Thor Olavsrud

A federal judge issued a ruling last Wednesday which could spell bad news for Internet Service Providers by holding them liable for content they don’t produce. Judge Richard M. Berman of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York said he would not dismiss the suit leveled against EarthLink Inc. subsidiary […]

Gambling is part of the current of American life, from the Numbers Game that was the underground fore-runner to today’s state-run lotteries to horse racing, office betting pools and, of course, casinos. Like all other parts of American life, gambling has found its way onto the Internet and has made a comfortable home for itself […]

IBM Corp. has been pouring money into Linux lately, vowing to spend $1 billion on Linux over the next year and an additional $300 million in Linux services over the next three years. Just where that investment is going became a little clearer Friday as Big Blue raised the curtain on a portfolio of Linux-enabled […]

In the wake of a disappointing year for consumer PC sales, Compaq Computer Corp. appears to be shifting its focus to the corporate computing market. The Houston-based hardware manufacturer Thursday forged a two-year alliance with Mountain View, Calif.-based Intuit Inc., makers of the popular Quicken personal finance software products that is worth an estimated $60 […]

Cisco Systems Inc. Tuesday claimed that its high-end core router, the Cisco 12416 Internet router, outperformed its competitors in a series of benchmark tests performed by independent benchmarking and network design consultancy Network Test Inc. So why are Network Test and optical networking site Light Reading — which commissioned the tests — crying foul? Because […]

Telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies Inc. confirmed Wednesday that it is exploring several options for its Optical Fiber Solutions business, including selling the business or forming a joint venture. The Atlanta-based Optical Fiber Solutions unit — with 6,300 employees — designs and manufactures optical fiber, fiber cable, specialty fiber components and fiber connectivity apparatus. Lucent, […]

IBM Corp. Tuesday strengthened its Asian presence by joining forces with Japanese electronics giant Hitachi Ltd. to leverage the manufacturing and development capabilities of their respective server lines. The deal is a win for IBM and affirms the strength of its technology architecture, according to Brad Day, an analyst with Giga Information Group Inc. “This […]

A security hole in one of the Internet”s most basic protocols — discovered by security consulting firm Guardent, Inc. — leaves the door open for potentially devastating network attacks that would be difficult to defend against, detect, or trace. Guardent senior research scientist Tim Newsham discovered a weakness in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) which […]

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), IBM Corp. and Toshiba Corp. Monday joined forces to turn the microprocessor industry on its ear by producing a microchip — geared at harnessing the broadband Internet — with more processing power than IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer. The companies said they will invest more than $400 million collectively over the […]

Since its launch Monday, idealab’s newest company, New.Net, has been stirring up waves by making an end-run around Internet governance board ICANN to offer 20 new top level domains (TLDs). The company offers to register new domains in extensions ranging from .xxx to .kids, .shop and .mp3 for $25 per year. The catch is that […]

Linux is now the fastest-growing operating system on the market, with a powerful presence in corporate computing — primarily behind servers — and strong potential in the embedded space; but, unsurprisingly, it faces difficult-to-overcome barriers when it comes to desktop usage, according to a recently released survey by InternetNews.com parent internet.com Corp. internet.com, together with […]

Microsoft Corp. Thursday revealed six design studios have added their names to the roster of companies that will exclusively design games under the Microsoft label for its forthcoming Xbox game console. The Redmond, Wash.-based software juggernaut already had 18 studios in the bag, including Oddworld Inhabitants Inc., Peter Molyneux’s Lionhead Satellites and Microsoft’s in-house Xbox […]