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Major ISPs -- including Microsoft and Yahoo -- have indicated interest in an e-mail "stamp" approach that would charge bulk e-mailers 1 U.S. cent for each piece of e-mail in an effort to differentiate legitimate e-mail marketing from spam ...

Laying the groundwork for the next generation of computer microprocessors that will push clock speeds higher, Intel has released new Pentium 4 desktop chips -- code-named "Prescott" -- that promise improved performance for both consumer and business users ...

While Apple may have lost the operating system battle to Microsoft, it has become a major player in the digital music market, thanks to the company's successful iPod player and iTunes online music store. However, Microsoft has managed to make its Windows Media Audio (WMA) music format the standard of nearly all other online music stores and players -- with the notable exception of PC partner HP, which recently announced a partnership with Apple to adopt its competing music format...

In the face of criticism that any legislative efforts to curb spam will be limited by national boundaries, the Federal Trade Commission has announced collaboration with 36 agencies in 26 countries to inform ISPs and other organizations that their servers can be used to relay spam with spoofed Internet addresses ...

In a move aimed at bolstering its business model after struggling in the PC space and attempting to move into the consumer-electronics market, Gateway has announced it will buy low-end PC seller eMachines for 50 million Gateway shares and US$30 million in cash. It is a deal altogether worth about $234 million ...

After its initial print-advertising offensive against the Linux operating system in the United States this month, Microsoft soon will be telling U.K. technology professionals to "Get the Facts" as it broadens its cost-benefits campaign overseas ...

Marking a new level of sophistication in computer attacks, a variant of the MyDoom worm -- described as the fastest-moving virus in history -- is following up on the first worm's success with a new outbreak ...

In a new report, the Entertainment Software Association counters the perception that it sells mostly violent video games to America's youth. Mature-rated games accounted for just 12 percent of last year's US$7 billion in computer and video game sales, according to the report. ...

In response to what is being called the fastest-spreading computer virus of all time, SCO Group -- targeted by the MyDoom worm's estimated 3 million infected machines in a planned denial-of-service (DoS) attack scheduled for February 1st -- is offering a US$250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the worm's creators ...

IBM and Philips announced a joint initiative to collaborate on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for companies using supply-chain software ...

PKWare and WinZip, companies that have been competitors in the world of the popular Zip file format, have called a truce on the latest versions of their products in hopes of cultivating greater interoperability between the two companies' file-compression and decryption technologies ...

As a result of a copy-protection secret being made public, individuals who posted instructions on the Internet that outlined how to use software to break DVD copy protection are off the hook after a long legal battle ...

Despite a recommendation from researchers to halt the project before it is applied in the upcoming primary elections, the United States is pushing forward with intentions to use an experimental Internet-voting system in the primaries and in the presidential election in November ...

Internet music file traders who thought they were in the clear after a court ruling late last year might still find the Recording Industry Association of America looking for them and taking them to court ...

In an effort to pair and propel two emerging technologies, IBM, HP, Akamai and other tech companies have proposed new specs to integrate grid computing with Web services ...

Microsoft is facing criticism over compliance with its antitrust settlement as several states raise concerns that the deal is not promoting as much software competition as it was supposed to ...

Move over, pop-ups. There is a new advertisement on the Internet promising television-quality video and audio without the usual stutters that typically have been associated with streaming media across the Internet ...

If your name were Mike Rowe and you created Web site software, the thought of an Internet site at MikeRoweSoft.com might sound like a good bet. But as a 17-year-old Canadian named Mike Rowe has found out, that bet turned out to be risky ...

A worm -- known as Bagle -- is spreading primarily among Asian and Pacific Rim computers. The worm does not disguise itself as porn, pictures from friends or funny jokes, yet its simplicity has already duped many users into running the attached executable and perpetuating its existence ...

In a somewhat uncharacteristic announcement about Linux, Hewlett-Packard said its revenue from the open-source operating system and connected products and services hit record levels in 2003, earning the Palo Alto, California-based company US$2.5 billion, an increase of about a half-billion dollars from last year ...