December 30, 2008 / Scott M. Fulton, III
The proof of concept for a Windows Media Player exploit does exist, and it has been shared. But it's not a vulnerability, Microsoft said, because it would need to trigger remote code execution...and this one doesn't.
December 30, 2008 / Angela Gunn
Worlds.com, which launched its first 3D avatar environment back in the mid-90s, has retained an intellectual property law firm and has filed patent infringement suits. Its first, against game developer NCsoft, was filed on Christmas Eve.
December 25, 2008 / Stephen Shankland
Google took a chunk of market share from rival search engines in the US in November, new figures from ComScore show.
December 25, 2008 / Scott M. Fulton, III
It wouldn't be the Christmas season without the tinsel, the holly, and the zero-days. Since early this month, an exploitable buffer overflow has been known to exist in SQL Server, and today Microsoft is acknowledging its existence.
December 22, 2008 / Alex Lander
December 20, 2008 / Tim Conneally
Google's popular video site YouTube yesterday unveiled a
dedicated HD section for US users to watch videos in 720p high definition.
December 18, 2008 / Angela Gunn
A common but dangerous vulnerability spotted weeks ago on American Express's site was plugged this week after the hole gained blog and then press attention. But there may have been a faster, better way.
December 18, 2008 / Scott M. Fulton, III
Internet Explorer is apparently not the only browser this week that's the subject of preventative measures, as Mozilla revealed this morning that the real reason for issuing Firefox 3.0.5 was to prevent a possible wave of page hijacks.
December 18, 2008 / Tim Conneally
Early this morning, Yahoo announced that it will be reducing its data retention period to 90 days, a dramatic drop from its prior 13-month limit on keeping user search data.
December 18, 2008 / Tim Conneally
Google Search Suggest, the predictive text dropdown gadget that suggests search terms, will soon provide direct links, information, and sponsored links.
December 18, 2008 / Don Reisinger
As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time wading through e-mails, finding the best e-mail service is paramount in my life.
December 18, 2008 / Stephanie Condon
Microsoft on Wednesday announced it has reached a settlement agreement with Primax Electronics, a mouse maker the software company sued in July for patent infringement.
December 18, 2008 / Josh Lowensohn
Mixwit, one of my personal favorites for creating and sharing hosted mix tapes is calling it quits next week. Starting Saturday, December 27th the site will no longer serve up streaming music tracks, with embedded mixes--like the one at the end of this post, soon to follow.
December 18, 2008 / Steven Musil
A consortium of 14 U.S. technology companies is seeking $1 billion in federal aid to build a factory to manufacture advanced electric car batteries, according to a
report Wednesday night by
The Wall Street Journal.
December 18, 2008 / Tim Conneally
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has asked EA to cease broadcasting its commercial for
Tiger Woods PGA Tour '09 for Wii. Although Woods himself "plays" the Wii, the graphics shown were from the Xbox 360.
December 17, 2008 / Matt Rosoff
Personality tests are fun nonsense, in line with horoscopes and fortune tellers. I've taken a bunch of them over the years, both online and offline, and never learned anything consistent or surprising about myself.
December 17, 2008 / Josh Lowensohn
Search Cloudlet is a Firefox extension from the International Software and Productivity Engineering Institute (
INTSPEI) that gives users a cloud of tags to help modify and focus searches on Google and Yahoo. Once installed it will show up on top of search results and provides a simple way to tweak the original query by offering up keywords pulled from the results.
December 17, 2008 / Dawn Kawamoto
Microsoft issued a
critical security warning Tuesday that a malicious exploit is making the rounds and attacking vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 7.
December 17, 2008 / Greg Sandoval
A "bold transformation" is how
The Detroit Free Press and
The Detroit News are trying to spin their decision to
limit home delivery of their newspapers to three days a week.
December 17, 2008 / Angela Gunn
The software manufacturer reported record revenue for 4Q 2008 and a sixth consecutive year of double-digit growth, making Tuesday's earnings call much more upbeat than the announcement earlier this month of layoffs.
December 17, 2008 / Stephen Shankland
I guess that Google Chrome really is an open-source project.
December 17, 2008 / Don Reisinger
Sunday night at the Spike Video Game Awards,
Grand Theft Auto IV was awarded game of the year honors, beating out
Gears of War 2,
Fallout 3,
Fable 2,
Burnout Paradise, and a slew of other great games that didn't make the cut.
December 17, 2008 / Matt Asay
For anyone interested in seeing just how different and game-changing open source can be, there's really no need to look beyond MySQL, the open-source database leader. Jeremy Zawodny, formerly of Yahoo, and now of Craigslist,
takes a hard look at the changing face of MySQL, reaching some surprising conclusions about MySQL in the process:
December 15, 2008 / Jacqueline Emigh
Yahoo on Wednesday revised a controversial severance plan -- first adopted to defend against a Microsoft buyout bid -- to the point where the plan will no longer apply if a sale of Yahoo's search business does occur.
