June, 2007 Issue
June 30, 2007 | Author: Jim Dalrymple.
Three hours after getting my hands on one, I am ready to drop the thing from the 44th floor of the New York Hilton.
June 30, 2007 | Author: Chris Duckett.
The Free Software Foundation is set to release the General Public License version 3 on Friday, more than three months after the initial 15 March deadline.
June 30, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Many people who lined up to be the first buyers of Apple Inc.'s iPhone made good on promises to try to flip the gadgets online at inflated prices, but a quick buck appeared out of reach for many.
June 29, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
Malware installed by fake MySpace navigation bars has infected several thousand PCs, according to the SANS Institute.
June 29, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
If Microsoft's latest efforts are any indication, a web-based iteration of its desktop franchise won't be ready any time soon.
June 29, 2007 | Author: Candace Lombardi.
A Microsoft attorney says the company has learned how to deal with antitrust regulators and that Google could glean a thing or two from the experience.
June 29, 2007 | Author: Michael Kanellos.
Liquid cooling is all the rage again in servers, and Dell has jumped into the pool.
June 29, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Five months after its introduction, Microsoft is discontinuing a program that offered some Windows Vista purchasers the ability to buy additional copies of the operating system at a substantial discount.
June 29, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Microsoft has signed up a key beta tester for the next generation of its server operating system: itself.
June 28, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Nokia is headed towards 40 percent global market share and Apple's iPhone won't make a dent in that, according to a US distributor of mobiles and other wireless devices.
June 28, 2007 | Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.
Program offers mapping software, services free to nonprofit organizations for promotions.
June 28, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux, in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on the desktop.
June 28, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Microsoft has launched another low-cost PC effort in India, this time partnering with chipmaker AMD in an effort to get more computers into the hands of students.
June 27, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Security firm McAfee has said that cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated social-engineering techniques, and that IT managers need to make users aware of the psychological tricks that make the techniques work.
Microsoft is adding photo sharing and web-based hosted storage to Windows Live on Wednesday, though for now the services will be limited to a few thousand preselected testers.
June 27, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Handsets that offer only Wi-Fi connectivity have been a failure, according to the director of home and office communications devices for Siemens.
June 26, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Microsoft said on Monday that it expects rival Google to file a complaint with a federal judge arguing that changes Microsoft has agreed to make to its Windows Vista operating system fall short of addressing concerns that its computer search function puts Google and other potential competitors at a disadvantage.
June 26, 2007 | Author: Colin Barker.
BASF is working with IBM on the chemicals and materials needed for the next-generation 32-nanometer microprocessors.
June 26, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Google plans to spend $600m (£300m) to build a data centre in western Iowa, the latest site in a massive network of server farms holding the hundreds of thousands of computers that run its web services. Construction on the new data centre in Council Bluffs — which Google called a busy crossroads of internet activity — has started and Google plans to start operations by spring of 2009.
June 26, 2007 | Author: Leader.
By now, WiMax was supposed to be big, going on huge. As it is, it remains effectively stuck in trial phase and very far from revenue rich; with around 270,000 subscribers worldwide last year, the main beneficiaries have probably been the vendors of WiMax market reports at $3,000 (£1,502) a pop.
June 25, 2007 | Author: Tarmo Virki.
Nokia has access to a huge salesforce in emerging markets that no other operator can match, analyst says.
June 25, 2007 | Author: Eric Lai.
DRM restrictions may have caused Microsoft's Vista virtualization flip-flop.
June 25, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Vodafone is deploying a WiMax-based network on the island of Malta, in what is seen as a testbed for wider deployment.
June 25, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
The European Union's data watchdog said on Thursday that it will expand its investigation of how search engines retain information on internet surfers to other companies beyond sector-leader Google.
June 24, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Since Microsoft entered the security market last year with both enterprise and consumer products, Symantec has launched a number of scathing attacks on the Redmond giant. Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk at Symantec's Vision conference in Las Vegas last week, John Thompson, chief executive of Symantec, was critical of Microsoft's security management console, codenamed "Stirling", and its enterprise security product, Forefront.
June 24, 2007 | Author: Isabelle Chan.
Wireless internet services, currently available on Japan's Tsukuba Express, are slowly making their way onto other public train networks in Asia.
June 24, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
Microsoft files suit against a company and individuals accused of sending debt relief and porn spam to Hotmail accounts.
