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I was chatting with a journalist a couple of days ago to help with background on a story on Microsoft designed to debunk one of the most common misconceptions surrounding the company. I started to realize there were a lot of them -- some I actually held myself -- that either were no longer true or n...
Symantec, one of the largest providers of information security technologies, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Brightmail, a maker of anti-spam technology, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $370 million. According to the company, Brightmail's anti-spam technology will ...
There's an article in Britain's prestigious Times Online today called "Q&A: Napster and the Music Industry," which seems -- at least on the surface -- to explain what Napster 2 will mean to Britons now that its owner, Roxio, has succeeded in snaking it into the United Kingdom. "Easy, safe and le...
Online music service Napster has launched a download service in the UK, offering a choice between individual song downloads or a monthly subscription. Users with Windows 2000 or XP systems can download the Napster jukebox application and begin downloading songs to their PC. Users that sign up to the...
National leaders reviewing the emergency response and communication during and after the devastating terrorist attacks of 9-11 are looking to the private sector to bolster readiness at the same time some local governments are considering 802.11 wireless technology, or WiFi, as the basis of their own...
Cingular and AT&T Wireless recently announced plans to merge, resulting in a bigger, more reliable network for customers. Not long after, Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America filed a petition to block the merger. Once again, so-called consumer groups are opposing market develop...
Symantec, a global leader in information security, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Brightmail, a maker of anti-spam technology, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $370 million. According to the company, Brightmail's anti-spam technology will be a key complement to Sym...
With two courtroom opponents offering different interpretations of a recent ruling, VeriSign's claims of antitrust and breach of contract against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the network's oversight body, came under the spotlight this week. Earlier this week, A U....
Napster UK, a subsidiary of Roxio, has announced that the Napster 2.0 online music service went live to music fans across the United Kingdom today with what the company is calling "the UK's largest online music catalog." UK residents can download the new Napster 2.0 music service for free at www.nap...
The European Commission (EC) has passed a controversial directive that opponents claim will bolster the lot of big companies at the expense of small ones and will stifle innovation. The so-called Computer-Implemented Inventions directive, which would harmonize how software patents are issued through...
Internet giant Yahoo has released an e-mail encryption scheme to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) aimed at wide adoption and avoidance of the unwanted and increasing volume of commercial and gimmicky e-mail known as spam. However, the submission of Yahoo's DomainKeys antispam proposal come...
Taiwanese chipmaker VIA has released details of its next-generation C5J Esther processor core, which is intended to bring security in addition to low heat and power consumption to small, low-priced embedded devices. VIA, which unveiled the new power-efficient processor core at the Embedded Processor...
Q: What's the difference between Chi-Hi, a high school, and a 12-year-old named Brianna LaHara? A: 500 CDs. It's now routine for the Big Five record labels to sue innocent people for allegedly sharing music online without permission, and 12-year-old Brianna LaHara was one such person sued by Big Mus...
Even before the ink has dried on the $47 billion merger of Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless, the cellular company spun off by AT&T in 2001, AT&T has announced a new deal with Sprint to provide AT&T-branded voice and data services to AT&T's 30 million customers over Sprint's wi...
In a somewhat surprising answer to U.S. counterparts Yahoo and Google, which recently have revealed plans to offer high volumes of storage space as part of their Web-based e-mail services, European Internet company Lycos Europe has upped the stakes in the e-mail-storage race by offering its own 1-GB...