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In a lukewarm endorsement of a bounty system for spammers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said offering US$100,000 to $250,000 to whistleblowers inside the spamming community would help catch the online criminals ...

In a lukewarm endorsement of a bounty system for spammers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said offering US$100,000 to $250,000 to whistleblowers inside the spamming community would help catch the online criminals ...

Just as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has emerged as a significant competitor to traditional telephone services and has grown more pervasive in U.S. homes and businesses, television via high-speed Internet is becoming a reality as both broadband and competition grow ...

Microsoft's monthly security update was highlighted this week by a JPEG-handling vulnerability that could allow pictures in the format to provide attackers access to targeted machines ...

Two new computer worms have security experts both worried and wondering. One new virus is now capable of monitoring a network to steal passwords or other information, and another virus can hijack the voice capabilities of Windows XP to announce its presence to users ...

In an effort to defend its dominance in router technology, Cisco has released three new multifeature routers aimed at smaller businesses and branch offices ...

As it has been suing thousands of computer users accused of illegallytrading copyrighted music online with peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, theRecording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has also been pollutingP2P networks with bogus and corrupted media files to discourage P2P use ...

In an expected move following his arrest and confession earlier this year, an 18-year-old German student has been indicted on computer crimes for his work writing and releasing the Sasser and Netsky worms ...

Hitachi Data Systems hopes its new universal data storage platform (USP) and software will lure customers from main competitors EMC and IBM. However, analysts indicated that the Hitachi approach might be hindered by apprehension over the company's massive, monolithic storage array ...

UK dialers will now be able to access a new set of Internet phone numbers designed to allow even greater growth of broadband voice communications. The move is likely to pump up competition with prominent providers there ...

In a move that might be repeated by other game makers struggling with the same issues of limited markets and console-centric development, Acclaim Entertainment announced it is filing for bankruptcy ...

In a bid to boost the credibility of the blade-server paradigm, which provide storage, networking and other functions in a small form factor, IBM and Intel jointly announced that the design specifications for the eServer BladeCenter platform would be made widely available to other vendors to encourage hardware support ...

A new report from Canadian researcher AssetMetrix indicates that one in 10 corporate PCs will have applications adversely impacted by the new Windows XP Service Pack 2 update. However, the report also indicates that few corporate computer users might be feeling the effects because relatively few appear to be updating right away ...

AMD announced this week that with the help of server market leaderHP, it would be demonstrating the industry's first x86 dual-core processor inan HP ProLiant DL585 server powered by four dual-core Opteron processors foran eight-way server ...

Pushing the number of transistors it can cram onto silicon, chip giant Intel announced a step forward in its advance to the 65-nanometer manufacturing process, a move toward further miniaturization to boost chip efficiency and performance ...

A mandated price cut in so-called local loop unbundling in the UK, a requirement for UK providers to offer broadband service, and an allowed price increase for wholesale broadband products has two sides arguing the move will either boost broadband adoption and competition, or kill off all but the biggest service providers ...

U.S. officials announced a multistate, peer-to-peer (P2P) network user bust, calling it "the first federal enforcement action taken against criminal copyright piracy on peer-to-peer networks," and announcing the execution of search warrants at five homes and an ISP ...

Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo and U.S.-based Motorola are teaming to develop a multimodal handset targeted at Japanese business users who must use the mobile phones in other parts of the world ...

UK security firm Sophos is warning computer users of a new worm with the ability to take over computers and view and capture images of victims through their own Web cameras. The worm, known as W32 Rbot-GR, spreads through network shares as opposed to e-mail, and installs what is known as a backdoor Trojan horse ...

A few technologies to fight the unsolicited and sometimes unsafe e-mail known as spam have emerged since the volume of the junk mail has increased beyond annoyance, but a Microsoft-backed effort to identify the senders of spam appears to be moving fastest of all the contenders ...