April, 2008 Issue

Natalya Kaspersky set up antivirus company Kaspersky Lab with then husband Eugene Kaspersky in 1997.

Clock speed is no longer the most important measure on processors prowess.

Skype has released a test version of a client for Java-enabled mobile devices, a move which the company said is a significant step forward for its mobile strategy. However, at the same time, executives made it clear that the software is preliminary and subject to significant limitations.

Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google's thinking said on Friday.

Google has broadened the number of online applications that people can use offline, adding spreadsheets and presentations to the mix.

An industry association has been created for ethical hackers, in a bid to reassure buyers of systems and applications that such products have been sufficiently tested.

Microsoft reported weak quarterly Windows sales and gave a current-quarter earnings forecast at the low end of Wall Street expectations, sending its shares down nearly five percent on Thursday.

Yahoo is working to rewire the dozens of services across its site so that users can manage all information about themselves in a single place and share it with friends across the web.

For years, Microsoft has maintained that the PC is the center of the digital home and office.

Microsoft handed plenty of ammunition to the anti-DRM crowd on Tuesday by announcing it would no longer furnish authorization keys for songs purchased from the defunct MSN Music service.

The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed.

A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court accuses Google of deceiving its customers into paying for ads they didn't expressly request.

A planned cyberattack against CNN's Web site fizzled out Saturday as the group backing the event called it off.

Google has adapted an existing program in a bid to track files containing child pornography.

A problem this week hampered some Gmail users trying to use their PayPal accounts.

In the latest death knell for Outlook Express, Microsoft Corp. announced last week that it will turn off access to its Web-based Hotmail service from the desktop e-mail software at the end of June.

Sun is to begin offering certain MySQL features, beginning with some backup functions, solely to its enterprise subscription customers, the company announced this week.

eBay has released its latest quarterly results, showing strong performances from its Skype and PayPal subsidiaries.

The Open Solutions Alliance is hoping to shake off some growing pains as it moves through its second year, according to its president, Dominic Sartorio.

Yahoo is closer to outsourcing its core ad search business to Google, after favorable testing of Google's advertisements on its search pages, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

A Microsoft spokesperson declined this afternoon to confirm reports circulating on technology blogs today citing purportedly leaked documents as saying the online release date for Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be April 29.

Members of industry group the Open Geospatial Consortium have approved Google's KML technology as an open standard for describing some geographic data.

Even though not a single phone equipped with the OS is available commercially as of yet, Opera said Thursday it had ported a version of its browser to Android.

The Australian government has called for bids for a AUS$9.4bn (£4.4bn) high-speed broadband network that will help the country catch up in competitiveness with its peers.

PayPal is stepping up its battle against phishing with new technology and by collaborating with others in the industry.

Yahoo may have played its top two cards by pulling out possible deals with AOL and Google, but it does not seem to have changed Wall Street's view that Microsoft will eventually win the takeover battle.

Google has outlined some of the methods it employs to keep its IT security tight.

Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Microsoft's director of program management for Windows security, David Cross, said there would be an increased emphasis in Vista on whitelisting, a technique which allows only a specific list of programs to run on a system.

Symantec is acquiring AppStream, a maker of application streaming technology.

Yahoo will test the use of Google advertisements on some of its search pages, the companies said Wednesday, a move that raises the possibility of a significant departure from Yahoo's present ad strategy.

Yahoo has yet to get a white knight to step forward and defend the search giant, but on Tuesday it scored a re-confirmation of an endorsement from Legg Mason, its second largest shareholder, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

A lawsuit against Microsoft that's already unveiled several juicy tidbits about the company is on hold, according to Ars Technica.

Fans of home automation systems controlled by a personal computer like to speculate about how their software might be able to snare intruders. An Indiana man named Fred Thompson actually did it.

Yahoo, responding to a three-week deadline issued by Microsoft for acceptance of its $42.2bn (£21.2bn) takeover bid, again rejected the deal as undervaluing the web pioneer.

Chinese authorities appeared to have lifted a block on the English-language version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, but politically sensitive topics such as Tibet and Tiananmen Square are still off limits.

Yahoo is not opposed to Microsoft's bid for the web media company, as long as it is at the right price, Yahoo's board said on Monday in a letter to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.

Responding to criticism, Adobe Systems has modified the legal terms for using its online Photoshop Express service, a move the company promised would happen.

In a total reversal of what Windows and Macintosh users might expect, Adobe Creative Suite 4 will include 64-bit support for the Windows platform, but not for Mac.

Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang, whose company helped identify a Chinese dissident who was later jailed, said on Thursday that legal "grey areas" overseas made doing business internationally difficult.

Google confirmed on Thursday it had been an active bidder in recent US auctions for licences to create a national wireless network and that it will weigh in as regulators set new rules.

An upcoming event in London will focus on the accessibility challenges posed by Web 2.0.

The fifth and final beta version of Firefox 3 was released on Wednesday, ahead of the updated browser's final release in June.

Ian Rogers, vice president of video and music applications at Yahoo, is leaving the company to launch a start-up, Rogers said on his blog.

Google plans to split off its search marketing arm from its affiliate marketing business and sell the search marketing business at its recently acquired DoubleClick advertising technology unit.