January, 2007 Issue
January 30, 2007 | Author: Andrew Donoghue.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates chose the historic setting of the British Library to launch Vista, his company's latest incarnation of Windows.
January 30, 2007 | Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.
Microsoft execs take the stage in glitzy New York launch, say Vista ushers in the next generation of technology.
January 30, 2007 | Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.
CEO accentuates the positives about new Microsoft operating system at today's launch event.
January 28, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
Intel, armed with a custom-designed motherboard, has reclaimed Google as a server customer after a year watching the search powerhouse give its business to AMD.
January 28, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Microsoft is continuing to lose market share in the search business to industry rival Google, something the software maker's financial chief said on Thursday he is "not happy" about.
January 26, 2007 | Author: Caroline McCarthy.
It used to be a joke around the Internet that if you Googled "miserable failure," the number-one result provided by the famed search engine was President George W. Bush's official biography on the White House's Web site. This was thanks to a " Google bomb" in which mischievous Web users would manipulate the page ranking of a search result by planting links on their Web sites that used the search terms to point to their result page of choice. But now Google has put out an announcement that states it will be "minimizing the impact" of Google bombs with a new algorithm designed to weed them out.
January 25, 2007 | Author: Richard Thurston.
A US court has thrown out a $4.1bn lawsuit that was levelled against Skype.
January 25, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Google is expanding the pool of companies that will showcase video ads on its AdSense publisher network to include The Wall Street Journal, two Conde Nast Web sites and Life/Style Television, a Google spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.
January 22, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Internet security experts are gathering at a secretive conference later this week to form strategies in their fight against cybercriminals.
January 21, 2007 | Author: Dawn Kawamoto.
Microsoft is expected to announce a drop in quarterly earnings next week, largely because it is deferring $1.5 billion in revenue related to delays of its Vista and Office products, analysts say.
January 21, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Swedish bank Nordea has told ZDNet UK that it has been stung for between seven and eight million Swedish krona — up to £580,000 — in what security company McAfee is describing as the "biggest ever" online bank heist.
January 19, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
European Union investigators have recommended that competition commissioner Neelie Kroes formally charge Intel with thwarting competition in the chip market, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
January 19, 2007 | Author: Tom Krazit.
Some MacBook Pro and MacBook customers have the faster 802.11n Wi-Fi chip already sitting in their systems, but it will cost $2 to light it up.
January 19, 2007 | Author: Jo Best.
Pipex Wireless, the joint venture between Intel and ISP Pipex, is to set up its second deployment of WiMax in the UK.
January 17, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
A California man faces up to 101 years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of sending out email scams as well as related crimes.
January 17, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Computer code that exploits a security vulnerability in Windows has been published on the internet, making it more urgent for users of the operating system to patch.
January 16, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Google has patched a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in one of its web-hosting services.
January 16, 2007 | Author: Richard Thurston.
Microsoft has poached IBM's chief architect as part of a recruitment drive to bring more web expertise into the company.
January 15, 2007 | Author: Jeremy Kirk.
Some Web site operators are complaining that Google is flagging their sites as containing malicious software when they believe their sites are harmless.
January 15, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
The internet should continue to be overseen by major agencies including ICANN and the ITU, rather than any new "superstructure", the new head of the International Telecommunications Union said on Friday.
January 14, 2007 | Author: Ed Oswald.
AOL said Friday that it will be dropping Music Now in favor of Napster, which will power the company's subscription music service. The two companies said they will work together to migrate AOL Music Now's 350,000 subscribers.
January 13, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Businesses looking to set up a private communications network should find the process easier from next year, when the licensing process will be significantly restructured.
January 13, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
The terror alert email service being offered by the British secret service is not secure, according to a Spy Blog, a libertarian organisation that monitors security and surveillance developments.
January 13, 2007 | Author: Richard Thurston.
Like all UK telecoms operators, Thus has been through several challenging years. Bandwidth pricing has plunged thanks to the excess capacity left after the dot-com boom collapsed, and the growing dominance of IP is threatening to destroy traditional revenue streams.
January 12, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Sales of Windows Vista to businesses were stronger than expected during the operating system's debut month, according to a report from NPD Group.
January 12, 2007 | Author: Ed Oswald.
