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The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) filed eight more lawsuits against eBay sellers the group says are hawking pirated versions of software from Adobe, bringing to 17 the number of suits it filed so far this year The SIIA said it filed suits against sellers based in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylv...
Intel's low-cost Classmate PC, originally focused on emerging markets, will soon be available to U.S. and European consumers Intel is working with original equipment manufacturers to bring the second-generation Classmate to mature markets in the developed world later this year at prices likely between US$300 and $400, Agnes Kwan, an Intel spokesper...
In Europe, broadband Internet access is seen as a ticket to economic freedom and prosperity. That's one of the key ideas behind the European Commission's announcement Wednesday of its intention to increase broadband penetration from the current 20 percent to 30 percent across the bloc by 2010. The EC unveiled this goal in its 13th Progress Report on the Single Telecoms Market...
Verizon Wireless detailed its plans to open part of its network to third-party devices Wednesday, saying the carrier could begin certifying devices within weeks and that the open portion of its network could be in operation by the second half of this year At its first-ever Open Development Device Conference, Verizon told about 300 representatives o...
Having your private information leaked is bad enough, but having it put on BitTorrent is really the final insult Ithappened before with MySpace photos. By most accounts, the private images made available earlier this year via peer-to-peer networks consisted largely of poorly snapped photos of people you didn't know getting drunk at parties you were...
Fraud is big business. Well-funded, well-orchestrated, sophisticated fraud rings aggressively change tactics and invent new technologies to cash in on the unprotected assets awaiting plunder Every organization that provides individual service to its customers, employees, members or community is faced with the very real concern of gaining and keepin...
Retailers in Japan and South Korea have been using image capture technology for several years now, and with the growing base of smartphones, companies in the U.S. are rolling out a wide range of new mobile applications, including some that use interactive digital symbols captured in photos to provide customers with product information, prices and incentives on the spot...
Since its launch, renegade developers have been working to make the iPhone a Linux workstation, porting tools to the device. And why not? It has enough RAM and hard disk space to make the work worthwhile "My iPhone has 16 GB of disk space, 128 MB of RAM, a 600-plus MHz processor and a much better display than my original computer, and it has Darwin...
Little Iron IBM has found one way to sidestep the mainframe vs. distributed computing dilemma by simply calling its mainframes something else....
After years spent battling obstruction of justice charges in an investigation of Credit Suisse First Boston, former investment banker Frank Quattrone is back with an investment firm of his own Qatalyst Group, launched Monday by Quattrone and some former colleagues, is a technology-focused merchant banking boutique based in San Francisco. Qatalyst P...
The Federal Communications Commission raised a record US$19.5 billion with its wireless spectrum auction, which officially closed on Wednesday The auction, which started Jan. 24, consisted of 261 rounds of bidding for five blocks of the 700 MHz spectrum. The revenues will be transferred to the U.S. Treasury by no later than June 30, and will be use...
Alec Saunders has 1,400 people he calls "friends," at least on Facebook. Some are truly friends from his real life -- many are business contacts, and some are people he met online Until today, Saunders -- who foundedIotum, developer of the popular Free Conference Calling application for Facebook -- had little way of segmenting his friends and regul...
Laying the groundwork for their continued business health, Intel and Microsoft have coughed up US$20 million to fund research into desktop and mobile parallel computing for consumers and businesses The money, to be paid out over the next five years, will be split evenly between new research centers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the...
Microsoft rolled out the first service pack for its latest operating system, Vista, on Tuesday Those eager to download the update can do so via the Windows Update site; Vista users in no hurry to get the service pack can wait until the software maker pushes the update out to users via its Automatic Updates tool in mid-April....
Think combating fraud is not of paramount concern to online merchants? The topic was front and center at the Merchant Risk Council's annual conference held in early March. Online merchants gathered there were eager to get a deeper level of understanding of how better to combat fraud -- fraudulent chargebacks chief among their worries For purposes ...
Tony Baer has a great rundown of Monday's EclipseCon OSGi-based runtime Equinox news. Extending the Eclipse community's unity to runtimes makes a ton of sense, given that developers can focus on the applications and business logic and become far less concerned with complex deployment issues. Write once, run anywhere? Eclipse's component development...
Part 1 of this five-part series defines virtualization; Part 2 takes a look at the business drivers for virtualization; and Part 3 examines the challenges enterprises face when they virtualize their IT environment. Part 4 covers implementing and maintaining a virtualized system. This final installment focuses on security in the virtualized environment...
A Dow Jones VentureSource report released Tuesday indicates that Web 2.0 investment may be peaking in the United States despite an 88 percent increase in money investment in 2007 over 2006 Even though venture capitalists threw a record US$1.34 billion into 178 Web 2.0-related deals in 2007, the Dow Jones data reveals that the number of deals has fi...
Avaya has introduced Intelligence Presence, a new software application that gives users -- both in corporate environments and call centers -- the ability to view so-called presence information across multiple sources For example, it would allow a contact center rep engaged with a caller to see if a partner company had a rep available to provide ans...
Feeling nostalgic about the early Clinton years? The dawn of the dot-com heyday? The Seattle grunge music scene? If so, you're in luck. The U.S. Supreme Court is giving the go-ahead for two tech companies to finish a battle that began more than 10 years ago but became bogged down in the legal system Specifically, the Court has backed up a lower co...
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