AOL has entered the home computer security realm, offering users a look-see at Total Care, its umbrella suite of PC protection. Internet portal AOL hopes to assuage the fears of its customers and other PC users facing a broad array of cyber threats and other technical problems with a combination security/computer troubleshooting service being launched […]

Yahoo Inc. has recently unveiled an upgraded version of its top-ranked financial information site that features new stock charting tools, improved investor chat rooms and financial video news. Yahoo is currently expanding the capabilities of its finance site, in a bid to expand the audience for its investor; the upgrade includes improved and more interactive […]

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a tool to scrub search engines of major spam Web sites that pollute results. The Redmond, Wash., software giant’s Cybersecurity and Systems Management Research Group has taken the wraps off Strider Search Defender, an experimental project that automates the discovery of search spammers through non-content analysis.

Web site had sued the search giant after it fell to a "zero" ranking in the Google index. Google is trying to convince a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges the heart of the company’s business: its methods for indexing and ranking Web pages. A California judge has dismissed a Web site’s lawsuit against […]

Time Warner recently said that it would unveil the new business strategy for its AOL division on August 2, after it releases its quarterly financial results, dismissing a Wall Street Journal report that it will lose up to $1 billion through 2009 as it offers more free services. The plan reflects Time Warner’s desire to […]

A clear view of your favorite French beach or monument is only a click away Millions of internet users have clicked on to "Geoportal,” the French answer to Google Earth offering high-resolution aerial imagery of France, in the first days of the site’s operation, the portal’s developers said. France unveiled a Web site www.geoportail.fr that […]

The gloves are off as Microsoft challenges Cisco Systems in the corporate communications market. Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. have struck a four-year deal to develop and sell products that make it easier for business people to locate and communicate with one another.

A security expert has created a search engine that can find malicious software using Google’s database. H. D. Moore, who is known for his hacking tool Metaspoilt, said his Malware search engine can locate websites hosting malicious files if a person enters the names of a virus or a Trojan in the query field. Moore, […]

After years of hoping to crush Linux, Microsoft is trying to show it can get along with its open-source rival. Microsoft Corp. is living up to its promise to reach out and build bridges with Linux and open-source community, said it is teaming up with Linux supplier XenSource to allow computers to run the upcoming […]

Google Inc. announced it is launching its online video store “Google Video” in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the U.K. and Canada. Online search giant Google has launched its Google Video service across Europe with partners including AETN, Buena Vista Television International, IMG Media, ITN, Premium TV and TalkbackThames on board. Google has […]