Nancy Gohring

A European Union proposal to regulate Internet TV and other new media services has created an uproar among Internet and telecommunications companies, which banded together and released on Tuesday a paper detailing their complaints.n

The company selling a mobile-phone spy application that has been labeled malware by F-Secure Corp. says the software isn't malicious or illegal. F-Secure software recently began blocking a commercial application called FlexiSpy that bills itself as the world's first spy software built for mobile phones.

Workers misusing the Internet cause the most security incidents after viruses in large U.K. companies, a new government-sponsored study has found.

The first day that Sun Microsystems Inc. allowed users to buy access over the Internet to its long-delayed public utility grid, a denial of service attack forced the company to take down a service hosted on the grid, the company said.

The first day that Sun Microsystems Inc. allowed users to buy access over the Internet to its long-delayed public utility grid, a denial of service attack forced the company to take down a service hosted on the grid

A group of financial institutions, Internet companies and organizations fighting child pornography have formed a new coalition in hopes of cutting off online payment mechanisms for Web sites selling child pornography, the organizations involved announced.

Despite recent criticism of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including sharp words from push e-mail provider Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), a cofounder of Visto Corp. says the patent office has been a great success.

The latest version of Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Enterprise Server, introduced at Cebit on Friday, supports enterprise instant messaging.