Matthew Hicks

Orkut, Google Inc.s closely watched experiment with social networking, is back in service. After going offline over the weekend, the invite-only social network returned on Wednesday. Members can once again connect with one another on the site, and those invited to join can sign up for the service. But Orkut isnt promising that another outage […]

Microsoft Corp. gave Web developers a reprieve on Thursday, announcing that it had scrapped its plans to modify Internet Explorer this year in response to a patent infringement verdict against it. Microsoft in October said it would change the way the Web browser and Windows XP handle Web pages that use its ActiveX Controls, its […]

Alleging that Google Inc.s search advertising practices violates trademark law, a home decorating retailer is taking Google to court over its use of certain keywords to trigger competitors paid search results. American Blind and Wallpaper Factory Inc., in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York, isnt stopping with Google. It also […]

Security researchers are warning of another spoofing vulnerability in Internet Explorer, this time one that allows an attacker to mask the true file extension of malicious downloads. The file-extension spoof means that an attacker could lull a user into opening a malicious file from a Web site by making the file appear as a legitimate […]

FAST Search & Transfer ASA on Tuesday launched a platform approach toward enterprise search. The Oslo, Norway-based company announced the FAST Enterprise Search Platform, or ESP, which is aimed at providing a search engine that cuts across an entire enterprise and can search both structured information from databases and unstructured information from e-mails, documents and […]

As the fastest-moving e-mail worm continues to haunt inboxes, it is creating some hiccups in response times on the Internet. But the real danger could lie in MyDooms “time bomb” set to trigger a denial of service attack next month against the SCO Group Inc.s Web site, experts say. Response times from major Web sites […]

Google Inc.s experiment with social networking has gone offline—at least for now. The engineers behind the Orkut.com Web site have taken down the social network in order to make some improvements suggested by users, a Google spokeswoman confirmed on Monday. The Orkut site is the brainchild of Google engineer Orkut Buyukkokten and went live last […]

MSN has joined the toolbar parade, launching on Monday a beta version of a download that gives users one-click access to MSNs search, e-mail, news and instant messaging services. Microsoft Corp.s Internet division joins the ranks of other top portals and search providers such as Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. with similar toolbars either in […]

A startup search site launched this week is using social networking technology as a way to personalize search results based on a users network of friends. Eurekster Inc. on Wednesday introduced it search site that tweaks the relevancy ratings of results according to the recent search queries of a users friends. The site also lets […]

Yahoo Inc. is embracing the use of RSS for bringing outside news headlines and Web postings onto users personal My Yahoo pages. On Friday, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company launched a public beta of a service called RSS Headlines. The service acts as an aggregator of Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds from news sites, Weblogs and […]