August, 2007 Issue
August 29, 2007 | Author: Gregg Keizer.
The service pack for the newest Microsoft operating system is out and about, though not officially.
August 29, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Two subsidiaries of phone giant Motorola are suing Aruba Networks over two alleged patent infringements relating to wireless LAN architecture.
August 29, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Google said on Tuesday that George Reyes plans to retire as chief financial officer by the end of the year, and that the company will begin a search for a replacement.
August 28, 2007 | Author: Stefanie Olsen.
Yahoo on Monday filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by two Chinese journalists who alleged that the Internet company and its subsidiaries "willingly" handed over information about their online writing to the People's Republic of China.
August 28, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Internet censorship should be treated as a barrier to trade, according to the chief executive of search and advertising giant Google.
August 27, 2007 | Author: Michael Kanellos.
Someday, you might hook into the Internet through solar power.
August 27, 2007 | Author: Christiaan Hetzner.
Creative pricing for multiplayer online games is thwarting softare piracy, vendors say.
August 26, 2007 | Author: Christiaan Hetzner.
Mobile game publisher aims for shorts, snacks, and even sexy pasttimes.
August 26, 2007 | Author: Robert Mullins.
Two Silicon Valley firms show energy-efficient practicies in their own facilities.
August 25, 2007 | Author: Marguerite Reardon.
Talk of a possible Google phone kicked up again Friday with new rumors coming out of India that the phone could be launched within two weeks.
August 25, 2007 | Author: Colin Barker.
Microsoft has killed off its controversial "Get the Facts" anti-Linux campaign and replaced it with a new message called "Compare".
August 24, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
A Linux user who was jailed for uploading a film onto a peer-to-peer service has been told he will have to switch to Windows if he wants to use a computer again.
August 24, 2007 | Author: Marguerite Reardon.
Shawna Hampton, a small-business owner in the US, knows she always needs to have a backup for her Skype internet telephone service.
August 23, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
A 39-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of using someone else's wireless internet connection without permission, police said on Wednesday.
August 23, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
Setting aside its handset rivalry with Nokia, Microsoft on Wednesday announced it has inked a pact to put mobile versions of its Windows Live services onto handsets made by one of its chief competitors.
August 22, 2007 | Author: Jeremy Kirk.
Sky add-on for Google's Earth satellite program shows photos of precise star formations overhead.
August 21, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
Adobe Systems intends to add support for a video compression standard that will bring high-definition video to Flash-based streaming content on the web.
August 21, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Google Inc.'s GrandCentral Communications is finding it tricky to keep its promise to provide its clients with a single phone number "for life."
August 21, 2007 | Author: Matt Asay.
When I first read the headline, I was shocked. I thought, "Wow! Skype runs on Windows servers???"
August 20, 2007 | Author: Dan Nystedt.
Mobile phone chip maker hopes to expand its market in WiMax, broadband, cable TV, and wireless infrastructure.
August 20, 2007 | Author: David Meyer.
Skype has fixed a software bug that made the internet telephony service almost unusable for two days last week.
August 19, 2007 | Author: Jaikumar Vijayan.
Infections at Monster.com and other sites result in theft of personal information for 46,000 job-seekers.
August 19, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Google has launched a resource center about click fraud, describing 'invalid clicks,' and monitoring tools.
August 19, 2007 | Author: Ben Ames.
An acquisition of the embedded operating systems vendor could strengthen IBM's market hold.
August 19, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
A Chinese couple have tried to name their baby "@", claiming the character used in email addresses echoes their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said on Thursday.
August 18, 2007 | Author: Colin Barker.
Scientists in upstate New York have produced an energy source made out of paper which could power computers and other electronic devices.
August 18, 2007 | Author: Matthew Broersma.
Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, says this week's server attacks do not mean the OS is not secure.
August 18, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
Skype has not been attacked, eBay said today, dispelling rumors that Russian hackers took down its popular online telephony service.
August 18, 2007 | Author: Juan Carlos Perez.
Almost 36 hours after a software problem caused widespread outages in eBay Inc.'s Skype service, engineers continue to work to fully restore this extremely popular Internet telephony and instant messaging service, while many business users deal with work disruptions.
August 17, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Nokia said on Friday that it had asked the US International Trade Commission to bar the import of some Qualcomm chipsets to the US, alleging they infringe five Nokia patents.
August 17, 2007 | Author: Anne Broache.
It's official: Microsoft is deploying lobbyists to oppose Google's proposed purchase of DoubleClick, which it claims raise "serious competitive issues" in the online-ad space.
August 16, 2007 | Author: Linda Rosencrance.
Safeselling.org is now open for business.
August 16, 2007 | Author: Gregg Keizer.
Most users find it impossible to dial out or open an IM session with any of their Skype contacts.
August 16, 2007 | Author: Martin LaMonica.
A company called Ribbit came out of stealth mode this week, showing off a "phone component" that will let developers embed Internet calling into Web applications.
August 15, 2007 | Author: Ina Fried.
VMware's stellar stock offering on Tuesday shows that virtual machines are starting to add up to real dollars.
August 15, 2007 | Author: Alex Lander.
We’ve made up our mind to test a freeware tool SendBlaster for easy usability and good functionality. So, the installation process turned up to be very fast and easy, and that’s why we’ll get to launching the program right off...
August 14, 2007 | Author: Steven Musil.
A US Customs computer systems malfunction stranded more than 20,000 international passengers for several hours at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday.
