The world is about to run out of the internet addresses that allow computers to identify each other and communicate, the man who invented the system has told The Times.
Vint Cerf, the "father of the internet" and one of the world’s leading computer scientists, said that businesses and consumers needed to act now to [...]

Microsoft Corp.’s abandoned takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. appears to have culminated with a disheartening thud for those two companies but amounted to yet another coup for online search leader Google Inc.
What began in January as Microsoft’s most audacious attack yet on Google instead paved the way for the Internet’s most powerful company to gain [...]

Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga began blogging to share his knowledge of the local market. He didn’t bargain for a $25 million defamation lawsuit when he wrote that a Miami developer had gone bankrupt decades ago.
In Lake Geneva, Wis., commodities trader Gary Millitte registered the Internet domain name LakeGenevaNews.com eight years ago, but is [...]

A new Web browser from Norway’s Opera Software ASA addresses Internet users’ growing tendency to use multiple computers and devices.
Opera 9.5, released Thursday for Windows, Mac and Linux computers, includes the new Opera Link feature, which lets you bring your bookmarks wherever you go. It works with Opera’s desktop browser as well as Opera Mini, [...]

Yahoo Inc and Google Inc will make a joint announcement on Thursday afternoon, the technology blog TechCrunch reported, citing an unidentified source close to one of the companies.
TechCrunch said the announcement is likely to be a search partnership between the two companies that outsources all or part of Yahoo search marketing, and possibly search itself, [...]

The Mozilla Foundation has slated June 17 to release Firefox 3.0, the latest edition of the browser.
After releasing two release candidates (plus a third Mac-specific version), the browser developer said it hopes to be able to target next Tuesday as the official release date.
"Whenever we’re asked ‘when is Firefox going to be released’ we endeavor [...]

A U.S. hacker who hooked up a botnet within Newell Rubbermaid’s corporate network was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Robert Matthew Bentley, of Panama City, Florida, must also pay US$65,000 restitution. He was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
Bentley could have [...]

WASHINGTON – Multiple congressional computers have been hacked by people working from inside China, lawmakers said Wednesday, suggesting the Chinese were seeking lists of dissidents.
Two congressmen, both longtime critics of Beijing’s record on human rights, said the compromised computers contained information about political dissidents from around the world. One of the lawmakers said he’d been [...]

A new specialty search engine is trying to become the Internet’s go-to spot for finding how-to advice.
Founded by Rhode Island entrepreneur Ted Ives, FindHow Corp. has assembled an index spanning nearly about 30,000 Web pages with written, photographic and video instructions on a wide variety topics ranging from prosaic tasks like tying a tie to [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google wants US regulators to sign off on a plan to pack wireless Internet services into "TV white space" left empty as buffer zones between television broadcasting frequencies.
Google on Monday sent the Federal Communications Commission its pitch to use TV white space for mobile Internet or telephone services instead of [...]

CAIRO, Egypt – An abandoned anchor was responsible for cutting one of the undersea Internet cables severed last week, causing disruptions across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cable’s owner said Friday.
A FLAG Telecom repair crew discovered the anchor near where the fiber-optic cable was severed Feb. 1 in the Persian Gulf, 35 [...]

Standing between a marriage of Microsoft and Yahoo may be the technology behemoth that has continually outsmarted them: Google.
In an unusually aggressive effort to prevent Microsoft from moving forward with its $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo, Google emerged over the weekend with plans to play the role of spoiler.
Publicly, Google came out against the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) offered to buy Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) for $44.6 billion, in a bold bid to transform two ailing Internet businesses into a worthy competitor for market leader Google Inc (GOOG.O).
In what would be the biggest Internet deal since the ill-fated Time Warner-AOL merger, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer [...]

CAIRO, Egypt – Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East on Wednesday after an undersea cable in the Mediterranean was damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said.
In Cairo, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said the cut in the international communications cable had led to [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – Google’s (GOOG) $3.1 billion bid for Internet advertiser DoubleClick gained federal approval Thursday despite objections that it might pose a threat to competition and tread on consumer privacy.
The Federal Trade Commission voted 4-1, ending its eight-month investigation. “After carefully reviewing the evidence, we have concluded that Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick is [...]