Tim Gray

NEW YORK — Nortel Networks chief technology officer preached the virtues of converging voice, data and applications solutions today at a technology conference in New York while shareholders were voicing their frustrations in Canada. Phil Edholm, delivering a keynote address at the C3 Corporate & Channel Computing Expo, said VoIP has evolved from an early […]

Anti-fraud and online security solutions provider Cyota says it will provide data to EarthLink to enhance the ISP’s ScamBlocker toolbar. ScamBlocker, which helps users avoid phishing scams by redirecting them to EarthLink-generated Web pages after encountering fraudulent sites, will get a boost from Cyota anti-phishing solution dubbed FraudAction. It also provides additional information about phishing […]

University of Connecticut officials say a server containing the personal data of many of its staff and students was compromised on at least one occasion. The breached server contained the account information of 72,000 students and staff between the time of infection in 2003 and its recent discovery, school officials said. The computer hacking program, […]

Yahoo has closed all of its user-created Internet chat rooms amid fears that adults are using the sites to lure minors into sexual acts. “We began implementing the changes to Yahoo Chat user rooms in the past week,” spokeswoman Mary Osako, said. “We are working on improvements to enhance the user experience in compliance with […]

ICQ and Oddcast announced this week the joint launch of customizable animated avatars designed to make instant messaging more engaging for ICQ users. ICQ, an online community and long-time instant messaging service provider owned by America Online , and Oddcast, an outfit that develops and distributes conversational character software products, will offer customizable animated avatars […]

Mobile software security developers Pointsec and Extended Systems announced a joint collaboration this week that could help each company serve a range of secure mobile solutions to a growing market. The partnership will allow the companies to offer an integrated OEM version of one another’s solutions to its customers. However, while the two firms will […]

As details unfold about a massive security crack that exposed more than 40 million credit card accounts, security experts, legislators and corporate IT administrators are jockeying about ways to plug leaky data problems. The data breach at CardSystems Solutions, the latest in a growing list of data leaks involving scams and absent-minded workers, is believed […]

The lead judge of the European Union’s second-highest court has proposed changing justices in the Microsoft antitrust appeal, according to several published reports. The suggestion comes after a wave of criticism aimed at the judge heading the Microsoft antitrust case following a newspaper article he wrote criticizing other judges and clerks involved in the appeal, […]

Apparently, Bob Geldof doesn’t like eBay , either. Geldof, the former lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, first gained fame in the late 1970s with the hit “I Don’t Like Mondays.” A few years later he leveraged that success to help launch Live Aid in 1985. It was the first mega-concert […]

Yahoo announced it has started testing a service that allows users to search subscriber-only Web sites such as LexisNexis and the Wall Street Journal Online, areas known as “Deep Web.” The new search service, Yahoo Search Subscriptions, moves the Internet media company closer to rival Google as a distributor and aggregator of paid-for content, allowing […]

Browser-based attacks such as “pharming” and “phishing” scams are now the fastest-growing security threat on the Internet, according to a study by a technology trade organization. As the threat to IT operations from viruses and worms continued to drop this year, browser-based attacks steadily rose, according to the third annual report on IT security by […]

When America Online shifts from being an oft-perceived dusty dial-up subscription service to a one-stop-shop Web portal, there may be one area where they jump right in and compete: video search. As the media conglomerate moves to an ad-supported model, hoping to snatch revenue from the growing online advertising market, it is pushing the upcoming […]