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RealNetworks and Microsoft have reached a set of agreements to end one of the most bitter private antitrust matters in the technology sector, with RealNetworks receiving as much as US$761 million in cash and marketing considerations for its music and games services from the software giant and the two companies agreeing to work together going forward...
WiFi may see more rapid advancement, thanks to a new coalition determined to accelerate the IEEE 802.11n standard development process Twenty seven WiFi industry leaders banded together this week under the name Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC). These diverse companies have one commongoal: to speed up the introduction of the new wireless standard a...
Looking to beef up its PayPal online payment service and enhance its reputation with online merchants outside of its online auction kingdom in particular, eBay said it would acquire the payment gateway system of security company VeriSign EBay said its PayPal unit, which it took over in a US$1.5 billion acquisition more than three years ago, would a...
Continuing a pattern of kinder, gentler software licensing terms and relationships, Microsoft announced this week its simplified, virtualization-ready Windows Server licensing that allows as many as four virtual instances of the software on one physical server for the same price Virtualization involves the use of server software in the abstract, ra...
Rising gas prices may be withering consumer confidence these days, but online retailers see a silver lining in the disturbing trend "People are going to be less inclined to drive to shopping centers," Bernard Baumohl, executive director of the Economic Outlook Group in Princeton Junction, N.J. told the E-Commerce Times. "Instead, they're going to s...
In a report on the upcoming P2P Litigation Summit, I mentioned "Big Music wants Britanny Chan," which describes how the Big Four are using the RIAA to terrorize a 14-year-old Michigan girl and her mother. Having already failed once to frighten Brittany through her mother, the cartel is now going after her again, this time as an individual Britanny ...
Continuing a pattern of kinder, gentler software licensing terms and relationships, Microsoft announced this week its simplified, virtualization-ready Windows Server licensing that allows as many as four virtual instances of the software on one physical server for the same price Virtualization involves the use of server software in the abstract, ra...
Oracle announced Friday what seems to be a squeeze play on MySQL -- the purchase of Innobase, a Finnish developer of open-source database technology. Terms of the agreement were not released Innobase's most prominent product is InnoDB, a transaction engine that ships as an add-on to MySQL, the most popular open-source database. Although there are f...
Google unveiled its latest beta product offering at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week. The Google Reader is a Web-based RSS reader designed for the search engine's registered users Similar to the online service offered by NewsGator, Google Reader allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds and receive an e-mail notification when a Web si...
In a move to speed up the outcome of an ongoing legal dispute, IBM on Friday agreed to drop its patent infringement claims against the SCO Group Big Blue initially filed the claims in August 2003. The countersuit was a response to SCO's lawsuit that alleged IBM has infringed its Linux patents....
Contrary to prevailing wisdom, increased availability doesn't necessarily mean increased costs. I've met with a number of companies recently that are combining two common technologies to improve their total availability without draining their total IT budget. The secret is to teach your old servers new tricks At the top of the availability food c...
This week's column is inspired by my experience last week in Miami where I moderated at AMD's Global Vision Conference. A number of distinguished speakers participated and we spoke at length on the digital home On my panel I had Dave Alles, Microsoft's eHome division chief; Ameer Karim, Director of Worldwide Product Marketing with HP's consumer PC...
Some 94 percent of consumers in a recent Harris Interactive survey believe the Internet poses a threat to children Among the biggest threats perceived by the respondents in the poll -- which was commissioned by San Francisco, California, network security firm Zone Labs, a Check Point company -- were predators in chat rooms (61 percent) and pornogra...
In an unprecedented move, service provider Level 3 Communications cut off Internet traffic flowing from rival Cogent Communications this week, following failed negotiations between the two companies embroiled in a bandwidth fight that has now reportedly affected thousands of Internet users The connectivity cutoff left consumer and corporate users w...
In a case seen boosting the credibility and profile of blogs as sources of news and opinion, the Delaware Supreme Court this week found that four bloggers accused of defamation had the right to remain anonymous The court ruled that a lower court was wrong in ordering an Internet service provider to disclose the identity of anonymous bloggers who us...
Owners of PlayStation Portables (PSPs) who may be inclined to alter their devices so they can play unauthorized games should beware of the software they use to do so. Anti-malware company Symantec reports that one of the programs that claims it allows gamers to circumvent PSP security measures is actually a piece of malware that will wipe out the gaming handheld completely...
Pressing forward on its private anti-trust lawsuit against leading chipmaker Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has subpoenaed records from several Intel customers, including major PC makers and smaller vendors AMD hopes the records will help bolster its argument that Intel used its market share to squash attempts by AMD to win new customers, with...
It's party time in blogland. So say analysts in the wake of two successive blog-related acquisitions this week. First, AOL said it would acquire Weblogs, Inc. yesterday. Today, Verisign said it has purchased Weblogs.com VeriSign purchased the company and its ping service from Scripting News in a US$2.3 million cash deal. VeriSign said the acquisiti...
In the latest in a long string of mergers and acquisitions in the security segment, Check Point Software Technologies yesterday said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sourcefire for about US$225 million in cash and stock Sourcefire is the developer behind Snort, an open-source intrusion prevention and detection technology. That's an overa...
AOL has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weblogs, Inc AOL said the acquisition gives it a cadre of online content that ranges from music to movies, travel to tech, food to fashion, medicine to mortgages and offers online consumers new micro-communities where they can connect, debate, editorialize, comment and learn....
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