Ryan Naraine

New York-based ActiveBuddy has won a crucial patent covering instant messaging bot-making technology, but hobbyists and amateur developers aren’t buying the company’s claim that it invented the technology. ActiveBuddy was granted Patent No. 6,430,602 which covers the method and system for interactively responding to instant messaging requests and the company said it would move swiftly […]

Yahoo’s transformation from an ad-dependent Web portal to a full-fledged B2B services firm took another step forward Wednesday with the rollout of a revamped My Yahoo Enterprise Edition 5.0 targeting corporate customers. The new-look My Yahoo Enterprise Edition (see demo), which is scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter this year, is the first major […]

Intel Corp. on Tuesday announced plans to use a technology that stretches the atoms apart in a silicon wafer, a process that mass-produces the world’s smallest transistors. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker’s big leap into the nanotechnology era extends on the “strained silicon” technique first adopted by competitor IBM Corp but Intel would be […]

Anti-virus specialist McAfee.com has added two more popular peer-to-peer networks to its big customer retention push. McAfee has inked separate deals with Free Peers, Inc.-owned BearShare and Grokster to dangle freebie anti-virus software to file-sharing fans and eventually convert those into paying customers. The latest deals comes just days after McAfee found prime placement within […]

Security researchers have unearthed a flaw within the popular PGP encryption tool that could allow snoopers to decode sensitive e-mails. PGP , or Pretty Good Privacy, is the defacto standard for encryption on the Internet and is widely thought of as invincible but researchers at Counterpane Internet Security Inc and Columbia University say they have […]

America Online’s Nullsoft has completely rebuilt its Winamp MP3 player on the ‘Wasabi’ coding platform, targeting developers looking to personalize and customize the popular digital media program. And there is word AOL Music is finalizing plans for a premium version of the Winamp3 upgrade that targets the developer community. AOL’s announcement of the Winamp3 rollout […]

The controversy over a royalty rate structure for Internet radio streams has again been pushed to the front burner with news that both the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and a group of webcasters will appeal the CARP ruling. There is no word on when the actual appeals will be filed but briefs are […]

RealNetworks restructured and let go of 90 of its staffers Wednesday afternoon, a 10 percent reduction in its workforce. The Seattle software firm, going toe to toe with Microsoft in the fight for digital media supremacy on the Internet, said it would reshuffle its operations into systems software and consumer segments built around its

Looking for new distribution channels for its consumer line of anti-virus software, McAfee.com has inked deals to find customers among users of Morpheus and Blubster peer-to-peer networks. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based McAfee said the plan is to lure new customers by giving away the SecurityCenter software, which combines a free set of online security tools with […]

Less than a year after unveiling the first installment of a low-power chip family geared to conserve energy, the research arm of IBM Corp. has penned a deal with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new technology for energy-efficient and high-performing computing platforms. The deal comes on the heels of Big Blue’s […]

A potentially dangerous vulnerability has been detected in SunRPC-derived XDR libraries and the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has warned that exploitation could lead to denial of service, execution of arbitrary code, or the disclosure of sensitive information. In an advisory, CERT warned that the integer overflow xdr_array() function in Sun Microsystems’ XDR library can lead […]

A vulnerability has been detected in the Web Publisher feature in the iPlanet Enterprise Web Server and Netscape Enterprise Server products that exposes servers to brute force attacks. In an alert issued Friday, the CERT Coordination Center warned that the vulnerabilities could allow attackers to make repeated authentication attempts if a server is configured to […]