December 15, 2008 / Tim Conneally
Sony's PlayStation 3 sales dropped 19% in November, but with the public availability of
Home, the console has increased in value.
December 15, 2008 / Scott M. Fulton, III
One of the only sources of hard information yesterday about an IE remote code exploit that Microsoft only knew about circumstantially, now says not only is the Web full of misinformation about it, but it blames itself.
December 14, 2008 / Jennifer Guevin
Citizens in Estonia can now vote with their cell phones.
December 14, 2008 / Elinor Mills
An unpatched security hole in Internet Explorer that is being exploited affects all versions of the browser, making it more serious than originally believed when it was first publicized two days ago, Microsoft says.
December 14, 2008 / Josh Lowensohn
Gmail's integrated software-free PDF viewer
has received a nice upgrade courtesy of
Google Docs. Now opening up a PDF in Gmail won't fire up your native PDF viewer (like the slow-to-load Adobe Acrobat), and instead will send you to the document reader built into Google Docs.
December 13, 2008 / Robert Vamosi
One flaw not addressed in yesterday's Patch Tuesday is a heap overflow within the XML parser reported on Wednesday by Bojan Zdrnja of the
SANS Internet Storm Center.
December 12, 2008 / Stephanie Condon
When President-elect Barack Obama appoints a chief technology officer to the White House, he should make the new appointee a part of his senior economic policy team and the chief "evangelist" for innovation-spurring policies, the software and hardware industries say.
December 11, 2008 / Stephanie Condon
The Software and Information Industry Association announced Tuesday it filed eight lawsuits against illegal software sellers on eBay, Amazon.com and iOffer.com.
December 11, 2008 / Greg Sandoval
"Stop illegally sharing, and start legally selling" is the tagline for a start-up that wants to enable music owners to sell their unwanted MP3s.
December 11, 2008 / Ina Fried
Microsoft will have a bunch of stuff to show at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, but a
rumored ZunePhone won't be one of them, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
December 11, 2008 / Robert Vamosi
Window Snyder, Mozilla's chief security something-or-other (her official title), is leaving Mozilla, effective the end of the year.
December 10, 2008 / Stephen Shankland
Yahoo began laying off 1,520 employees around the world on Wednesday as the company tries to deal with its financial difficulties.
December 10, 2008 / Scott M. Fulton, III
The man who could very well have given Yahoo the keys to the kingdom of online advertising, is now a very senior executive at its arch-enemy and would-be suitor. But will Microsoft do more with Dr. Lu than it did with aQuantive?
December 6, 2008 / Tim Conneally
In the EU's long-running front against cyber-crime, the Council of Ministers has proposed a five-year plan to tackle the problem, including collaboration with regional law enforcement branches and the implementation of remote searches.
December 4, 2008 / Steven Musil
Billionaire investor-activist Carl Icahn opposes selling just a portion of Yahoo, telling
CNBC on Wednesday that he believes the company's stock in undervalued.
December 4, 2008 / Stephen Shankland
The Wall Street Journal has artfully assembled a collection mostly public indicators that Google is trying to rein in its expenses, but there are a few nuggets of note about the near-mythic company coming down to earth.
December 4, 2008 / Stephen Shankland
Google has released a Mac OS X version of a plug-in that lets people use its Google Earth software as a browser plug-in.
December 4, 2008 / Jacqueline Emigh
Struggling with rising music royalty costs, on Wednesday, Yahoo offloaded much of the responsibility for its Internet radio service to CBS, only a few months after Time Warner made a similar move with AOL Radio.
December 4, 2008 / Leader
Microsoft's announcement of an OOXML plug-in for Firefox is one of those intriguing moments when a tiny piece of the future sprouts through the winter soil.
December 2, 2008 / Caroline McCarthy
Right now, the most famous classical musician on YouTube is arguably
Nora the piano-playing cat. She, sorry to say, probably isn't eligible for "
YouTube Symphony Orchestra," a new competition from the Google-owned video-sharing site.
December 2, 2008 / Marguerite Reardon
Nokia has released new versions of its mapping and navigation service along with a new messaging service in an effort to build out its mobile services.
December 2, 2008 / Stephanie Condon
President-elect Barack Obama's transition team anticipated the requests of open government advocates by copyrighting Change.gov under a Creative Commons license, but a coalition of groups in favor of more online freedom is asking for more.
December 2, 2008 / Jacqueline Emigh
The WiMAX activities of Sprint and Clearwire in the US might seem skimpy in comparison to what's happening in Africa, where wireless providers are bringing broadband data connectivity and phone services to underserved areas.
December 1, 2008 / Michelle Meyers
Facebook Connect--the service launched last spring that lets members log onto other Web sites using their Facebook profile--appears to be entering a new phase.
Microsoft denies the severity of a Media Player exploit
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