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Blogging, and how to keep your job
News Delta Air Lines, Friendster, Google, Microsoft and Waterstone's have all reportedly fired employees or contractors over the content of their online journals. Friendster, Google, Microsoft and Waterstone's also have waved goodbye to employees or...
[March 9, 2005, 13:30]
Will the real Eminem CD please stand up?
News Although pirated versions of the album were widely acknowledged to be online in MP3 format, Gracenote's figures look only at physical CDs, not downloads played on a computer. Gracenote maintains a huge online database that can identify CDs by...
[May 29, 2002, 10:30]
Real competitors could go for gold
News In the next month, a wave of new services offering music, videos and games will break onto the Net, sticking a price tag on products many consumers are used to getting for free online. In addition, distributing content online has so far proven...
[November 21, 2001, 12:16]
AMD-Intel balance unchanged by EU fine
News But its legacy arguably lives on: the company is exercising some self-restraint when it comes to how strongly it promotes its online services through widely used products such as Windows and Internet Explorer, and it's not because Microsoft doesn...
[May 14, 2009, 9:56]
Nokia invests in Mozilla mobile browser
News The Nokia funding comes to light 11 months after Time Warner subsidiary America Online spun off the troubled open-source development project as a not-for-profit with $2m in seed money. It agreed to use IE with its online service (though it...
[June 18, 2004, 16:40]
Sun steers clear of computing slump
News Sun announced earlier Thursday that its partnership with America Online has led the online service to purchase products and services worth $400m if purchased at retail, a significant addition to the $500m worth of equipment it agreed to buy in 1998.
[January 19, 2001, 8:19]
Denial-of-Service: How big is this threat?
News Icebergs" aside, although many are quick to downplay the significance of cybercrime -- pointing out that most "crimes" are juvenile hackers looking for thrills on the Internet -- recent events have underscored the uniqueness of online crime.
[April 5, 2000, 13:20]
Privacy groups turn up heat on Windows XP, Passport
News Based on a review conducted by the Center for Media Education (CME), the groups concluded that Kids Passport does not comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Passport is Microsoft's online authentication system that is...
[August 16, 2001, 8:50]
The future is broadband, says Microsoft
News But these generally cost more than twice as much as ordinary dial-up Net access, and to date there has been little content online that has justified this extra expense. The Xbox gaming console system will be set up with the ability to play games...
[July 25, 2001, 9:36]
Proxy servers boost spam
News Joe Jared, who runs the blocklist Relays.osirusoft.com and owns OsiruSoft Research & Engineering, said that just about every ISP, including America Online, has open proxies on their network. Graham added that the issue is "most relevant to other...
[September 23, 2002, 11:31]
Covert P2P network fails to hide users
News Freenet is an open-source project and is the most prominent of a growing number of projects aimed at giving people the ability to communicate online without being tapped, traced or monitored. Among other charges, the older man is accused of sharing...
[December 3, 2003, 14:25]
Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
News We've said that having the music platform there is just part of the overall online relationship that we want to have with these customers. So the variety story is an important one for us; it uses our rights management format and supports a...
[January 6, 2005, 12:20]
AOL saga opens old dot-com wounds
News In October 2000, online retail giant Amazon came under informal inquiry by the SEC for deals in which it traded advertising for equity. Barter deals are not illegal if they follow rules outlined by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB...
[August 13, 2002, 14:25]
BT engineers assist tsunami relief effort
News The DEC would urge people to donate online if they have the choice," said Brendan Gormley, chief executive of the DEC, on Friday. All donations are of course welcome but online donations reach us immediately thanks to the support of BT who...
[January 4, 2005, 14:00]
Apple may buy Universal Music
News At the same time, the music unit that resulted would likely be the most aggressive in terms of moving its content online. Leigh said that online sales are the key to a recovery for the music industry, which has seen flat or declining CD music sales...
[April 14, 2003, 8:02]
FBI investigating new Web attack
News Last week, a 15-year-old Canadian boy -- who called himself "Mafiaboy" online -- was arrested by law enforcement agencies from the United States and Canada. The charged him with the Denial-of-Service attack on CNN's online site in February.
[April 26, 2000, 8:18]
Low Countries speed ahead of Broadband Britain
News Net telephony, online games and home networking are some of the key drivers of this growth. At the end of 2003, broadband in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom reached only 13 percent to 15 percent of homes -- half the level of smaller markets...
[May 27, 2004, 10:55]
'Phone number' Internet addressing gains support
News Theoretically, online users can access a person's contact information, including their email address, simply by typing in the person's phone number in the Internet address field of the Web browser. Enum is designed to accelerate the convergence of...
[August 14, 2003, 11:15]
Norton AntiVirus: The readers strike back
Talkback I have a variety of NIS versions installed on three networked PC's - I got used to how they all work by reading the online manuals when stuck.it's like wading through glue) United Kingdom +44 (0)20 7616 5600
[April 18, 2005, 19:21]
CIOs bullish about hiring in 2005
News Online ads for tech jobs have increased, IT services companies have been hiring and analysts are warning companies to take steps to retain prized workers as the job market tightens. Chief information officers in the United States and Europe plan to...
[November 24, 2004, 13:10]
