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Five million is a lot of anything. That's why the folks at Boston-based software maker IObit caught my eye recently when they announced they had just cracked the cinco millones mark in downloads for their free Windows maintenance program Advanced WindowsCare Personal. The application, its most recen...
The number of consumers downloading music from authorized sites could exceed that of peer-to-peer, or P2P, users this year, according to research conducted by the NPD Group. The growth rate of downloading of copyrighted material via file-sharing services may have slowed down last year to around 8 pe...
Mobile phone powerhouse Nokia has acquired the small, privately held media sharing company Twango -- a 10-person outfit that currently works out of a cofounder's basement in Redmond, Wash. Despite the company's small size and basement digs, Nokia clearly sees potential in Twango's solutions and visi...
Sony Computer Entertainment America executives finally have something to celebrate. Newly released sales data show the company's beleaguered PlayStation 3 gaming platform saw a significant jump in sales for the month of June. Sony was not the only winner last month, according to tracking firm NPD Gr...
It is the rare political debate in which a winner is definitely declared. Sure, there have been a few in which candidates delivered zingers. The vice presidential debate between Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen ("Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy") tops the list. Monday night's Democratic presidential de...
You don't need Microsoft's high-powered marketing staff or sophisticated statistics to know where the power currently lies in the portable media player market. Very simply, the score reads something like this: Apple's iPod, 100 million units shipped; Microsoft's Zune, 1 million. Yes, the iPod entere...
Microsoft announced Sunday a new set of privacy principles for Live Search and online advertising data collection, use and protection. The principles delineate newly enhanced steps the company will implement to protect the privacy of Windows Live users. Chief among the revamped privacy directives is...
This last week, I was introduced to a Linux-based PC that has the potential to out Apple by using a combination of open source software, Linux and Web 2.0 concepts. I revisited another product that I think could free us from image management and enable us to use whatever PC we want, at work or home,...
The growth rate for illegal downloading of copyrighted material via peer-to-peer file sharing services slowed somewhat during 2006, while use of their legal counterparts picked up, according to recent research. Nonetheless, open and walled-off P2P services -- so-called darknets -- remain the primary...
Back in 1994, a computer called "Chinook" became the World Checkers Champion. By 1996, the checkers world came to accept that the computer was better than any other player. However, it wasn't until more than decade later that it achieved perfection. Chinook is now certifiably infallible and can neve...
First Jeeves got the old heave-ho; now Ask.com is ready to give user data the boot as well. In an apparent effort to one-up its much larger competitors in the field of user privacy, Ask.com unveiled its new AskEraser, a utility that the company said "will offer its searchers unmatched control over t...
Music file sharers and ISPs in Europe were triumphant after an advisor to the European Union's Court of Justice said Wednesday that, in civil cases, telecommunication companies in Europe are not required to provide data on clients thought to be illegally sharing music files. A Spanish court sought t...
You can't label it a Web operating system. Don't refer to it as a simple platform or a bunch of applications. Yes, you can accurately call Parakey "acquired." The hard-to-describe startup, created by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, is now owned by Facebook. The deal is the firs...
Other than perhaps the medical and legal industries, no field relies on jargon more than computer technology. Take, for instance, the use of words borrowed from other lexicons -- terms such as "virus, "Trojan," "intrusion prevention system," "spyware," and "attack vector." You might well hear these...
MTV Networks' Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group will drop a cool $100 million into its online casual games venture, the Viacom business unit announced yesterday at the Casual Connect gaming conference in Seattle. "Across all of MTVN's online sites, gaming is an important original genre and we are co...
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