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Microsoft announced today that it has filed nine new lawsuits against alleged spammers, including a Web-hosting company that offered services specifically for people who send unsolicited mail. The suits are part of a larger effort by Microsoft to target the perpetrators of spam. With this batch, fil...

In a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, officials from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names are hammering out details for self-rule in an effort to separate itself from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The ICANN group, which is responsible for coordinating the Internet's naming and numbering systems, h...

A new consortium called the Trusted Electronic Communications Forum (TECF) has brought together top companies in the financial and technology industries to tackle phishing and spoofing attacks aimed at stealing personal information. Phishing and spoofing are a kind of bait-and-switch often used for ...

Hitachi and NEC announced Friday that they are joining forces to develop routers and switches for networks of telecommunications carriers, government and public sectors, and large enterprises. The joint venture will be formally established in October. The router market is currently dominated by Cisc...

From the Sasser worms to phishing attacks, the Internet has been crawling with malware this year. Fortunately, there are people like Ken Xie who are ready to fight the good fight. As founder, president and CEO of network-protection firm Fortinet, Xie has seen more than his share of the techno-enemy....

At its customer conference this week, Hewlett-Packard announced that it will expand its partner program, as well as add new products, to spark sales of its OpenView management software. OpenView is a suite of products for corporate network management, and is considered to be the core of the company'...

One of the great promises of the Internet has always been that it can bring people together, no matter their location or technology. Social network sites like Friendster, Orkut and LinkedIn are making this promise into a reality every day by attracting millions of members that spend hours chatting w...

In the U.S. government's case to block Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft, the federal judge overseeing the proceedings has pushed for both sides to make more information public, and has taken an active role in questioning witnesses. In the case's first week of testimony, Judge Vaughn Walker told l...

Antibiotech demonstrators faced off against police outside of the Bio 2004 conference on Tuesday in San Francisco. The confrontation resulted in 150 arrests, most resulting from demonstrators refusing to disperse from a busy intersection. The demonstrators crowded the streets around the Moscone Conv...

Microsoft vowed Tuesday to appeal the recent European Union antitrust ruling that orders the company to modify its business practices, make product changes and pay a hefty fine. On Monday, the company delivered an application to annul the EU's decision to the European Court of Justice. After a five-...

In the midst of Oracle's trial to defend its takeover bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle will disclose merger talks between SAP and Microsoft. In a statement, Microsoft revealed Monday that in late 2003, it approached SAP to discuss the viability of a merger. After months of discussion, it became clear that...

Microsoft has announced that it will ask a European court to suspend parts of the European Commission's March 24th ruling, which ordered the company to change its business practices and pay a fine of US$612 million. In the ruling, the commission mandates that Microsoft must strip Media Player softwa...

A virus that was first seen on May 22nd has been worming its way across the Internet, stealing personal information in the process. Dubbed "Korgo," the worm exploits the same vulnerabilities and spreads in the same way as the Sasser worm that caused havoc last month. Although the virus is not yet wi...

Social networking pioneer online service Friendster has tapped former NBC entertainment president Scott Sassa as its CEO, replacing interim CEO Tim Koogle. Friendster gave Koogle the reins in March, three years after he had stepped down as CEO of Yahoo and was replaced by Hollywood studio executive ...

When Mel Karmazin on Tuesday announced that he had resigned his position as president of Viacom, the media giant responded by appointing Tom Freston and Leslie Moonves as co-presidents and co-chief operating officers, effective immediately. The two new appointees were Viacom's two most influential d...

The Chinese government is establishing a committee that will review online games and censor them if it finds questionable content. The review will take place before the games are made available, so subscriptions will never be sold if the committee does not render approval. Objectionable material, ac...

Symantec has reported it has analyzed a virus capable of attacking 64-bit Windows files. The virus, W64.Rugrat.3344, is the first known threat to 64-bit systems. According to Symantec, Rugrat is simply a proof-of-concept virus -- the kind usually written by "white hat" hackers and given to security ...

Yahoo has announced it will add a feature to its Web browser toolbar that allows users to easily remove spyware programs from their computers. Called Anti-Spy, the feature is currently in beta. Yahoo will be collecting feedback from beta users and intends to utilize that information to produce the f...

At its eWorld customer conference Tuesday, BEA Systems introduced new products and services that support Liquid Computing, an initiative that builds on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) foundation. Formerly named Project Sierra, Liquid Computing's goal is to improve interoperability between BEA ...

At its TechEd conference Monday, Microsoft announced several tools and technologies aimed at developers and other IT professionals, including an expansion of the Visual Studio line, an add-on to .NET and a beta release of a developer tool called the Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework. Sin...