Microsoft has introduced a test version of a hosted e-mail and instant-messaging service as part of the beta release of Windows Live.
 
As part of its set of free online services, Microsoft will host the e-mail and instant messaging (IM) for a domain an Internet user already owns, according

Novell has criticized a Microsoft-sponsored report that stated the SuSE Enterprise version of Linux is relatively unreliable and difficult to maintain in comparison with the Windows Server operating system.
 
Novell spokesperson Kevin Barney noted that the study is intended to confuse the market about the value of Linux.

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South Korea's Fair Trade Commission said Wednesday it is looking into whether Samsung Electronics Co. may have engaged in unfair practices when it supplied NAND flash memory chips to Apple Computer Inc.
 
"We are currently reviewing the facts but we haven't launched a full-scale investigation yet," Lee Seuk-joon, an official

Major changes in the way cellular operators do business will start to become evident in 2006, according to a report released Wednesday by market research firm Informa Telecoms & Media.

"The unsustainability of the traditional mobile operator business model will become more apparent in 2006," the company said in a statement. Much

More American consumers are leaving their cars at home and shopping online for the holidays in the face of high fuel costs, giving an extra boost to Internet shopping, analysts say.
 
A report by comScore Networks projects online spending for the holidays growing by 24 percent from last year to

The Sober worm outbreak that began in earnest Tuesday has been dubbed the world's largest mass-mailed malware attack of 2005 by a Finnish security firm.

"The numbers we're seeing [with Sober] are just huge. This is the largest e-mail worm outbreak of the year so far," wrote Miko Hyppönen, chief research officer

Representatives from the most prominent browser makers -- including Microsoft and Mozilla -- recently gathered to discuss ways to make it clearer to users which Web sites are safe and which are fake.

Developers speaking for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror met in Toronto last week to hash over ideas on

The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) approved Verizon Communications' acquisition of MCI this week, eliminating the last major hurdle facing the acquisition and setting the stage for Verizon to compete with AT&T.

The PSC had expressed some concerns over the pending acquisition, but Verizon said that the PSC found that

Hollywood hopes that an agreement with the creator of BitTorrent software, popular for downloading pirated movies over the Internet, will reduce illegal traffic in online films.
 
The agreement negotiated Tuesday requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to remove Web links to pirated versions of movies from his Web site, bittorrent.com,

LG Electronics on Wednesday said major consumer electronic retailers have started selling an LG digital video recorder with Microsoft Corp.'s cable program guide.

The LG LRM-519 Digital Media Recorder combines a DVR with a DVD recorder, and is powered by Microsoft's Windows Media Center. The recorder, which includes a 160-gigabyte hard drive,