June 22, 2007 | Author: Dawn Kawamoto.
Ziff Davis Media announced Thursday plans to sell its enterprise group for approximately $150 million in cash to a New York-based private equity and venture capital firm.
June 22, 2007 | Author: Dawn Kawamoto.
Security researchers have found PHP exploit code embedded in a GIF on a major image-hosting site.
June 22, 2007 | Author: Peter Cohen.
The company's free Web-based video editing and "remixing" technology is now being used on the YouTube and MTV.com Web sites.
June 22, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
A Microsoft executive says that--six months after shipping Windows Vista--it has left more publicly disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows XP.
June 21, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
The managing director of the Wi-Fi Alliance has defended his organisation's decision to start certifying draft 802.11n equipment before the standard is finalised.
June 21, 2007 | Author: Josh Lowensohn.
Google has acquired Zenter, a small company that makes software for creating online slideshows.
June 21, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
Samsung and Seagate have released a collection of hard drives that demonstrates the huge choice now available.
June 21, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
The world's number-one mobile-phone maker, Nokia, announced a reorganisation on Wednesday.
June 21, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Google now has 56.3 percent of the share of Web searches in the United States, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Yahoo's share is 21.5 percent, followed by Microsoft at 8.4 percent, AOL at 5.3 percent and Ask.com at 2 percent. Google had nearly 45 percent growth year over year in the number of searches conducted on its site.
June 20, 2007 | Author: Tim Ferguson.
The battle between 3G and Wi-Fi for dominance of the wireless internet world will all come down to which offers the broadest benefits to individual users, analysts have predicted.
June 20, 2007 | Author: Richard Thurston.
Squabbling within the international IT standards body IEEE looks set to derail efforts to clarify the next Ethernet standard.
June 20, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Microsoft agreed Tuesday to make changes to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista in an effort to assuage Google and head off a further antitrust battle with U.S. regulators.
June 20, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Microsoft planned this week to announce that it was broadening the virtualization rights for Windows Vista, but decided at the last minute to reverse course and stick with existing limits.
June 20, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
June 20, 2007 | Author: Peter Cohen.
An update to Age of Empires from MacSoft smooths gameplay with improved networking support and other enhancements.
June 20, 2007 | Author: Nancy Gohring.
Microsoft today launched a redesigned MSN portal for mobile phones, with improved navigation and optimized display of Web pages.
June 20, 2007 | Author: Cara Garretson.
SonicWall has announced a new version of its e-mail security software that runs on Windows servers or the company's own appliances.
June 20, 2007 | Author: Melissa J. Perenson.
Movie rental giant says it sees a clear enough trend among its customers to pinpoint Blu-ray as its format of choice, adding clarification to the DVD wars.
June 20, 2007 | Author: Jo Best.
Google has committed to becoming more environmentally friendly and has enlisted the help of a green group to meet its target.
June 19, 2007 | Author: Peter Sayer.
Google Inc. launched versions of its video sharing service Youtube in French and other languages on Tuesday. Localized versions now exist for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.
June 19, 2007 | Author: Greg Sandoval.
Eric Jackson, a Yahoo shareholder, dreamed of influencing companies in the same way as billionaire financier Carl Icahn.
June 19, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel stepped down on Monday and handed the reins of the struggling search company to co-founder Jerry Yang after six years on the job.
June 19, 2007 | Author: Staff.
Microsoft has agreed to buy 0.8 percent of Sichuan Changhong Electric Co to help to develop technology that can connect computers and televisions to the internet, according to the Chinese company.
June 19, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Verizon Communications said it plans to offer high-definition video on demand over its advanced internet and video service called FiOS, although it has not yet set a date.
June 18, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
European businesses are being held back from migrating to IP version 6 due to the way IP addresses are being allocated, according to the director of IT at the UK internet registrar, Nominet.
June 18, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
At first glance it is not immediately obvious why a sewing machine, handbag and pedometer would be useful to engineers at internet giant Yahoo, but organisers say anything goes at "Hack Day".
June 18, 2007 | Author: Dan Nystedt.
Samsung's $3.5 billion memory chip factory is the largest such plant in Texas.
June 18, 2007 | Author: Steven Schwankert.
Search giant tries to make more headway in China, where it faces a local rival.
