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In the wake of yet another poor earnings report, Sun Microsystems on Monday announced that Scott McNealy is stepping down as the company's CEO. Effective immediately, Sun President Jonathan Schwartz will succeed him as CEO and will also retain the title of president. McNealy will continue serving as...

The United States is still the top spam-relaying country, but Asia could soon dethrone it as the spam king, a new study says. Sophos' latest "Dirty Dozen" report on the top 12 spam-relaying countries during the first quarter of 2006 concludes that the United States is still sending more spam than an...

Apple v. Does -- a case with broad implications for bloggers and journalists and their right to protect the confidentiality of their sources -- began on Thursday before a San Jose, Calif., appeals court. Apple Computer has sued several unnamed individuals, called "Does," for allegedly leaking inform...

Paramount Pictures and Microsoft on Wednesday entered into a partnership to push the movie studio's trailers into the software giant's Xbox Live service. Dubbed the Xbox Movie Showcase, the service will feature free, high-definition, downloadable content from two of the most highly anticipated films...

Amid controversy over digital download music prices, an Anglo-Italian band is making its own headlines -- and a bit of history -- by releasing Britain's first "mobile only" single. Planet Funk will release the single "Stop Me" on May 8 over mobile media company 3's network. Planet Funk is hopping on...

Google has gobbled up yet another technology -- this time from a computer science student Down Under. Google bought a new search algorithm created by Ori Allon, a 26-year-old Israeli Ph.D. student from the University of New South Wales in Australia. Allon patented a new way of exploring the Web that...

Microsoft is reviewing a lawsuit filed against it by Lucent Technologies. The suit alleges that Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console contains technology that infringes on a Lucent patent. Lucent filed the suit in the U.S. District Court in San Diego on March 28. The company is seeking an injuncti...

Netflix on Tuesday filed a patent infringement suit against Blockbuster alleging the bricks-and-mortar movie rental chain illegally copied its ideas. Netflix is seeking a court order that would force Blockbuster to change its online rental processes and pay patent royalties. The complaint was filed ...

In response to advertising industry concerns over Internet security, MySpace.com has removed 200,000 "objectionable" profiles from its social network. The site erased profiles containing risque or hate speech content. Ross Levinsohn, president of MySpace parent company News Corp.'s Internet division...

The TiVo v. EchoStar Communications patent trial officially began on Wednesday. Now it's up to a Texas jury to decide whether the satellite TV giant stole TiVo's technology that allows viewers to skip commercials. In a case that could have stock market and cable television industry repercussions, Ti...

StreamCast Networks has filed suit against Skype and Kazaa in a U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, claiming copyright infringement violations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, otherwise known as the Rico Act. StreamCast is alleging that it owns the...

In direct competition with TiVo, Cablevision Systems on Monday announced a planned trial of a remote storage digital video recorder service. It will allow customers to record and store programs in a dedicated space within Cablevision's head-end facilities, using existing digital set-top boxes. Using...

You know that half the money you are spending on Internet advertising is wasted -- you just aren't sure which half. You've read about Web analytics and have played with the free tools that come from your Web hosting solution, but you realize you need more. The only problem is, there are more than 60...

Microsoft on Monday filed an appeal with the Seoul High Court to review the decision in the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) case against the software giant. The decision would force the firm to unbundle its Windows Media Player and MSN Messenger instant messaging service from its market dominant ...

If you are like millions of other Americans, you made money peddling products on eBay last year. Many earned enough to enjoy a night on the town. Others collected enough to go on their dream vacation. Still others made a living selling widgets at the online auction site. Regardless of whether you ma...

PayPal is going mobile. The online payments giant is gearing up to launch a service that would allow its customers to make purchases or money transfers using simple text messaging on their mobile phones. Dubbed PayPal Mobile, the service is currently only available to the eBay unit's employees for ...

In move to cater to the growing demand for high performance multimedia PC products, Dell on Wednesday announced plans to acquire high-end PC maker Alienware. Recognized by Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States, Alienware is best known in the consumer market fo...

More and more companies are jumping into the Web analytics arena. In fact, Jupiter Research estimates the size of the Web analytics market will reach US$565 million in 2006. Choosing a Web analytics firm, however, is not merely a matter of brand name or even price. There are three distinct options i...

In the wake of a string of high profile data breaches reported by banks, retailers and credit card companies, a U.S. House panel on Thursday approved a bill drafted to protect consumers from identity theft and credit card fraud. The House Financial Services Committee cleared the Financial Data Prote...

High-speed chip interface designer Rambus on Friday said it has signed a technology licensing agreement with IBM. The agreement allows IBM to building Cell Broadband Engine processors and companion chips using Rambus' technology. IBM is licensing Rambus' FlexIO processor bus and XDR memory interface...