Tim Gray

Online retailer Amazon.com is adding another chapter to its canon of digital content with downloads of short stories from popular and best-selling authors. Called Amazon Shorts, the offering consists of literary works ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 words, each costing 49 cents. The move is another effort to bolster Amazon’s growing digital content strategy, which […]

The California ISP Association (CISPA), the largest state association of Internet service providers in the country, says the proposed merger between Verizon and MCI is a bad connection. In a hearing today before the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Mark Esser, vice president of CISPA’s board of directors, said the deal would change the structure […]

The seemingly never-ending barrage of fraud and identity theft on the Internet this year has continued to drive consumer fears skyward, according to a survey released today by RSA Security and LightSpeed Research. However, the survey also shows that consumers are still willing to increase the amount of personal business they do online, provided banks […]

While security firms continue to debate the severity of the Zotob worm plaguing the Windows Plug-and-Play vulnerability, hackers have released a new wave of worms aimed at taking over PCs running the nearly ubiquitous operating system. Among the latest is the Bozori worm, which attempts to eliminate infections by earlier versions of Zotob, so it […]

For nearly two years The Mozilla Foundation has enjoyed continued success after releasing its revolutionary browser, Firefox. And much of that success was squarely on the underdog’s ability to eat into Microsoft’s Internet Explorer’s(IE) market share. Now, for the first time since its November 2004 release, Firefox has lost market share of total online use, […]

UPDATED: A computer worm slamming corporate networks running Windows 2000 operating systems continued to make the rounds today after slowing down numerous high profile organizations on Tuesday. The Zotob.B virus, which surfaced earlier this month after Microsoft warned of the security flaw, has already hit media outlets including ABC, CNN, The Associated Press and The New York Times, among […]

Akonix has rolled out a security appliance for protecting against threats targeted toward IM use and peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing. The provider of enterprise-class solutions for security, compliance, and management of enterprise instant messaging (IM), says the Akonix L7 CM5000 is the first all-in-one appliance for IM and P2P security, compliance and management. With this “third […]

Market research firm In-Stat says it expects dual-mode cellular handsets to drive the mass consumer market to the eventual adoption of Voice over IP (VoIP) providers. In fact, the firm predicts 66 million users will sport Wi-Fi handsets by 2009 and 73 percent of consumer VoIP subscribers will use the devices. Currently, two percent of […]

Comcast said Tuesday that it has launched a new security offering for its high-speed Internet customers that will include three software products that protect against online threats. Philadelphia-based Comcast, the nation’s largest broadband provider, is now offering its 7.7 million High-Speed Internet customers three McAfee software products — VirusScan, Personal Firewall Plus and Privacy Service […]

Portable, handheld storage devices, like USB memory sticks and iPods, are posing a greater security risk internally to many businesses that are primarily focused on halting external threats. Centennial Software, a developer of IT asset discovery and security management solutions, said it is addressing one of the biggest, and possibly most overlooked, security threats facing […]

America Online continued to make moves into the mobile space today with the launch of a Web-based storefront and an updated mobile version of the AOL.com portal. The site, AOLMobile.com, lets users access the company’s Web functions from handsets, smartphones and other PDAs. The customizable site can be adjusted to present features and services available for their phone model and […]

A first mover in China’s Internet market, but never the top tier player, Yahoo pushed $1 billion into the game this week to buy a big chunk of Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce site. But was the hefty price, which included adjusting existing assets in China to acquire a 40 percent stake in Alibaba, a savvy […]