InternetNews Staff

Verizon’s SuperPages.com wants to send more traffic to its local advertisers. MSN has the traffic, but it wants more local ad content. In the ongoing drive for local advertising dollars, a $100 billion market by some estimates, this is how deals are born. Verizon SuperPages.com ads began appearing this week on MSN’s local search engine […]

By Ed Sutherland Microsoft researchers are working in China and India to polish technology used by the software giant in order to compete with rivals. Today Microsoft unveiled its MSN adCenter Incubation Lab (adLab) in Beijing, China, where researchers put more than a dozen prototype digital-advertising technologies on display. While some projects are in the […]

By David Ian Miller Is Adobe Systems deliberately stomping on Microsoft’s technological toes or just breaking into the profitable digital rights management marketplace? The company says neither. Its recent purchase of a partner’s digital rights management technology is simply business as usual. The newest addition to Adobe’s product line-up is Navisware’s FileLine Digital Rights Management […]

With 2005 winding down, it’s time to look into the crystal ball and see what the future holds in various areas of high-tech. Will it be a case of What was old is new? A glut of new innovation? Or will it be a smattering of both? Will the European Commission really start fining Microsoft […]

If 1995 is considered the arrival of the browser and the rise of the Web, then 2005 was the year to take stock of what those 10 years hath wrought — the browser, the Web, the impact of the Internet across all walks of life. But more than 10-year birthday parties for Java and the […]

Market activity slowed on both the NASDAQ and Dow Jones on the Friday before the long Christmas holiday weekend. The NASDAQ was up by 1.74 to 2,248.23 at midday on light volume following Thursday’s strong close. By far, the biggest stock story of the day was Affiliated Computer Services , which is reportedly in talks […]

December 23, 2005 Want to see just how your microwave, phone or Bluetooth devices are impacting your home wireless network? Wi-Spy is a new $99 spectrum analyzer tool from MetaGeek that combines a simple USB adapter with a software interface that handles the data analysis, even recording data so you can compare old and new […]

Wireless provider Sprint Nextel has officially launched a consulting arm with its new subsidiary called Sprint Enterprise Mobility. The division will focus on servicing large business and government customers. The move is seen as a way for Sprint to differentiate its enterprise data services from rival carriers at a time when ever major provider is […]

The holiday shopping season arrived this year with robust forecasts of seasonal shopping cheer, but along with the good news heralded for e-retailers came the drawback of having to deal with more Internet scammers. So, e-mail identification company Iconix this week introduced its “Checking It Twice” program to help consumers identify which of those holiday […]

By Scott Lewis Last year, 23.3 million Americans worked at home, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. It is becoming increasingly popular for companies to cut their budgets by asking employees to work from home several days a week. The primary reason for moving to this model is cost savings in real estate. Many […]

Last week, Ecutel Systems launched a new endpoint security technology called EASi, the Endpoint Automated Security Initiative, a module for its Viatores Mobile IP VPN suite. Company president Tom Matthews says it lets “administrators create and enforce policies so they can meet security standards on devices” in remote offices, in the field, or on the […]

SiriCOMM has seven new hotspot locations with Pilot Travel Centers. They include Sturbridge, Massachusetts; Winona, Mississippi; East St. Louis, Illinois; Vienna, Georgia; and Georgetown, Sonora, and Lebanon Junction, Kentucky. This pushes the number of Pilot locations with SiriCOMM hotspots to 262. More than ready to get back on its feet after the Hurricane Katrina disaster, […]