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While U.S. legislators and e-mail users are hoping a new national anti-spam law will stem the flow of unwanted electronic solicitations, companies engaged in legitimate marketing are concerned they will pay a higher price than spammers who skirt legislative requirements or conduct their business from offshore ...

Faced with a far more urgent need to support more Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, the Asian nations of Japan, South Korea and China are looking to lead the move to IPv6, considered by many to be the next-generation Internet ...

Topping other popular culture icons including Harry Potter, American Idol and Britney Spears among Web searches by millions of Yahoo users worldwide, the Kazaa file-trading music tool was the number one search subject of 2003, Yahoo reported this week ...

A New York technology industry research firm confirmed the complaints of consumers, analysts, office workers and lawmakers by blaming the unsolicited e-mail known as spam for nearly US$20 billion in lost time and expenses worldwide ...

Apple has responded to a series of security threats, including a vulnerability that might have granted would-be attackers root access and total control over systems running Mac OS X 10.3.2 and earlier versions. ...

The rate at which Americans are adopting cable and DSL high-speed Internet connections and going online slowed at the end of the year. But this slowing rate of growth is balanced by U.S. subscribers using the Internet for more types of activities, such as online banking and financial transactions, which grew more than any other genre of activity ...

Not to be left out of lawsuits being launched by rivals AOL and Amazon, Microsoft has announced that after a six-month investigation and collaboration with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, it has filed parallel lawsuits against a New York spamming ring accused of sending billions of "illegal and deceptive e-mail messages." ...

A Norwegian court has upheld a lower court exoneration of the man charged with cracking Hollywood's copy-protection technology for DVD movies. The software crack, known as DeCSS, earned then 15-year-old Jon Johansen the nickname 'DVD Jon.' ...

All of the thousands of subpoenas filed by the Recording Industry Association of America in its legal pursuit of accused illegal Internet file traders have been invalidated by a court ruling against the industry association ...

A lawsuit over riches and arms achieved while playing an online video game might sound bizarre, but the Chinese court that heard the case has ordered the video game company to return the virtual booty to the 24-year-old who filed the suit ...

Adding to its arsenal to launch an offensive in the growing market for enterprise content-management software, IBM announced another acquisition this week, this time of document-management specialist Green Pasture ...

The Canadian equivalent of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has signaled that it might follow the U.S. model of launching lawsuits against individuals accused of illegal music trading, which the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) blames for CAN$425 million in lost sales annually ...

Backing up its declarations that it will refocus on core competencies and protect and grow its communication strength, mobile phone maker Motorola has selected former Sun Microsystems president Edward Zander as its new chairman and chief executive officer ...

Claiming that industry-accepted, association-endorsed CD burning technology in use by several hardware and software companies is infringing on its own 1997 patent, Optima Technology has sued rival Roxio in an attempt to enforce its patent protections ...

It may have been a long time coming, but Microsoft's newest Service Pack 2 for Windows XP -- soon to be released for beta testing -- represents several significant changes to the software ...

In clarifying what is legal for Canadian online music fans, the Canadian Copyright Board ruled that downloading music files from peer-to-peer networks is acceptable. However, the board declared that uploading music files is illegal and also approved a levy on digital music players based on their storage capacity ...

In a move that falls in line with analyst predictions about offshore outsourcing, IBM plans to move nearly 5,000 software programming jobs to India and other foreign nations beginning next year, according to a published report ...

An alleged sender of unsolicited e-mail whose success earned him the title of "spam king" has been arrested in Virginia in what is being called the first felony prosecution of a spammer in the United States ...

Portability and price have combined to fuel consumer thirst for personal computers, according to IDC findings on worldwide PC shipments -- a trend the company says will be matched by more corporate spending through 2004 ...

At the same time that a judge's call for evidence sent SCO Group's stock price lower, the Lindon, Utah-based company was taking a hit on its Web site, against which attackers launched a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that also knocked some of the company's internal operations offline ...