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Sony BMG on Tuesday settled lawsuits with consumers in Texas and California whose computers were infected with spyware hidden on CDs The attorneys general of both states filed lawsuits last year charging the music giant with unfair business practices and violations of anti-spyware statutes....
M2M Holdings has signed an agreement to acquire CRM provider KNOVA Software, in an all cash transaction valued at approximately US$47 million. The deal is expected to close at the end of the first quarter of 2007, subject to approval by KNOVA shareholders KNOVA provides a niche CRM application called Intelligent Customer Experience, which leverages...
Social networking is going mobile and is poised for spectacular growth over the next five years, according to a research report released Monday The report from ABI Research predicts that mobile social communities will be attracting members in swarms, more than tripling in size worldwide from some 50 million this year to 174 million by 2011....
In strict chronological terms, e-commerce is still a young adult, but by all accounts it has rapidly matured into an economic force, accounting for billions in online sales and helping consumers make decisions on billions more in offline buying Still, e-commerce continues to grow by any measure. Not just in terms of total sales -- Forrester Researc...
Coming to computer stores in the not-too-distant future will be a new type of PC. It will not have a hard drive, and the operating system will be burned onto a chip, making malware manipulations and viruses problems of the past This trend toward solid-state PCs is being driven, in part, bysecurity concerns and a push to converge operating systems t...
Nintendo is providing Wii users with a beta version of Opera's Web browser that has been specifically developed for Wii games and software Wii's customer base -- a huge group, considering the product has been on the market for barely a month -- will be able to download the beta starting Friday in what will be an extended free trial lasting through ...
Samsung Electronics' latest mobile phone sports a gaming element -- a joystick. The company on Tuesday released the SCH-V960, which features a unique "optical joystick" to help users navigate the wireless device's menu and user interface Unlike most cellular devices -- which depend on the use of a scroll bar on the side of the phone or a series of ...
Telecommunications gear maker Ericsson said Tuesday it would buy Redback Networks, which makes routers used by telecom carriers to direct data traffic, for US$2.1 billion Sweden-based Ericsson said it would pay $25 in cash for each of share Redback stock, an 18 percent premium over Tuesday's closing price....
Two Republican lawmakers launched an initiative on Tuesday to overturn a voter-approved amendment protecting embryonic stem cell research in Missouri Rep. Jim Lembke and Sen. Matt Bartlett hope to replace the amendment with a constitutional ban on a specific research method: embryonic cloning. Missouri voters approved the amendment in November by a...
What is shaping up to be a landmark technology patent lawsuit,KSR v. Teleflex, is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court right now. At its most basic, the decision could redefine the standard of "obviousness" that is usedwhen deciding whether a patent should be granted for aparticular invention or development Under KSR, for instance, 3M's ubiquitous...
With version 9.1, the latest iteration of its free Web browser,Opera joins competitorsMicrosoft andMozilla by prominently featuring anti-phishing and anti-fraud measures In order to bring the newsecurity functionality to its browser, Norway-based Opera partnered with digital certificate providerGeoTrust andPhishTank, the OpenDNS anti-phishing proje...
Tagging a computer with the Ferrari label may seem a tad pretentious to some minds. Whether you're of that mind or not, one thing is for sure -- any product saddled with a prestigious name like that has mighty tall boots to fill. Actually, it's more like filling hip-waders Nevertheless, since the introduction of its first Ferrari notebook three yea...
Scoring a victory in its worldwide efforts to curb piracy of its software, Microsoft said it had agreed to settle a lawsuit with a French company that had allegedly made and sold thousands of unauthorized versions of Microsoft business software Microsoft said its settlement with MPO Group included a "multimillion dollar" payment, but did not provid...
WebSense on Monday identified a Trojan horse that targets Skype IM users in what marks the latest in a series of instant messaging attacks this year The security researcher first reported the attack as a self-propagating worm called "sp.exe." After a full day of investigation in cooperation with Skype and its parent company eBay, WebSense issued an...
Cingular and MySpace are teaming up to offer Cingular customers the ability to navigate social networking site MySpace from their devices. MySpace is one of the fastest-growing Web sites as well as among the most trafficked, with more than 130 million user profiles For US$2.99 a month, users will be able to upload photos snapped from their cell pho...
AT&T may be forced to offer more concessions to help its US$82 billion merger with BellSouth win approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC remains deadlocked on the deal following the decision of a Republican Commissioner to abstain from voting Supporters of the merger had hoped to convince Republican FCC member Robert McD...
AT&T may be forced to offer more concessions to help its US$82 billion merger with BellSouth win approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC remains deadlocked on the deal following the decision of a Republican Commissioner to abstain from voting Supporters of the merger had hoped to convince Republican FCC member Robert McD...
AT&T may be forced to offer more concessions to help its US$82 billion merger with BellSouth win approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC remains deadlocked on the deal following the decision of a Republican Commissioner to abstain from voting Supporters of the merger had hoped to convince Republican FCC member Robert McD...
NASA Ames Research Center signed a Space Act Agreement withGoogle's on Monday that may pave the way for the search giant to explore space. The organizations will collaborate on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing to human-computer interfaces "This agreement between...
Most consumers wouldn't think of paying for an item and leaving a store without it, but that is essentially what is happening with about 10 percent of the gift cards sold each year to the public "We estimate the overall raw volume in gift cards this year to be (US)$80 billion," Brian Riley, senior analyst for bank cards with the Tower Group, told t...
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