Matthew Hicks

Paid search listings are joining with the trend of tracking the behavior of Web site visitors to deliver more targeted online advertising. Kanoodle.com Inc., a smaller provider of sponsored listings on a network of Web sites, plans in the second quarter of the year to launch a new service called BehaviorTarget. The service will integrate […]

WebEx Communications Inc. has launched a new version of its Web conferencing service for e-learning with a focus on helping companies make money from offering training. The newest WebEx Training Center, released on Monday, integrates e-commerce capabilities into the service so companies can charge attendees to take a training course or charge back a department […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Online advertising is hot, and the opening day of the AD:TECH 2004 conference here came on the heels of the latest report of the rise in online ad revenue. The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers on Monday reported that Internet advertising in the first quarter of the year reached its highest level since the […]

Yahoo on Monday released its newest version of Yahoo Messenger, which adds more ties into the companys portal services such as Internet radio, Web search and online address book. Yahoo Inc. last month released a beta version of what it is calling the “All-New Yahoo Messenger,” which technically is Version 6.0. More than 1.5 million […]

The Internets domain-name oversight body is proposing to double its budget and raise fees for the companies that register Web addresses—a move that is unleashing criticism about who will pay for the heftier spending. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this week publicly posted its budget plan for fiscal year 2004-05, here […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft execs say the company is working to polish its lackluster image with software partners as it increasingly views everything from its Office productivity suite to its business applications as a platform. At a Wednesday session here at the Software & Information Industry Association of Americas Enterprise Software Summit 2004, Charles Fitzgerald, the general […]

Microsoft Corp. will announce on Wednesday that its Office 2004 for Mac has reached store shelves. As planned, the Redmond, Wash., software maker is releasing its Mac productivity suite in the third week of this month, following its unveiling in January during the Macworld Conference & Expo. While the standard and the student and teacher […]

The e-mail storage race appeared to have reached a new height this week when test users of Googles free Gmail service noticed having not just 1 gigabyte of storage, but 1 terabyte. But the appearance of the “1000000 MB” ticker at the bottom of their Gmail inboxes was no more than a system bug that […]

ScanSoft Inc. on Tuesday announced its newest speech-recognition engine—a product that, for the first time, combines into a single product the engines the company acquired last year. ScanSoft, of Peabody, Mass., launched OpenSpeech Recognizer 3.0, the first major update to the platform that it acquired after its merger last year with SpeechWorks International Inc. Along […]

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the main antitrust claim in VeriSign Inc.s lawsuit against the nonprofit that oversees the Internets Web-addressing system. The judge did leave VeriSign with an opportunity to reinstate it, however. The judge ruled on the first claim in the case, one of six that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names […]

The technology at the heart of one of the most popular Web-logging tools is about to go open source. On Monday, the founder of UserLand Software Inc. said an open-source release of the Frontier platform, which serves as the underlying engine and runtime for the Manila and Radio UserLand blog-publishing tools, would become available within […]

Apple is seeking a patent on a method for rendering translucent-appearing windows, technology that appears similar to features Microsoft has been previewing for its next major Windows release. Apple Computer Inc.s patent application, which dates back to November 2003, was published Thursday on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offices Web site. By law, most patent […]