June 18, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Friday said a complaint lodged by Google was "baseless", as the software company was complying with a 2002 antitrust settlement.
June 17, 2007 | Author: Brian Sullivan.
Microsoft adds more cooling for the Xenos GPU in beleaguered Xboxes to restore consoles.
June 17, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
'Project Nextgen' integrates two compliance assessment products for easier management.
June 17, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Rival's allegations of more antitrust activity is 'baseless,' Ballmer says.
June 17, 2007 | Author: Greg Sandoval.
June 16, 2007 | Author: Colin Barker.
Adobe has seen a record surge in profits thanks to the upgrade to Acrobat in the second half of 2006. But it has yet to reap the benefits from the launch of Creative Suite 3 in March this year.
June 16, 2007 | Author: CNET News.com Staff.
This week the FBI sent out a press release stating that 1 million homes may be infected with bots. Arbor Networks' chief research officer talks with CNET editor Robert Vamosi about "Operation Bot Roast."
June 15, 2007 | Author: Robert Vamosi.
Check Point has released an updated ZoneAlarm 7.1 that's designed to work with Windows Vista's architecture. This is the first true two-way firewall for the Windows Vista environment.
June 15, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
The number of wireless access points in London has increased by 160 percent in a year, according to a survey conducted by RSA Security.
June 15, 2007 | Author: Aaron Tan.
Two leading academic journals have said they will not accept manuscripts written in Microsoft's Office 2007 suite.
June 15, 2007 | Author: Julian Goldsmith.
The number of security flaws within financial institutions' IT systems is growing fast, due in part to customer demand for internet services.
June 15, 2007 | Author: Greg Sandoval.
Hollywood studios have enlisted one of the nation's largest Internet Service Providers to help fight illegal file sharing, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
June 15, 2007 | Author: Candace Lombardi.
TripAdvisor, that sea of au courant and sometimes complaint-driven posts about hotels, is making it easier to find like-minded travelers. The subsidiary of Expedia plans to roll out a social-networking component Friday that should help you avoid those less-than-helpful "no ice in the water" comments about foreign hotels.
June 14, 2007 | Author: Eugene Huang.
In spite of a recent upswell in unconfirmed hearsay, a Sony representative has squashed the rumors where they stand.
June 14, 2007 | Author: Anne Broache.
Google and its allies may have lost key Capitol Hill votes on Net neutrality laws last year, but now they're mounting a counterattack: a lobbying effort to extend similar rules to forthcoming wireless broadband networks.
June 14, 2007 | Author: Greg Sandoval.
It was a pro-copyright ruling that stunned nearly everyone dealing with the issue of online piracy.
June 13, 2007 | Author: Tim Ferguson.
Virtualisation will be the key to the popularity of Microsoft's long-awaited server operating system, Windows Server 2008, analysts have predicted.
June 13, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Yahoo shareholders criticised a defensive and slightly combative chief executive Terry Semel for the company's lagging performance after the annual stockholder meeting Tuesday.
June 13, 2007 | Author: Nancy Gohring.
Microsoft won a round in its battle with patent licensing company Timeline.
June 13, 2007 | Author: Michael Kanellos.
The PC power chain has to got to get in shape, according to a group of technology companies.
June 13, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
The new high-speed Wi-Fi standard, 802.11n, has been controversial to say the least. Although the standard is only due to be ratified in 2009, a plethora of 802.11n-based products is already on the market, leading the Wi-Fi Alliance to start "certifying" equipment that conforms to a draft version of the standard.
June 13, 2007 | Author: Daniel Terdiman.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--In the inaugural draft of the Championship Gaming Series, a new professional video game league, the biggest surprise may have been first: a woman was the first player chosen.
June 12, 2007 | Author: Gemma Simpson.
Google's attitude towards privacy has been criticised by campaigners who are warning of a "race to the bottom" in corporate surveillance of customers.
June 12, 2007 | Author: Andy McCue.
More than one billion PCs will be in use worldwide by the end of 2008, fuelled by high growth rates in emerging markets such as the Bric bloc of countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
June 12, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Flickr officials have no doubt that China is blocking their photo sharing site's images.
June 12, 2007 | Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.
Google's claims that Microsof's Vista desktop search violates its antitrust agreement could be difficult to prove.
June 12, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
Just hours after Apple released its first Windows beta of Safari researcher Aviv Raff said he'd found a bug.
