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Federal rules crafted to curtail "adult entertainment" sites will not be enforced against sites involved in litigation against the government until after Labor Day, according to a temporary agreement reached by the U.S. Department of Justice and Web site producers. The proposed regulations, amendmen...
RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication, but for technologists with an eye on the Internet's future, it stands for much, much more. The technology provides a way for people to opt to have information delivered to their computer desktops without having to burn time surfing the Web. Although around for...
Months after Yahoo released a toolbar designed specifically for the Mozilla Firefox browser, Google has followed suit. The beta version of the toolbar was released today. The Internet Explorer version of the search engine company's toolbar has been out for four years. This is the first software prod...
E-mail authentication -- considered by many spam fighters as an important first step in reducing unsolicited correspondence on the Internet -- will be the focus of a summit conference to be held in New York City next Tuesday. The day-long confab at the Marriott Marquis will be moderated by Esther Dy...
The battle over the nominee to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is already roaring -- on the Internet. An array of sites -- from the left and the right -- have already sprouted online, touting the views of their sponsors, and claiming that the nomination is the most im...
As the use of instant messaging for business and consumer purposes grows, so does the allure of writing malware targeting IM. A study released yesterday by IMlogic, which sells IM security products, reported that the number of attacks on IM systems jumped dramatically during the second quarter. The ...
Beijing has officially joined international efforts to fight spam. The Chinese government yesterday adopted the London Action Plan on International Spam Enforcement Collaboration. The purpose of the Action Plan is to promote international spam enforcement cooperation and address spam-related problem...
Apple is turning podcasting into an everyday activity for the average person. The iPod maker said it will program everything users need to discover, subscribe, manage and listen to podcasts into iTunes 4.9, the latest version of its digital music software and online music store. "Apple is taking pod...
Google has formally launched its 3D mapping and imagery technology, contained in a service called Google Earth, a name that seems to fit the search company's global ambitions. Based on the Keyhole technology Google acquired earlier this year, Google Earth uses satellite-based maps to create three-di...
Apple is turning podcasting into an everyday activity for the average person. The iPod maker said it will program everything users need to discover, subscribe, manage and listen to podcasts into iTunes 4.9, the latest version of its digital music software and online music store. "Apple is taking pod...
Matt Drudge may be the world's most famous blogger, having outed former President Clinton and his pudgy paramour Monica Lewinsky online. His successors on the Internet made blogging a political force during last year's presidential election, and may have helped George W. Bush retain the White House ...
Microsoft announced Friday that its long-in-the-works Longhorn will enable RSS (really simple syndication) feeds. "The fact that they're announcing it now, keeps them in the news," Laura DiDio, senior analyst, Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It keeps users, developers and competitors very well aw...
The adoption earlier this month of a new e-mail security technology by e-commerce merchant Amazon.com, Internet service provider RoadRunner and Internet security firm IronPort Systems signals what industry watchers say might be the start of a trend that will harden e-mail from phishing and spamming ...
Phishers could exploit a vulnerability in several popular Web browsers, according to a report from security research firm Secunia. The flaw would allow cybercriminals to steal personal information from its victims. Specifically, malicious Web sites could spoof pop-up boxes in Internet Explorer for b...
Identity theft from phishing and pharming attacks is one of the biggest problems computer users face. It can take ID theft victims four or five years to repair the damage, according to financial consultants. "The most prevalent ID theft threat is the phishing attack, and it is getting worse. Attacks...
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