Tim Gray

America Online and Time Warner Cable announced plans Monday that would provide a custom version of the AOL service to the cable company’s Road Runner broadband users. The move is expected to increase the media conglomerate’s sagging Internet business, which has lost customers to cheaper broadband services provided by telephone companies, while helping AOL boost […]

Portal powerhouse Yahoo has added a new tool to its local search service that sends query results in the form of a text message from a user’s computer to their mobile phone. Yahoo Local, which provides business listings, became the first major player to offer users the option of forwarding search results from their PC […]

For many online users, the thought of Microsoft jumping deeper into the computer security software game might seem a welcome and logical respite aimed at helping rid their lives of spyware, malware and worms trolling the Internet. But as more research firms point to a steady growth of users abandoning Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser in […]

Craig Newmark created Craigslist while working as an analyst for Charles Schwab in 1995 in San Francisco. The site was designed to inform friends about upcoming art and technology events in the Bay Area and also doubled as a modest space to post his resume. But with the dot-com boom beginning to swell and the […]

A former Microsoft employee accused of ordering more than $7 million worth of software at the company and selling it on the side for a huge personal profit pleaded guilty Monday to fraud and money laundering charges, said federal prosecutors. Finn W. Contini, 36, of Redmond, Wash., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle […]

Internet retail giant Amazon introduced a new feature to an old service this week when it launched A9.com Yellow Pages — a guide to local businesses complete with photographs. The new service from the Seattle-based Amazon.com, developed by its wholly owned search subsidiary A9, compiled 20 million photos of businesses in 10 major United States […]

Security vendor McAfee announced the expansion of its network intrusion prevention system this week with the introduction of two new products designed to detect malicious code, spyware and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. The McAfee IntruShield 4010 and IntruShield 3000 are the latest products to be rolled out in the IntruShield family. Both are specially […]

Google took the latest swing in its search scuffle with other heavyweights this week when it launched a beta version of Google Video. The search tool enables users to scour the content of television shows on PBS, the NBA, Fox News and C-SPAN among others. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has recorded thousands of hours […]

Looking to drive its motor vehicle business to the top, eBay Motors has forged a partnership with E-Loan , which will provide financing services for the online auction giant. Users of eBay Motors will now be able to obtain cars and motorcycles without jumping through the traditional hoops of vehicle inspections or appraisals that most […]

With an eye squarely focused on meeting growing demands for server availability and security, LANDesk Software revamped its remote management product designed to enable IT professionals to monitor and improve server performance in real time. Server Manager 8.5 improves patch management performance, software distribution and remote control functions, according to Steve Workman, director of product […]

EBay flexed its market muscle again this week when it told its members the price of doing business with the online auctioneer was going up — in some cases as much as 60 percent. The San Jose, Calif.-based company will increase basic subscription rates in a number of areas beginning on Feb. 18. It is […]

Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure said it has detected a quick spreading and versatile new worm capable of infecting both Windows and cell phones using the Symbian operating system. Lasco.A spreads itself by searching SIS installation files in infected devices, and attaches itself as an embedded SIS file, according to Mikko Hypponen, director of anti-virus research […]