Microsoft has made a big step towards providing users with the ability to communicate across different networks by planning to open up its online messaging service used by businesses to America Online inc. and Yahoo Inc's systems.

While it may still prove fruitful for software vendors in the longer term, it seems that the push by companies to achieve regulatory compliance in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley may be the root cause of the recent disappointing results pos...

The United Nations has weighed into the debate over spam by warning spammers that measures will be introduced that will curtail their activities within two years.

A Federal court in America has made a ruling that permits Internet service providers to intercept and email messages for viewing purposes, even though many people claim it should be protected under the law in the same way as postal mail or...