Firms looking to optimise their wide area networks (WANs) should make a short-term investment in external units now rather than waiting for the next version of Windows Server, an analyst has claimed.

A Canadian company on Wednesday announced a new camera that functions as both a Webcam and a security system that scans a face in three dimensions.

A Web browser that promises to help the user surf to explicit Web sites bundles malicious software, a researcher has warned.

Yahoo will begin offering unlimited storage for its free Web-based e-mail in May, the company announced late Tuesday. The move makes Yahoo the first of the major free e-mail providers to offer unlimited storage, but it likely will not be the last.

Google is grappling with performance and availability problems in its free Gmail service for at least the third time this month

A Denver start-up has come up with a way for internet service providers to offer customers a phishing shield and make some money doing it.

Yahoo is expanding its mobile offerings so that companies can make money on the content they serve up to mobile devices and so even sites that aren't optimized for mobile browsing can be displayed on handheld devices.

Study finds that 80 percent of all malicious code are supplied through online ads.

Carrier names WiMax device makers, further WiMax expansion plans, and a name for its TV-phone-wireless service.

A new variant of a well-known Trojan horse virus is spreading through Skype's instant-messaging network, a security company has warned.

WASHINGTON, DC--Software makers are at the mercy of bug hunters when it comes to flaw disclosure, Mozilla's security chief said Saturday.

Congress' efforts to muzzle pornography on the Web were dealt another serious setback on Thursday, when a federal judge ruled a 1998 law was unconstitutional and violated Americans' First Amendment rights.

Yahoo has promoted one of its staff attorneys to an executive-level position that is akin to being click fraud tsar at the second largest web search provider.

In the new model advertisers would pay only when the ad-click yeilds a specific result.

In a move that has shaken up parts of the Web advertising world, Google announced Tuesday that it would begin testing a new ad program that lets advertisers pay only when consumers take action, whether it's making a purchase, signing up for a newsletter or performing some other predetermined task.

The world looks very different from cyberspace. We've all got our own ideas of the places where the rule of law is lopsided - America with its gun crime, China with its one-party state - but Sweden? Civilised to a fault, its only sins to date have been Abba and flat-pack furniture. Yet Symantec's latest survey of international cybercrime hotspots put Sweden in second place, behind the US and before China, as a home of compromised servers that focus online crime. Fifteen percent of the global total live in the land of lakes and pickled herring, say the numbers.

Analysis: Rumors are in full swing, but a cell phone comes with conflicts and challenges.

They won't divulge their real names, they call their project a "whiny, attention-seeking ploy," and they appear to take their fashion cues from Beastie Boys music videos.

An attack in early February on key parts of the backbone of the internet had little effect, thanks to new protection technology, according to a report released this week.

Some customers are concerned that domain registrar and hosting firm can't handle early move to Daylight Saving Time.

A problem related to a widely used open-source cryptography technology could let miscreants tamper with digitally signed and encrypted emails.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The perks of working at Google are the envy of Silicon Valley. Unlimited amounts of free chef-prepared food at all times of day. A climbing wall, a volleyball court and two lap pools. On-site car washes, oil changes and haircuts, not to mention free doctor checkups.

Internationalised domain names (IDNs) have moved a step closer to reality, after ICANN announced it had successfully completed testing.

Cost and quality of service remain the top concerns for businesses using voice over IP.

Yahoo announced Thursday a new beta version of its My Yahoo personalized start page, which it will begin gradually rolling out over the next few months.

After months of anticipation, corporate customers will soon get their hands on a beta version of Microsoft's VoIP software, an event that marks an important step in the evolution of corporate communications.

he BBC said on Friday that it had started showing promotional trailers for new programs and clips from old hits on Google's YouTube video site in a bid to reach new audiences and boost sales at its commercial arm.

Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday.

RLINGTON, Va.--Simply booting up a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop can tell people sniffing wireless network traffic a lot about your computer and about you.