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A Colorado man has been ordered to pay US$6 million in damages and legal fees for spamming thousands of MySpace.com users. Scott Richter of Westminster, Colorado, must pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in legal fees, a court-appointed arbitrator ruled on Thursday. Richter, wh... More...

The U.S. Executive Office of the President doesn't have to turn over information on an alleged 10 million missing e-mail messages to a government watchdog group seeking information on how the e-mails were lost, a judge ruled Monday. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) had ... More...

In a quest to make computing more interactive, Intel on Wednesday said it is working on video search technology that it hopes to bring to its future multimedia platforms. The video search technology, which is being developed at Intel labs in U.S. and China, cuts down videos frame-by-frame and the... More...

Just hours after saying it had ended talks over a possible investment from Microsoft , Yahoo announced a deal with Google to run some of Google's advertisements alongside Yahoo search results. The nonexclusive deal unites the online advertising businesses of Google and Yahoo and comes as a set... More...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should abolish early-termination fees because they're unfair to customers, two mobile phone customers and a state regulator said Thursday. Early-termination fees, or ETFs, charged by wireless carriers are "unique and frankly predatory," Molly W... More...

A key Xbox marketing leader is leaving Microsoft amid executive shuffling in the company's gaming business. Jeff Bell , corporate vice president of global marketing for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, is leaving the company at the end of the summer to pursue other interests afte... More...

Just hours after saying it ended talks with Microsoft, Yahoo announced that it will start running advertising from Google alongside Yahoo search results. Yahoo expects the deal, which has a 10-year term, to generate US$250 million to $450 million in operating cash flow during the first 12 months... More...

U.S. House of Representatives members who worry that China may have been responsible for attacks on their computers have provided little evidence to back up their claims, according to computer security experts. The two Republican congressmen, Representatives Frank Wolf and Christopher Smith, disclo... More...

Intel plans to make the specification for a USB 3.0 host controller freely available during the second half of this year, hitting back at rumors the chip maker wanted to keep the technology for itself. The specification will be made available under a contract that doesn't require royalty payments.... More...

Microsoft is making some improvements to Internet Explorer that it hopes will make deploying and managing the browser easier for IT professionals. The second beta version of IE8, expected in August, will have new capabilities for IT staff, including an easier way to deploy the browser with Vista.... More...

Ping! Ping! Ping! If you use instant messaging, by now you should be used to the sound of friends, coworkers, and even strangers leaping onto your desktop with random messages, sometimes at the least convenient times. Popular wisdom says that these interruptions divert your attention away from your... More...

All over Beijing, Olympic countdown clocks tick off the seconds that China has awaited for seven years: the moments until Aug. 8, 2008, at 8:00 pm, when the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics begin. Perhaps the most important competition involving the Olympics will not take place during 16 ... More...

Yahoo is rolling back security and anti-spam enhancements to its Webmail service because they interfered with users' ability to retrieve POP e-mail from external accounts. Yahoo tried for about a week to solve the problem, which arose after it beefed up spam filtering and added SSL (Secure Sockets... More...

Intel engineers first began toying with a low-power microprocessor almost a decade ago, but their initial design was rejected by the company's top executives and the effort stalled soon after, an Intel executive said on Wednesday. The initial concept behind Atom, Intel's new family of low-power ch... More...

Microsoft has hired Paul Laudanski, the man behind the anti-phishing Castlecops.com Web site, to help with the software company's phishing and spam investigations. Laudanski, a former volunteer firefighter, announced the move on Castlecops.com last week, saying that he's looking to find someo... More...

A Dublin company introduced a financial alerts service based on emerging data-crunching technology from Microsoft on Wednesday. Zignals is opening a beta of a new service that lets users set parameters about stock performance and receive text messages or e-mail when the parameters are met. The... More...

Yahoo is rolling back security and anti-spam enhancements to its Webmail service because they interfered with users' ability to retrieve POP e-mail from external accounts. Yahoo tried for about a week to solve the problem, which arose after it beefed up spam filtering and added SSL (Secure Sockets... More...

Two months after their Web site was hacked, the organizers of Barack Obama 's presidential campaign are looking for a network security expert to help lock down their Web site. "Obama for America is looking for a network security expert who wants to play a key role in a historic political camp... More...

Perimeter eSecurity, a managed service provider, said on Tuesday it has acquired security vendor Edgeos for an undisclosed amount to boost the capabilities in its products. The acquisition of Edgeos, whose offerings include data scans and vulnerability assessments, will advance the security capabil... More...

The negative perception of Windows Vista may be catching up to Microsoft in the bank. On Wednesday a financial analyst firm lowered its revenue estimate for Microsoft's 2008 and 2009 fiscal years, citing a negative perception about the OS that is affecting its adoption by businesses. The resear... More...