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Music company EMI Group is reportedly in talks with online retailers about providing its digital music catalog in an unprotected MP3 format, allowing downloaded songs to be played on multiple devices The company is in talks with RealNetworks, eMusic, MusicNet, and Viacom's MTV Networks, according to The Wall Street Journal....
Korean electronics maker Samsung has unveiled a new mobile phone with sleek features and functions that are similar to Apple's recently announced iPhone The company delivered the new Ultra Smart F700 at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The handset, which even looks a lot like the iPhone, has touch-screen capabilities and plays audio and...
Cisco announced Thursday that it will purchase social networking software maker Five Across, a developer of technology that enables companies to easily add social networking features to their Web sites. The sale price was not disclosed "With the acquisition of Five Across, Cisco is taking an important step towards helping its customers to evolve t...
Personal computer buyers last week rapidly snapped up machines loaded with Microsoft's new Vista operating system, buying nearly 70 percent more units during the week than they did during the same week in 2006, according to a report by Current Analysis The figures show that 67 percent more PCs were sold last week than during the comparable week in ...
Alcatel-Lucent, the telecom gear-making giant created by their recent merger, said Friday it would slash its payroll by 3,500 more workers than previously planned after posting a sizable loss for the fourth quarter The Paris-based company reported earnings for the first time since the US$11.4 billion merger was completed, reporting that it lost $8...
Microsoft last week unleashed its six versions of its new operating system, Vista. The software maker's promises of a more robust kernel and built-in security enhancements have created the impression among consumers that third-party security solutions for antivirus, spyware and adware will become a thing of the past Meanwhile, computer security fir...
Change is the order of the day in the m-commerce market. New smartphones and other handheld digital devices are hitting the marketplace in a torrent, as media convergence accelerates the drive toward "quad play" devices and network services. The telecom and media industries are undergoing a fundamental restructuring, with new market entrants that are focused on bridging the gap between content origination and network distribution as the primary agents of change...
What do liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Christian Coalition have in common? No, it's not a penchant for government-funded jet rides -- it's a misguided belief about net neutrality, proposed rules that could affect the future of Internet management The net neutrality debate is basically a question of whether or not broadband service prov...
Six months after pulling the plug on efforts to become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), ESPN Mobile has agreed to make its video, game scores and other content available on the Verizon Wireless network The two companies said Mobile ESPN content would be made available to V Cast phones through an exclusive licensing pact. Specific financial...
Nokia, the world's top cell phone maker, says it will begin offering free maps and routing to its customers in more than 150 countries, as well as users of Window Mobile devices Nokia's "smart2go" will allow users to focus localized search and route-finding services into mobile handsets for free....
Details about the forthcoming Windows Mobile 6, a platform that has been code-named "Crossbow," have been leaked days before Microsoft's planned formal release at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The operating system will begin shipping on mobile devices worldwide by the second quarter Viewed as an incremental upgrade to the last point ...
Sun Microsystems is releasing, a plug-in for Microsoft Office 2003 that will provide a translation between the file format and OpenDocument Format (ODF) for Office Applications, according to the company The early access version of the ODF plug-in allows for the seamless two-way conversion of Microsoft Office documents to ODF for people who use comp...
In response to Tuesday's open letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs calling for major record labels to stop requiring digital rights management (DRM) technology on music sold online, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is now calling on Apple to license the antipiracy technology it uses to protect music it sells online Currently, music ...
Eastman Kodak announced Thursday it would cut 3,000 more workers from its payroll, bringing the total number of layoffs close to 30,000 as the once dominant photography company tries to reinvent itself in the digital age At a meeting with investors, Kodak laid out plans to generate "profitable digital growth" in the coming year and streamline opera...
Information infrastructure giant EMC is selling, through an initial public offering, a sliver of its highly successful VMware subsidiary, a move that should strengthen VMware's position in the growing virtualization software market EMC said it will retain ownership of about 90 percent of VMware and stressed it "has no intention of spinning out or o...
More than one third of the Web analytics market will be upgrading, replacing or deploying systems in the next 12 months, which will create new opportunities for application vendors, according to a report released Tuesday by Jupiter Research The survey of executives found that 12 percent of respondents said they plan to upgrade or replace their Web ...
Coming off a record-setting year, momentum continues to build at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) as it moves into 2007. As detailed in Part 1 of this two-part series, the ICE has become a leader and successful innovator in the field of exchange-based energy and commodities trading The Atlanta-based exchange last year carried out a series of si...
Since its heyday in the late 1990s, the PC game industry has seen its share of the video game market grow increasingly smaller. Cannibalized by the onslaught of gaming console powerhouse lines Sony PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox line, sales of CD-ROM-based PC games, while still robust at US$970 million, accounted for only 1 percent of the 18 percent increase in game sales in 2006 that totaled $13.5 billion...
Parents, beware: Your video gaming kids may now have a new argument to justify the hours they spend playing. A new study from the University of Rochester has found that playing high-action video games can actually be good for your vision The study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health and will appear in the upcoming issue of Psycho...
Hackers on Tuesday launched a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against at least three of the 13 root servers that maintain the Internet's domain name system (DNS) The attacks, which lasted for 12 hours, reportedly targeted the server that maintains the dot-org suffix, and the servers at the Department of Defense and the Internet Corporation for Assig...
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