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Motorola showed off a sleek, new smartphone equipped with a QWERTY keyboard and announced it had designed, in partnership with fashion sunglass maker Oakley, eyewear that includes a Bluetooth-enabled headset The new products were revealed this week at Motorola's analyst conference, dubbed Motonow, in which the company portrayed itself as hip and cu...
Microsoft, following in Google's footsteps, is now offering a bird's-eye view of the United States with MSN Virtual Earth. The company debuted the service last night Virtual Earth marries mapping and online local searches, showing results in an aerial view using satellite images. Users can find a specific address or search for business categories (...
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags have been around since World War II, when the British Royal Air Force affixed tags to planes as a way to distinguish friend from foe, but it wasn't until 2003, when giant discount retailer Wal-Mart announced that it would require the tags on all shipments from its top 100 suppliers, that the buzz began in earnest...
Oracle announced a compromise today on its licensing fee structure for dual-core Intel or AMD processors, which moves it closer in line with other software vendors The database vendor had originally said it would continue to calculate licensing fees for its database and middleware products based on the number of processing cores a customer uses, so...
Microsoft came up with a hulking win in the gaming world yesterday, announcing that it had cemented exclusive rights to develop and publish multiplayer, online games using Marvel super heroes. No financial terms were released Marvel's lineup includes the "Hulk," "Spider-Man," the "Avengers," the "Fantastic Four" and the "X-Men."
Microsoft came up with a hulking win in the gaming world today, announcing that it had cemented exclusive rights to develop and publish multiplayer, online games using Marvel super heroes. No financial terms were released Marvel's lineup includes the "Hulk," "Spider-Man," the "Avengers," "Fantastic Four" and "X-Men."
The latest version of Microsoft's automotive operating system is on the market, the company has announced Windows Automotive 5.0, based on Microsoft's embedded OS Windows CE 5.0, can render complex 3D graphics, such as those used in navigation systems, with its expanded virtual memory support....
Cisco and Yahoo have joined forces with several anti-spam companies to propose a standard for filtering junk out of in-boxes Software companies SendMail and PGP worked with the others on DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), which works through public key cryptography. Each message gets a signature, which can then be checked for authenticity by verify...
Microsoft recently announced it would enable RSS feeds in the next version of its operating system -- Longhorn, due out in beta next month. While use of RSS feeds is only at about 5-10 percent of Internet surfers, according to Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio, their endorsement by Microsoft is likely to push them into broader adoption RSS, or reall...
Microsoft will release its first backup-to-disk software system to manufacturers within 30 days, the company said at its Worldwide Partner Conference The software giant said it has the only product that allows end users to recover lost data from their desktop. Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) backs up data from local or remote ...
Months after Yahoo released a toolbar designed specifically for the Mozilla Firefox browser, Google has followed suit The beta version of the toolbar was released today. The Internet Explorer version of the search engine company's toolbar has been out for four years. This is the first software product Google has released that is exclusive to Firefo...
Yahoo today added the ability to query its search engine through a short text message on a mobile phone in the United States Yahoo SMS Search can be used to get weather, local listings, stock quotes and other short bits of information, which analysts say is the way we will gather much data in the future....
As the use of instant messaging for business and consumer purposes grows, so does the allure of writing malware targeting IM. A study released yesterday by IMlogic, which sells IM security products, reported that the number of attacks on IM systems jumped dramatically during the second quarter The IMlogic Threat Center study found that more than 70...
Microsoft is taking a bottom-up approach to customer relationship management with the second release of its CRM software, but one analyst said the software giant won't stay in the small market forever "It makes sense to come from the bottom," Joe Wilcox, senior analyst, Jupiter Research, told CRM Buyer. "SAP and Oracle don't scale down. MSN came in...
The National Cyber Alert System warned yesterday of active exploits of a security flaw in Veritas Backup Exec Software. The system is part of the U.S. Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (U.S.-CERT). The alert said a buffer overflow could allow hackers to take over a computer and remotely execute malicious code "The vulnerability...
Sony BMG has come roaring out of the gate, two days after the Supreme Court ruling that file-sharing programs can be held liable for copyright infringements, announcing a deal with Mashboxx for a legal music-swapping service The service will charge 99 cents per song and be populated by Sony BMG artists. The application allows individuals to search ...
Gamers with 3D-enabled mobile phones will soon be able to carry Quake with them The first-person shooter, first released by id Software in 1996 for PCs and followed by three sequels, is thought of as a ground-breaker in 3D gaming. id Software and publisher Pulse Interactive said Quake Mobile will be faithful to the original game. The next-generatio...
Microsoft announced Friday that its long-in-the-works Longhorn will enable RSS (really simple syndication) feeds "The fact that they're announcing it now keeps them in the news," Laura DiDio, senior analyst, Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It keeps users, developers and competitors very well aware that Microsoft is not being static or stagnant, ...
Microsoft announced today that it would extend the intellectual property protection program it gives channel partners and PC manufacturers. The software giant said it would foot the bill for legal costs associated with any lawsuits related to Microsoft trade secrets, patents, copyrights or trademarks It will also pay damages awarded and settlement ...
SAP announced today it would buy Lighthammer Software Development, which makes applications that help manufacturers monitor and manage their plants "Lighthammer was already a good partner of SAP's, and was primarily sold as a value-add layer over solutions like SAP manufacturing, so it makes utter sense for SAP to wrap Lighthammer into the SAP offe...
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