Matthew Hicks

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The days when managing e-mail meant keeping a server up and running are long gone as enterprises increasingly must figure out how to comply with government regulations affecting messaging. Panelists at the INBOX conference here on Wednesday laid out strategies for how companies can comply with laws ranging from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Yahoo and Cisco have joined forces to promote a cryptographic approach for authenticating e-mail in the battle against fraud and spam. The two companies announced Wednesday that they are combining their two separate authentication proposals into a new specification called DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, and are planning to propose it as a […]

Once filled largely with small, specialized vendors, the market for desktop search in the enterprise is gaining renewed attention as major Web search players take note of corporate users. Google, the worlds most recognized search engine, and Microsoft Corp.s MSN search service both are targeting enterprises in their desktop search plans. Google released its corporate […]

For Webloggers, sending notifications of new postings are like the street-corner sellers yelling the hot headline for metropolitan newspapers. With the rapid growth of bloggers and Weblog communities, its becoming increasingly hard to be heard. But adjustments to a piece of basic RSS plumbing that is responsible for keeping readers informed of feed updates may […]

The Mozilla Foundation is preparing to release the first alpha version of its next Firefox Web browser within the next few days. The release, called Deer Park Alpha 1, is targeted to Firefoxs base of testers and will include developer-focused features such as support for additional Web standards, extensions improvements and a way to report […]

In a bid to distinguish itself from its larger search competitors, Ask Jeeves is tapping into its core search technology to present more-detailed related searches and to answer questions. The Oakland, Calif., company plans to announce the two new features Thursday as a way to improve search navigation and the relevancy of results. The first […]

University publishers have put out a call to arms over Googles plans to digitize copyrighted works from three U.S. university libraries. An association representing 125 university and other nonprofit publishers has written to Google Inc. seeking answers to concerns that the Google Print project for libraries violates their copyrights and undermines their financial ability to […]

NEW YORK—If theres any doubt that XML-based syndication, commonly called RSS, is impacting more than the legion of Webloggers who have helped to popularize it, look no further than the New York Times. The online companion to the Gray Lady has watched the popularity of its RSS feeds grow from a mere half-million page views […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google co-founder Sergey Brin has an answer to online travel, and it doesnt involve booking a ticket on an airplane. He calls it Google Earth, the new name Google revealed here Thursday for the Keyhole 3-D mapping technology it acquired last year. During a media event at its campus, Google unveiled plans to […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google announced its personalized home page option on Thursday and outlined plans to build aggregation of RSS feeds into it over the next two months. The service, which is available as a beta from the Google Labs site, allows users to create their own Google home pages featuring Googles expanding set of services, […]