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Digital convergence -- the marrying of computer, communications and entertainment technologies -- is driving mergers and acquisitions among technology companies, according to a report released Tuesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) The report, part of a series of surveys being conducted by the accounting and consulting firm with leaders of technol...
To many telecommunications customers, the Universal Service Fund, or USF, is one of several hidden costs of making long-distance phone calls. It is one of a handful of government fees that appear on each month's phone bill. Currently, customers pay a monthly USF charge based on how much they spend on long-distance charges Now, however, the Federal...
Sun Microsystems partnered with a somewhat unlikely ally as it announced Tuesday that the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system (OS) would run on its latest Sparc servers, the 'Niagara'-based Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 enterprise servers The two may combine for a powerful server punch, as Sun's Ultra-Sparc T1 servers provide for multi-core, multi-thr...
MySpace claimed almost 5 million registered users in 2005, and that number has grown to exceed 70 million today. Though currently the most popular, MySpace is only one of a number ofsocial networking sites online, and their attractiveness to teens and pre-teens has spawned worry over a growing Internet menace One in five kids ages 10 to 17 have rec...
Digital consumer electronics company Sling Media on Tuesday announced that its Slingbox is now available for purchase across the United Kingdom A Slingbox is a device that allows consumers to access a living room television experience at any time, from any location, using a laptop or desktop PC, PDA or smartphone. Specifically, the Slingbox redirec...
China's standards body is crying foul over the rejection of its wireless encryption technology by the International Standards Organization (ISO), claiming an alternative from U.S. standards groups and Intel was railroaded through the international standards procedure Reports from China indicate the Chinese standards group is appealing to the ISO ov...
Hoping to connect advertisers with a key youth demographic and pave the way for broader use of mobile marketing, Virgin Mobile USA on Tuesday said it would debut a program that lets pay-as-you-go members earn minutes by watching ads Virgin says its SugarMama service will be a way for users to earn more airtime minutes and for advertisers to build r...
In a hack attack that reflects a worrisome trend in the education arena, Fairfield, Conn.-based Sacred Heart University in early May discovered that the security system on one of its computers containing students' personal data was breached. The university has not confirmed that sensitive files were actually accessed, but said the intruder did have the expertise to access them...
Europe's highest court ruled Tuesday that an agreement calling for wholesale transfer of personal data on airline passengers to the United States is illegal, a ruling that emphasizes the shifting legal and moral framework for storing and sharing personal information The European Court of Justice, which sits in Luxembourg, essentially overturned a 2...
Consumers are saying that mobile music services are exceptionally overpriced -- at least 85 percent higher than they actually feel comfortable paying A new research report by Strategy Analytics, entitled, "Mobile Music USA: Sprint Service Preferred to VCast But Price Premiums Too High on Both," indicates that very few consumers are willing to pay t...
E-mail systems such as Microsoft's Exchange had been considered moribund technology, but recently they have been revitalized. "Because corporations are now using e-mail to streamline a variety of communications, including instant messaging and Web conferencing, they are moving away from simple Web based e-mail systems to more sophisticated enterprise packages," said Peter O'Kelly, research director at market research firm Burton Group...
Advertisers have been skeptical for years about the pay-per-click online marketing model. Finally, there may be a model that advertisers like -- one that is decidedly offline, however. It's called pay-per-call It seems as if every major Internet player, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay, Amazon and, most recently AOL, has either rolled out o...
Microsoft is teaming up withCDC Software, which recently acquired partner company c360, to make inroads into the China market. The two companies are discussing plans to provide Microsoft Dynamics CRM on a hosted basis in China, Kevin Faulkner, product-marketing director for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, told CRM Buyer If that should happen, he said, CDC...
One nice thing about this job is that tons of products get sent to me throughout the year. Some of these things are really cool, and some probably aren't worth the postage it took to send them. With college and high school graduation season in full swing and Father's Day on the horizon, I thought I'd share some info on a few technology products that I think might make an ideal gift for that special someone...
Europe's longest-running show moved to the Court of First Instance in Brussels last month. The Court heard Microsoft's appeal of the EC's antitrust judgment against it. The questioning from judges raised serious doubts about the legitimacy of Europe's order to artificially separate out the Explorer browser from Windows, and delved deeply into Microsoft's claims that the EC wrongly ordered it to disclose valuable patented information about its source code...
If you're a woman, you are 25 times more likely to hear filthy come-on lines while online than if you are a man, according to a new study The study, a copy of which was provided to TechNewsWorld, will be published in the Proceedings of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers International (IEEE) Conference on Dependable Systems and Ne...
eEye Digital Security has discovered a critical vulnerability in Symantec's antivirus enterprise software -- a remotely exploitable flaw that provides system level access to affected machines Following expected protocol for such discoveries, eEye notified Symantec on Wednesday evening, Mike Puterbaugh, eEye's vice president of product marketing, to...
Hollywood's movie studios and major television networks filed a lawsuit this week claiming copyright violations from Cablevision's planned remote-storage digital video recorder (DVR) service, demanding an injunction to ban the service Cablevision's plans, announced in March, are to store content aired on its cable network on company servers, and th...
Microsoft this week unveiled a new photo format to compete with an old industry standard. The software giant claims its Windows Media Photo (WMP) will provide better quality at half the size of a JPEG image "One of the biggest drivers for upgrading computers is digital photography, so anything we do to make digital photography better is good for Wi...
The U.S. Treasury said Thursday it will stop collecting a 108-year-old telecommunications tax assessed to support the brief Spanish-American War and offer tax refunds for the past three years The 3 percent federal excise tax applied to all long-distance calls since 1898, when it was put in place at a time when only the wealthiest Americans had acce...
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