Some ISPs make big bucks by intercepting traffic from non-existent sites

The interception of Internet traffic to snoop on phone calls or track surfers' behavior is a hot topic -- but what's keeping members of an international Internet security body up at night is

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 25th, 2008 Peter Sayer

Canadian radio refuses to die

Despite the unceasing onslaught Web-based technology and predictions of being "subsumed" by new media, Canadian radio refuses to sign-off and die.Instead, local radio advertisers turned up the dial recently to announce that radio

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 13th, 2008 Nestor Arellano

Windows Search 4.0 morphs from monster to mild-mannered IT citizen

It's the feature everyone loves to hate. Windows Search, the busy little background service that chews up your CPU cycles and thrashes your hard disk, is alternately revered and reviled, yet it rarely

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 12th, 2008 Randall Kennedy

Getting a handle on Google Apps

When Google launched its web-based e-mail service (Gmail) on April 1, 2004, many people thought it was an April Fool's Day joke, and perhaps with good reason. That same day, the company had

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 9th, 2008 C.G. Lynch

Microsoft expresses creative side with updated suite

Microsoft says the upcoming release of Expression Studio 2.0 – its suite of design and media applications – is a bonanza for developers and designers.It will enable them to “build rich interactive applications

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 27th, 2008 Brian Jackson

Yang switches gears – says Yahoo still open to higher Microsoft bid

Facing shareholder ire and a plunging stock price, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said Yahoo board members would still sell the company to Microsoft or another suitor if the price is right.According to Bloomberg,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 7th, 2008 Elizabeth Montalbano

It pays to have your head in the clouds: Google’s Glotzbach

Cloud computing will have as profound an impact on IT, business, and life in general as the invention of the “power grid” at the turn of the last century, says a top Google

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 11th, 2008 Joaquim P. Menezes

Phishing attacks unlikely to chill online shoppers’ enthusiasm

Online shopping will carry on at full tilt this Christmas season.Cyber shoppers are unlikely to be deterred by all the recent reports about online fraud, say e-commerce experts. (One of the most recent

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 21st, 2007 Nestor Arellano

Mozilla promises Firefox vulnerability won’t bug you anymore

Mozilla Corp. will patch Firefox against a nine-month-old protocol handler bug, its chief security executive announced Friday, after researchers demonstrated that the vulnerability was more serious than first thought.The bug is another uniform

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 20th, 2007 Gregg Keizer

Go-go Vista gadgets

Mini Web-based applications interchangeably called widgets and gadgets are enjoying increasing popularity in North America. Marketers should view these programs -- which often appear as tiny windows providing quick access to Internet sites,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 25th, 2007 Nestor Arellano

Websense simplifies Web security for SMBs

SMB Websense deploys Web security and content filtering to SMBs Websense Inc. launched a solution, Websense Express, priced and optimized for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as resources tailored for customers

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 4th, 2007 ITBusiness Staff

e-Dentity melds Web with pop culture

But a Toronto theatre troupe has studied these issues and fashioned a production around them that has left IT professionals laughing and been granted by Mirvish Productions a run on the high-profile stage

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 23rd, 2007 Briony Smith

Navigational aids

How do I present my product data cleanly and make my e-commerce site easy to navigate?If you want to grab and hold a new visitor on your e-commerce Web site, the best weapon

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 21st, 2007 Ken Conrad

Web has opened new avenues

The last time our company Internet and e-mail went down, many of our editors and reporters fled for home where they could once again be connected.For most of us, there was no point

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 12th, 2006 Poonam Khanna