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AOL may offer its full menu of services, including e-mail, at no cost to anyone with a high-speed Internet connection, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Thursday The Time Warner unit could be forsaking as much as US$2 billion in annual subscription fees in an attempt to drive more traffic -- and hopefully more ad revenues -- to it...
Amid government pressure for interoperability, Microsoft on Thursday announced the creation of the Open XML Translator Project. The project will create free software to allow Word, Excel and PowerPoint to handle documents in competing technology formats The project is a response to government requests for interoperability with the OpenDocument Form...
Just two weeks after selling a major portion of its mobile communications chip business, Intel said Wednesday it would invest US$600 million into a WiMax services provider that previously had designs on an IPO In a move that offers further insight into how Intel intends to remain a player in the mobile communications market -- even after divesting ...
Erstwhile open source CRM vendorTechWhale Solutions is getting set to launch its beta 3.0 version of BlueWhaleCRM in August, which the company says will significantly leverage AJAX and ATLAS technologies. In preparation, TechWhale has rolled out an interim release, version 2.0, based on the .NET framework "This latest release is strictly a maintena...
Two class action lawsuits are targeting Windows Genuine Advantage, one of Microsoft's initiatives to stem the massive piracy of its applications. Both suits claim that WGA, which is just a year old, functions essentially as spyware on licensed Microsoft users' PCs in violation of California and Washington's consumer protection and anti-spyware laws...
A federal judge in Houston and the U.S. Attorney's office for that region are wrangling over just how much information the government can garner from a phone call without a warrant for a wiretap The case involves a request by U.S. Attorney Donald J. DeGabrielle Jr. for a pen register and a trap and trace device to "record or decode dialing, routing...
To some, it might seem like an unlikely pairing: wireless handset chipsets and mobile application development tools. To Qualcomm, however, it is a match that makes sense and is starting to have an impact on the wireless data industry Qualcomm is best known for its CDMA chipsets that are found in popular cell phones from manufacturers such as Kyocer...
In response to demand from gaming PC manufacturers for faster memory, Samsung on Wednesday said it has begun mass producing GDDR4 systems GDDR4, a series of four graphics double-density-rate memory components, processes images 33 percent faster than the fastest memory on the market today. Graphics memory is installed in desktop PCs, notebooks and w...
With legislative attempts to mandate so-called "network neutrality" sputtering,Google said it would use existingantitrust laws to require that cable companies and telcos carry its services to consumers if necessary Google would not hesitate to bring antitrust complaints to the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) if its services should...
In the competitive world of the Internet circa 2006, text is getting plenty of company. In addition to other forms of content that are crowding the printed word, the Internet is rapidly becoming populated with video -- from viral-style clips and home movies to classic TV reruns It's rare to see more than a few days pass without a video-related anno...
Remember the effort it took to put together a photo slideshow? First, you had to load slides into carousels "Now let me see, should the printing on the slide face me or face away from me? How did that slide get in there upside down?...
Channel partners serving U.S. small and medium-sized businesses can expect their sales to this group to rise by 17 percent to US$154 billion over the next year, according toAMI Partners SMBs can expect to see a greater selection of customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) managed security, and IP telephony applicat...
A district court judge has dismissed the majority of the claims the SCO Group filed against IBM in 2003, which purported that IBM had committed copyright infringement by contributing Unix code to the Linux operating system Last year, IBM asked the court to limit the scope of SCO's claims on the grounds that SCO had not provided enough information o...
It used to be that every few years, the business media would report on the latest "slump" in sales of flash memory semiconductors. This was a decades-long trend -- demand would "hot up," as the Brits say, when new PC sales soared, and drop as they dropped The chipmakers' fortunes no longer parallel those of the PC industry, however. Portable music ...
Hewlett-Packard, like other leading server vendors IBM and Dell, sees a server future that is thin, cool and efficient as the blade server market continues to grow at a steady pace Thanks to cost-savings, scalability and manageability, thin blade servers are appealing not only to typical, larger high-performance computing (HPC) customers but to sma...
Google defended its system of ranking Web pages in search results in court Friday after a competitor claimed its pages were unfairly blocked. A California judge is considering whether to allow a lawsuit to proceed Attorneys for Google argued that the search giant can use any criteria it wants to rank Web sites -- including ranking competitors or si...
Microsoft on Thursday said it would delay its latest Office suite of software programs. The announcement could be the precursor to further delays of its Windows Vista operating system Microsoft said it needed to improve the product's performance and design in the wake of feedback from business users testing the beta version of the suite, which incl...
Mobile technology developer Qualcomm is facing charges from U.S. based companies that it improperly used its market dominance to squelch competition in Korea, where regulators are probing a fresh batch of complaints Korea's Fair Trade Commission is examining allegations by Dallas-based Texas Instruments and Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom that Qualco...
Endlessly hyped for years, 3G, or third generation, mobile phone technology is today truly taking off A new research report, by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, demonstrates that more than 100 million people around the globe are now using WCDMA and CDMA2000 1x EV-DO 3G technology on their mobile phones....
The number of European corporations -- and individual workers -- who are relying on mobile phones continues to rise, especially among the small office and home office segment A new survey by The Yankee Group, the Boston-based research firm, indicates that there are a number of wireless trends that are shaping spending plans for the industry....
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