Matthew Hicks

Browser maker Opera Software ASA is moving ahead with its initial public offering, announcing on Thursday that it expects to begin trading shares in the Norway-based company on March 11 on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Operas board of directors decided to issue between 15 million and 16.1 million shares in the company. With a planned […]

The overseer of the Internets domain naming system is closer to approving a controversial service for back-ordering Web addresses. The subject of past lawsuits and congressional hearings, the wait listing service, or WLS, is expected to be the most contentious issue during next weeks meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in […]

SAN FRANCISCO—With security threats slowing the adoption of promising new technologies, the time has come for the security industry to move away from proprietary technologies and embrace open and interoperable standards for authentication, said VeriSign Inc. Chairman and CEO Stratton Sclavos. Speaking here at the RSA Conference 2004 on late Wednesday, Sclavos used his keynote […]

America Online Inc. said it has blocked a worm that began spreading this week through its ICQ instant messaging service that can steal sensitive information from infected machines. The worm, named Bizex, began spreading among ICQ users on Tuesday, and preliminary reports identified more than 50,000 infected machines worldwide, according to a security alert from […]

SAN FRANCISCO—VeriSign Inc. introduced on Wednesday a technology partnership with Microsoft Corp. that combines its strong authentication services with Windows Server 2003. VeriSign Chairman and CEO Stratton Sclavos plans to demonstrate the technology later in the day during a keynote presentation at the RSA Conference 2004 being held here. By working with Microsoft, VeriSign said […]

A company best known for its multimedia player is promising to change the way people retrieve and navigate their search-engine results. Viewpoint Corp., of New York, announced on Tuesday a new search-engine toolbar that incorporates its graphics technology so users can better visualize their search results. Viewpoint has partnered with Yahoo Inc. to use Yahoos […]

Competition in the Web conferencing market continued to grow on Monday as two more companies announced new services and software for holding real-time online meetings. Elluminate Inc. launched a new name and a new version of its Web conferencing software as it aggressively seeks corporate business, while Intranets.com Inc. added a Web and audio conferencing […]

Microsoft Corp. on Friday filed its formal response to RealNetworks Inc.s anti-trust lawsuit against it, denying allegations that it is impeding competition in the digital media market. In the “Answers and Defenses” filing in federal court in San Jose, Calif., Microsoft defended its business practices, asserting that competition is vigorous between Microsoft and RealNetworks. RealNetworks […]

Microsoft Corp. will launch its long-awaited Speech Server in March during a series of conferences in San Francisco, the company announced on Thursday. At the same time that it announced new partners for the product, the Redmond, Wash., software maker said company Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates will officially unveil Microsoft Speech Server […]

A new mass-mailing worm, called NetSky.B, is spreading rapidly after beginning to make the rounds of e-mail inboxes on Tuesday. NetSky.B is a variant of the NetSky.A worm identified earlier in the week, but is posing a greater risk of spreading and infecting machines, security vendors warned Wednesday. Symantec Corp. rated NetSky.B a Category 4 […]