The U.S. economy has entered a vicious cycle where housing, employment and financial troubles are forcing consumers to tighten their purse strings and closely evaluate their every purchase. Retailers are also feeling the grip of a tightening economy as they compete aggressively for a diminishing num...
Just months after it decided to stop its legal battles against the landmark EU antitrust finding, Microsoft now finds itself facing new inquiries into claims that the software giant abused its market dominance. The European Commission is looking into accusations that Microsoft used its power in the ...
A group of states is asking the judge overseeing the 2002 antitrust judgment against Microsoft to extend portions of the sanctions and monitoring provisions for another five years. The six states -- California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Massachusetts -- as well as the District of Colu...
In a move heavy with symbolism, Sun Microsystems said Thursday it would change the ticker symbol under which its stock trades on the Nasdaq to "JAVA." Sun will replace its current ticker of SUNW with the new symbol, which is also the name of the widely used software for handling Web applications tha...
A federal judge in Boston is set to hear arguments this week in a case that accuses Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the code on which he built his massively popular Web site. The lawsuit could at least damage the young Web 2.0 entrepreneur's reputation, and at worst result in a Facebook...
Netscape, the browser company whose rise and fall helped define the first decade of the World Wide Web, is being revamped yet again by parent company AOL, which hopes to fashion it into a news site that leverages some of the hottest trends in today's Web -- social-networking, tagging and blogging. A...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the search company has no plans to develop its own browser, squelching long-simmering rumors that it would develop an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer but stopping short of ruling it out entirely. Speaking during a Webcast update with analysts on Wednesday, S...
Leet has grown to represent attitudes and subcultures that extend beyond the use of leet as a communication system. Leet is challenging traditional patterns of communication system growth and propagation. Its behavior is uniquely tech driven and tech enabled. New forms of leet are encouraged. L...
Microsoft may not change how RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are referred to in a still-in-development version of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, but the software giant's consideration of a name change has sparked a Web-wide debate about what to call the content feeds and whether a new mon...
Few analyst reports hit home as squarely as the recent Jupiter Research study on cookie deletion struck at the heart of the Web analytics industry. Released in March, the report said 39 percent of Web users acknowledged deleting cookies -- code stored on a user's hard drive so that a site they click...
America Online may have hit on the perfect way to get the name Netscape back into the midst of the browser wars with Netscape 8.0, unveiled today. At least one analyst has said that Web users should seriously consider switching to the browser, which has been in public beta testing since March. "In s...
The Firefox browser from the Mozilla Foundation has continued to gain market share and erode the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but there are signs the juggernaut might be losing steam. WebSideStory said Firefox now holds about 5.7 percent of the browser market. IE's share fell below 90...
In a move likely to spur more speculation about its overall strategy for expansion, Google has won approval to become a registrar of domain names. The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently granted Google registrar status, giving it permission to sell specific doma...
Speakeasy, a national broadband Internet service provider (ISP), said it will be the first to distribute a customized version of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser to its customers. The development was immediately being called significant because it stands to open up an entirely new distributi...
Rumors that Google is actively developing its own browser -- talk that Google downplayed last fall -- have gained new life as the leading search engine hired the engineer most responsible for development of the Firefox browser. Ben Goodger, the lead programmer of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox, wh...
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