Thor Olavsrud

Ailing media giant Vivendi Universal is preparing to jettison business search engine Scoot.com, according to the French financial newspaper Les Echos.

The government is urging "white hat" hackers to search for security flaws in software, but also wants them to only pass information about those flaws on

The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Services Architecture Working Group Tuesday published a new draft proposal intended to help other working groups

Network Associates Inc.'s continuing attempts to buy back McAfee.com have hit yet another snag. NAI's exchange offer -- composed of .90 shares of its

Seeking to claim definitive ownership of the business consulting and technology services space, Big Blue Tuesday unveiled plans to acquire

The concept of Web services has continued to evolve over the past two years since it was first introduced, but the clearest indication to date of the new

With an eye to the future, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates Thursday said the company will add 5,000 employees and ramp up

With a fresh infusion of $500 million burning a hole in its pocket (from an investor group led by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway), Level 3

Backbone provider assets are on the auction block, and it appears that Broomfield, Colo.-based Level 3 Communications is ready to ante up. The fiber optic

In an effort to spur work on 3D standards for the Web, Intel Tuesday established the CAD 3-D Working Group under the auspices of the Web3D consortium. The

The OASIS standards consortium Tuesday opened a technical committee on WS-Security, the Web services security specification submitted to the organization

The surprise announcement Wednesday afternoon that Cupertino, Calif.-based security firm Symantec would acquire enterprise security threat management