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A cache poisoning flaw that was discovered earlier this year in the Domain Name System protocol was kept under wraps while a group of vendors worked in tandem to develop software patches.

Nielsen Online says interaction with voters, not ad spending, will be its primary gauge of online campaign efforts in the 2008 presidential election. And thus far, Barack Obama is ahead of John McCain on that front, the firm reports.

IBM has launched an application that seeks to harness the collective efforts of Internet users to help make the Web more accessible to the visually impaired.

Its motto is "Don't do evil" -- but it looks like anything and everything else imaginable is pretty much fair game -- not to mention some wildly rumored projects that we asked the company to confirm or deny.

Google's motto is "Don't do evil," but it looks like anything and everything else imaginable is pretty much fair game -- not to mention some wildly rumored projects we asked the company to confirm or deny.

ICANN, the international organization that oversees the Web's top-level DNS said that a hijacking last month of several of its domains was due to a security breach at the registrar that manages those URLs.

Users on social networking site MySpace are having to fend off hackers, spammers and Internet malcontents who have turned many of the "group" sites into cyber-graffiti walls filled with offensive comments and pictures.

Neither Microsoft nor Powerset will confirm a report of a takeover deal in the works.

Turkish hackers on Thursday managed to deface the Web sites of the international organizations that run the Internet's critical routing infrastructure and regulate domain names.

Google cited a technical problem in its delay of posting news about journalist Tim Russert's death, but the completely automated Google News site seems to consistently lag behind other media sites in reporting breaking news, columnist says.

More than half the sites that spread malicious code are hosted on Chinese networks, and getting such sites cleaned up is much harder in China than in the U.S., Stopbadware.org said today.

Microsoft and HP on Tuesday unveiled free tools to help Web developers and site administrators defend against the rapidly growing number of SQL injection attacks on legit sites.

ICANN, the group that oversees the Internet's addressing system, will vote Thursday on whether to relax the rules for top-level domain names.

Why spend $50 to $100 a month for video entertainment when there's so much good, free stuff on the Web? Good-bye, couch potato, and hello, mouse potato.

Those vexing memory leaks are fixed, the interface is improved and it has new functionality in bookmarking, browsing and security.

Developers are scrambling to update their Firefox add-ons to be Version 3-compatible, but here are five that you can use right now to help you interact with colleagues, find information more efficiently, improve the user interface and more.

Hyperic is launching CloudStatus, a free site containing performance metrics for Amazon Web Services.

These downloads, mostly free, will help you optimize your communications with others, improve security, and generally improve your online life.

Microsoft plans to open a search technology center in Europe by the middle of 2009.

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The chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has recused himself from an obscenity trial he was overseeing after the
Los Angeles Times reported that it found sexual photos and videos on his personal Web site.

Amazon.com's retail Web site couldn't be accessed for about three hours on June 6 and then suffered from performance problems the following Monday. But the company hasn't said why.

Barack Obama's presidential campaign is seeking a security expert to help lock down its Web site, which was hacked two months ago by a Hillary Clinton supporter taking advantage of a programming error.

A California legislator has sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying that the company is "clearly" violating the state's online privacy law by not posting a link to its privacy policy on its home page.

A Google product manager says a consumer focus, power collaborators, new economies of scale and disappearing barriers to adoption will lead to Web-based applications and cloud computing.

With many young people generating their own content on evolving video and social networking sites and sharing it with tools like BitTorrent, the Web of the future may resemble its very beginning, when most resources and content distribution were created by individuals and not large conglomerates.

At Glassdoor.com, people who provide their own details anonymously can get information on how much a job pays and maybe even how much others in their company with the same title are making.

The frustrating search for a high-def TV prompted Mukesh Chatter, who has founded two other companies, to develop a start-up auction site in which sellers bid for the business of buyers.

Craigslist's founder talked about some of the simple ways that the site combats fraud, including users flagging the bad guys.

CIO sat down with Scott Johnston, senior product manager of Google Sites (and former vice president of products at Jotspot) to talk about Google Sites and what types of use cases for the product have emerged since it launched.

Yahoo's advertising platform will be used to present new display and video ads to Wal-Mart's online customers.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn wants to remove Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang if his proxy battle against the company is successful,
The Wall Street Journal reports.

Privacy groups have asked Google to add a link to its privacy policies on its home page, saying failure to do so violates California's privacy law.

Wikipedia founder develops new open-source search engine that gives ordinary users the power to build and maintain its index.

Too many Flickr photos, Twitter tweets, Facebook pokes and MySpace messages? Here's help to keep track of it all.

The fee-based search service that lets Web sites include a Google search field is being renamed and upgraded with a 'date biasing' capability and other new features.

The Phoenix Mars Mission's Web site was hacked over the weekend by a Turkish crew, according to zone-h.org, a defacement database.

Two Yahoo executives discuss BrowserPlus, a development platform for creating Web applications that contain desktop capabilities, and how they compare with similar projects from Microsoft, Adobe, Google and others.

Microsoft, which plans to offer a second beta of IE8 by the end of October, is warning Web designers to start adding a new tag to their sites or risk having those sites 'break' when the new browser ships.
