April, 2007 Issue
April 30, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
LAS VEGAS--Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, on Monday introduced a video-streaming service and announced .Net development tool support for Silverlight, its cross-platform Web browser plug-in.
April 30, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Google has removed paid links that advertised seemingly legitimate websites but actually tried to install nefarious programs on PCs.
April 30, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
Microsoft's strategy in the burgeoning world of ad-supported online software calls for aggressive new business terms to undercut rivals and a familiar game plan of cozying up to developers.
April 30, 2007 | Author: ZDNet UK.
Entries for the prestigious CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards are now open, with the call for entries going out to the best and brightest across the technology industry.
April 29, 2007 | Author: Caroline McCarthy.
Last week, the Guitar Hero truck was on the streets of San Francisco. This Saturday, it was spotted across the country in Manhattan's crowded Union Square, outside the Virgin Megastore.
April 29, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
EMC subsidiary VMware could raise as much as $100 million in its initial public offering of stock, the virtualization specialist said in a regulatory filing.
April 29, 2007 | Author: Dawn Kawamoto.
Exploit code that could take advantage of a "highly critical" security flaw in the most recent versions of Adobe Photoshop has been published, a security researcher reported.
April 29, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Google has released its latest version of Google Desktop, which incorporates a new look and new features.
April 27, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Don't want to pay $10 to see the new John Travolta, Salma Hayek film Lonely Hearts? Just go to AOL's video portal beginning Friday and download a copy for free. The movie opened in theaters two weeks ago in New York and Los Angeles, and is distributed by Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films. A "limited supply" of downloads of the full-length feature will be available at on AOL Video and on ClickStar, a broadband entertainment venture founded by Revelations Entertainment, the production company co-headed by Morgan Freeman.
April 27, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
In the first quarter to include consumer sales of Windows Vista and Office 2007, Microsoft reported earnings that topped Wall Street estimates.
April 27, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Eben Moglen has resigned as a director of the Free Software Foundation, a position he has held for seven years.
April 27, 2007 | Author: Anne Broache.
A bill introduced in Congress Thursday aims to overturn a controversial royalty fee increase that Internet radio advocates say threatens to cripple their services.
April 27, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Microsoft plans to make some of the security improvements and features it built into Office 2007 available for Office 2003, a company representative said Thursday.
April 27, 2007 | Author: Andy McCue.
Microsoft is to "up the ante" on tackling unlicensed business software after its latest figures showed one-third of customers still run counterfeit software.
April 27, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Security software maker McAfee on Thursday posted higher first-quarter profit and revenue that topped Wall Street forecasts as demand rose worldwide.
April 27, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
After helping lead the team that designed many of Windows Vista's key features, Tjeerd Hoek is leaving Microsoft.
April 27, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
San Diego-based Websense said on Thursday it had offered to buy U.K.-based rival SurfControl in a deal valued at about $400 million in cash. Both companies sell products designed to protect organizations from Internet threats, such as Web sites that attempt to install malicious software.
April 27, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Microsoft plans to make some of the security improvements and features it built into Office 2007 available for Office 2003, a company representative said on Thursday.
April 27, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
In the first quarter to include consumer sales of Windows Vista and Office 2007, Microsoft reported earnings that topped Wall Street estimates.
April 27, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Microsoft may be a desktop software powerhouse but, when it comes to security tools, it is still bulking up.
April 26, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
Security holes like the one that allowed the Samy worm are all too common on Web 2.0 sites.
April 26, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
The security flaw used to breach a MacBook in a hack-a-Mac competition last week also affects Internet Explorer on Windows PCs, according to TippingPoint.
April 26, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--MySQL, purveyor of the open-source database of the same name, is on the road to becoming a publicly traded company, bolstered by $50 million in revenue in 2006.
April 26, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Microsoft on Wednesday said it is releasing its first public test version of Windows Server 'Longhorn' as the company works to get the release out the door.
April 26, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft may be older and bigger than Google, but it's Microsoft nipping at Google's heels and not the other way around, according to two Gartner analysts who closely follow the moves of the companies.
April 26, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
Sun Microsystems' bread and butter is selling general-purpose servers, but on Wednesday the company began selling a product extremely specialized to cram as many streams of video onto the Internet as possible.
April 26, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
Adobe Systems plans to open-source Flex, its development framework for building Flash and Apollo-based applications.
April 26, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
Marrying technology from opposite poles of the computer industry, IBM and a multiplayer online game company are working to integrate the Cell game console processor with Big Blue's mainframe computers.
April 25, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
SAN FRANCISCO--By next year, Internet users can expect more cyberattacks to originate from the Web than via e-mail, security firm Trend Micro predicts.
