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America Online switching spyware vendors
Sep 21 2005 5:42PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - America Online Inc. is switching the vendor it uses to protect its Internet access subscribers from spyware and other malicious threats, a move the company says will mean more comprehensive scans.
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Opera makes its browser free, with no ads
Sep 21 2005 5:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Opera Software ASA is now giving away its Web browser and removing ads in an effort to broaden its user base and capture revenues by referring traffic to search engines and e-commerce sites.
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Pamela Anderson dominates the Web
Sep 21 2005 5:27PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - In the decade since the Web's emergence, what have been people been looking for online? According to Lycos Inc., which offered one of the Web's earliest search engines, we've put this vast, powerful, revolutionary new communications medium to work in service of information about ... Pamela Anderson.
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U.S. to send teams to combat piracy abroad
Sep 21 2005 4:41PM (CT)
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) - The Commerce Department is sending teams of experts into countries known for piracy and counterfeit goods in an effort to combat intellectual property theft abroad, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Wednesday.
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Tool aims to ease academic file-sharing
Sep 21 2005 4:18PM (CT)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Researchers at Penn State and other universities have developed a tool to more easily share or search for large academic files _ using the principles most associated with trading music and movies illegally.
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TiVo users fear recording restrictions
Sep 21 2005 3:06PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Many fans of digital video recorders made by TiVo Inc. are beginning to fear that Hollywood studios will one day reach into their set-top boxes to restrict the way they record and store movies and programs.
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Court nixes some ads sent to cell phones
Sep 21 2005 9:37AM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona appellate court ruled Tuesday that a 1991 federal law's ban against using autodialers to call cell phones applies to sending e-mail text messages with unsolicited advertisements _ a technology not in vogue when the law was enacted.
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Qwest, Microsoft team for VOIP service
Sep 21 2005 9:30AM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Qwest Communications and Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday they are teaming up on an Internet-based telephone and communications service for small- and mid-sized businesses.
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British group wants debate on leap seconds
Sep 21 2005 9:04AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Hold on a second! Britain's Royal Astronomical Society on Wednesday called for a public debate on the proposed abolition of leap seconds, a tiny end-of-year adjustment to keep clocks in synch with the earth's rotation.
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