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In what promises to be a precedent-setting case, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) announced Thursday that it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL) The case was filed on behalf of two principal developers of BusyBox against Monsoon Multimedia. BusyBox is a ligh...
Forcing consumers to buy prepackaged tiers of bundled TV channels is a violation of trade and anti-trust laws, contends a lawsuit filed in the federal court against media companies and cable/satellite TV providers The complaint, filed by Los Angeles lawyers Maxwell Blecher and David Kesselman on behalf of nine plaintiffs, names broadcasters Time Wa...
Oracle's first-quarter software sales soared some 35 percent -- the largest year-over-year gain since the dot-com boom -- helping propel it past forecasts and prompting executives to declare that the company is gaining on rivals such as IBM and SAP Oracle earned US$840 million, or 16 cents per share, for the quarter that ended in August, 25 percent...
E-mail greeting card scams popular during the summer months seem to have lost their luster for information highwaymen "We've seen an awful lot of greeting card malware in the last couple of months, but scammers have moved on to new techniques, simply because there was so much of it about that it stopped being a very effective way to infect people,"...
The familiar adage that the consumer is always right has taken on a new meaning in the Internet age. Rather than talk with a store manager, consumers are now making their feelings about different products known on message boards and blogs ...
Mayors and city governments around the U.S. bought into citywide WiFi project plans, which often included unsupportable performance claims and grossly inflated forecasts for the numbers of users they would attract. Those decisions have come back to haunt them and have led to some abrupt reversals of fortune in cities large and small, as was discussed in Part 1 of this series...
Transit Wireless, a joint venture that includes Nab Construction, Q-Wireless, Dianet Communications and Transit Technologies, won the right to wire for cell phone use New York City Transit's 277 subway stations in a 10-year contract valued at US$46.8 million, according to news accounts of the closely watched bidding As part of the project, Transit ...
Firefox users had a recent rude awakening about a vulnerability in the way Apple's QuickTime plug-in interacts with their Web browser. Far from grumbling, however, Mozilla supporters say their patch for the vulnerability says more about Mozilla's strengths than its browser's weakness "It seems that QuickTime media formats can hack into Firefox," wr...
AT&T is now selling the first cellular and WiFi BlackBerry handset, the BlackBerry 8820, which is an upgrade of the already popular 8800 series model AT&T enterprise customers can use the BlackBerry 8820 with their corporate WiFi networks for additional data coverage, the device's manufacturer, Research In Motion, said. Individual customers can use...
President Bush wants to renew and expand the controversial temporary surveillance legislation he rushed into law last month The law, also known as the "Protect America Act," updates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by permitting warrantless surveillance of any targets located abroad, even if they are communicating with someone in th...
SAP, which has developed and acquired a number of applications for small and medium-sized companies, added yet another to its line up. SAP Business ByDesign is an on-demand enterprise suite aimed at companies with 100 to 500 employees that do not have strong internal IT support The application provides functionality in several areas, ranging from C...
It will be long, cold winter for PlayStation 3 owners hoping to take part in Home, an online 3-D virtual world that will double as a social network and gaming site for Sony. They'll have to wait until next spring before the system is up and running News of the delay came from Kauo Hirai, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI), Thur...
Intel, which wants to be at the forefront of a trend toward more powerful mobile devices capable of full Internet capability, said its new Menlow platform will be a big part of that future Discussed at this year's Intel Developer's Forum (IDF) by Anand Chandrasekher, the senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, the...
NBC became the latest television network to plant a stake in its own piece of Internet video turf, saying it would make free downloads of first-run television shows available directly to viewers through its Web site Known as "NBC Direct," the offering has implications affecting various players in the Web video realm, including Apple, whose iTunes M...
It seems that businesses, whether they're small or global 2000 concerns, are buying more supplies using search at some point in the B2B procurement process. Some people begin and end a procurement journey with search. They actually buy the products through a strictly search-dependent process Yet many still use a combination of word-of-mouth, search...
Analytic software provider Verint released the first update of its Audiolog application since its acquisition of Mercom last year A call recording and monitoring application designed for small and medium-sized business (SMB) contact centers, Audiolog incorporates enterprise-level features that have been part of Verint's traditional product line....
What's a poor, lonely Linux developer to do? Where are all the good support sites? How am I going to fix that troublesome bug? These are questions that even novice code writers no longer have to ask. The classic view of a lonely, isolated programmer writing code for some obscure open source project in a back room is no longer an accurate view of th...
In their eagerness to bring the benefits of wireless internetworking to their cities, mayors in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and other U.S. cities have bought into untested, inflated claims. Now, they are revising their plans to roll out municipal WiFi networks Last month, Chicago began backing out of plans to launch a citywide WiFi service afte...
MySpace is tapping into its rich universe of content -- that is, its users' profiles -- to bulk up its advertising platform The ubiquitous social networking Web site will be matching ads to people's profiles so that visitors to, say, a music aficionado's page will see adds for music Web sites....
The Mozilla Foundation is spinning off its open source e-mail client, Thunderbird, into an independent company. The new company, MailCo, plans to develop Internet communications software "based on the Thunderbird product, code and brand," Mozilla said David Ascher, CTO of ActiveState, will lead the new mail-focused company. ActiveState is centered...
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