August 14, 2007 | Author: Colin Barker.
Microsoft has failed by one vote to get the backing necessary for Office Open XML to become an alternative to OpenDocument Format as a standard of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards.
August 14, 2007 | Author: Richard Thurston.
A British web designer has been given a suspended jail sentence after hacking into a competitor's website.
August 13, 2007 | Author: Matthew Broersma.
Security and corporate image issues remain, but so do opportunities, a Gartner report says.
August 13, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Microsoft started testing on Thursday a new dashboard view for its various Windows Live online services.
August 11, 2007 | Author: Richard Thurston.
Symantec has revealed details of a vulnerability in two ActiveX controls used in its Norton Windows antivirus software.
August 11, 2007 | Author: Marguerite Reardon.
T-Mobile may be extending its Hotspot@Home service to offer voice over IP for fixed-line users.
August 10, 2007 | Author: Robert McMillan.
Security Patches include six critical updates for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and the company's Visual Basic development software.
August 10, 2007 | Author: Heather Havenstein.
Companies that want to protect their brands or reputations should be cautious about operating on such Web sites, research firm Gartner warns.
August 10, 2007 | Author: Ben Ames.
Former CEO Kevin Rollins will receive $48.5 million for his stock options six months after he resigned.
August 10, 2007 | Author: Jeremy Kirk.
A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for putting links and images of the company's content in search results taken from other Web sites.
August 9, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Microsoft has released two updates for Windows Vista.
August 9, 2007 | Author: Nancy Gohring.
John Schappert will head Xbox Live, one of the best performing parts of the Xbox business.
August 8, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
IBM has criticised Microsoft over its approach to service-oriented architecture, saying the software giant offers a "lightweight messaging infrastructure".
August 8, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Websense has revealed one of its methods for monitoring malicious web activity.
August 8, 2007 | Author: Matt Broersma.
The Open Invention Network, an organisation created to help take the pressure of patent litigation off Linux developers, has added Google to the ranks of its contributors.
August 8, 2007 | Author: Peter Glaskowsky.
These days, most new PCs have dual-core central processors (CPU). That's one chip with two complete microprocessors on it, both sharing one path to memory and peripherals.
August 7, 2007 | Author: Matt Hamblen.
Vendors and government agencies are pushing the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 as the number of addresses available in IPv4 diminishes.
August 7, 2007 | Author: GamePro Staff.
Microsoft denies reports that select Xbox 360 titles will require a hard drive to play games.
August 7, 2007 | Author: Gregg Keizer.
Microsoft last week revoked the digital certificate of a free utility that outflanked one the company's touted security features in Windows Vista.
August 7, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Mobile-phone giant Nokia will start to use Microsoft's copy protection software to boost the use of wireless entertainment, like music and videos, the two companies said on Monday.
August 6, 2007 | Author: GamePro staff.
Development is tougher on Sony's system, forcing Take-Two to delay update, analyst suggests.
August 6, 2007 | Author: Julian Goldsmith.
Pembrokeshire County Council has reduced the time it takes to test the reliability of its wireless networks by using a network analysis application.
August 6, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Google has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its mobile-phone project and is courting US and European mobile operators, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
August 6, 2007 | Author: Stefanie Olsen.
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D photographic look at the space shuttle Endeavour before its launch this week, in a public-private partnership that could lead to more use of digital imagery in future space-agency missions.
August 3, 2007 | Author: Grant Gross.
An Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison for selling pirated games online.
August 3, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Online pharmacy network paid U.S. doctors to issue prescriptions based on answers to health questionnaires.
August 3, 2007 | Author: Reuters.
Microsoft has more than halved the retail price of its Vista operating system in China.
August 3, 2007 | Author: Tom Espiner.
Google has made its Web History tool available in the UK.
August 3, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
We all know that online maps have their faults. One of them is that they tend to be optimistic.
August 3, 2007 | Author: Michael Kanellos.
We're facing a choice, says the Environmental Protection Agency: build more energy efficient data centers or choke on fumes.
August 2, 2007 | Author: Brett Winterford.
Security vendors have warned email users to be as vigilant about PDF attachments as they would for other file formats, after seeing a sharp rise in spam containing infected PDF files.
August 2, 2007 | Author: Andy McCue.
The London 2012 Olympic Games organisers are exploring energy-saving green IT initiatives and embracing Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking for the event.
August 2, 2007 | Author: Heather Havenstein.
Some sites seeing total visits increase as much as 270 percent, according to a study released by Internet measurement company ComScore.
August 2, 2007 | Author: Matt Hamblen.
Will test in-flight Wi-Fi services across the U.S. starting next year, according to the airline.
August 2, 2007 | Author: Thomas Wailgum.
Gene Toye's job is to evaluate every site that you're not allowed to look when at work.
August 2, 2007 | Author: Elinor Mills.
Lorelle VanFossen is passionate. An author, travel writer and nature photographer, she also has a popular blog about, well, blogging. Her pet peeve is online plagiarism, which she encounters nearly every day.
August 1, 2007 | Author: GamePro staff.
Two new high-profile games are on the way--a Rockstar exclusive for PS3 and Viva Piqata for the Nintendo DS.
August 1, 2007 | Author: Nancy Gohring.
Microsoft is using green technologies in its new data centers, including one in San Antonio.
August 1, 2007 | Author: Eric Lai.
Is Microsoft Works, the long-standing, low-end counterpart to Microsoft Office, being groomed to take on Google in the online office software market?
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