April 25, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
Google long has been known to be a user of the open-source MySQL database software, but the search powerhouse this week published its own changes to the project.
April 25, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
SourceLabs has developed an application to bring order to corporations' thicket of open-source components.
April 25, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Intel is injecting some of Google's famous ad magic into its "Intel Inside" campaign.
April 25, 2007 | Author: Greg Sandoval.
MySpace is teaming with reality-TV magnet, Mark Burnett, to find the next John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan.
April 24, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
IT security professionals, policemen and politicians will all be flocking to the largest annual security event in Europe this week. On Tuesday, Infosecurity Europe 2007 will kick off at the exhibition hall at London's Kensington Olympia. With over 330 exhibitors, 150 of whom will be showcasing new products, this year's show promises to be as lively as ever.
April 24, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
The Computing Technology Industry Association has launched a qualification in voice/data convergence.
April 24, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Security experts have warned that password recovery tools for OpenOffice, the open-source application suite, are vulnerable to abuse.
April 24, 2007 | Author: John Blau.
Cloud Networks launches one of Europe's largest networks, serving more than 350,000.
April 24, 2007 | Author: Nancy Gohring.
Note: This story updates a previously posted version.
April 24, 2007 | Author: Nancy Gohring.
AT&T plans to market the iPhone to business users in addition to consumers, but analysts aren't so sure it's a good idea.
April 24, 2007 | Author: Robert Mullins.
Apple shareholders will vote on a proposal to remove certain hazardous chemicals from the company's products.
April 24, 2007 | Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.
The Opera Mini has infiltrated desktop browser rankings in a European country, indicating that the use of mobile browsing software may be gaining momentum overseas.
April 23, 2007 | Author: Gemma Simpson.
Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007.
April 23, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Asia will increasingly become a source of technological innovation, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday.
April 23, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Shane Macaulay just got himself a free MacBook.
April 22, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
President's Identity Theft Task Force will release its findings Monday.
April 22, 2007 | Author: Nancy Gohring.
Pair show how they can send false alerts--amusing or dangerous--to car satellite navigation systems.
April 22, 2007 | Author: Robert Mullins.
Texas software developer claims Microsoft's .Net framework infringes on its patent for SiteFlash product.
Swedish firm's software will be used internally, Google says.
April 22, 2007 | Author: Peter Sayer.
Advocacy group's domain name Epic.org expired the day before it challenged Google's plan to buy DoubleClick.
April 22, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Some early adopters like the price of Google's online suite over packaged bundles such as Microsoft Office.
April 21, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
Advanced Micro Devices has begun quietly selling new 3GHz versions of its dual-core Opteron server processor.
April 21, 2007 | Author: Stefanie Olsen.
Following Google's announcement to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, the search giant told the L.A. Times that it hopes to eventually merge the non-personally identifiable information from its own servers and those of the ad-serving giant DoubleClick. That way, Google would be able to better target ads to Web surfers, according to the search company.
April 21, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
VANCOUVER, B.C.--Google is looking for a few good security people and it is looking at the CanSecWest security conference.
April 21, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Fort Worth, Texas-based Vertical Computer Systems said Friday that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft. Vertical filed its suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Texas, claiming Microsoft's .Net technology infringes on its patent.
April 21, 2007 | Author: Andy McCue.
Rogue and insecure Wi-Fi access points are increasingly posing a threat to the security of corporate networks.
April 21, 2007 | Author: Greg Sandoval.
Microsoft was out Friday helping people channel their inner Jimi Hendrix or Eddie Van Halen.
April 21, 2007 | Author: Declan McCullagh.
YouTube confirmed Friday that it had erroneously deleted and would restore a video of presidential candidate John McCain singing an impromptu ditty about starting a war with Iran.
April 20, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Google has acquired the videoconferencing software company Marratech.
April 20, 2007 | Author: Stefanie Olsen.
Three public interest groups are expected to file a joint complaint Friday with the Federal Trade Commission calling for an investigation into the potential threat to consumer privacy posed by Google's planned acquisition of DoubleClick.
April 20, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
A two-factor authentication system operated by Dutch bank ABN Amro has been compromised and money stolen from four customers who fell victim to a phishing scam.
April 20, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
O2 has strongly criticised rival operators Orange and Vodafone over their decision to remove VoIP functionality from Nokia's N95 handset, claiming that such a move causes a "bad customer experience".
April 20, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Technology will keep getting better and better rather than plateauing out, with the humble keyboard making way for speech-recognition software as standard, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Thursday.
April 19, 2007 | Author: Nancy Gohring.
