Matthew Hicks

Oral arguments are set to begin on Thursday in Microsoft Corp.s appeal of a $521 million verdict against it in a Web-browser patent lawsuit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington will hear arguments from Microsoft and Eolas Technologies Inc., which holds the license to a patent on the embedding and […]

While the .com domain might get most of the attention, its smaller but still popular cousin .net is starting to gain renewed scrutiny. For the first time since the inception of .net, companies are vying for the right to be the registry that runs and manages the worlds third most-popular domain. VeriSign Inc., which manages […]

The Mozilla Foundation will release late on Monday a full version of its open-source answer to the e-mail client. With the launch of the Thunderbird 1.0 application, the nonprofit hopes to achieve in e-mail what it did with its Firefox Web browser: Persuade a groundswell of users to try its alternative to Microsoft Corp.s dominant […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle plans to further embrace its renewed effort at application integration that it began a year ago, the companys president said here Monday. The company is expanding its product options for managing data across multiple business applications and legacy systems, Charles Phillips said during the opening keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld conference. Oracle Corp. […]

Desktop-search tools have become one of the industrys hottest trends, promising to extend the ease of searching for Web pages to the finding of hard-drive files and data. While end-users may jump at the chance to uncover their lost e-mails or past Web page visits, analysts and IT executives are warning enterprises to think twice […]

Google Inc. turned on the switch Thursday to its new e-mail list service that combines the Usenet archive with the ability to create and manage new groups. The new Google Groups, which has been available as a Google Labs test since May, brings the search giant the type of community feature that has been a […]

America Online Inc.s audio and video search division is getting ready for prime time as it focuses on becoming a destination site. Singingfish Inc., which AOL acquired a year ago, will announce on Wednesday a set of new search features on its Singingfish.com site that let users save and share queries, refine searches and discover […]

MSN began rolling out its Weblog service late on Wednesday in a move likely to rattle the still-emerging market for blog-creation tools. With the new service, called MSN Spaces, Microsoft Corps Internet division is closely tying blogging into its MSN Messenger instant-messaging service and Hotmail e-mail service while targeting a mass audience. MSN Spaces also […]

Overture Services Inc. has settled a trademark infringement lawsuit brought against it and search-based advertising rival Google Inc. Overture, of Pasadena, Calif., reached the settlement on Friday with GEICO, one of the nations largest insurers. Overture is the paid search division of Yahoo Inc. The Government Employees Insurance Co. had filed the federal lawsuit in […]

Not to be left out of desktop search, two search vendors on Monday leaped into the growing space for managing e-mail, documents and other hard-drive data. Autonomy Corp. plc introduced a desktop-search application for its IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer) enterprise-search platform, while consumer player Mamma.com Inc. announced plans to acquire desktop-search vendor Copernic Technologies […]

For the leading companies in the search-engine market, 2004 was a year to fortify their services for the fight ahead. As the year ends, the battle line lies among three top competitors: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. Waiting in the wings are Ask Jeeves Inc, which doubled its search share during the year, […]

Opera Software ASA wants to make horizontal scrolling a thing of the past in the Web browser. The Oslo, Norway, company announced Tuesday that its new browser release will include a feature for rendering a Web page to fit a screen regardless of the screen size. Called ERA (Extensible Rendering Architecture), the feature is available […]