Matthew Hicks

A week after an appeals court ruling revived a Playboy Enterprises Inc. trademark infringement lawsuit against Netscape Communications Inc., the companies have reached a settlement in the case. On Friday, a spokesman for Netscape parent America Online Inc. and the attorney representing Playboy confirmed that a settlement had been reached in recent days but declined […]

According to the Boston Globe, Republican staff members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee exploited a security hole in the committees servers for at least a year to access and share secret Democratic memos. The security breach has drawn the attention of the office of the Senate Sergeant at Arms, which has launched an investigation […]

The SCO Group Inc. has found a new venue for its attacks on Linux and open-source software: Capitol Hill. SCO earlier this month sent a letter to the 535 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate from company President and CEO Darl McBride, raising concerns about open-source software and its General Public License […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is using LinuxWorld to highlight its plans this year to expand its support for the open-source operating system in its Java Enterprise System and across its Java development tools. Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., on Wednesday previewed its plans to add Linux support by the middle of 2004 to the Java Enterprise […]

LookSmart, of San Francisco, on Wednesday appointed Damian E. Smith, previously CEO of LookSmart Australia, as the interim CEO of the company after Jason Kellerman stepped down from the top position. The companys board of directors has begun a CEO search. LookSmart has undergone a major restructuring following news in October that Microsofts MSN division […]

The push is on to make IP-based video more common place within the walls of the enterprise. In two separate announcements on Tuesday, communications vendors offered new approaches for enabling more real-time video and presentation broadcasts. CoSine Communications Inc. announced an update to its switch platform for carriers and services providers that will allow them […]

SightSpeed Inc. announced on Monday a new version of its desktop videoconferencing software that expands operating system support beyond Windows. SightSpeed Video Messenger 2.0 gains support for Mac OS X 10.3, with support for Linux expected to follow in the next few weeks, said the companys CEO, Brad Treat. The new OS support allows videoconferences […]

LiveOffice Corp. is entering the Web conferencing space by integrating instant messaging with conferencing and collaboration features. The Torrance, Calif., company on Tuesday launched its IMConferencing service, which is focused on its base of small and medium-sized enterprise customers. IMConferencing integrates IM, Web conferencing and teleconferencing. The service allows users to launch both ad hoc […]

Along with reporting strong fourth-quarter earnings last week, Yahoo Inc. also confirmed speculation that it will be switching its Web search to its own technology in the first quarter of this year. The switch, once it occurs by the end of March, will mark the beginning of a bigger battle for market share in the […]

The Mozilla Foundation late on Thursday released the next version of its open-source Web-browser suite. The Mozilla 1.6 release, out in a beta version since December, includes expanded authentication support that is particularly useful for enterprises as well as greater integration with the GNOME desktop that is popular among Linux users. Mozilla 1.6 is available […]