Biggest dangers to extending Web 2.0 capabilities to the enterprise are information overload and lack of information accountability, said experts at a Microsoft Town Hall event.
April 19, 2007 | Author: Erik Larkin.
Most business servers should not be vulnerable to current attacks directed at an as-yet unpatched flaw.
April 19, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Acknowledging that it's better to be clear than clever, Google is rebranding "Froogle" as "Google Product Search" and simplifying the interface to match the main search site, a top executive said on Wednesday.
April 19, 2007 | Author: James Cooper.
Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers announced that it has concluded an agreement to acquire SunFlowers, owner of the Anno brand, one of the most successful strategy games with five million units sold worldwide and one of the best-selling games in the German market.
April 19, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
VANCOUVER, B.C.--Cybercrooks who rig Web sites to break into PCs are getting better at hiding their malicious code, a security expert said Wednesday.
April 19, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost bundle of Office and Windows, one of several new initiatives aimed at getting PCs into the hands of more people in emerging markets.
April 18, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
IBM, the world's largest technology services company, reported higher first-quarter earnings on Tuesday as sales of software and computer services increased.
April 18, 2007 | Author: Stephen Lawson.
Microsoft says it won't resell the fuel-cell battery rechargers it is buying from Medis Technologies.
April 18, 2007 | Author: Mark Sullivan.
A new coalition of Internet radio stations will take its case to Congress and the courts to stop a new royalty fee hike.
April 18, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Google will add a presentations application to its free Docs & Spreadsheets package.
April 18, 2007 | Author: Melissa J. Perenson.
Why you should care--and the implications for the future.
April 18, 2007 | Author: Jeremy Kirk.
Increasing use of Firefox throughout Europe suggests that the browser battles aren't quite over, according to a recent survey and analysts.
April 16, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Web 2.0 Expo opens to discussions of simpler, more effective collaboration online.
April 16, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
In a century-old farming town in central Washington state, Microsoft has built a farm for the internet age.
April 16, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
It's the company's first desktop media player.
April 16, 2007 | Author: Martyn Williams.
Medis Technologies produces Microsoft-branded rechargers for consumer electronics devices.
April 16, 2007 | Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.
Incubation program help Web-hosting services support SAAS applications.
April 16, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
After years of being decked out in monochromatic stripes, the bar code is going color.
April 16, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
Not content with having a dominant position in Web video, Adobe Systems on Monday is expected to launch Adobe Media Player for playing Flash videos offline.
April 16, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
IBM is set to introduce on Monday a new version of its free IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition enterprise search software that corporations can use to search for information stored within their organizations and across the Web.
April 15, 2007 | Author: Candace Lombardi.
Akamai Technologies plans to publicly offer reference designs for its new rich-media distribution system this summer.
April 15, 2007 | Author: CNET News.com Staff.
It's been a busy time for Microsoft's Security Response Team. Last week's emergency patch was followed by five security bulletins this week, four of which were tagged "critical." Adding to the stress, several zero-day vulnerabilities in Office and Windows have surfaced, including one that cybercrooks are already using in attacks.
April 15, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
The folks at Google definitely have a sense of humor. Directions on Google Maps from New York City to Paris starts out innocently enough with "Head southwest on Broadway toward Warren St." But once you get on the Massachusetts Turnpike and take a few turns things get a little fishy:
April 15, 2007 | Author: Alex Lander.
Today we are presented with a remarkable underwater simulator “Diver - Deep Water Adventures” by Biart Studio LTD. Going to play the simulator, I’ve got no any experience in diving, but I’ve got a hope (judge by intro) to dive in the most beautiful seas and oceans indoor. And everything proved to be so. But! I forgot, that the game’s name includes the word “Adventures”. Tension was generated in detective-like manner so the game proved to be made in the spirit of adventure novel. So do not to run ahead - let’s tell one after another.
April 14, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
In its largest acquisition yet, Google has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash for online ad company DoubleClick, the companies announced Friday.
April 14, 2007 | Author: Charles Cooper.
My early take on Google's $3.1 billion snatch of DoubleClick:
April 14, 2007 | Author: Peter Judge.
A major Linux Wi-Fi driver contains a bug that can allow an attacker to take control of a laptop--even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network.
April 14, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
BT will not need to degrade certain types of traffic on its network because enough bandwidth will be created, according to one of the key executives behind the telco's next-generation network.
April 13, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Google has made its online payment service available to retailers in the UK.
April 13, 2007 | Author: Colin Barker.
Dell has launched two servers, one of which, the company claims, will offer substantial power saving.
April 13, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Cisco has issued two sets of patches for vulnerabilities in its wireless networking software.
