Matthew Hicks

Turning its attention to small- and mid-sized businesses, Macromedia Inc. on Tuesday introduced new monthly hosted and licensing plans for its web conferencing software. Macromedia, of San Francisco, launched two monthly pricing options for its Breeze Live Web conferencing software that is targeted to companies that want alternatives to annual hosting plans and traditional enterprise […]

A federal judge has let insurer GEICOs lawsuit against the two biggest providers of search-based advertising move forward, setting the stage for closer examination of whether the burgeoning form of online ads breaks trademark laws. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema last week rejected motions from Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.s Overture Services Inc. to dismiss […]

Readying for battle in the emerging areas of local and desktop search, enterprise search vendors are rolling out software to counter moves by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. FAST Search & Transfer ASA on Thursday launched an enterprise search application for Internet yellow pages, classifieds and directories aimed at the local and vertical search markets. Meanwhile, […]

NextPage Inc. is selling its portfolio of publishing applications to focus instead on a document-tracking service that it plans to launch later this year. Enterprise search vendor FAST Search & Transfer ASA has agreed to buy NextPages publishing applications business, including the technology, product lines and more than 500 customers, the companies announced on Wednesday. […]

LinkedIn Ltd., a social-networking service for business professionals, is getting ready to offer paid features that fine-tune the way users connect with each other. The Mountain View, Calif., startup is still determining the specifics of its premium-offerings plans, but it is considering such features as the ability to conduct reference checks on job candidates and […]

Microsofts sweeping changes to its next major Windows release are drawing little surprise from enterprise IT departments, many of whom were not counting on the most revolutionary changes promised in Longhorn. Late last week, Microsoft announced that it was dropping a centerpiece of Longhorn called WinFS (Windows File System) in order to meet its schedule […]

VeriSign Inc. is continuing its legal fight against the main overseer of the Internets domain-name system, despite the dismissal last week of its federal lawsuit against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Fulfilling its promise to sue again, VeriSign this time sued in state court and with a focus on breach-of-contract allegations. VeriSign, […]

Federal law enforcement may be heralding Operation Web Snare as the largest cyber-crime crackdown of its kind, but it is receiving mixed reviews on whether it will stymie the rise in Internet fraud. While some legal and online fraud experts view the operations 103 arrests and 53 convictions as a critical first step in deterring […]

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed VeriSigns antitrust lawsuit challenging the authority of the Internets main oversight body. The judge ruled that VeriSign Inc. could not prove its core antitrust claim against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, dismissing outright the antitrust allegation and declining to rule on the validity of the six […]

Google Inc. is making it easier for Webloggers to earn extra cash, while expanding the reach of its search-based advertising. Its Blogger service this week put out a call to bloggers to share in advertising revenues by joining Googles AdSense program, which displays advertisements targeted to the keywords in a sites content. Through AdSense, Google […]