Ed Sutherland

UPDATED: The spy versus spy mudslinging between computer maker Hewlett-Packard and a former executive took a break after a Texas judge told lawyers for both sides to stop talking to the press. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Schneider threw out former HP executive Karl Kamb’s counterclaim against HP. In it, Kamb alleged HP spied on […]

UPDATED: Despite its gorgeous display and addictive appeal, Apple’s (Quote) iPhone isn’t an instant home run just yet. For starters, there’s the name problem. Cisco Systems (Quote) filed suit against Apple in the Northern District of California today, seeking an injunction against Apple using Cisco’s iPhone trademark with its latest product. Cisco said it obtained the […]

Internetnews.com editors provide an early roadmap for tech’s direction in 2007. Thanks to the seemingly ubiquitous nature of wireless connectivity, many of the promises of new options for consumers and business made in 2006 will be realized in 2007, according to experts surveyed by internetnews.com. Companies that made headlines in 2006 will again hold the […]

Internetnews.com wades through the top stories and issues that rocked the industry in 2006 in this ongoing series. Mobility devices and their users got off to a rocky start in many ways in 2006, with surveys showing that end-users turned away from downloading a bevy of new applications that carriers kept rolling into the market. […]

Some 382,000 Boeing (Quote) employees are receiving free credit monitoring after the company confirmed yet another laptop containing personal data was recently stolen. This time from an employee’s car. The Social Security numbers, names, birth dates, home addresses and phone numbers, as well as salaries of both current and retired employees, were available in two […]

UPDATED: California’s attorney general Bill Lockyer Thursday announced a unique, $14.5 million settlement of its civil lawsuit related to the Hewlett-Packard leak probe investigation that resulted in federal indictments and Congressional hearings. Lockyer announced that HP will finance a new law enforcement fund to fight violations of privacy and intellectual property rights as part of […]

UPDATED: A Danish electronics company announced yet another way Skype fans can choose between Internet-based or traditional phone calls. The DualPhone 3088, available Dec. 1, is the latest handset erasing the need for a computer, according to RTX Products. DualPhone 3088. Source: DualPhone The handset, priced at US$206, is compatible with both traditional wired telephony […]

Check Point Software Technologies (Quote), known for protecting the desktop from Internet dangers, now says it wants to guard all data. And it will only cost the company $586 million. Check Point said Monday it is wooing Sweden’s Protect Data, owner of data security firm Pointsec Mobile Technologies AB. Pointsec, which offers data-encryption products for […]

Wi-Fi users beware: Use your wireless computer in public and you could be opening yourself to the latest security risk. Another security hole could be wide open the moment you switch on a Wi-Fi enabled laptop, warned a group of security investigators, including the Zeroday Emergency Response Team (ZERT), a security monitoring group loosely affiliated […]

UPDATED: E-mail subscribers to Google’s (Quote) video blog got more than they bargained for from a mailing this week. The search giant accidentally e-mailed the notorious “Kama Sutra” worm to subscribers of its Google Video e-mail list. Three posts sent to the 50,000 subscribers of the Google Video Blog e-mail group included the W32/Kasper.A@mm mass mailing […]