Sam Costello

Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) announced a series of applications aimed at streamlining source code and Web content management for distributed development, Web and mainframe environments.

Despite the slowdown that has hit the U.S. economy, more labourers and factory workers than any other segment of the population went online for the first time in the last year, according to a new report released Thursday by Nielsen/NetRatings Inc.

The Digital Media Association (DiMA) will file documents with the U.S. Copyright Office, asking the U.S. government to set the rate at which Webcasters will pay copyright owners for songs broadcast, members of the group said on a conference call Wednesday.

Tired of paying for phone calls? Convinced that PC-to-PC or PC-to-phone connections are too noisy, echo-filled and unreliable?

A new study of Internet retailers, or e-tailers, released Thursday by The Worldwide E-Commerce Fraud Prevention Network found that while nearly half of e-tailers surveyed say online fraud is a "significant problem," the majority believe that fraud prevention steps can minimize risk.

Napster contends the record labels have made only "meagre attempts" to comply with the injunction.

IBM Corp. will immediately consolidate the development, marketing and operations of its ThinkPad and NetVista lines of computers, forming a new group called the Personal Computing Devices Group, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

The fight over DVD (digital versatile disc) de-scrambling and the legal issues involved will seemingly not go away, as the fight gained a new participant this week when a tool to help decrypt DVDs was released onto the Internet.