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Leveraging the buzz around this weekend's 77th Annual Academy Awards, yesterday Google launched its new movie search feature. The offering can be accessed through the main Google search page via personal computers, mobile phones and wireless devices that use short-message service ...

CNET Networks plans to announce a partnership between its Download.com property and e-commerce solutions provider Protexis in the coming days that will launch Upload.com Merchant services, a self-trial product promotion and e-commerce solution for software publishers ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today warned the public to avoid falling victim to an ongoing mass e-mail scheme wherein computer users receive unsolicited e-mails purportedly sent by the FBI ...

Leveraging its partnership with IBM, Opera announced a voice-enabled Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for home media yesterday. The software does away with remote controls and lets people interact with their DVD players, DVRs and digital TV set-top boxes ...

Reports that Nokia has replaced 55,000 desktops running Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser in favor of Mozilla's Firefox at its Swedish operations are bogus, according to the company ...

Britain has the dubious honor of being named the world's largest market for downloading pirated TV, according to Internet monitoring company Envisional. According to the firm, increased bandwidth, technological advances and a growing demand for early access to popular American TV shows is driving the negative trend ...

As part of its strategy to build advertising revenue over the Internet, The New York Times Co. said yesterday that it will buy About.com from Primedia for US$410 million. The Times Co., which owns The New York Times, The Boston Globe and more than 40 other Web sites, said it plans to enhance About.com's content, coverage and visibility ...

Another strain of the MyDoom worm is on the loose and is spreading quickly today, according to antivirus firm Sophos. The new MyDoom variant emerged yesterday and can use search engines Google, Yahoo, Lycos and AltaVista to try to gather e-mail addresses to send itself to ...

In response to high double-digit growth in 2004 in the number of customers deploying IBM collaboration software on the Linux platform, IBM today announced plans to invest US$100 million over three years to expand Linux support and technology across its Workplace software portfolio ...

IAC/InterActiveCorp, the parent company of Expedia, the Home Shopping Network and Hotels.com, posted a quarterly loss today. IAC said operating income before amortization was strong at Home Shopping Network, but its travel business made only slight increases ...

Worldwide PC shipments are expected to slow in 2005 as the latest replacement cycle ebbs, Gartner says. However, the research firm still predicts 9 percent growth as compared to last year ...

Sparked by growth in its European operations, Yahoo announced today it will open a European operations headquarters in Ireland to provide support to its main European headquarters in London ...

EBay, Microsoft, PayPal and Visa are hooking up to catch some phishing fraudsters ...

Hewlett-Packard has announced antivirus software aimed at controlling the spread of viruses across corporate networks in an apparent bid to boost its server sales ...

The Liberty Alliance has released the second version of its identification standards for Web services technology, marking what analysts said is another step toward the convergence of identity specifications that will simplify processing ...

A week after the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament demanded that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive be rewritten, the European Union has delayed plans to approve the controversial rules providing for patenting computer software ...

Yahoo today announced the beta release of the Yahoo Toolbar for the Firefox Web browser, giving the Mozilla Foundation's platform what analysts said is an endorsement of the alternative browser that should help it take more market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer ...

Call it a triple whammy against spam. EarthLink today announced four more lawsuits in its continuing fight against fraudulent and deceptive commercial e-mails. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Pfizer announced parallel lawsuits against two international pharmacy spam rings. It is just the latest barrage of lawsuits by each in the fight against spam ...

What do New York and Nigeria have in common? Something far more serious than beginning with the letter "n." Both of these regions have earned the dubious distinction of ranking among the riskiest places in the world for e-commerce, according to a survey by CyberSource Corporation ...

Nokia and RealNetworks have announced an expansion of their long-term relationship to enable Nokia to ship RealNetworks' media formats on a wide variety of its advanced phones ...