Matthew Hicks

A coalition of the countrys leading ISPs on Thursday announced another round of lawsuits against spammers, relying heavily on the CAN-SPAM law enacted earlier this year. In seven federal lawsuits, America Online Inc., EarthLink Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are targeting at least 85 purveyors of unsolicited messages, many of which were named as […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Mobile search gained another convert as Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday extended Web, local and image search to wireless devices. During a keynote at the CTIA Wireless show here, Yahoo Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig said that the mobile industry has reached a “tipping point” where devices could meet user demand for mobile online services […]

Google Inc. on Wednesday branched out into 3-D digital mapping with the acquisition of Keyhole Corp. In its second acquisition this year, Google has bought a startup company that connects consumers, businesses and public agencies to a multi-terabyte database of mapping data and images gathered from satellites and airplanes. Terms of the purchase were not […]

PayPal wants to repay its users for dealing with its recent spate of sporadic outages by giving back a days worth of fees. The online payment service, owned by eBay Inc., announced Wednesday that it will credit its premier and business account members for all transaction fees they pay this Thursday. The payback will cover […]

Copernic Technologies Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has spun off its enterprise-search business into a separate company, and already the new company is eyeing Google. Newly formed Coveo Solutions Inc., will focus on providing enterprise search software to businesses, organizations and government. Coveo will lead the marketing, sales and research and development of the […]

The next version of Microsoft Corp.s enterprise instant messaging and presence server will be available on Dec. 1, the company said late on Monday. With the release of its Office Live Communications Server 2005, Microsoft also is adding an enterprise edition along with its standard version. While the basic functionality is available in both editions, […]

Search startup Vivisimo on Tuesday will unveil its latest foray into the enterprise search market, which combines clustering with meta-search and custom crawling. Pittsburgh-based Vivisimo Inc. is known for its clustering technology, which dynamically categorizes search results as an alternative to typical, link-based results. It uses the technology as the centerpiece of its recently launched […]

A pair of phishing vulnerabilities this week targeted at Google Inc. point to the kind of new threat Web companies can face as they expand their services into desktop applications, security experts say. Because of errors in JavaScript code, Google found itself susceptible to phishing scams where an attacker could mimic its popular search site […]

Yahoo Inc. continues its recent buying spree of e-mail startups with the acquisition of Stata Laboratories Inc. Yahoo confirmed on Thursday that it had bought Stata Labs, the maker of search-based e-mail client Bloomba. Terms of the acquisition, completed on Wednesday, were not disclosed. Stata Labs, based in San Mateo, Calif., released a new version […]

In its first earnings announcement since going public, Google Inc. doubled its revenues and profits as advertising continued to climb on its Web sites and on those of its partners. Google on Thursday reported that revenues climbed to $805.9 million for the three months ended Sept. 30, a 105 percent jump from the same quarter […]

Enterprise customers who are turning to Google for Web searches can expect Google to be turning to them this year. Fresh from its $1.7 billion public offering, Google Inc. plans to tackle the enterprise by expanding the features in the Google Search Appliance and hiring more enterprise-focused engineers and sales and marketing employees, Dave Girouard, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The software industry is due for major shifts in licensing models, but vendors and customers could find that breaking the perpetual-license habit is hard to do. A software-industry panel gathered Tuesday at the SoftSummit conference here concluded that subscription and utility models will increasingly replace the traditional perpetual license. The open question is […]