Don't expect a version of Skype for cellular phones anytime soon. A company executive told Reuters Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that data plans are still too costly to make such a version viable.
January 11, 2007 | Author: Dawn Kawamoto.
Adobe Systems has issued updates to fix security flaws in its Reader and Acrobat software that could allow an attacker to remotely commandeer a computer.
January 11, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
Supercomputing specialist SGI has become Microsoft's latest partner, signing up to support a version of Windows that can farm out computing jobs to a cluster of lower-end servers.
January 11, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
It would be news if IBM didn't get the most U.S. patents in 2006.
January 11, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Bug hunters of the world, VeriSign's iDefense has an updated bug bounty challenge for you.
January 9, 2007 | Author: Dennis O'Reilly.
Geo-location devices debuting at CES 2007 pack more options into smaller boxes.
January 9, 2007 | Author: Candace Lombardi.
The mobile versions of Google Search, Google Maps and Gmail will come bundled on some Samsung phones, both companies announced on Monday at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), under way this week in Las Vegas.
January 9, 2007 | Author: Candace Lombardi.
Microsoft has signed an agreement with GlobeXplorer, an aerial and satellite imagery provider, that will provide new images to Live Search Maps. GlobeXplorer's images will be integrated into Virtual Earth within the next few months.
January 8, 2007 | Author: Richard Thurston.
Nokia has updated its popular internet tablet PC with a range of improvements, including the ability to make Skype calls.
January 8, 2007 | Author: Gemma Simpson.
Small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK will up their IT budgets by 10.7 percent in 2007, more than twice the rate seen in France and Germany, according to AMR Research.
January 7, 2007 | Author: Marguerite Reardon.
Everyone from Apple Computer to Microsoft is promising products this year that will stream photos, movies, and music from PCs to TVs and other screens around the house. How is all that content going to make it from your living room to other devices around the house?
January 7, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
The city of San Francisco and EarthLink have finalized a contract that will enable EarthLink to build a citywide wireless network and Google to provide free Internet access.
January 7, 2007 | Author: Peter Sayer.
Partnership marks another move by Google to influence a market where rivals still lead.
January 7, 2007 | Author: Jeremy Kirk.
Adobe encourages upgrading to Reader 8 and recommends disabling Acrobat and Reader plug-ins on Web browsers until patches are issued.
January 5, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
A recently discovered security weakness in the widely used Acrobat Reader software could put Net users at more risk than previously thought, experts warned Thursday.
January 5, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
As part of its monthly patch cycle, Microsoft plans to release on Tuesday eight security bulletins to plug holes in its software products.
January 5, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
Open-source database company MySQL has decided to stick to the current General Public License rather than move to an upcoming revision, pending broader industry acceptance.
January 4, 2007 | Author: Eileen Yu.
More network connections and internet services have been restored as businesses return to work after the year-end and new-year holidays.
January 4, 2007 | Author: Marguerite Reardon.
Cisco Systems said Thursday it will pay $830 million in cash and stock for e-mail security company IronPort Systems.
January 3, 2007 | Author: Gemma Simpson.
The Home Office is planning to give inmates email access so they can keep in contact with their families.
January 3, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
A UK company has announced it will build a factory to produce flexible display technology components for use in commercially available e-paper products.
January 3, 2007 | Author: Caroline McCarthy.
Google might have purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion last year, but that certainly hasn't marked the end of the Mountain View, Calif. company's forays into online video. Last week, Bloomberg reported that Google would be investing in Shenzhen Xunlei Network Technology, a video download service based in China. Google operates its own Chinese search engine, and unlike its American counterpart, it's an underdog: the Beijing-based Baidu holds the largest share of the Chinese search market. Both Google China and Baidu had been looking to expand into online video services over the past month, and Google's investment in Xunlei solidifies that commitment. China, after all, may be on the fast track to surpassing the U.S. as the nation with the most Internet users, according to recent data.
January 3, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Security vendors have warned that the "Happy New Year" worm could catch employees returning from New Year's celebrations unawares, but believe the threat posed by the malware will soon pass.
January 3, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Britain's online spending in the run up to Christmas has exceeded expectations, according to the global e-retailing body, Interactive Media in Retail Group.
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