Tim Gray

The deadline to complete the security requirement segment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) passed today without much fanfare, but it could be sometime before it is known who has complied with the government regulations. “Considering everything that is involved with compliance, there are a lot of factors as to why some […]

America Online today announced its latest initiative to clamp down on the proliferation of identity theft sites, as well as monitor suspected bogus Web sites 24 hours a day. The company has partnered with Cyota, a New York-based anti-fraud and online security solution provider for financial institutions, in order to identify and block sites that […]

Business networking firm LinkedIn has moved beyond its peer-to-business job search market, which created a network of 2.4 million users in just a few years, and has added a referral-powered directory of business service providers. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company launched LinkedIn Services, a network that will connect its growing cache of professionals and business […]

Not Since the cultural revolution has the Chinese government worked seemingly so hard to control the flow of information. But as technology, especially the Internet, continues to connect the world, censorship in the most populous country has managed to keep up with rapid changes in technology, university researchers said in a study this week. “China’s […]

Apple’s iPod may be hot – supernova hot with the hipster set – but the supernova’s got a ways to go before it burns out, according to a study published this week. That’s because the growing MP3 market in United States households had only reached the 12 percent saturation point by the end of 2004, […]

British financial giant HSBC is notifying 180,000 people in the United States that their credit information may be vulnerable to thieves. The bank said data about customers who used its MasterCard credit cards to make purchases at a retail store may have been exposed. HSBC said its card, the General Motors-branded MasterCard, was used at […]

America Online announced today that it has formalized interoperability agreements with four enterprise Instant Messaging firms that would allow them federated access to the company’s messaging network. The deal marks a kind of rebirth of the federated approach to enterprise IM platforms that major providers such as AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft have struck in past […]

A group of leading technology firms has decided to cut proposed royalties on essential anti-piracy systems rather than face a potential feud with mobile phone companies. MPEG LA, which includes ContentGuard, Philips Electronics and Sony, announced this week it will revise the terms of a joint patent portfolio license it will offer for use of […]

Information publisher Reed Elsevier expanded today the number of people it estimates were exposed to scammers on its LexisNexis databases last month. They now say the number is likely 10 times more than originally reported. “The first figures were based only on our initial investigation,” Patrick Kerr, a spokesman for Reed Elsevier, told internetnews.com. Kerr […]

As the fight to win the war on spam escalates in the courts and even Congress, many Americans are turning a blind eye toward the deluge of unsolicited e-mails always offering better sex or lower mortgage rates, according to a new study. The report, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, said 53 […]

America Online continued to expand the boundaries of its Internet service this week, adding its latest wrinkle Monday when the company announced plans to launch a Web-based radio service with XM Satellite Radio. The co-branded radio service is expected to bulk up AOL’s radio offerings at a time when competition in the Internet radio market […]

In 2004, Bill Gates stood before a room full politicians, economists and business leaders and declared a war on spam. “It will soon be a thing of the past,” Microsoft’s chief software architect told those gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, before laying out a three-pronged approach to eradicating the scourge of […]