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Microsoft late Wednesday rolled out an updated version of its MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search, complete with tabbed browsing, designed to add another level of simplification while browsing the Web via Internet Explorer. Tab browsing has already been proved popular in Mozillas Firefox browser. MSN Product Manager Justin Osmer said the rollout is […]

One week after hackers exploited a weakness in the MSN Korea Web site, Microsoft admitted to taking down part of its MSN site over the weekend after learning about a flaw that would allow hackers to access Hotmail accounts. Reports say the MSN Web site, ilovemessenger.msn.com, contained a cross-site scripting flaw. That means someone could […]

Macromedias Flash is all grown up. Webmasters will now have access to a host of tools, part of the new multifunctional Flash Platform announced Friday, that include content creation and Web development tools that can interact with a companys server and be sent to mobile devices. The company also unveiled its next-generation Flash player, codenamed […]

Its official—the Web soon will have its own red-light district. This week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved a plan that will allow pornographic Web sites to use URLs that end with “.xxx.” ICANN first considered this adults-only, top-level domain in 2000, but decided to reject it. That move drew criticism from […]

Feel upset when the new millennium rolled around with nary a video phone or flying car in sight? It seems the future has finally been realized as companies roll out video-based communications faster than the black market can sell Louis Vuitton knock-offs. First there was four-way conferencing on Apples Tiger OS; then Motorola released the […]

Some might call it progress—others call it addiction. Whatever the title, its hard to turn a corner without seeing someone flipping open a cell phone or PDA to casually browse through their e-mail inbox. Some might be checking for important work-related messages, others to stay on top of their social life. And the rise in […]

This morning, two Republicans and two Democrats announced the formation of the Congressional E-Waste Working Group. The group, headed by Reps. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y, and Mary Bono, R-Calif., plans to explore possible solutions for the growing electronic waste problem and to educate Congress about its possible dangers. “Today […]

AOL has introduced a new tool kit that will allow game developers to integrate AOL Messaging into online games. The release follows a successful trial with The Matrix Online, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment Inc.s massively multiplayer game, which is loosely based on the film trilogy. The system allows users to search out other gamers or […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The Connections Digital Home Conference & Showcase here has covered a potpourri of topics—IP television capabilities, telephone companies struggle to offer the same bundled TV-Internet-phone services as cable companies, and how the general public will respond to the ongoing battle for the living room. “Im here to see what the hot new applications are […]

In his keynote speech at the Connections Digital Home Conference, Cisco-Linksys President Charlie Giancarlo talked about the blurring of lines between consumer electronics devices and the rapid growth of VOIP among the average population. After establishing how consumers have taken to the emergence of broadband—more than 115 million globally—and the new get-it-now environment in which […]