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Microsoft jumped into the Voice over Internet (VoIP) provider market Wednesday with the announcement that business users will be able to test a beta version of its VoIP and unified communications server, Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS), and unified communications client, Office Communicator 2007 (OC), later this month Jeff Raikes, president...
When Microsoft attorney Thomas Rubin on Tuesday accused Google of taking a "cavalier approach to copyright" and of using its Book Search project to make money off other people's copyrighted creations, he ignited a fiery debate over the ethics of information access, the meaning of copyright and the very rules of free-market competition Rubin's comme...
One of the editors in charge of monitoring Wikipedia's content has been discovered to be a fraud EssJay, whom the site had assumed was working under a false name for privacy, had presented himself as a tenured professor of religion with expertise in canon law....
Microsoft is putting search at the forefront of its future plans, and is demonstrating its increasing prowess in that field at the company's annual TechFest this week The software giant unveiled nearly 100 new innovations at its Redmond campus, including several key research projects such as the highly anticipated Mix, a new search-based authoring ...
Customers of AT&T's Homezone service will now be able to control their digital video recorders with their Web-enabled cell phones The company, based in San Antonio, first promised the feature in January. Similar services are also being developed by other communication companies -- as they strive to meld wired and wireless entertainment and informat...
SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source CRM software, is expanding its reach to Europe -- an essential step for any small, high growth software company more than a few years old The company is opening its European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Company cofounder Clint Oram will be the general manager of Sugar Europe....
Yahoo and Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC) have inked a deal to preload Yahoo Web services on millions of HTC's smartphones that run Windows Mobile, giving Yahoo an edge in the race to capture mobile Web users HTC develops smartphones and customizes them for mobile operators and distributors around the world. In the deal with Yahoo, HTC will prelo...
Electronics retailer Best Buy is being investigated for allegedly using two different Web sites to sell merchandise online, including one that may have led to some consumers paying higher prices The office of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is looking into the alleged bait-and-switch tactics, though it has not confirmed that a forma...
The world is awash in digital data created by individuals, and by 2010 the amount of data added annually will swell from 161 exabytes to 988 exabytes, according to a report released Tuesday by technology research firm IDC. An exabyte is equal to one billion gigabytes In 2006 alone, the researchers said, there was enough data to stack books from the...
Comedy Central's Emmy award-winning cartoon series "South Park" is getting its first-ever high-definition (HD) episode, "Good Times With Weapons," and Microsoft's Xbox Live service will distribute it free for two weeks "South Park" is the raunchy and irreverent comedy about the misadventures of four foul-mouthed kids in South Park, Colo. The show's...
Business intelligence is a fast-growing segment area in the on-demand market. BI solutions help enterprises track performance, understand business drivers, and manage an organization's overall operations A complete set of BI capabilities includes information management, query and analysis functions, and presentation of results....
For many already overburdened IT departments, the simultaneous release of Exchange 2007, Windows Vista and Office 2007 has created challenges CIO's are asking their IT departments, already reeling from the Daylight Savings Time changes in North America, to deliver plans to migrate to a new client operating system, deploy a new desktop productivity ...
Consumers and network administrators often become complacent about security, trusting their anti-intrusion efforts to security product self-updates and older security technology RSS reader software can heighten the potential for intrusion, warn some security experts. IT managers often fail to ensure that their networks are not at risk from the use ...
Of the three pillars of digital lifestyle applications -- video, photos and music -- music remains a bit of a mystery to many users. That's ironic because sharing digital music files was one of the first applications byte-stylers flocked to However, while many users have graduated from merely sharing videos and photos to creating polished projects ...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has launched a pilot project designed to facilitate the patent approval process. While the efficiency benefit of this is obvious -- PTO examiners are overburdened and the process can take many years -- critics are concerned that the system could lead to manipulation and a playing field that is tilted to large companies such as IBM or Microsoft...
Google's Book Search project "systematically violates copyright" and deprives content owners of the opportunity to make money from their creations, according to a top Microsoft attorney In a prepared speech to be given Tuesday to the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) in New York, Thomas Rubin, Microsoft's associate gene...
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP) announced Tuesday a joint venture to launch a new system for distributing digital movies to theaters DCIP is a joint venture by AMC Entertainment, Cinemark USA, and Regal Entertainment Group....
Intel may have deleted some documents requested by Advanced Micro Devices as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, Intel attorneys said on Monday. In response, AMD accused the leading chipmaker of apparently destroying evidence In a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Farnan Jr., Intel said some internal e-mail messages relevant to the case ...
For years, police departments have given video surveillance tapes to local television news channels in an effort to attract attention and fight crime. These days, a handful of police departments are turning to YouTube, according to a report from The Associated Press One of the most sensational success stories came after Detective Sergeant Jorge Las...
More than 40 percent of U.S. households with televisions now also have video game consoles, according to a new report released Monday by Nielsen Wireless and Interactive Services By the fourth quarter of 2006, 41.1 percent of all TV households -- representing 45.7 million homes -- had video game consoles, compared with 39.1 percent in 2005 and 35.2
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