Matthew Hicks

VeriSign on Friday suspended its controversial service that redirected mistyped or unregistered domain names after the body overseeing Web addressing took its toughest stance yet against it. VeriSign officials told eWeek.com that the suspension would be temporary as it works with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and technical community that have raised […]

The furor over VeriSign Inc.s redirect service for mistyped or unregistered Web domains isnt about to die down as the body overseeing Web addressing begins taking public comments on the issue and a third lawsuit attacks the service. A committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this week began taking public […]

Has the worm finally turned for Microsoft Corp.? The company on Thursday confirmed that it had received a proposed class-action lawsuit targeting Windows vulnerability to computer viruses, which could trigger “massive cascading failures” in global computer networks. As first reported by Reuters, the suit also claims unfair competition and violation of consumer-rights laws. The lawsuit […]

Silicon Graphics Inc. is the latest vendor to become ensnarled in The SCO Groups battle over the use of Unix code in the Linux operating system. SCO, of Lindon, Utah, is threatening to terminate SGIs license of Unix System V as of Oct. 14, alleging that SGI has violated the license by contributing the source […]

OpenOffice.org on Wednesday released the latest version of its open-source competitor to Microsoft Office as it heads toward a major architectural revamp by early 2005. The OpenOffice.org 1.1, available now for Linux, Windows and Sun Solaris, offers a more modern look-and-feel, faster load times, native export to more file formats and improved compatibility with Microsoft […]

As the speech technologys major trade show kicks off this week in New York, dont expect to hear grandiose announcements of computers and humans speaking in harmony. Expect instead a steady stream of product updates and new launches from companies such as ScanSoft Inc., Intel Corp. and IBM focused on honing speech recognition and text-to-speech […]

The war of words between Lindows.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. this week escalated as the two companies disputed Lindows.coms efforts to process consumers claims in a $1.1 billion California class-action lawsuit settlement. Lindows.com, in a letter released on Tuesday, vowed to fight any legal action taken by Microsoft to force the company to take down […]

To Michael Doyle, the recent victory for his company, Eolas Technologies Inc., against Microsoft Corp. in a Web browser patent-infringement lawsuit shouldnt be leading to a re-examination of anything more than Microsoft itself. Doyle, who founded the Chicago company, disagrees with the World Wide Web Consortiums move on Tuesday to create an advisory group to […]

The ramifications of the recent Web browser patent verdict against Microsoft Corp. could strike at the heart of the Webs common language—HTML. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is investigating whether the claims in the patent infringement lawsuit brought by Eolas Technologies Inc. and the University of California could require changes to both the current […]

Opera Software ASA, one of the only commercial Web browser competitors to Microsoft Corp., rolled out its latest browser for Windows on Tuesday. With Opera 7.20 for Windows, Opera is promising improved performance and support for additional languages. The release follows by almost a month a beta of the browser. Performance improvements in the latest […]