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Electronic Arts -- the largest video game publisher, by sales, in the world -- made a statement in June when it announced it was forming a casual gaming division. Last month, the Redwood, Calif., company punctuated that statement with an exclamation mark by cutting a licensing deal with Hasbro, whos...

As colleges and universities nationwide began installing broadband access to their dorm rooms and apartments years ago, they gave students convenient, at-home access to unprecedented amounts of information. The trend also played a significant role in opening the door to peer-to-peer file-sharing net...

The face of the Internet is rapidly changing. For instance, Web maps are no longer about finding your house online. A few years ago, map-making power remained in the hands of specialists. Today, map-making power is within everyone's grasp. In the past two years, Web giants like Google, Microsoft and...

E-mail and other forms of electronic communications have become pervasive and essential to business growth and operational productivity. This new dependency on messaging has created a whole new spectrum of major risks, vulnerabilities and requirements for companies of all sizes. "Postini customers t...

Virtualization rootkits, Web application security and Voice over IP attack vectors topped Gerhard Eschelbeck's list of the top three biggest issues at this month's Black Hat USA conference, held Aug. 1 and 2 in Las Vegas. Eschelbeck is chief technology officer and senior vice president of security v...

E-mail and other forms of electronic communications have become pervasive and essential to business growth and operational productivity. Today, with more than 170 billion e-mails and 580 billion IMs exchanged daily, companies have seen a 334 percent annual increase in bandwidth, processing and stora...

London-based Openads, the developer of a free, open source adserver used by more than 20,000 publishers in 140 countries, announced on July 5 the appointment of James Bilefield as CEO. Bilefield brings more than 15 years of entrepreneurial, management and media experience to Openads from his work at...

Imperva specializes in data security and compliance solutions for the data center. Its product line provides an automated and transparent approach to protecting and controlling sensitive data throughout transactional data systems. The Imperva database and Web application appliances are deployed in l...

Trolltech CTO Benoit Schillings sees the future of mobile phone communication in the cross-platform solution that Linux can provide. His vision was buffeted recently by a prediction by market research firm ABI that Linux will ship in more than 200 million phones in 2012, up from 8.1 million in 2007....

Zend CTO Andi Gutmans likes to tout the benefits of PHP and Web 2.0 development for business. In fact, he calls Zend "the PHP company." PHP, which stands for "Hypertext Preprocessor Platform," is becoming the language of choice for companies embracing service-oriented architectures, creating and mix...