Tim Gray

Microsoft lawyers have seen the inside of plenty of courtrooms around the world in recent years, but now one small technology firm might give the software giant a legal punch in the nose right in its own backyard — in Redmond. The potential backyard brawl between David and Goliath, in this case both of Redmond, […]

Microsoft today launched a beta version of MSN’s Virtual Earth, an answer to Google’s satellite image search. Much like Google Earth, the MSN tool provides detailed street-level maps and point-of-interest information throughout the United States. Viewers can pan and zoom crisp images along particular travel routes, visit detailed photos of cities or just take a […]

The Mozilla Foundation will hold off releasing the next revision of its popular open-source browser Firefox until late September. The announcement, made by developer Ben Goodger on the Mozilla Web site, is likely a stalling tactic to shore up recent security difficulties in the browser. Firefox 1.1 had been scheduled for release this month. “Nothing […]

Marc Cenedella is president and CEO of TheLadders.com, an executive job search service offering $100k+ sales, marketing and finance jobs. A former senior executive at HotJobs.com, he founded TheLadders.com in July 2003 to address what he calls one of corporate America’s biggest ironies: the more successful an individual, the harder it is to find solid […]

A worm packing a malicious punch is on the loose disguised as a music file making its way through the wild via AOL’s Instant Messenger. The new version of the Opanki worm has been hitting some sour notes with IM users by posing as an iTunes file named iTunes.exe. It is designed to lure the […]

Microsoft today made its third move in about seven months in the e-mail anti-virus protection sector when the software maker announced it would acquire managed services firm FrontBridge. Marina Del Rey, Calif.-based FrontBridge specializes in managed services for secure enterprise e-mail and messaging. The move will bolster Microsoft’s ability to deliver a service for enforcing compliance through […]

The University of Southern California joined a growing number of schools to report a computer security breach where sensitive personal data may have been compromised, officials said on Tuesday. The school’s online application database was broken into last month, leaving 270,000 records exposed. The information compromised included names and Social Security numbers. It was the third […]

Imagine waking each day to find the neighborhood store has posted flyers all over the cars parked legally up and down your block. Pretty annoying, huh? And before you chuck the imaginary leaflets to the curb, all the while wondering what kind of entrepreneur would go out of his way to aggravate potential customers, maybe […]

Networking firm LinkedIn will announce the release of LinkedIn for Groups on Tuesday, its third premium service since its launch in May of 2003. LinkedIn Jobs, launched in March as a social networking Web site, is hoping to capitalize on several premium services that, in addition to its relationship powered job board, are expected to […]

Antivirus vendor Trend Micro today began rolling out Network Reputation Services, a portfolio of network-based, anti-spam services designed to complement the company’s existing anti-spam offerings. The services represent the first offering spawned from the company’s acquisition last month of Kelkea, an IP filtering and reputation services provider. Trend Micro acquired the company with plans to […]

The popularity of computer science at American undergraduate institutions has taken a major hit over the past few years, with enrollment levels dropping to lows not seen since the early 1970s. Maybe that’s because many job prospects for computer science grads have been shipped overseas. Once-celebrated and sought-after computer science majors have seen many of […]

Network equipment supplier Cisco has issued patches for several security flaws in its voice-over IP gateways that hackers could exploit and use to eavesdrop on telephone calls. The vulnerability could also be exploited to issue denial-of-service attacks on services managed by its VoIP software platform. The most recent VoIP security flaws, discovered by security unit Internet […]