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Microsoft is downplaying newly reported bugs in its Windows' graphic rendering engine. The software giant late Monday said security vendor reports about additional Windows Metafile (WMF) flaws are actually nothing more than "performance issues." Specifically, Symantec warned users on Monday that three new WMF vulnerabilities could allow attackers t...
Imagine: One morning you see roads and highways everywhere but you are totally unaware of the invention of a car. Holding just a wheel in your hand, you ponder some vague possibilities as to how the million miles of roads and highways might be used. That's exactly where we are today with respect to the information superhighway ...
It's 2006 -- a brand new year and the entertainment cartels are already crying doom and gloom. As usual, rather than acknowledging they're the authors of their own misfortunes, they're blaming the most important people in their worlds -- their customers. Worse, they're continuing with their bizarre attempts to try to sue consumers into towing corporate bottom lines...
Tucked away inside the wave of enthusiasm over the strong 2005 holiday shopping season -- which saw sales exceed forecasts while shoppers expanded their buying to new categories -- is a slight complication that could trip up some retailers hoping to turn those great sales into great profits One of the big drivers of online shopping was free shippin...
Delivering products that are faster, cheaper, and more reliable is a common goal among technology vendors. That desire has lead wireless LAN suppliers to develop a new networking technique dubbed MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) that promises to boost throughput and increase coverage areas. "MIMO is the most important technical advance that WLAN vendors have made during the past few years," noted Craig Mathias, principal with wireless market research firm Farpoint Group...
Court decisions recognizing the CAN-SPAM Act, which is now almost two years old, have been few and far between. However, recent actions have made up for lost time, say proponents of the law The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Fifth Circuit Court's summary judgment that the University of Texas had properly acted when it blocked spam, allow...
Microsoft has posted sample code and technical guidance for an internal project it has been working on for more than a year that integrates Outlook with Siebel CRM using Visual Studio tools in Office More of an approach than a product or even a complete code, Project Elixir has been watched closely by 30 or so customers. Some of them are already us...
Competing and co-opted technology companies are headed full steam for a fight over the next generation of high-definition DVD discs, but the first true faceoff of HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs will be in the latest gaming consoles from Microsoft and Sony These gaming devices, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation3, not only come with competing HD-DVD and Blu-ray...
Seeking to buy its way to a stronger position in the emerging video search and download marketplace, America Online said it would acquire video search firm Truveo, Inc Terms of the deal -- AOL's fifth acquisition in a year -- were not disclosed. Truveo, which is privately held, was founded in January of 2004 and launched its video search technology...
Mercury Interactive Corporation on Monday signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Systinet Corporation for US$105 million in cash Mercury is in the business technology optimization (BTO) software business. Systinet is a provider of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance and lifecycle management software and services....
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who spent much of 2005 buying up Internet properties, may be poised to invest as much as US$1 billion into developing high-speed wireless Internet connectivity through the DirecTV division of News Corp The DirecTV effort, which Murdoch said it would reveal in full in coming weeks, is part of a larger strategy for News Co...
In a move to reform the U.S. patent system, IBM is partnering with Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on an initiative to improve patent quality and accelerate innovation The initiative has three elements: the Open Patent Review, Open-Source Software as Prior Art, and a Patent Quality Index....
North American advertisers spent US$5.75 billion on search engine marketing in 2005, a 44 percent increase over the previous year, according to a report released Monday by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) The report, based on a survey of 553 respondents and conducted by Radar Research and Intellisurvey in November 2005,...
What is the most important factor that will influence executive pay and hiring in the technology industry this coming year? Is it globalization? Data management? Business process improvement? No. None of the above. It's Google. Failure of a company to factor in how Google will influence its own bottom line could well lead to its premature demise, according to a new survey just released by New York City-based headhunting firm Christian & Timbers...
New research indicates that many brand-name computer companies perform poorly when it comes to online customer service. The study by the Ipswich, Mass.-based Customer Respect Group, an international consulting company, demonstrates that only six companies included in the report received an "excellent" rating, including EDS, eBay, Xerox, Intuit, Microsoft and Linksys...
IT certifications evoke expectations of both software and systems administration skillsets, but jokes abound about how little knowledge so-and-so with such-and-such a certificate has One thing is clear: Although Microsoft Windows andCisco certifications continue to be the biggest, the importance ofLinux certifications is on the rise. Linux occupies...
Forty-nine mouse clicks and 81 minutes. That's how long it takes to properly set up and secure that new PC you got for Christmas, according to security vendor Symantec. Why should the recipient of a brand new, shiny, fast PC care? Because the "bad guys" find new PC users on the Internet in 20 minutes or less, Symantec research indicates What's more...
The Blu-ray Disc Association announced that the format specification for this standard is now complete, and it is ready to begin BD-ROM, BD-RE and BD-R licensing. Blu-ray Disc single (25 GB) and dual (50 GB) layer specifications have been approved The bottom line for consumers is that they can expect to see next-generation DVD products and content ...
Forget the mobile phone, car makers and technology companies are teaming to rev up more advanced distractions in the automobile, including video games, displays, refrigerators, BBQ grills and more Much of the latest road trip technology is on display this week at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, where Nissan featured its new U...
Asia Pacific is still the dominant locale for contact-center outsourcing, new figures from Frost & Sullivan confirm The number of contact centers in the region totaled more than 21,360 in 2004 and is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 9.1 percent to reach 39,247 by the end of 2011, according to the firm's report, "Assessment of the Asia ...
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