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New 3-D Tech Makes Online Shopping More Like Being There

Online stores could soon become a lot more like their real world counterparts thanks to new, 3-D immersive technology announced Monday by Kinset Kinset 3D Store technology allows retailers to create and operate retail stores that look and feel like those in the brick-and-mortar world. Shoppers in Kinset's 3-D stores can browse through virtual aisle...

MySpace TV to Air Bite-Sized Serial Drama

MySpacers who want a little more drama in their lives will be able to get their fill from a new Web series launched on MySpace TV Monday. Sponsored by Ford Motor, "Roommates," an original scripted series, will roll out over the next nine weeks with daily weekday updates on the world's most popular social network "Whether it's network television sho...

AT&T Puts Vonage Back on Litigation Merry-Go-Round

Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements The suit centers around a patent filed in 1996 by AT&T that describ...

AT&T Puts Vonage Back on Litigation Merry-Go-Round

Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements The suit centers around a patent filed in 1996 by AT&T that describ...

AT&T Puts Vonage Back on Litigation Merry-Go-Round

Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements The suit centers around a patent filed in 1996 by AT&T that describ...

Dell Digs Deeper Into Retail Turf With Staples Deal

Dell on Monday added office superstore Staples as another partner to its growing roster of retailoutlets as it changes its strategy in a bid to grab back lost marketshare Staples will sell selected Dell desktop and notebook PCs as well as printers and accessories in 1,400 of its stores nationwide and on its Web site beginning next month....

IBM Developing Wicked-Fast Wireless Data Transfer Chip

IBM and MediaTek have announced a joint effort to develop ultra-fast chipsets that will be able to blast a full-length high-definition movie faster than most people can read this sentence. For example, IBM says, a consumer could upload a 10 gigabyte file in five seconds with the new technology versus the 10 minutes it takes using current WiFi technology...

AT&T Teams With Napster on 2-Buck Song Downloads

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday The new service, which will begin in mid-November, will allow AT&T customers to select from more than 5 million full-track songs, representing all major recording labels, available from Napster. The service complements AT&T'...

AT&T Teams With Napster on 2-Buck Song Downloads

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday The new service, which will begin in mid-November, will allow AT&T customers to select from more than 5 million full-track songs, representing all major recording labels, available from Napster. The service complements AT&T'...

AT&T Teams With Napster on 2-Buck Song Downloads

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday The new service, which will begin in mid-November, will allow AT&T customers to select from more than 5 million full-track songs, representing all major recording labels, available from Napster. The service complements AT&T'...

Microsoft Ends Resistance to EU Antitrust Ruling

Microsoft will not appeal the 2004 ruling against it by European antitrust regulators any further and has reached an agreement to bring it into compliance with all aspects of the ruling's wide-ranging penalties Microsoft had the option of appealing a ruling made in September by the Court of First Instance (CFI), which upheld the original antitrust ...

Portable SanDisk Player Bridges PC-TV Divide

SanDisk has renamed and launched its USBTV flash memory-based gadget, introduced in January, and says the Sansa TakeTV video player is an easy way for people to watch on the televisions video content downloaded on their computers Described by the company as a "smart, simple and seamless way to easily take videos from a PC to nearly any TV," the San...

Citrix Unwraps New Virtualization Strategy

Citrix Systems, a provider of application delivery products, unveiled on Monday its expanded virtualization technology strategy, which it said will extend its reach from datacenter to desktop The company's new virtualization strategy allows it to offer an application delivery infrastructure that leverages server, applications and desktop virtualiza...

Shopping Cart Options for SMBs, Part 1

For those aspiring or already doing business as an e-tail merchant, there is no shortage of e-commerce software developers with shopping cart technology for start-ups and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The real difficulty may lie in choosing among them and then putting it to productive use To get the most out of shopping cart software, a...

GPL v3: Was It Worth the Effort?

The third version of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), released last summer, is on the slow road to acceptance. The new licensing conditions usher in numerous changes in how open source software developers regulate what users of their freely distributed programming code are legally able and unable to do The latest license option was...

OPINION

Leopard vs. Vista, Brazil vs. Cisco, True Security Horror Story, Product of the Week

We are on final countdown to the launch of Mac OS X Leopard You'll see lots of feature head-to-head pieces start to ramp up, but the real difference is that Vista is from an engineering-driven company while Leopard is from a marketing-driven company -- and that is worth exploring this week....

WEEKEND FEATURE

The Bandwidth Shortage That Stole Christmas

They have been making their lists and checking them twice. As a result, consumers will soon learn which retailers have been naughty or nice in planning for their most important part of their year: the holiday rush "So much of retailers' business rides on the holiday season that they want to be sure that their Web sites are ready to handle the extra...

Newspaper Execs Arrested in Online Privacy Tussle With Grand Jury

Two executives from Village Voice Media, parent company of The Village Voice and other alternative newspapers, were arrested Thursday night on a misdemeanor charge for revealing in The Phoenix New Times that they had been subpoenaed for a raft of reporters' notes and documents as well as information about online visitors to The Phoenix New Times' Web site...

'Halo 3' Leads Way to Super September for Gaming Industry

September was a very good month for the console game industry, which recorded US$1.36 billion in total sales in the U.S. for both video game hardware and software, according to the NPD Group The big winner for the month was Microsoft's Xbox 360 exclusive, "Halo 3," which sold 3.3 million units. The title perhaps also helped Microsoft move an additi...

AMD Buckles Under Near-$400M Loss

Amid a sea of largely positive technology earnings, Advanced Micro Devices posted mixed results Thursday, with acquisition costs denting profits even as the company shipped a record-high number of processors for a third quarter AMD did manage to beat Wall Street estimates for revenue, posting sales of US$1.6 billion, up from $1.33 billion in the th...

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