June 12, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Google is changing its Google Ads marketing services to allow advertisers to see on which Web sites their ads appear, something many of them have been clamoring for. Not only will advertisers be able to make sure their ads are appearing on sites that are appropriate, but they also will be to get performance metrics for each site. So a company that sells electronic test equipment can make sure its ads appear on sites targeted at manufacturers of electronics, potential customers, and not on sites that, for example, offer tests for electronics students, said Brian Axe, director of product management for Google Ads.
June 11, 2007 | Author: Matthew Broersma.
Several antispam organizations have been targeted by an attempt to knock them offline.
June 11, 2007 | Author: Elizabeth Montalbano.
Microsoft has launched the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment public beta.
June 10, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
Yahoo fixes a serious vulnerability in its Messenger instant messaging client.
June 9, 2007 | Author: Grant Gross.
Several business groups oppose 'cyber trespass' legislation that passed the House this week.
June 9, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Microsoft has released a new version of Windows Mobile Device Center, the programme used to synchronise Windows Mobile devices with PCs running Vista.
June 9, 2007 | Author: Greg Sandoval.
A court decision reached last month but under seal until Friday could force Web sites to track visitors if the sites become defendants in a lawsuit.
June 8, 2007 | Author: Gregg Keizer.
First, Yahoo was notified that its Messenger IM client was vulnerable to attack. Then, a researcher fingered two ActiveX controls as flawed and posted exploit code.
June 8, 2007 | Author: Erik Larkin.
New security software supplements antivirus protection by scanning systems for 'bot' malware that can take over unprotected PCs.
June 7, 2007 | Author: John Fontana.
Companies that deploy Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista in tandem could see more than a threefold increase in networking performance, according to a Microsoft-commissioned study.
June 7, 2007 | Author: Eugene Huang.
A champion was crowned this week at the first ever Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championships.
June 7, 2007 | Author: Jeremy Kirk.
China seeks to put technical Internet management issues on the agenda of a U.N.-run forum concerning the development of the Internet.
June 7, 2007 | Author: Preston Gralla.
Want to bend Firefox to your will, keep yourself safer while you surf, and customize how Google works? These great Firefox extensions will let you do it.
June 7, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Five of the largest ISPs in the US are to start charging businesses for guaranteed delivery of their emails, in a bid to combat spam.
June 7, 2007 | Author: Elsa Wenzel.
Adobe Acrobat 8, which shipped two months before the January release of Windows Vista, can now run on Vista and Citrix 64-bit systems.
June 7, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Microsoft and South Korea's LG Electronics said on Thursday they have agreed a patent cross-licensing deal, sending LG shares to their highest value in more than a year.
June 7, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Although there have been a raft of deals of private equity firms buying out public tech companies, Palm's recent deal with Elevation Partners is breaking new ground.
June 7, 2007 | Author: Michael Kanellos.
BEIJING--Forget Silicon Valley--if you want to see a place enthralled with Web 2.0, come to China.
June 6, 2007 | Author: Eugene Huang.
New Ignition feature will focus on promoting up-and-coming acts through free music and video downloads.
June 6, 2007 | Author: Gregg Keizer.
Mozilla Corp. is considering adding a tool to Firefox 3.0 that would automatically block Web sites thought to harbor malicious downloads, but the company's security chief refused to spell out details, saying Mozilla is "not ready to talk about the feature."
June 6, 2007 | Author: Stephen Shankland.
Google has acquired PeakStream, a start-up that sells tools for writing software that can take advantage of multicore processors as well as graphics and gaming chips.
June 6, 2007 | Author: Greg Sandoval.
France's top soccer league and its national tennis organization are the latest to join legal action against video-sharing site YouTube.
June 6, 2007 | Author: Stefanie Olsen.
BERKELEY, Calif.-- Michael Jones, chief technology officer of Google's geography software, on Tuesday counted Google Earth as fifth among the most populous nations, by a measure of how many people have installed the mapping application that lets people see their house from space.
June 5, 2007 | Author: Heather Havenstein.
Deal with Hearst-Argyle Television will bring local news, weather and entertainment videos as well as original Hearst television programming in five local markets to YouTube.
June 5, 2007 | Author: Nancy Gohring.
Responding to recent launch of Mahalo.com, Google clarifies that its search engine also uses human interaction.
