The four largest American ISP’s are joining forces in an unprecedented show of unity to go after “the biggest, the baddest, the most notorious” large-scale spammers, using the new anti-spam legislation as ammunition. Microsoft, AOL, Earthlink and Yahoo are putting their competitive differences aside and shared information and resources to fight their common enemy. They [...]

The much feared lawsuit of Eolas vs. Microsoft seems to be over, to the relief of Web professionals around the world. The US Patent and Trademark office has invalidated Eolas’ patent on web browser plug-in technology. Last year, Eolas won a $521 million lawsuit against Microsoft as well as an injunction that forced Microsoft to [...]

Yahoo has spent 2 years and over $2 billion buying search companies Overture and Inktomi, and has now replaced the back-end of the Yahoo search to use its own technology, instead of those of rival Google. Yahoo is not disclosing its search algorithm, but in a statement the company says its anti-spam technology will help [...]

Have you ever Googled yourself? Egosurfing to find out what people are saying about you is quite common these days. A 17-year old boy in California came across his own photo, taken when he was 3, on the childfind.ca website, saying that he had been missing. It turns out that his mother had taken him [...]

Some assembly required. You can buy your own Navy F/A-18A Blue Angel Hornet fighter jet… on eBay, where else? Mike Landa has listed the jet, and claims the jet came out of military service in 1994, and that it has been decommisioned in parts. The jet can fly at 1,400 mph and can climb 30,000 [...]

Recap: In 1999, Eolas Technologies sued Microsoft claiming that it held a patent on browser plug-ins which allow browsers, such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, to embed other programs, such as Macromedia’s Flash in a web page. In August, Eolas won the case sending the web development community into a tailspin. Hundreds of thousands of websites [...]

Expecting huge web traffic after setting down on Mars, NASA engineers had to pull off another amazing feat. They have put in place a massive farm of 1,300 servers to handle the load of curious earthlings looking to see pictures from Mars as soon as they are recieved. “NASA recorded 109 million hits on its [...]

Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web has been awarded a knighthood. He is credited with inventing the World Wide Web just over 10 years ago. He will be recieving the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Years honours list.

After many tech companies scaled back their company Christmas party during the downturn of 2001 and 2002, the parties are back in ’03 with a new sense of optimism. Suddenly, the tech industry parties are back, and while not as extravagant as the ones of the last millenium, they show a loosening of the purse-strings [...]

When a New Jersey patrolman pulled over Sean Leach last week for an unregistered vehicle, a quick-thinking Leach saved himself several hundred dollars in towing charges. Leachs’ car registration had expired. While the officer was writing up the ticket, he got onto his cellphone and called a friend. He gave his friend his registration number [...]

Three tech-saavy brothers in their parents home created the pop-up and pop-under technology and business model and entered into a contract with the now-well-known X10 wireless company. X10 refused to pay them for it. “These were young guys who had a dream to start a successful company, but X10 looked at their youth and thought [...]

The controvertial SiteFinder service run by Verisign has been shut down. Verisign has been given authority to administer the popular .com, .net and .org top level domains (TLD), and last month, they launched a so-called “Wildcard” service so that misspelled domain names would be directed to their search engine. The move caused havoc for those [...]