Matthew Hicks

Along with reporting strong fourth-quarter earnings last week, Yahoo Inc. also confirmed speculation that it will be switching its Web search to its own technology in the first quarter of this year. The switch, once it occurs by the end of March, will mark the beginning of a bigger battle for market share in the […]

The Mozilla Foundation late on Thursday released the next version of its open-source Web-browser suite. The Mozilla 1.6 release, out in a beta version since December, includes expanded authentication support that is particularly useful for enterprises as well as greater integration with the GNOME desktop that is popular among Linux users. Mozilla 1.6 is available […]

Eolas Technologies Inc. is talking with members of the Linux and open-source community about the use of its Web browser patent, which is at the heart of its high-profile infringement case against Microsoft Corp., the companys founder said on Wednesday. “Were in discussions with major players in the Linux world and are working on a […]

A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a jurys $521 million verdict against Microsoft Corp. in a high-profile Web browser patent infringement case, despite an ongoing reexamination of the patents validity. Judge James B. Zagel, in an order issued in U.S. District Court in Chicago, found that Microsoft had infringed on Eolas Technologies Inc.s patent on […]

Multimedia applications such as voice over IP telephony and video conferencing could be vulnerable to security breaches because of flaws in the way a major telephony standard is being used. Some vendors implementations of the H.323 protocol, an International Telecommunications Union standard for communication among telephony and multimedia devices, are vulnerable to denial of service […]

Technology companies continued to lead the pack of top patent recipients in 2003, with IBM racking in the most patents for the 11th straight year. IBM received 3,415 U.S. patents in 2003, the most for any corporation and 70 percent more than the next highest patent recipient, according to a top 10 list released Monday […]

ScanSoft Inc. on Tuesday announced that it had acquired a leading vendor of speech-based auto-attendant applications to strengthen its speech technology offerings. ScanSoft, of Peabody, Mass., which in late December bought Montreal-based LocusDialog Inc., said it will focus its future auto-attendant development on the products acquired from LocusDialog. An auto-attendant can route calls based on […]

Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.s flamboyant chairman and CEO, is relinquishing his role as chairman of the board. The companys board of directors announced late Monday night that it is separating the responsibilities of chairman and CEO. Jeff Henley, who has been Oracles chief financial officer for the past 13 years, has been elected as the […]

A San Francisco Superior Court judge has ordered the rejection of claims in the California class-action settlement with Microsoft Corp. that were submitted through a Lindows.com Inc. Web site. The judges order, made on Dec. 22 and announced on Thursday by Microsoft Corp., marks the end of an effort by San Diego-based Lindows.com to promote […]

IBM and Real Networks Inc. on Friday joined hands to help enterprises build and deliver on-demand digital audio and video services. The two companies, in an announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, said they will launch an offering in the first half of this year that combines Real Networks Real 10 digital […]

E-learning vendor DigitalThink Inc. on Friday plans to announce a new version of its service for delivering courses that can handle more content, more quickly. Version 2.1 of the San Francisco companys L5 Learning Delivery System, available on Friday, features a 300 percent increase in the amount of content it can deliver and a 40 […]

Theres little surprise that IBM might be pushing the use of the Linux desktop within its walls, and an internal company memo published on the British IT site The Inquirer on Thursday said that Big Blues chief information officer is moving ahead with such a transition. IBM officials, declining to comment specifically on the memo, […]