Tim Gray

The music industry’s syndicate of major record labels today announced it has filed another round of copyright infringement lawsuits against 757 individuals accused of Internet theft, including computer network users at 17 different colleges. The lawsuits — filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which represents over 90 percent of all record labels […]

The University of Georgia says it is working with state and federal officials to determine if a computer hacker accessed the names and Social Security numbers of more than 1,600 current and former employees. Most of the employees work in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, one of the largest of the university’s 15 […]

Navigation systems firm TomTom will launch a route finder device for cars together with mapping Web site MapQuest, the companies announced. MapQuest chose the Concord, Mass.-based hardware manufacturer because it offered “the latest technology and the best consumer experience in personal navigation devices,” Austin Klahn, CTO for MapQuest, said in a statement. “This move extends […]

For the 43rd consecutive year The New York Film Festival will feature works from countries around the world, yet this season’s event will mark the first time organizers are attempting to deliver them to a truly a global audience. The New York Times has teamed with several Internet companies, including The FeedRoom and Mirror Image, […]

Google celebrated its birthday this week with a youthful boast appropriate for a seventh birthday party: We’re better than you! As the search giant welcomed lucky No. 7, it took the opportunity to announce it had expanded its index of Web pages to become three times larger than any other search engine. That means you, […]

As Hurricane Rita’s winds whip up force off the Gulf Coast and officials continue to evacuate over a million area residents, Internet watchdogs warn another wave of chaos may not be far behind the storm. The SANS International Storm Center today said it is now working with the US-CERT Control Systems Security Center, a department […]

Security software giant Symantec is expanding its line of products with the acquisition of behavior-based security and anti-phishing firm WholeSecurity. The Austin, Texas-based WholeSecurity offers software that analyzes viruses, worms and other malicious code and supplies real-time protection against threats without the need for traditional security signatures. “WholeSecurity provides industry leading protection from phishing attacks, […]

Google today introduced Google Enterprise Professional Program, a partner service for developers, consultants and independent software vendors looking to increase Google’s enterprise search capabilities. The new enterprise group, which has more than 2,000 customers and has experienced more than 100 percent growth in the first half of this year, allows service providers and software developers […]

Business and governments will soon be able to get real-time data about the contents and locations of cargo ships traversing the globe with a new tracking service delivered by IBM and Danish firm Maersk Logistic. The initiative, dubbed Intelligent Trade Lane, is expected to bring real-time monitoring to global supply-chain operations. Intelligent Trade Lane incorporates […]

E-mail identification firm Iconix launched a service today that displays sender or brand logos in consumer inboxes to signal authenticated e-mails. The authentication technology, called Truemark, enhances popular e-mail clients by enabling them to display icons in their inboxes to help identify messages from senders they trust. When an e-mail is received from a business […]

UPDATED: The European Commission may bring a fresh round of competition charges against an already embattled Microsoft after it received several complaints recently about the software giant. “The European Commission has received a number of informal complaints about Microsoft,” Jonathan Todd, a spokesman for the commission, said in an e-mail to internetnews.com. “Any decision on […]

Microsoft said today it has filed separate lawsuits against eight of its resellers for allegedly passing off counterfeit copies of its software through distribution channels. The world’s biggest software maker has filed suits in Arizona, California, Illinois, Minnesota and New York against the privately held companies who allegedly sold counterfeit copies of several different software […]