a "critical" hole in its Internet Explorer Web browser. The patch repairs a vulnerability in IE's vector markup language component that could allow an attacker to take over control of a system without any user interaction. Microsoft confirmed th...
Changes are afoot in many enterprises as more and more of them switch from traditional voice connections to Voice over IP services. Market research firm Gartner found that three out of every four PBX lines sold in 2005 were VoIP links; that number is expected to grow to more than four out of every ...
Nokia on Tuesday announced new handheld devices that it said will blur the lines between the Internet world, mobility and the consumer electronics industry. Nokia's new Nseries multimedia phones combine connectivity with mobile technology, an approach that Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president and...
Worldwide shipments of hybrid set-top boxes -- boxes that combine a broadband connection with satellite TV reception -- will reach 50 million by 2011, according to a report from ABI Research. During that time frame, hybrids will represent 70 percent of all set-top box shipments in Europe and 45 perc...
Microsoft is contemplating a plan that would have it post online a free, ad-supported version of some of its productivity tools, a shift in strategy likely spurred by Google's entry into the same space. Though Microsoft has moved to make more of its software available online through its Windows Live...
As technology becomes a large part of many consumers' everyday lives, the risk of overexposure to new advances grows for people of all ages. Do you know someone who is far more concerned with blogging, pinging and surfing the Internet than with eating dinner, going to the big game or even watching T...
A week after Microsoft unveiled its so-called "iPod killer," Zune, the software giant has turned its attention to another potential competitor, YouTube. Microsoft on Tuesday announced the beta release of Soapbox on MSN Video, a user-uploaded video service that lets video enthusiasts upload and shar...
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