Tim Gray

As corporate interest in enterprise instant messaging (IM) continues to peak, moves to secure and standardize networks are keeping pace with increasing regulatory requirements and general concerns that public IM networks are unsafe for businesses. The Financial Services Instant Messaging Association (FIMA), created in 2002 to pressure vendors into standardizing IM software for compatibility, security […]

Security firm MessageLabs detected a new variant of the Mytob worm and said it intercepted 100 copies within the first several hours of its discovery today. Although it is similar to previous Mytob variants, this version of the malicious code, dubbed DoomBot, is delivered with a header warning individuals that their services are about to […]

Media conglomerate Time Warner’s struggling Internet division America Online this week laid off more than 700 employees, the company said on Wednesday. AOL, which has been exploring the possibility of joint ventures with several potential big name partners over the past year, shut down its Orlando, Fla., call center and cut jobs in several other […]

Tegic Communications announced the launch of a multi-modal user interface solution for text-enabled cell phones, smartphones and mobile devices. Tegic, whose T9 predictive text software is installed on 75 percent of all cell phones manufactured in the United States, has released the T9 Mobile Suite 1.0, the first multi-modal user interface solution for text-enabled cell […]

NEW YORK — With corporations increasingly depending on blogs for internal and external communications to improve consumer relations, conferences like this week’s BlogOn Social Media Summit 2005 continue to draw diverse crowds. David Weinberger, who delivered a keynote this morning at the second annual blogging summit in front of fellow bloggers, advertising executives and corporate […]

Security firm MessageLabs has detected a new variant of the IRCbot Trojan disguised as the latest release of the popular Skype VoIP software client version 1.4. More than 150 copies of the IRCbot, also known as Fanbot that is distributed via e-mail, have already been blocked by MessageLabs researchers. MessageLabs has put a “medium risk” […]

Google’s efforts to relocate the jurisdiction of a lawsuit against Microsoft hit a snag when the judge hearing the case issued a tentative ruling to stay the request, according to a posting on the court’s Web site. Judge Ronald M. Whyte, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, made the ruling […]

Jupitermedia today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, JupiterImages, acquired all shares of BananaStock for approximately $19 million in cash. Jupitermedia is the parent company of internetnews.com. “The acquisition of BananaStock’s images and business operations further solidifies JupiterImage’s position as one of the largest organizations in the business of selling royalty free digital images,” Alan Meckler, […]

Yahoo is slamming the doors to chat rooms with names that may promote sex between adults and minors as part of an agreement with law enforcement agencies. The announcement comes after the company closed all of its user-created Internet chat rooms in June amid fears that adults are using the sites to lure minors into […]

Internet giant Yahoo’s decision to create original news material may eventually change the way users look at the portal. But for now the strongest looks are coming from concerned content partners keeping a close eye on how their own content is faring on the site, say analysts. As an early entrant in the Internet portal […]

Akonix has launched a remote user agent providing comprehensive IM security and logging capabilities for mobile workforces, the company said today. The San Diego-based security solutions firm says its L7 Remote User Agent is the first IM security tool that enables remote workers to meet the same security requirements as those logged onto corporate networks […]

MovieFlix has brought together two of America’s favorite industries with a new bit of self-promotion by offering free gas cards at random to newly registered members. The Hollywood-based broadband movie provider on the Web, with 500,000 members, says all new MovieFlix members who successfully register for MovieFlix.com memberships, are now eligible to win a $250 […]