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The World Needs More Fuzzers

Javascript fuzzer used to discover Opera browser flaw; domain parking; another Nigerian 419 scam; more.

Microsoft Opens Its Office to the Internet

Microsoft today rolled out a new service for its Office suite that adds online collaboration features but still requires documents to be created and edited on the desktop.

Yahoo Upgrades Online Search Engine

Yahoo Inc. has retooled its online search engine to make it more helpful and engaging, joining an industrywide wave of improvements that so far haven't dented Google Inc.'s dominance.

Online Videos May Be Conduits for Viruses

Online videos aren't just for bloopers and rants -- some might also be conduits for malicious code that can infect your computer.

Google Boosts Corporate E-Mail Service

Google Inc. is sprucing up its corporate e-mail service by adding new security tools and more than doubling the storage capacity of e-mailboxes, underscoring the online search leader's ambition to enlarge its role in the business software market.

Microsoft Launches Health Records Site

Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site Thursday for managing personal health and medical information, jumping into an industry whose digital future is clouded by privacy worries.

Sample Non-English Domains Coming Soon

Sample addresses in nearly a dozen languages will be added to the Internet's central directories as early as next week, paving the way for Web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English.

Study: Google Gets Bulk of World Search

Around the world, Internet users are conducting about 1.4 million searches every minute _ most of them through Google Inc., a new comScore study estimates.

Microsoft Pulls One Fix From 'Patch Tuesday'

Microsoft rolled out six security bulletins on its "Patch Tuesday" today, one fewer than expected.

Rights Group Condemns China Net Controls

An international media rights group called on China to loosen controls on news and personal expression on the Internet, saying the country's system of censorship is an insult to the spirit of online freedom.

China Jails Woman for Internet Lies

Police in central China have jailed a 50-year-old woman for posing as a teenage rape victim on the Internet, an official and state media said Wednesday.

Agency Seeks To Quell Cell Phone Rumors

An e-mail warning consumers that cell phone numbers will soon be released to telemarketers is making the rounds again, and government officials have a key detail they'd like to add: it's totally bogus.

Distributed Computing Studies Get Google, IBM Support

Google and IBM are providing resources to universities focusing on Internet-scale application studies.

Microsoft Adds Web Invitation Tool

Microsoft Corp. has added a digital party-invitation service to its suite of Windows Live Web services.

HP Unveils Its SaaS Strategy

HP is offering its Business Technology Optimization solutions as both an on-premises installed solution and as a hosted solution delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS). The SaaS option is not well known, perhaps, but it's a growing part of HP's general software strategy.

YouTube Opens Taiwan Site

Google Inc.'s YouTube said Thursday it has launched a version of the video-sharing site in Taiwan in its latest push to expand in foreign markets.

IT Must Tackle 5 Trends, Analyst Group Says

The points of change cited by the research firm include Web 2.0-style apps, SaaS, global-class computing, "consumerization" of IT and open source.

Bank Heist via Malware

Hackers breach bank's site with barrage of exploits. Plus: unhealthy security policies and data-filled hard drives on eBay.

After 3Q Loss, EBay Reorganizes Skype

EBay Inc.'s Skype division has let down eBay executives, but they're confident they can reorganize the troubled Internet phone unit and make it more useful to people outside of the online marketplace.

Microsoft Adds Mobile Device Management to Lineup

Microsoft added a new server to its lineup today, this one aimed at the growing mobile technology market.

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