Court oversight of Microsoft Corp.'s market power, which began in 2002 after a landmark antitrust settlement, has been extended by 18 months.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/30/2008
After a more than week-long crash of a server hosting two of its inexpensive Web-based services, Strongspace and BingoDisk, Joyent is taking steps to address customer complaints following the outages -- and taking both applications open source.
Hoping to snap out of a financial malaise, Yahoo is preparing to lay off as many as 1,000 workers in the Sunnyvale-based company's biggest purge since it was scrambling to survive the dot-com bust seven years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/29/2008
With the seemingly exponential growth of Web 2.0 technologies, IT professionals in education -- and all other sectors, for that matter -- face new challenges as control over technology slips away and moves into the hands of users.
Anonymity systems may not be so anonymous, after all. Plus: Google and Symantec screw up; hacker gets jail time; village wants to digitally disappear.
Daum Communications Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Celrun Co. said Tuesday they were setting up a joint venture to offer Internet protocol television services in South Korea.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2008
Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/23/2008
After seven months as chief executive, Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang has concluded hundreds of employees will have to be fired to help the slumping Internet icon recover from years of misguided management.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/22/2008
Plus: SonicWALL exposes VPN; Microsoft kills 'kill switch'; ESPN sports bad code; more.
For the past 10 days, Sausalito, Calif.-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collaboration service, Strongspace, back online.
Browser-based attacks, bot vector incursions, targeted phishing, mobile hacking and insider espionage rank as top five security menaces for 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/18/2008
Privacy concerns stemming from online shopping rose in 2007, a new study finds, as the loss or theft of credit card information and other personal data soared to unprecedented levels.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/16/2008
European Union regulators investigating whether Microsoft is using monopoly powers to squeeze out competing Internet browsers and software rivals.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/14/2008
A flock of new-age tech powers -- Amazon.com, Google, eBay, Facebook -- want your developers to target their pieces of "the Cloud."
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/10/2008
Microsoft bids $1.2 billion for Norwegian search company to shore up search technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/09/2008
Microsoft, which has said for months that it fields the best enterprise search, is spending another billion to bolster that claim.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/08/2008
Before Boeing Co.'s new 787 jetliner gets the green light to fly passengers, the aircraft maker will have to prove that offering Internet access in the cabin won't leave the flight controls vulnerable to hackers and hijackers.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/07/2008
Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/29/2007
Patch Tuesday releases promise be a lot more interesting in 2008.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/28/2007
Firefox 3 Beta 2 hits in time for the holidays; Microsoft queues up IE 8 beta for first half '08.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/27/2007