Matthew Hicks

For browser maker Opera Software ASA, 2004 has been a busy year. The Norwegian company went public on the Oslo Stock Exchange, synced up its Web browsers with its Version 7.50 release and made more inroads onto mobile devices. /zimages/1/28571.gifClick here to read eWEEK Labs review of the latest Opera release. Its biggest challenge may […]

Flash support on the Linux desktop caught up with its Windows counterpart on Thursday as Macromedia Inc. released an updated Flash Player for the open-source operating system. The San Francisco-based company launched Flash Player 7 for Linux, about nine months after it released its newest Flash version for the Windows and Mac OS X operating […]

Watch out, spyware. Yahoos gonna nab you. Yahoo Inc. on Thursday joined the fight against unwanted software that monitors users Web surfing, alters their home pages and bombards them with ads. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company announced a beta for its Web browser toolbar that includes an anti-spyware plug-in for finding and removing spyware and other […]

Written off for dead about a year ago, the forefather of Web browsers, Netscape Navigator, is being resuscitated in the coming months with an updated version. But whether it will mark a revival of the browser, or simply some life support, remains to be seen. America Online Inc., which owns Netscape Communications Corp., is preparing […]

Paid search listings are joining with the trend of tracking the behavior of Web site visitors to deliver more targeted online advertising. Kanoodle.com Inc., a smaller provider of sponsored listings on a network of Web sites, plans in the second quarter of the year to launch a new service called BehaviorTarget. The service will integrate […]

WebEx Communications Inc. has launched a new version of its Web conferencing service for e-learning with a focus on helping companies make money from offering training. The newest WebEx Training Center, released on Monday, integrates e-commerce capabilities into the service so companies can charge attendees to take a training course or charge back a department […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Online advertising is hot, and the opening day of the AD:TECH 2004 conference here came on the heels of the latest report of the rise in online ad revenue. The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers on Monday reported that Internet advertising in the first quarter of the year reached its highest level since the […]

Yahoo on Monday released its newest version of Yahoo Messenger, which adds more ties into the companys portal services such as Internet radio, Web search and online address book. Yahoo Inc. last month released a beta version of what it is calling the “All-New Yahoo Messenger,” which technically is Version 6.0. More than 1.5 million […]

The Internets domain-name oversight body is proposing to double its budget and raise fees for the companies that register Web addresses—a move that is unleashing criticism about who will pay for the heftier spending. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this week publicly posted its budget plan for fiscal year 2004-05, here […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft execs say the company is working to polish its lackluster image with software partners as it increasingly views everything from its Office productivity suite to its business applications as a platform. At a Wednesday session here at the Software & Information Industry Association of Americas Enterprise Software Summit 2004, Charles Fitzgerald, the general […]