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Cell phones have been transformed from mere telephones into handheld computers capable of a variety of tasks, such as supporting e-mail, surfing the Web and transmitting video. Consequently, handset vendors have been focused on enhancing their products' software capabilities, which means adding more support for software development tools to the devices and convincing third party software suppliers to develop applications for them...
In a bid to shore up its management line, Microsoft has announced the acquisition of privately held DesktopStandard, a developer of Group Policy-based desktop and server management tools DesktopStandard's software works with Active Directory and integrates with Microsoft's Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). GPMC comes standard with Windows Ser...
Microsoft said Tuesday it had formally appealed a US$357 million fine levied against it by regulators from the European Union, who say the software giant failed to comply with earlier sanctions meant to create a more competitive software marketplace Microsoft had indicated it would appeal the fine shortly after it was handed down in July and formal...
Mozilla's open source software developers quickly jumped on a supposedly critical series of Javascript vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser, only to find the hack, presented over the weekend at ToorCon in San Diego, was just a big joke "The main purpose of our talk was to be humorous," said Mischa Spiegelmock, one of the duo who performed a prese...
Nokia is hoping its new short-range wireless technology unveiled Tuesday will become the industry standard for small device applications. The new technology, dubbed "Wibree," uses less power than Bluetooth and works in smaller devices such as watches and toys Wibree can integrate with Bluetooth, and like Bluetooth, communicates via radio at a dista...
As the number of PC makers recalling notebook computers loaded with its batteries continues to grow, Sony is now facing accusations that it knew the batteries were susceptible to overheating and possibly catching fire but failed to sufficiently study the problem A Japanese newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun, said Tuesday that Sony first became aware th...
Cell phone worms and VoIP fraud are among the top 10 security threats to watch next year, according to a panel of experts assembled by the SANS Institute The panel's findings were released Sunday at the SANS Network Security 2006 conference in Las Vegas....
NetSuite has married two of its applications to provide additional features for clients that use itsproduct to collaborate with partners PRM+ integrates the company's partner relationship management, order management and commission management apps, incorporating enhanced functionality. It allows companies outside the extranet to view projected sale...
With the ongoing development of wireless telecommunications and shared application and data resources, the practice of integrating geographic information systems (GIS) with conventional data analysis and decision support systems is on the rise This trend is having a profound effect on how products and services are delivered, how decisions are reach...
During an annual outing of college chums this past summer, one of the bunch, following a flurry of digital picture taking, smiled wryly and said that he'd recently shot his last roll of Kodachrome 25 For those unfamiliar with film stocks, Kodachrome 25, touted by many as the best film ever manufactured in the United States, was discontinued in 2001...
MX Logic released on Monday a new managed security product giving small to medium-sized businesses new options in fortifying their computers against spyware, spam and viruses These computer-intrusion threats top the list of SMB concerns, driving 2006 IT security spending for SMBs to more than US$10 billion. MX Logic is an e-mail and Web defense man...
Yahoo used its recent "Hack Day" to springboard its opening of substantial chunks of code to software developers, highlighted by the application programming interface (API) of Yahoo's widely-used Web e-mail application Yahoo said the Web application code release -- aimed at spurring new interfaces and other features, and ties to third-party applica...
A UK-based firm,Remote XT, on Monday launched a new service in Britain that is designed to help lower the alarming rise in cellular phone thefts. When a phone is stolen, the handset emits a loud, piercing sound, the phone's data is cleared, and it displays a message that reads, "This phone is stolen." The product, also called "Remote XT," is activa...
Today, search giant Google occupies a state-of-the art complex at1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Calif.However, when the company was first founded in the late1990s by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two recentStanford grads had to make do with a garage that theyreportedly rented for US$1,700 a month from the friend ofa friend Fast forwa...
Two of the biggest remaining Web-based gambling sites began to back out of the U.S. market Monday after Congress passed legislation over the weekend aimed at cutting off the flow of money to Internet casinos and sports betting parlors Both PartyGaming.com and 888 Holdings said they would start winding down operations, presumably timing their shutdo...
Software security firm McAfee turned up the heat on Microsoft with a full-page ad in Monday's Financial Times of London charging that the software giant is trying to hamstring independent security companies from overcoming inherent weaknesses in Windows security. McAfee accused Microsoft of engaging in "dangerous practices." With the upcoming relea...
Semiconductor sales hit record levels in August, with US$20.5 billion worth of the chips being sold worldwide, according to a report released Monday The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said semiconductor sales rose 10.5 percent in August compared to a year ago, when sales hit $18.6 billion. Sales were also up month-to-month, rising 2.1 per...
In days of old, before consumers were able do all their holiday shopping without leaving their homes, before the days of television commercials, and yea, even before the heyday of the venerable department store, there was the Fuller Brush man. And the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner man. And, of course, the milkman Consider the fictional Willy Loman in Arth...
If Willy Loman carried a BlackBerry instead of a briefcase, could his demise have been prevented? Maybe not, but you'd be hard pressed to find many traveling salespeople today who don't rely on their BlackBerry, PDA, cell phone or laptop to support their daily activities. So why does software directed at salespeople completely ignore their day-to-day selling lives?...
The open source software development process will be going under the microscope as computer science researchers from the University of California Davis use a US$750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to find out how systems such as the Apache Web server, PostgreSQL database and Python scripting language are built Their research will foc...
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