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Ratcheting up in its ongoing campaign against illegal file sharing, theBritish Phonographic Industry on Monday sent a letter to Internet service providersTiscali andCable & Wireless requesting that they suspend 59 Internet accounts used for the purpose. I Until now, the BPI has concentrated its efforts on individual uploaders, pursuing legal action...
Taiwanese chipmaker Via Technologies late last week launched a new chipset that could drastically increase the performance and reduce the size of mobile devices and laptop computers Via launched the Via VX700 chipset to complement its Via Ultra Mobile platform in Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) devices. The Via VX700 is expected to be available in volume qu...
Anxious Firefox users may have to wait a few more days for the official early beta release of Firefox 2.0, Alex Guerra, a spokesperson for the Mozilla Foundation, told LinuxInsider, but the public already is getting a taste of what's to come The browser's debut was scheduled for release on Tuesday but is being postponed until later this week....
The European Commission is poised to raise the limit on daily fines that Microsoft may face if it does not bring itself into compliance with remedies aimed at addressing its past antitrust behavior on the continent Reports say the EC will raise the cap on daily fines to the equivalent of US$3.8 million, more than $1 million more than the previous c...
One in five Americans age 12 or older own a digital music player (DMP), according to a study released last week by a global market research firm The study, which is prepared quarterly by Ipsos Insight of New York City, noted that younger music listeners are driving growth in the DMP market, with some 54 percent of teens and 30 percent of 18 to 30 y...
Business intelligence applications have always delighted company executives -- at least as they watched simulated exercises on a sales rep's laptop. Real-world execution, though? Until recently, that has left much to be desired To be sure, it is not entirely the fault of the vendor. Earlier generations of BI applications have been beset with proble...
Two weeks ago CNBC asked me to cover problems that blogs pose for companies. To prepare I read official and unofficial blogs from a number of firms, and I found them fascinating reading. Google employees, for example, seem to be as outspoken about their management's lack of capability as anyone else on the blogs they contribute to I wonder how m...
Critics are cautious about early versions of 802.11n technology developed for WiFi applications, saying these so-called "souped-up" wireless fidelity networks have poor range, uneven throughput, and have difficulty interfacing with existing WiFi networks Wireless manufacturers, including Netgear, Linksys and others, have rushed pre-802.11n products...
The minute he heard someone use "I googled him" in a sentence, Robert Beard, president of Lexiteria, which publishes alphaDictionary.com, knew the word was likely to be a keeper "It's a very good sign," he told TechNewsWorld, "when a word assumes its own characteristics. When it expands or contracts in meaning, for instance, it has a good chance of...
The number of U.S. households with a connected entertainment network will reach 30 million by 2010, according to a new report from Parks Associates A connected entertainment network is a network composed of either a PC connected to at least one consumer electronics (CE) device or multiple interconnected CE devices such as a whole-house DVR system....
Fixed and wireless phone giant Verizon this week filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) details of a possible plan to spin off its U.S. print and online yellow pages business The company said it had not yet made a final decision on the directories spinoff, but signaled it would divest itself from directory publishing one way or ano...
eBay has determined the Google Checkout system, which launched last week after months of speculation, is not an acceptable form of payment for eBay auctions or fixed-price sales Checkout, which launched amid swirling questions about how a Google payment system would impact eBay's own PayPal, does not appear on a list of acceptable payment methods t...
Samsung and Verizon Wireless on Thursday announced the availability of the first 3.2-megapixel digital autofocus camera phone for Verizon customers The SCH-a990 lets photo enthusiasts take high-resolution photos and hosts a number of media features, including video recording capabilities, technology to download music and movies, Bluetooth technolog...
In January 2005, I wrote an article for the E-Commerce Times entitled VoIP Here to Stay. In that article, I stated, "The future of VoIP is, to a significant extent, now!" It's hard to imagine that the column was written only about a year and a half ago At that time, Vonage (NYSE: VG) had about 350,000 customers, and the "big guys" like Time Warner,...
Although the Department of Veterans Affairs may be able to relax slightly now that the laptop containing sensitive information on millions of veterans and military personnel has been recovered, the incident highlights the role government plays in ensuring data security "It is a hot political issue because the lawmakers want to be seen as protecting...
For many manufacturers, indirect channels provide the majority of their revenue yet carry only a small percentage of their most profitable products. Instead, indirect channel partners opt to move literally tons of low-margin items, competing in the marketplace on price and availability alone. The electronic components industry is a case in point. When buyers have little opportunity to customize services or products, pricing and availability are all that matter...
Software development toolmaker Trolltech, which provides its Qt and Qtopia development software for embedded, mobile and Linux systems developers, completed its initial public offering (IPO) and earned a listing on Norway's Oslo Stock Exchange this week. Its ticker symbol is TROLL The firm's dual licensing approach allows users of its software to d...
Corporate data centers are running ever more efficiently, and even delivering on the promise of self-monitoring and automation, but there is always the chance that something, somewhere, somehow might go terribly wrong To confront the risk, organizations need solid assessment strategies, and ways to identify where staff, skills, infrastructure or sa...
Nintendo is reportedly planning to best its price advantage over Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's Playstation3 (PS3) with a time advantage as well, aiming to beat Sony to the market by more than a month with the Nintendo Wii Nintendo is sticking to game play, rather than pushing processor and graphics performance, with its next-generation console an...
With the fallout from its messy divorce with Toys "R" Us still reverberating around the Internet, Amazon.com on Thursday launched replacements for what was one of the most popular departments in its virtual mega-store Amazon, which handled online sales for toysrus.com for about five years before the two agreed to part ways in March, announced two n...
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