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Leading mobile phone handset maker Nokia said it would create a joint venture with Japanese consumer electronics producer Sanyo in a bid to better reach key markets, especially the United States Nokia and Sanyo said the yet-unnamed joint venture would be largely separate and have offices in San Diego and in Japan. Financial terms were not disclosed...
Nico Popp can see the day when proving who you are on the faceless Internet will be as easy as using a picture I.D. in the real world Popp is the point man for a new authentication program launched Monday by VeriSign, which runs the Net's largest domains, .com and .net, its biggest certificate validation service and the root product code database f...
Technology consultancyBearingPoint will launch a search solutions practice -- believed to be the first of its kind -- and will work withGoogle Enterprise to deliver search solutions that drill deeper into corporate data Google has already trained about 100 consultants at MacLean, Va.-based BearingPoint to deploy itsenterprise search appliances. Mor...
Windows andLinux are celebrating together. That's because new research predicts these competing platforms will become the dominant force in advanced mobile operating systems As the demand for advanced devices accelerates, the battle among vendors will intensify, the Diffusion Group (TDG) contends in "Advanced Mobile Operating Systems: Analysis & Fo...
Satellite voice service providers have been on a roller coaster ride. In the late 1990s, the industry was abuzz with grandiose expansion plans designed to take advantage of the dot-com explosion. When that boom went bust, providers had to scale back their plans dramatically and some were even forced to file for bankruptcy. A number of companies emerged with new, tightly focused business plans that worked well in 2005, but could another dip await these service providers?...
Microsoft is aggressively promoting its push e-mail service as a slew of partner carriers announce its availability at an industry trade show Microsoft has been honing its wireless messaging strategy at least since last fall, when it released its Exchange Server Service Pack 2, according to Gerald Flournoy, executive vice president of the Millenniu...
Nvidia hopes to bring console-quality graphics and fluid, digital video to mobile phones with its multimedia-minded GoForce 5500 graphics processing unit (GPU), announced this week at the 3GSM Conference in Barcelona, Spain The graphics giant said the new processor architecture would deliver improved graphics, video and sound, and was aimed at catc...
Microsoft said Monday that it has purchased a French firm that makes mobile search technology as the software giant makes a strong push to build a search infrastructure that will work across multiple devices The company did not disclose what it paid for MotionBridge, which is based in Paris and sells a technology that is used to conduct Web searche...
Nokia on Monday introduced three new mobile phones with an emphasis on connectivity. The Nokia 6131, 6070 and 6136 handsets seek to converge style with the latest in wireless technology While the 6131 and 6070 are mid-range phones targeting consumers, the 6136 may pique the interest of enterprise customers. That's because the phone bridges two of t...
In yet another step toward mobile TV mainstreaming, British Telecom Group, Virgin Mobile and Microsoft are expected to announce a partnership on Tuesday at 3GSM in Barcelona, the largest mobile phone industry conference of the year While other companies will be launching new mobile handsets, this transcontinental trio is expected to launch Europe'...
Google stock tumbled Monday following a published report outlining a scenario in which the high-flying Internet company could see as much as half of its market value eroded by increased competition Shares fell below the US$350 level for the first time since October, when a strong surge boosted Google to well above US$450 and had analysts rushing to...
With some legal victories and a new technical workaround, the prospects are looking brighter every day that Research in Motion's BlackBerry mobile e-mail service will run without interruption Still, many businesses have spent part of the past year of legal turmoil and uncertainty searching for alternative solutions to the BlackBerry. What they have...
A lot of interesting things happened last week. RIM finally released its plan to work around NTP's patents, Google decided to use some of the massive amount of cash it got from investors to buy real estate on desktop PCs, and ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina stepped back into the limelight, talking about how she screwed up at the company. After all that, it's hard not to feel somewhat dizzy...
Many cases centered around document management, retention and disposition could be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court in the next year, as companies run into challenges resulting from a disorganized or inadequate document management strategy, experts tell TechNewsWorld The Supreme Court has, in past rulings, provided guidance for companies' document...
Eva Yusa is not crazy about eBay. One problem for her -- just to name one -- is that you have to wait a while to find out if you won the bid. It is not her idea of a customer-friendly shopping experience, she writes in her blog. "It's like breadlines in Russia. Please pick me, take my money!" EBay may not be worried about Yusa, specifically -- at l...
Google has introduced a new version of its desktop software that gives users the ability to find information on any PC and then share it with others Called Desktop 3, the application takes data residing on an individual's PC and stores it on Google's central computer for a limited time....
It seems everyone is searching for something -- and Nielsen//Netratings is proving it The Internet media and market research firm on Thursday reported that the number of online searches across 60 search engines grew 55 percent year-over-year to nearly 5.1 billion in December 2005. By contrast, there were 3.3 billion searches conducted via search en...
The company behind the console that helped launch the video game industry nearly 30 years ago may be facing a game-over situation. Atari (NYSE: ATAR) this week reported significant quarterly losses and the departure of a top executive that together paint a bleak picture for the future of the firm Atari posted a US$4.8 million net loss for its fisca...
The Federal Trade Commission is mulling a plan to target companies that advertise through adware and spyware, hoping to shame those companies into discontinuing the practice That approach would use economics to curtail the spread of spyware and adware -- programs that are installed on a users' computer without their knowledge and then cause adverti...
Microsoft plans to speed up the expansion of the Redmond, Wash., campus it has called home for most of its 31-year history by spending approximately US$1 billion over the next three years By 2009, the software giant will build out approximately half of a 20-year plan to grow the facility by more than 30 percent, thus creating one of the largest cor...
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