Ed Sutherland

Cable giant Time Warner tapped software developer OpenTV to help with the integration of new customers while enhancing interactive television service. Ninety percent of Time Warner customers use set-top boxes from Scientific-Atlanta, but a deal with Comcast to acquire Adelphia Communications may result in millions of new customers connected to Motorola cable boxes. Today’s multi-year […]

ISP Qwest Communications became the first to support Microsoft’s recently unveiled Windows Live OneCare security product. Although the announcement doesn’t signal an antivirus revolt, the move is a “step in the right direction for Microsoft,” according to experts. Qwest is offering a OneCare subscription for free to its 1.7 million broadband users despite the fact […]

And now come the lawsuits. First came Vonage’s IPO, which was followed by a 30 percent tumble in the price. Then Vonage threatened to sue customers who got cold feet on buying into the IPO. Now the embattled VoIP provider faces a class-action lawsuit charging customers were “crammed into the Vonage IPO regardless of their […]

Skype, eBay’s Internet phone service, has inked a deal with Dell, making the free VoIP software an option on new high-end multimedia laptops. Skype comes preinstalled on Dell’s XPS 2010 entertainment PC or can be selected as part of the audio-visual software package for the XPS M1210 notebook computer. The multimedia package also includes a […]

AOL refused to comment on reports it is seeking a buyer for its UK ISP unit. According to The Guardian, AOL plans exit Europe in the face of free Internet service. AOL spokesperson Nicholas Graham also refused comment on reports the ISP has hired Citigroup to seek out buyers for its French and German ISP […]

Microsoft says it is at an impasse over demands from Adobe to remove PDF features from Office and the upcoming Vista operating system. “We’ve now reached a point where what they are asking is not in the best interest of our company,” Stacy Drake, a Microsoft spokesperson, told internetnews.com today. Adobe was not immediately available […]

Rebounding from recent reports that China hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Word to launch a Trojan horse, Microsoft is advising users to run the application in “safe mode.” Security experts last week reported a spate of incidents involving Asian and U.S. government agencies that received official-looking e- mail with attached Word files. Selecting […]

Could Symantec’s antivirus software guarding company, as well as government computers include a backdoor allowing hackers access to corporate data? A new security vulnerability rated as highly severe by a security research firm, “has everything required for a worm,” according to Mike Puterbaugh, vice president of marketing for eEye Digital Security. Symantec security protects more […]

UPDATED: Internet portal Yahoo and online auctioneer eBay announced a wide-ranging search and advertising pact designed to withstand Google’s encroachment. As part of a multi-year partnership set to begin testing over the next several months with a full roll-out later this year, Yahoo and eBay inked exclusive agreements on key technologies as well as co-branded […]

South Korea’s High Court is Microsoft’s last resort in its bid to overturn an antitrust ruling handed down by the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC). Yesterday, the KFTC rejected Microsoft’s appeal of a ruling requiring the software giant two versions of its operating system, and now Microsoft looks to the High Court. “Microsoft will continue […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating networking company Sycamore Networks, the Chelmsford, Mass.-based firm announced. The government probe into executive stock options is just the latest in a string of accounting inquiries hitting the tech industry. The SEC investigation centers on stock options Sycamore granted company executives from 1999 to 2001, according to […]

Will fans of Internet calling services put their money where their mouths are and pay $17 to buy 31.2 million shares in the technology? That’s the hope of Voice over IP (VoIP) company Vonage Holdings Corp., which plans to use the majority of proceeds of a $531 million IPO to expand the business while paying […]