Matthew Hicks

Online marketplace eBay Inc. is wooing open-source developers by launching a community Web site for sharing source code to tools and applications tied to the online marketplace. The San Jose, Calif., company introduced on Tuesday the eBay Community Codebase program, which provides a collaborative forum wherein open-source developers can tap one another to create tools […]

Microsoft plans to announce its initial push into local search on Monday as it takes a step closer to launching a competitor to Googles online aerial maps. The companys Internet division is expected to release a beta version of MSN Local Search. The service, which will be added as a link from the main MSN […]

When Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs took the stage last week at Apples major developer conference, he brought with him a message about the future of broadcasting linked inextricably to the iPod. Jobs gave the highest-profile blessing yet from a technology executive for an emerging form of audio downloads called Podcasting. He promised upcoming […]

In a spree of acquisitions, Yahoo Inc. is laying the groundwork to make its instant messaging service talk with the traditional phone networks and to play a bigger role in distributing Weblog updates. Officials with the online company confirmed two separate acquisitions on Tuesday—its purchase of Dialpad Communications Inc., a consumer Internet telephony provider, and […]

Following about six months of competitive bidding, VeriSign this week officially retained control of .net, the Internets third-largest domain. ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the oversight body for the Internets domain-name system, announced Wednesday that it will enter into a new, six-year contract with VeriSign Inc. for the operation of .net. […]

BERKELEY, Calif.—When it comes to their advertising relationships, are the Webs top search engines disclosing enough information? Consumer advocates, search-engine marketers and representatives of the engines themselves debated that question during a Consumer Reports WebWatch conference held here on Thursday, and their answers varied widely. Consumer groups called for more disclosure about paid listings, while […]

Googles sponsored-link ads may have helped turn the worlds best-known search engine into a financial powerhouse, but they also are coming under attack for contributing to spyware practices that undermine trust on the Web. Anti-spyware researcher Ben Edelman this week criticized Google Inc. for playing a role in the distribution of browser toolbars that he […]

A Web browser spoofing vulnerability has returned to plague the latest version of Mozilla Firefox and other Mozilla browsers, a security researcher reported Monday. The seven-year-old frame-injection vulnerability could allow an attacker to load malicious content in the browser window of a trusted Web site, reported Secunia, a Denmark-based security company. The problem lies in […]

In an attempt to index more content, more quickly, Google has begun letting Web-site operators point the search engines crawler at Web pages and tell it when content is updated. Google Inc. started the beta program, called Google Sitemaps, late Thursday in a move that officials said would help supplement its Web crawling technology in […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Security will continue to dominate the e-mail management industry over the next year as enterprises face more sophisticated threats from increasingly organized groups of attackers, messaging executives predict. Speaking here on Thursday at the INBOX conference, the executives from e-mail service providers and software makers said that the fight against spam, phishing attacks […]