Matthew Hicks

A Korean Internet company is buying Lycos Inc. and its network of Web sites for $105 million. Terra Networks SA said on Monday that is it selling the U.S.–based portal operator to Daum Communications Corp., based in Seoul, South Korea, following a competitive process led by investment bank Lehman Brothers Inc. As previously reported, Terra […]

With its announcement Monday of an upgrade to its voice platform, Edify is laying out a new architecture for enterprises deploying speech applications. The Santa Clara, Calif., company said it plans to unbundle the core voice application server and voice browser from its Voice Interaction Platform when Version 9.0 is released in September. The move […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Watch out spammers. Academic researchers are raring for battle. On Friday, the inaugural Conference on E-mail and Anti-Spam opened here at Microsoft Corps campus with a decidedly different approach to fighting unwanted e-mail. Rather than touting products, speakers vetted research from universities and industry laboratories. Their approaches moved far beyond the Bayesian filtering […]

America Online Inc. is set to release an update to its Netscape Web browser in August, but it wont be coming out on Aug. 3 as has been widely speculated. The Netscape Store Web site, which sells CD copies of the browser suite, had listed Aug. 3 as a ship date for the browser. News […]

A month after a federal courts ruling raised concerns over the privacy of e-mail, federal legislators are proposing tougher restrictions on the interception of messages. Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., along with three colleagues in the U.S. House, last week introduced a bill to protect e-mail messages from snooping while in transit as well as to […]

DoubleClick Inc. suffered a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack Tuesday that knocked out its popular online ad-serving service and its own corporate Web site for several hours, the company has confirmed. The DDoS attack targeted DoubleClicks DNS (domain name system) and interrupted its ability to serve online ads to its 900 customers from about […]

BERKELEY, Calif.—Webloggers and businesses are increasingly shaking each others hands and putting a more human face on corporations in the process, say bloggers and their proponents. The inaugural BlogOn 2004 conference held here on Friday focused on the growing intersection between blogging and business. A series of panels explored how the collaborative form of online […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.—While visiting the center of Silicon Valley on Thursday, U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans focused little on specific technology issues and more on rallying the crowd around the economy. Speaking at Hewlett-Packard Co.s headquarters here, Evans credited sound fiscal policy and a series of federal tax cuts for helping the economy recover from […]

Macintosh users waiting for the release of Microsoft Corp.s Virtual PC for Mac Version 7 will have to wait until early October. Thats when the software maker said the update of its Windows emulation program will be available, following a series of delays. The timing is tied to the release of Service Pack 2 of […]

The next generation of the Internet Protocol got a boost this week as the overseer of the domain name system took technical steps to support it. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced Tuesday that it had begun adding IPv6 addresses to the DNS root server system, which maintains the master list […]