April 13, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
Microsoft has delayed an update to its current virtualisation software and the beta debut of its next-generation successor code-named Viridian.
April 13, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Opera has added a "speed dial" feature to the latest version of its popular web browser, which it launched on Wednesday. The feature gives users a visual representation of their nine favourite sites through thumbnails, available in each tab.
April 13, 2007 | Author: Tim Ferguson.
A data centre crisis is brewing as energy supply and cooling technology struggle to keep pace with businesses' insatiable demand for computing power.
April 13, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Yahoo, which has been criticized for providing information to the Chinese government that landed a journalist in prison for 10 years, is giving $1 million to Georgetown University to establish a fellowship fund to research the link between international values and Internet technologies.
April 13, 2007 | Author: Stephen Lawson.
Qualcomm rejected a $20 million payment from Nokia for royalties on patented Qualcomm technology.
April 13, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Starting next year you won't be able to buy a new PC loaded with Windows XP, despite the lukewarm reception of Windows Vista.
April 13, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Cybercrooks are using a yet-to-be-patched security flaw in certain Windows versions to attack computers running the operating systems, Microsoft warned late on Thursday.
April 13, 2007 | Author: Caroline McCarthy.
In response to widespread chatter on blogs and forums, Microsoft has acknowledged the presence of hacks that may allow hackers to bypass the product activation security feature in its Windows Vista operating system.
April 12, 2007 | Author: Candace Lombardi.
Microsoft's Vista has improved security for Windows users, but "some of its choices still leave users vulnerable", writes David Marcus in McAfee's new biannual journal on security matters.
April 12, 2007 | Author: Jeremy Kirk.
Microsoft disputes reports of new three flaws in its Office software, the company said today.
April 12, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
The amount of spam coming from China nosedived in 2007, says security vendor Sophos.
April 11, 2007 | Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.
Microsoft says it has not changed wording at its Web site to more clearly explain "Windows Vista Capable" label for PCs.
April 11, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Grisoft, maker of AVG Internet security tools, on Tuesday introduced AVG Anti-Rootkit. The new, free product detects and removes rootkits, malicious software used by cybercrooks to hide other nefarious software on PCs.
April 11, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Software giant Microsoft said on Tuesday that it expects its China sales to rise more than 20 percent this year, boosted by new products and a national crackdown on unlicensed software.
April 11, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
The newly merged Nokia Siemens Networks is to collaborate with Pipex Wireless on its rollout of mobile WiMax in the UK.
April 10, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
Microsoft is showing some early signs of success with a version of Windows geared for a technical computing market that Linux dominates today.
April 10, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Microsoft on Tuesday plans to push out a fix to repair problems caused by last week's emergency cursor flaw patch.
April 10, 2007 | Author: Sumner Lemon.
Search giant acknowledges error, revamps its Chinese character typing tool.
April 10, 2007 | Author: Gregg Keizer.
A weekend spam run tried to dupe recipients into downloading the infamous "Storm Trojan" by attaching files that posed as fake missile-strike videos.
April 9, 2007 | Author: Sumner Lemon.
Software updated, but Sohu.com still wants apology and compensation.
April 9, 2007 | Author: Lars H. Liebeler.
For those keeping an antitrust scorecard in the IT industry, it is increasingly difficult to keep track of all the players.
April 9, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Analysis: Lawsuit's undisclosed settlement leaves uncertainty about how Google regards content rights.
April 8, 2007 | Author: Nancy Gohring.
Academics get a share of $1.1 million in grants to develop applications using Microsoft's Virtual Earth and SensorMap.
April 8, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
Microsoft is showing some early signs of success with a version of Windows geared for a technical computing market that Linux dominates today.
April 8, 2007 | Author: Nancy Gohring.
Study suggests reorganizing as a private, international entity like the Olympic Committee or a sports association.
April 7, 2007 | Author: Steven Schwankert.
Google comments on new tool but skips addressing allegations that it bears resemblance to a rival's product.
April 7, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Google has quietly launched Google Voice Local Search, an experimental service that allows people to search for local businesses over the phone. There are no ads on the service, which is available only in the U.S. To use it people can dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone and search for a business by name or category and be connected to the business at no charge. Users can also get the search results and additional details over SMS if they are on a mobile phone.
April 7, 2007 | Author: Dan Nystedt.
Top google executives also the lowest paid--but stock holdings make them billionaires.
April 7, 2007 | Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.
Following digital music pioneer Apple Inc.'s lead yet again, Microsoft Corp. said this week it will soon sell digital music online without digital rights management (DRM) protection.
April 7, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Agence France-Presse has settled its 2-year-old lawsuit against Google that alleged copyright infringement.
