Harris Interactive Inc. has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Rochester, N.Y., against more than a dozen Internet companies and an antispam organization for improperly identifying the market-research firm as a spammer and blocking its e-mail to users.
Dutch engineers have found a pair of holes in Lotus Development's Notes and Domino's password encryption and the security on public versions of the address list.
Before trusting your data and your Web site to an application service provider or Web hoster, make sure you've got a backup plan.
That's the advice from a number of users and analysts after thousands of e-commerce sites were taken offline and some destroyed altogether by unrelated outages at two Verio data centres.
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed an amendment to an appropriations bill that would force federal agencies to show how they collect personal data from the Internet.
A bipartisan trio of lawmakers recently introduced legislation in both houses of Congress that would prevent firms from secretly monitoring employees' e-mail and Internet use.
Marimba Inc. co-founder Kim Polese has stepped aside as CEO, but will continue full time as chairman of the board and chief strategy officer of the Internet infrastructure management company.
While PC sales in the U.S slowed during the second quarter, overseas shipments went up, and new offerings may spur growth at home by year's end, according to two reports on PC sales.
A court this month invokedrecent legislation protecting companies from cybersquatters when it ordered a pornographic Web site to stop using Mattel's trademark "Barbie" as part of its domain name.
The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday night passed an amendment that forces federal agencies to show how they collect personal data from the Internet.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed an antispam bill this week that would prohibit commercial e-mail messages from being sent to recipients who have asked to be removed from a sender's mailing list.
Legislation passed last year to protect companies from cybersquatters passed a critical test July 13, when a judge from the Southern District of New York ordered a pornographic Web site to stop using Mattel's trademark "Barbie" as part of its domain name.
By a 427-1 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed an antispam bill that would prohibit commercial e-mail messages from being sent to recipients who have asked to be removed from the sender's distribution list.
Oracle Corp. Tuesday confirmed that it's preparing to announce plans to work with third-party application service providers (ASPs) in addition to pushing its own Business OnLine hosting unit, which is currently the only vehicle users have for outsourcing the management of Oracle's business applications.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday named former IBM executive Bob Dies to head up its Information Resources division, which oversees the development and maintenance of the law enforcement agency's computer systems and communications networks.
Drkoop.com Inc., another high-profile Internet venture struggling for survival, continues to suffer ill health with further losses, shareholder lawsuits and the resignation of two top executives as the latest symptoms.