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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been named to the board of directors of Apple Computer, a move some say could portend future cooperation between the two tech giants and spell bad news for common rival Microsoft Schmidt was elected the eighth director during a meeting of existing board members at Apple headquarters on Tuesday....
Google Google has added a new feature to its Book Search program that allows users download and print classic novels and obscure books from the public domain -- for free The program launched Wednesday to give readers the ability to view, browse and read the full texts of books that are in the public domain....
A week or so after Hurricane Katrina roared out of the Gulf of Mexico and devastated huge portions of the coast, it became clear to officials at the Louisiana Department of Economic Development that they would have to rethink their long-term game plans "The mission of the LDED is to expand existing business while bringing in new investment," Lana S...
Imagine a world in which you could walk in your office in the morning and see a stoplight. Green would mean your company's image on the Web was favorable, yellow would mean neutral, and red would mean big trouble -- like one of your customers had just blogged that your product obliterates hard drives on contact Or imagine being able to specifically...
It's always been a rule in the technology world that the smaller/lighter/thinner something is, the more you're going to pay for it That's especially true when it comes to "ultra"-portable notebook computers -- mighty machines packed with power and weighing in at around three pounds....
Microsoft is preparing a patch for a vulnerability in its digital rights management application that is currently being exploited by a program circulating the Web. The program, called FairUse4WM, disables the DRM protections in Windows Media Player 10 and 11 files and has been used to access music purchased through subscription services Such servic...
Intel unveiled its newest chips this week in announcing its new "Tulsa" server processors, the latest dual-core, 64-bit Xeon chips from the company The firm also announced that its "Merom" mobile processors are now shipping to notebook manufacturers including Dell for its recently acquired Alienware unit, as well as Gateway and Toshiba....
Firing a potentially powerful salvo in the online music war, Universal Music Group said it would make its entire catalog of music available for free download using an ad-supported approach that could pose one of the most significant threats yet to the dominance of Apple's iTunes Music Store Universal agreed to license its catalog to SpiralFrog, a y...
The WiFi Alliance on Tuesday announced plans to certify interoperability of WiFi products that include baseline features from the developing Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.11n standard in the first half of 2007 This is the first phase in a certification program of the next generation of WiFi products. A second phase brings fu...
StopBadware.org on Monday put AOL's version 9.0 on its "Badware Watch List." The anti-spyware group cites, among other factors, the inclusion of bundled software applications and nondisclosure of additional installed components as reasons for its concern The report is one in a recent series released by the group, which is backed by Harvard Law Scho...
Over the last decade, many businesses -- long established and newly formed alike -- have made the World Wide Web a key revenue-generating channel. Billions of dollars are transacted each year over the Web. For many, going online to make a purchase or to find information that will lead to a purchase is now second nature A natural consequence of th...
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Across the U.S. -- and in fact throughout the world -- municipalities are adding broadband WiFi to their list of services. Improving their own communication infrastructure, bridging the digital divide, making the community more attractive to business and bringing a few extra dollars into city coffers are among the reasons governments are moving into this area. Berge Ayvazian, executive vice president at market research firm the Yankee Group, expects spending on these networks to increase from less than US$50 million in 2005 to more than $150 million in 2006...
One week after it issued a faulty update to its popular Linux distribution, the Ubuntu project is still the subject of scorn among users of its open source software The Ubuntu update inadvertently broke users' interface functionality, forcing them into command line mode....
Massachusetts officials said the state remains committed to the open document format plan laid out last year as a way of ensuring accessibility to state documents, but now there may be room for Microsoft's Office suite of products after all State technology officials have said that previous plans to all but phase out Microsoft Office products by Ja...
Microsoft has signed up Toshiba to provide the hardware for its pending iPod challenger, known as Zune In a certification submission to the Federal Communications Commission, Toshiba, maker of the industry-praised GigaBeat player, indicated the new Zune device would pack 30 gigabytes of music, photos and more, and would be capable of streaming to a...
Corel on Monday announced it would acquire InterVideo in an all-cash transaction worth US$196 million InterVideo develops multimedia DVD software that lets users record, edit, author, distribute and play digital multimedia content on PCs and other devices. InterVideo's 2005 majority interest acquisition of Ulead allowed the company to gain traction...
eBay said Monday it had signed a multiyear pact with Google to have the search giant deliver ads, including click-to-call functionality, for its auction and e-commerce sites outside the United States The contract calls for Google to do at international sites what Yahoo earlier this year won the right to do at eBay's domestic site -- deliver context...
Taking another step intoMicrosoft territory,Google on Monday launched Google Apps for Your Domain, a set of free hosted applications targeting small- to mid-sized businesses The software allows users to send e-mail through Google's Web-based Gmail service that displays the company's domain name. The communications bundle also includes Calendar, an ...
IT and business managers are spending an increasing amount of time and money trying to predict what kind of return they can expect on theirsoftware investments, because their multi-networked, online working environment requires them to continually invent new approaches, asPart 1 of this two-part series makes clear Part 2 takes a look at how some ve...
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