Stories by: John Blau

New services available on YouTube could reflect growing influence of its parent company Google.

Another Trojan horse is spreading through the Internet telephone network of Skype.

Google has acquired software and developers to broaden its expertise in the areas of interactive video game advertising and statistics visualization.

It may be too early to talk plug-and-play but IBM believes it can help businesses of all sizes easily cluster their servers to handle intensive computing workloads.

A tiny provider of open-source e-mail exchange software is using a disruptive pricing model to compete against Microsoft and other large providers of proprietary e-mail service technology.

As the mobile phone industry scrambles to put cell phones in the hands of billions of unconnected people in emerging markets, less-expensive, higher-speed WiMax is likely to be the technology of choice to connect them to the Internet.

A biometric systems vendor has a pitch for CIOs nervous about company executives losing their mobile phones and risking the loss of confidential information.

European car manufacturing giant PSA Peugeot Citroen has agreed to one of the Continent's largest-ever deployments of open-source Linux software on desktop computers.

Visitors to the German Web site of Google were met with a strange sight early Tuesday morning: gone was the Google logo, replaced by the name of a local Internet service provider with the message that no content was available for the domain.

A new search engine hopes to generate cash from targeted ads by filtering data for 50-year-old-plus baby boomers who lack the patience to wade through pages of results.

German police have added a new weapon in their fight against child pornography on the Internet -- in addition to scouring IP addresses, they're now collaborating with credit-card companies to search databases for transaction information.