The United States will not heed requests by the European Union and other countries to accept a multinational approach to running the Internet, a French government official said on Thursday.
 
An international summit next week on how the Internet should be run was likely to end in stalemate, the official

Users of Yahoo's instant messaging service are being warned of a new phishing attack which sends IM users a message telling them their account will be blocked unless they respond to a terms of service violation.

The warning which came from the IMlogic Threat Center said the new attack, dubbed IM.Marphish.Yahoo, sends

Days after Macromedia posted fixes to its Flash player, Microsoft late Wednesday posted a security advisory directing users of its Windows XP, XP SP2, 95, 98, and Me to the third-party patches.

"Microsoft recommends that customers who use Macromedia Flash Player follow the guidance documented in Macromedia’s Security Bulletin to help protect

Still, the company is cautious about the future. "It's too early to say it's turned around," says chief development officer Charles Giancarlo.
  
Networking market leader Cisco Systems said Wednesday that growth in sales to businesses in the first quarter of fiscal 2006 was higher than any of the last

Microsoft Corp. has reached a $30 million settlement with South Korea's Daum (035720.KQ) over an antitrust suit, but regulators will continue to review their case against the world's largest software maker.
 
Shares in Daum Communications Corp., the country's top Web portal operator, jumped nearly 9 percent on Friday after the

After several false starts, the widespread replacement of aging film-based movie projection systems with cutting edge digital cinema setups is moving forward.

A big stumbling block toward deployment was removed when specs by the Digital Cinema Initiative were completed this summer.

Now, Access Integrated Technologies Inc. and Christie Digital Systems

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Despite a marked trend toward outsourcing to contract manufacturers, mobile-phone OEMs will keep most manufacturing in-house the next few years, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp.

By 2009, mobile handset OEMs will outsource 44 percent of their production to Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) and Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) providers,

A group of tech giants linked up on Thursday to promote Linux globally, with the unveiling of a new company called the Open Invention Network (OIN).

They are IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony. Through OIN, they will acquire patents and offer them royalty-free with the proviso that acquirers not assert them

The Federal Trade Commission has pulled the plug on a massive spyware operation that allegedly used Google Inc.'s BlogSpot service to trick millions of computer users into downloading spyware and adware programs.
 
The FTC on Thursday announced a court order to shut down three California-based companies—Enternet Media Inc., Conspy & Co.

Google's enterprise unit was recently entrusted with the business versions of the snazzy Google Earth mapping products, and executives are already discussing ways to integrate them with the company's enterprise search products, according to a Google executive.
 
"There's definitely a lot of potential for integration between the Google Earth products