June 5, 2007 | Author: Charles Cooper.
In the wrong hands, could Google Earth become a weapon of mass destruction?
June 4, 2007 | Author: Dan Nystedt.
IT managers in search of software for managing their computer systems, especially those from Lenovo Group Ltd., might want to check out a trial version of LANDesk Management Suite for ThinkVantage.
June 4, 2007 | Author: Margaret Kane.
Palm is selling a 25 percent stake to private-equity firm Elevation Partners for $325 million and is bringing in Jon Rubinstein, who formerly ran the iPod division at Apple, as executive chairman of the board.
June 4, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
Adobe Systems on Monday released an early version of LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, a revamped version of its document management and work-flow server.
June 4, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Spammers are increasingly targeting individual companies' domains with large volumes of concentrated spam.
June 4, 2007 | Author: Caroline McCarthy.
Yahoo announced Monday that its Panama search advertising platform is now open to third parties.
June 4, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Hackers trying to host malicious code on otherwise innocent websites are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to avoid detection.
June 3, 2007 | Author: Grant Gross.
A porn director has been indicted on obscenity charges for distributing films over the Internet.
Internet services are expected to team up against Microsoft in a Tuesday announcement.
June 3, 2007 | Author: Jonny Evans.
Adobe has teamed with Google on a plug-in that interacts with Google 3D Warehouse.
June 3, 2007 | Author: Gregg Keizer.
Microsoft's antivirus program fares better in a security firm's latest round of tests.
June 3, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Controversial book search engine can be co-branded and embedded on publishers' sites.
June 3, 2007 | Author: Stephen Lawson.
Ambitious municipal wireless project may include eight technologies and take longer than expected.
June 3, 2007 | Author: Denise Pappalardo.
Faster ADSL2+ service promises 8M to 15Mbps of dedicated Internet access in 11 markets.
June 2, 2007 | Author: Leader.
"Developers! Developers! Developers!" Steve Ballmer's sweat-soaked mantra, delivered in a terrifying interpretive dance of almost shamanistic intensity, is unforgettable. Indeed, Microsoft has long had a legendary devotion to the army of third-party programmers who support the Windows platform — a devotion that has been one of the wisest and most effective investments the company has ever made.
June 2, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
Just one day after discovering Google's Firefox toolbar could be exploited in an attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in Google Desktop.
June 2, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Google acquires FeedBurner, a provider of publishing and advertising services for blogs and content syndication feed.
June 2, 2007 | Author: Candace Lombardi.
Alleged spam mogul Robert Alan Soloway was arrested on Wednesday after being indicted by a US federal grand jury.
June 2, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
Millions of people use Google's web services every day. Now the search giant wants to actively recruit the geek elite of software programmers.
June 2, 2007 | Author: Kablenet.com.
A top official from the banking industry has said the public sector is a major target for online fraud.
June 1, 2007 | Author: Rupert Goodwins.
Microsoft has demanded that a London-based Windows developer withdraws a version of his free debugging tool from distribution, and is claiming that the tool breaches its licensing conditions.
June 1, 2007 | Author: Colin Barker.
Dell is to upgrade its wireless cards to support an unratified standard.
June 1, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Google just accelerated its rivalry with Microsoft, although Google executives still deny there is a competition over who will dominate in an increasingly web-based computing world.
June 1, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
IBM's Internet Security Systems division has warned that there is a "colossal difference" between the number of publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities and the number of vulnerabilities that are discovered but not publicly disclosed.
June 1, 2007 | Author: Rafe Needleman.
At the D5 conference, YouTube founders (and now Google employees) Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were just interviewed by Walt Mossberg. In a wide-ranging interview, Hurley and Chen discussed today's EMI deal, copyright issues, and advertising.
June 1, 2007 | Author: Michael Kanellos.
BEIJING--Every American company wants to expand into China, but so far none that has is doing that well. Baidu, the Chinese search engine, has a huge lead over Google. Amazon bought a growing local online bookseller to get its business going, but customer service and other issues caused sales to slow.
June 1, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
Millions of people use Google's Web services every day. Now the search giant wants to actively recruit the geek elite of software programmers.
June 1, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
ARLSBAD, Calif.--In Bill Gates' mind, Microsoft's tabletop computer is just the beginning of where the touch-based technology can go.
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