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Last week,Intel held its Developer Conference, an annual event where the company showcases the changes it plans to make in its next-gen products. WithMicrosoft's new operating system due to hit the market in a few short months, Intel planned more dramatic changes this year than would typically be the case Thanks to its new ties with Apple, we got a...
Child pornography on the Internet is a growing problem for countries around the world, new research suggests The Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland reported that consumers served by its members have expressed that they are fed up with the availability of child pornography online. The group said complaints from consumers about illegal...
Europe is feeling pressure to boost its efforts to speed the global adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID), a wireless technology already used by U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart for much of its merchandise and shipping operations European Commission officials indicated at the CeBIT technology conference in Hannover, Germany, this week that th...
Google has gobbled up yet another Web 2.0 startup. The search giant has acquired Upstartle, maker of Writely, software that allows you to edit documents online, then publish them online via blogs and other Web sites Writely users can upload Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text documents, or create a document from scratch. A WYSIWYG editor ...
Nortel Networks, which had appeared to be on a strong turnaround course after purging its executive ranks, settling lawsuits and restating past earnings, said it will delay filing its annual report and again restate results after discovering more accounting irregularities Nortel was quick to make a distinction between the planned restatement, which...
Amazon is in talks with three Hollywood studios about starting a service that would allow consumers to download movies and TV shows for a fee and burn them onto DVDs The online retailer is reportedly in talks with Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros. If the negotiations are successful, Amazon would become a titan in the world of d...
Enterprises that have already invested in contact center equipment may think managed services have nothing to offer them, but much of the managed services functionality offered today works in tandem with the Customer Premise Equipment already in place, enhancing features already in use. Advances in technology and new industry standards have expanded the variety of applications available and opened the benefits of managed services to a wider variety of organizations -- from small centers needing self-service applications to large, multi-site contact centers...
Taking aim at rival Microsoft, its Windows platform and its Office suite, Novell on Thursday unveiled SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 at CeBIT 2006 in Hanover, Germany The new Linux desktop software suite features enhanced power management, integrated desktop search, graphical interfaces and numerous application improvements based on open source i...
The recent news that AT&T made a deal to acquire BellSouth has elicited two reactions: one, an assumption that communications prices will go up; and the other, an assumption that prices will go down. It's always tough to predict exactly what will happen in the marketplace, but the best money will be on the bet that the merger is good for consumers...
Potentially reopening a chapter from the earlier days of the wireless telecommunications boom, the U.S. Justice Department said it intends to pursue a civil fraud case against Wall Street money manager Mario Gabelli The DoJ is seeking permission to directly sue Gabelli, who runs Gamco Investors, claiming he was at the center of a complex scheme to ...
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is expected to demonstrate the company's first wave of Ultra-Mobile PCs at the CeBIT information and telecommunications trade show in Hannover, Germany on Thursday Developed under the code name Origami, the portable devices will be available next month at prices ranging from US$600 to $1,000, are expected to weigh less...
Google is moving to settle a class action lawsuit alleging widespread click fraud on its paid search network, setting aside US$90 million to repay advertisers who can prove they fell victim to the practice during a four-year period starting in 2002 The payouts would take the form of account credits which could be used to purchase advertising space ...
A majority of Web sites fail to meet the search desires of their visitors, according to a report prepared by Cambridge, Mass.-based research firm Forrester Research "Although consumers value search as a standalone function, search functionalities within company Web sites are not delivering satisfactory results," said the report, a copy of which was...
Last Friday -- essentially the eleventh hour of a years-long lawsuit -- Research In Motion reached a US$612.5 million settlement withNTP, relieving legions of customers who have come to feel they cannot possibly last very long without their BlackBerries In this suit, NTP successfully challenged RIM's use of its intellectual property (IP). RIM appe...
You're likely to visit the doctor when you have an infection, but what if the e-health records in her office were infected themselves -- with viruses, worms and other malware? That could be detrimental to your health, and depending on the severity of the computer problems, could even change the course of your life. That's not the prognosis you want to hear when you're ill...
Intel used its Developer Forum event in San Francisco this week to debut new computer chip technology that the company said boasts energy efficiency alongside performance gains Intel unveiled a quad-core processor configuration that some have referred to as a processor with two dual cores. The firm also highlighted its new Core microarchitecture, a...
Microsoft is picking up speed in its race to overtake Google's huge lead in search technology with the rollout of a beta search application and the announcement it has acquired a privately held company's search technology assets The software giant rolled out a beta of its Windows Live Search application, including a new Windows Live Toolbar, on Tue...
Verizon Business is targeting the small to mid-sized market with the introduction this month of IP Web Center, a hosted contact center application It is providing this functionality by adding Internet protocol capability to its Verizon Web Center service....
Cingular Wireless on Tuesday launched an on-demand streaming video service with a selection of content from providers including Fox and HBO Consumers can now watch video clips of their favorite television shows, sports, news and weather, entertainment and premium content on their high-speed 3G-capable Cingular phones....
For the second time in as many weeks, Google caused its own stock to fall, with shares sent lower this time by the search company's admission that it inadvertently posted financial projections on the Web before pulling them back Google shares were down as much as US$10 or about 3 percent to $353.56 in morning trading Wednesday, a day after the comp...
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