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NEW YORK—One company has an idea for how search engines can catalog the Web more completely. Another believes it can better divine what a searcher wants. Yet another is trying to sync all that with how the human brain works. Startups and leading tech companies, including search exemplar Google, are tinkering with new ways of […]

NEW YORK (AP)—The developer of software that essentially guides Web surfers sought Tuesday to neutralize a controversial service designed to help users who mistype Internet addresses. The Internet Software Consortium, the nonprofit organization that develops BIND software for Internet domain name directories, is writing an “urgent patch” for Internet service providers and others who want […]

NEW YORK (AP)—A feared Internet attack resulting from a fast-spreading computer virus fizzled Friday, as security experts said they contained it by identifying and blocking computers key to coordinating it. Instructions written into the latest version of the “SoBig” virus, which has caused enormous headaches since it began appearing Tuesday, called for infected Windows machines […]

NEW YORK (AP)—The latest Internet attack on Microsoft operating systems by rogue software disabled tens of thousands of computers worldwide on Tuesday, though a fix had been available for nearly a month. The virus-like worm, dubbed “LovSan” or “blaster,” snarled corporate networks with an inundation of data packets and frustrated home computer users unversed in […]

NEW YORK (AP)—The latest cell phones can show you the nearest bathrooms in San Francisco or which subway to take in London. They can also help with your diet by tracking calorie intake. Behind such programs and more is the very technology at the center of an intense battle between Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems […]