In an interview Wednesday following a meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force at Harvard University, Parry Aftab, the director of the national advocacy group WiredSafety, said her organization had started working on a pilot project to support cyber-bullying targets in West Chester County, New York.
Aftab and three student volunteers from WiredSafety’s Teenangels [...]

In security audits of more than 100,000 corporate PCs and servers during the first half of this year, 12 percent of infected computers had a missing or disabled antivirus program, according to the study, conducted by Promisec, an audit and management software firm.
More than 75 percent of the Web sites of more [...]

Sales of cell phones in the U.S. declined during the first quarter of 2008, as the maturing market was hit by a slowing U.S. economy.
News of slowing sales is bad for Motorola, whose handset business is currently up for sale. Despite its mountain of woes, Motorola maintained its lead in the U.S. market during the [...]

After months of incubation as a mere preview download, Yahoo Messenger for Vista is now a full-fledged…beta. No matter, let the feedback loop continue with this dark and gleaming desktop chat application that elevates certain aspects of the instant messaging experience while falling a step behind in others. The new look and feel is certainly [...]

Ozzie, speaking at Sanford C. Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York on Wednesday, said that while Google is a “tremendously strong competitor…open source was much more potentially disruptive” to Microsoft’s business model.
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect

Microsoft is clearly worried about Google as a competitive threat. But the bigger worry continues to be open [...]

According to the EFF, Switzerland works by spotting IP packets that have been forged or modified between clients, informing you of the change, and providing you copies of the modified packets. “The software uses a semi-P2P, server-and-many-clients architecture. Whenever the clients send packets to each other, the server will attempt to determine if any of [...]

T-Mobile will launch the G1 on October 22 in the United States for $179. The new phone, which has a touch screen and GPS navigation, along with a rich software interface, has been compared to Apple’s iPhone.
Even at the predicted sale rate of 500,000 units in the fourth quarter, the Android phone won’t be [...]

Google stuck up for the practice, though. “Disassembling is a common and accepted practice in software development, frequently used to make sure software features are compatible with other software programs or operating systems,” the company said.

Software companies trying to protect their proprietary software often aren’t fans of disassemblers. For example, Vista’s End-User License Agreement (PDF) [...]