Tim Gray

Microsoft has hired Kevin Turner, a senior executive from Wal-Mart, as its chief operating officer, filling a position it had largely left open since Richard Belluzzo departed the role in 2002. Turner, 40, is slated to oversee the company’s sales, marketing and service professionals on a global basis as well as the company’s fulfillment and […]

Yahoo’s musical rotation is about to get some serious airtime now that the company is testing a new search-engine feature that can sift through millions of songs offered by various Internet music services. The free service allows users to peruse a list of 50 million music, voice and other files for free. “Yahoo Audio Search […]

America Online has made its first major acquisition in nearly a year with the buy of online storage and backup services firm Xdrive. The move to acquire Xdrive, a provider of Internet information and content management solutions and services, further solidifies AOL’s interest in protecting and managing a variety of its customers’ data files and […]

New security threats are bombarding instant messaging clients, thanks to a rise in scams for the second consecutive quarter. The Akonix Security Center reported a total of 42 new threats aimed at corporate IM systems in July, which is a 24 percent increase over the previous month. The group also issued 24 security policy updates, […]

The Mozilla Foundation has created a commercial subsidiary in order to generate revenue and increase market share. The group today announced the launch of Mozilla Corporation. “The formation of the Mozilla Corporation gives the Mozilla Foundation new capabilities for becoming even more successful in delivering innovative open source end-user products,” Mitchell Baker, president of Mozilla […]

Oracle bought the technology and key personnel of Context Media earlier this month, in order to integrate enterprise document management (ECM) with its own software, officials said Tuesday. The acquisition closed July 15, and officials did not release financial details. Providence, R.I.-based Context Media is an Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) developer, creating software that ties […]

Microsoft today found itself in the line of fire once again, this time from two United Sates war veterans groups angered over the company dubbing its next version of Windows “Vista.” The VistA Software Alliance and WorldVista, both non-profit groups that assist health care organizations with the U.S. Veterans Administration’s VistA software programs, denounced Microsoft’s […]

Network equipment giant Cisco and Internet Security Systems (ISS) jointly filed a restraining order Wednesday against the management of the Black Hat Conference and a security expert who gave a presentation claiming attackers can compromise Cisco routers. The presentation on flaws in Cisco’s router software was initially scrapped earlier in the week after Cisco and […]

AOL has released its second beta in as many days with the latest build of My AOL, a personalized home page on the media conglomerate’s AOL.com Web portal. Like the “My Yahoo” and “My Google” personalized pages, “My AOL” provides users with access to information based on their specific needs and interests, including accessing their […]

TippingPoint, a unit of 3Com , launched what it called Zero Day Initiative, which rewards security researchers for informing the company of any security bugs. Announced at the Black Hat Security conference taking place in Las Vegas this week, the program is designed to extend its research organization and tap into the best security minds […]

AOL released a beta today that lets users access the company’s Web search from handsets, smartphones and PDAs. The company announced that it is testing a suite of new mobile search services that automatically adapt results pages to mobile screens and give mobile user access to the AOL Search service, Pinpoint Shopping Search and AOL […]

Computer Associates added another notch to its security belt today with the announcement it acquired e-mail security software vendor Qurb. The all-cash transaction beefs up CA’s eTrust security management solutions portfolio by improving its ability to block spam and protect users from phishing attacks, e-mail fraud and other e-mail-based threats, the company said. Details of […]