April 6, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Prototype tool lets users tailor searches by components from different sources.
April 6, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
The animated cursor vulnerability in Windows could also affect those using Firefox on Windows machines, according to one of the security researchers who discovered the flaw.
April 6, 2007 | Author: Tim Ferguson.
Companies have been warned not to rush into adopting virtualisation technology as hurrying could leave them at risk of security threats.
April 6, 2007 | Author: Jeremy Kirk.
Some beta testers of Microsoft's updated Windows Live Hotmail find new storage capacity is erratic.
April 6, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Microsoft said Thursday it has released an early version of a development kit that software makers can use to write programs for its Windows Home Server software, which is due out later this year. The beta version of the kit was posted Thursday to Microsoft's MSDN developer site.
April 6, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
An online petition set up by Microsoft to fast-track the standardisation of its Office Open XML document format masks Redmond's concern over the procedure, according to a leading open-source advocate.
April 6, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
VeriSign on Thursday said it that it will increase the fees it charges for Internet domains ending in .com or .net.
April 6, 2007 | Author: Michael Kanellos.
Solyndra, a somewhat secretive developer of solar cells made from copper indium gallium selenium, or CIGS, has raised $79 million, according to London-based clean tech industry analyst New Energy Finance. Investors include CMEA Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.
April 5, 2007 | Author: Peter Sayer.
Researchers say they've found a fast way to break WEP protection on Wi-Fi networks.
April 5, 2007 | Author: Ben Ames.
AMD continues its battle with Intel over multicore processing power by shipping two 3GHz versions of its dual-core Opteron chip to server vendors.
April 5, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Yahoo this week released an updated version of its instant messaging application to fix a vulnerability in the audio conferencing feature. If exploited, the security hole could give an attacker full control over a Windows computer running the vulnerable software, Yahoo said on its Web site. All versions of Yahoo Messenger downloaded before March 13 are affected, the company said.
April 5, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
reporter's notebook Mashups that overlay any kind of data on top of an online map are all the rage. But up until now I didn't know that even I, with no coding experience whatsoever, could make a customized map of my own. I did, and it took less than an hour. And it can even be found in the Google Maps index if I want it to.
April 4, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
Ecma International said on Monday that Office Open XML, the document format for the latest version of Microsoft Office, has moved to the next step in the standardization process at the International Organization for Standardization.
April 4, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Major record companies are forcing Apple to curtail access to iTunes online stores across borders, leading to higher prices and less choice, the European Commission said Tuesday.
April 4, 2007 | Author: Miriam Olsson.
SAN JOSE, Calif--Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore wants a new generation of engineers to see climate crisis as an opportunity.
April 3, 2007 | Author: Tash Shifrin.
Analysts expect online advertising to beat previous estimates and overtake radio next year.
April 3, 2007 | Author: Zoe Mutter.
Firmware upgrade gives PlayStation Portable players access to T-Mobile US HotSpots.
April 3, 2007 | Author: Joris Evers.
Microsoft on Monday said that it is taking action against groups that sold copies of Windows and Office discounted for academic use to regular users.
April 3, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Microsoft is loosening the reins on Vista licensing in an effort to let businesses try out some new computing possibilities, including "diskless" PCs.
April 3, 2007 | Author: Anne Broache.
The European Commission may have decided against imposing new rules on radio frequency identification tags for now, but a top official warned on Monday that regulations are likely if future uses of the technology don't protect fundamental privacy rights.
April 3, 2007 | Author: Anne Broache.
Accused by a Democrat in the US Congress of "airbrushing history", Google said it has now replaced pre-Hurricane Katrina satellite images of the Gulf Coast region with more recent aerial photographs.
April 3, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
After months of speculation, Google has officially jumped into the television business.
April 2, 2007 | Author: Peter Cohen.
Vlip is a new video sharing community with a twist--it fancies itself an Internet soapbox.
April 2, 2007 | Author: Caroline McCarthy.
ITV is reporting that the U.K.'s Home Secretary, John Reid, has made the shocking and momentous decision to ban Sony's PlayStation 3...in jails. Yes, that's right. The reasoning is that the high-end gaming console, which went on sale in the U.K. last week, could be used to send or receive radio signals with its built-in Wi-Fi and connectivity features.
April 2, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Google has emerged along with Microsoft as a contender to buy DoubleClick, presenting competition that stands to increase the final sale price of the online-advertising company, people familiar with the situation said in The Wall Street Journal.
April 1, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Despite being guaranteed to raise blood pressures in the US, the network neutrality debate has been slow to migrate across the Atlantic.
The overseer of the Internet's addressing system again rejects the creation of a ".xxx" top-level domain.
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