Amazon.com has agreed to include SideStep Inc.'s search engine to the online retailer's travel store early next year, the latter company said Thursday.
 
SideStep, based in Santa Clara, Calif., made the deal through Amazon Services, which is owned by Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. Financial details were not disclosed.

SideStep searches

The analyst firm Info-Tech Research Group has recommended that enterprises ban the use of Skype on their networks, citing security problems with the VoIP software.

Info-Tech analyst Ross Armstrong claims that "even a mediocre hacker could take advantage of a Skype vulnerability."

The firm cites these vulnerabilities and issues with

Three infections have so far been identified by antivirus companies. The software triggers the cloaking feature of Sony's antipiracy technology to remain undetected.
  
 A controversial copy-protection program that automatically installs when some Sony BMG audio CDs are played on personal computers is now being exploited by malicious software

A dozen Arizona residents have been arrested and charged with using stolen credit and debit card numbers obtained from overseas phishers, Tucson police said as an indictment was unveiled earlier this week.

The gang -- 17 were named in the indictment, but the remaining five are still at large -- used the

More than nine percent of U.S. wireless subscribers currently use their mobile phone as their only phone and that number will increase to as many as 37 percent by 2009, according to a study released Friday by Research and Markets.

In addition, the study found that about half of wireless subscribers are

EBay Inc. on Thursday launched a service that gives sellers and buyers access to listing, bidding and pricing trends.

EBay Marketplace Research, launched in anticipation of the upcoming holiday season, provides customizable data, charts and graphs that show historical and real-time transaction trends among users of the online marketplace. EBay has 168

Two of the security sector's leading vendors have stepped up their efforts to educate partners and users about the rapidly growing threat of phishing.

Trend Micro and Symantec have each launched formal and informal efforts to describe the seriousness of this issue, the potential effects and what people can do to slow its

A controversial copy-protection program that automatically installs when some Sony BMG audio CDs are played on personal computers is now being exploited by malicious software that takes advantage of the antipiracy technology's ability to hide files.
 
The Trojan horse programs — three have so far been identified by antivirus companies

LONDON — Inapac Technology Inc., a system-in-package (SiP) memory integrator, has announced two components, a 32-Mbit SDRAM and a 64-Mbit DDR SDRAM. The 64-Mbit DDR design features 32-bit interface to provide superior graphics and video performance in consumer applications, the company said.

Individual memory die are made using a 0.14-micron process and

As many as 1 million Windows users may have switched to Macs this year as the iPod halo transforms Apple into a technology industry "darling," an analyst said Monday.

In his latest note to clients, Needham & Co. analyst Charles Wolf reflects that Apple's fast-paced series of innovations have driven its resurgence.