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A Congressional committee has backed a plan that would bar major telcos and cable companies from charging Web services companies to accept their traffic, giving the so-called Net neutrality campaign a welcome boost The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted 20-13 to recommend a version of the Net neutrality bill to the full House t...
Google and Dell are teaming up on a desktop initiative that could cause Microsoft to see red. The companies sealed a deal this week to preload Google Desktop and Toolbar on Dell PCs and add Google Search to the Internet Explorer 6 side pane Dell and Google will offer a co-branded homepage to which new users will default upon their first visit to th...
It's fun to think about how far we've come with technology and what the future might look like. For example, consider the Mark series of computers created at Harvard University in 1944 and you'll get some sense of how miniaturized computers have become. The Mark series was 55 feet long and 8 feet high! A present day sophisticated calculator, which fits in the palm of your hand, could easily compete with this old type computer...
What's the best way to reduce the risk of ID theft? Though it sounds counter-intuitive, would you believe that using the Internet more often does just that? A new survey by Javelin Research & Strategy indicates that those who pay their bills online have a lower likelihood of having their identities compromised Additional recent research by Harris I...
More and more of the companies that are either piloting or actively pursuing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) frameworks to support their business strategies are aiming to accentuate, strengthen and streamline selling and service strategies. Cutting the costs surroundingdatabase and data warehouse consolidations, reducing integration costs by getting out of hand-built adapter hell, and getting pricing, configuration, quoting and service data to sales reps when they need it are also key goals of their strategies...
Mobile phone giant Nokia released its S60 mobile browser source code under the open source BSD license this week, claiming the move will promote handset platform consistency and avoid the fragmentation that has held back mobile browsing The source code for the S60 WebKit browser engine is being made available to open source developers on the Webkit...
At least six bills before Congress deal with an issue that leaves many confused and involves a lot of money, constant spin doctoring, and now Hillary Clinton. No, we're not talking about HillaryCare redux or Whitewater, but "net neutrality," a concept being used to trick Americans into accepting regulation of the Internet Supporters say net neutral...
While speculation still abounds over the actual delivery date of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, the software giant is publicly vowing an on-time delivery of the next version of its Office productivity suite of applications Microsoft said it is on target to debut Office 2007 at the end of the year as planned. The product suite, which in...
The two most prominent leaders of Enron, the energy company whose dramatic rise and fall become emblematic for one of the darkest chapters in U.S. corporate history, face life in prison after a jury issued numerous guilty verdicts against them Thursday Enron Chairman and founder Ken Lay was found guilty on all six charges against him, including con...
Confirming wide speculation on the price of its next-generation console, Nintendo said this week that its new Wii gaming machine will retail for under US$250 The Japanese game company also said it would aim to ship six million of the new consoles during the first fiscal year of its availability....
eBay and Yahoo announced Thursday they will work together on a range of fronts, including search and paid advertising, striking a deal that leverages each company's strengths and one that will undoubtedly send shockwaves across the Internet industry After several days of swirling rumors that the two Web giants were considering everything from partn...
Score one for the skeptics Vonage (NYSE: VG) made its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Wednesday in the face of analyst concerns about an ultra-competitive landscape and an unprofitable business plan for the firm. The Internet phone pioneer wound up selling stock below its issue price. Shares were initially priced at US$17 and quickly dropped. Vona...
Being branded illegal by federal government authorities hasn't stunted the growth of online gambling, which will become a US$20 billion worldwide industry by 2009, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Gaming Association, the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying arm of the commercial casino entertainment industry "Despite the officia...
The Internet is still a very dangerous environment for conducting business. Lurking in the cyberspace shadows are criminal masterminds bent on stealing personal information and credit card numbers to further fund their activities. Almost daily, stories involving new worms, phishing scams or large security breaches headline the news. According to Celent Communications, an international consultancy group, the United States alone faces US$3.2 billion of online credit card fraud by 2007...
Earlier this week, RightNow Technologies announced its acquisition of Salesnet, an on-demand vendor known for its highly specialized sales methodologies It was a coup for the Bozeman, Mont.-based vendor, says founder and CEO Greg Gianforte, for a number of reasons -- not least because it lopped a year off the company's product development schedule....
At one time, users had to buy Ethernet adapters, install them in their desktop computers, and then upgrade them as they moved to a faster version of the networking option. Now when users buy a desktop system, it comes with an integrated adapter that supports a variety of transmission speeds. A similar transition is beginning with 3G wireless data services...
Salesforce.com has released an application that is expected to build out and bolster its nascent reseller channel. Called "AppExchange OEM Edition," it is an on-demand platform that independent software vendors (ISVs) can use to develop applications to sell without a separate contract from Salesforce.com The products that developers will offer via ...
The new Internet top level domain ".mobi" went online this week, promising mobile device users a better, more reliable Internet experience with sites ending with the domain designed specifically for the smaller screens and other restraints of handsets However, some industry observers claimed the wireless Web -- in the form of faster, more capable m...
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday unveiled beta 2 versions of Windows Vista, Windows Server "Longhorn" and the 2007 Microsoft Office system at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle It is the first time that Microsoft has simultaneously released test versions of all three of the company's flagship products. Microsoft...
The company that makes the Morpheus peer-to-peer software has filed a US$4 billion suit against eBay and its Skype online phone calling unit, saying others are benefiting from technology that belongs to it StreamCast Networks filed a suit that names eBay as one of 21 defendants, including the founders of Kazaa, another peer-to-peer network. StreamC...
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