Matthew Hicks

The Mozilla Foundation is preparing to complete a year of major organizational changes with a new version of its namesake open-source application suite. A beta version of Mozilla 1.6 went out on Tuesday that incorporates, among other new features, expanded authentication support of particular use for enterprises as well as better integration with the GNOME […]

Telephony vendor Avaya Inc. and conferencing vendor Polycom Inc. are working to jointly develop by the middle of next year new products that make videoconferencing as easy as a click of a mouse on a PC. The companies announced on Monday that the collaboration will focus on combining IP telephony and video communications for enterprises […]

Those paid links that pop up along with search engine results have become the latest target of ad-blocking software. InterMute Inc. on Monday announced an updated version of its AdSubtract Pro software that can strip away the advertised links on popular search engines. These sponsored links, typically based on advertisers paying to appear when certain […]

Google Inc., facing the threat of further lawsuits, is seeking a court decision to back its policy covering the use of trademarks in its keyword advertising. The search engine leader in late November filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose asking for a “declaratory judgment” […]

Yahoo Inc. this week issued a security update for Yahoo Messenger after the report earlier this week of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the instant messaging client. Yahoo said it learned of the security issue late Tuesday and issued the patch by Wednesday afternoon. Security researcher Tri Huynh discovered a vulnerability that, if exploited, could […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Leading technology industry groups used the National Cyber Security Summit being held here to introduce Wednesday new tools for assessing information while deflecting criticism that industry initiatives so far have failed to fortify cyberspace. /zimages/2/28571.gifRead “Feds: Tech Industry Must Act to Thwart Security Threats.” The Information Technology Association of America announced plans for […]

An early entrant into the enterprise social networking field is unveiling an updated version of its software on Wednesday. Contact Network Corp., of Boston, is releasing Contact Network 2.5, server software that allows corporations to create their own private social networks where employees can mine each others contacts to find new introductions and sales leads. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Leaders of the federal governments homeland security efforts warned technology industry leaders that if they do not lead the way in securing cyberspace, they will face the prospect of legislation setting security requirements. Responsible for 85 percent of the nations critical infrastructure, the private sector is critical to implementing a national plan for […]

Microsoft Corp., preparing for an aggressive push into the enterprise speech technology arena next year, released on Tuesday the final beta versions of its Speech Server and development kit for creating speech applications The Microsoft Speech Server, the newest addition to the Windows Server System, is aimed at broadening the reach of speech recognition and […]

Gordano Ltd., a developer of Web-based messaging software, is ratcheting up its fight against unwanted e-mail with the introduction on Tuesday of new anti-spam features. The company has launched an update to its Gordano Messaging Suite that provides end users the option of turning on Bayesian filtering capabilities and expands content filtering options for administrators. […]

Its known as the Google Dance among Webmasters and search-engine marketers: the semi-regular updates to the top Internet search engines index and the tweaking of its algorithms to keep search results relevant and fresh. But the latest do-si-do seems to have created more than the usual amount of consternation among those that track the search […]

On Wednesday, William Carrel posted an advisory warning of a malicious DHCP response that can grant root access for Mac OS X. The vulnerability affects the desktop and server versions of Mac OS X 10.2, known as Jaguar, as well as Mac OS X 10.3, known as Panther, he wrote. Carrel noted that Apple Computer […]