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In a move to grab market share in the world's largest population base, Skype this week announced a joint venture with Tom Online, China's leading wireless Internet provider. The joint venture seeks to push Skype's Voice over Internet Protocol software and services to Tom Online's more than 70 million wireless Internet users The joint venture builds...
Online merchants selling digital products for small sums of money will find it easier to do so through the Internet's best known online payment service, PayPal That's because the company has announced a new "micropayments" pricing scheme to make selling low-priced goods through PayPal -- especially those sold for less than US$2 -- more attractive....
Somewhere out there is a land many have only heard of or seen in their dreams, a place called the "the world's largest factory." A nation of manufacturers, a country spread out from one corner to the other, filled with factories, run by dynamic people engrossed in taking care of the world's supply of everything, from the smallest items to the biggest, from good quality products to best, from low cost to almost free...
The comparison shopping and shopping search business has been around for a while. Like many other corners of the Internet business, it's seen more than its share of businesses come and go Now it seems that 2005 may well be the year the niche found its ways into the big time. Most of that change has come through acquisition. EBay's US$620 million pu...
Let's be honest: Backup is an unloved necessity. It costs money and takes time. Restores are time-consuming and frustrating. But the fact is, you cannot live without them. Data must be backed up; it must be protected. Continuous Data Protection (CDP) offers a way to backup and restore data faster -- with better reliability -- all while actually reducing costs...
Controversial plans in the U.S. and the UK to institute national identification cards as a way of curtailing identity theft will likely only lead to different versions of the same crimes, according to a researcher The UK researcher also says that consumers will consider national ID cards to offer strong protection, which may give a false sense of s...
File-sharing network Kazaa must alter its software to try to stop illegal music sharing, a federal judge in Australia ruled yesterday, but one analyst said the ruling won't change peer-to-peer file-swapping at all "In the end it's about as relevant as anything else these industries have done. Trying to pin down file sharing is like grabbing sand sl...
Borland Software today announced the release of JBuilder 2006, the latest upgrade to its Java integrated development environment (IDE) designed to speed up industrial Java application development JBuilder 2006 includes new capabilities aimed at helping software teams more effectively collaborate in real time. New peer-to-peer developer collaboratio...
In a move to grab market share in the world's largest population base, Skype yesterday announced a joint venture with Tom Online, China's leading wireless Internet provider. The joint venture seeks to push Skype's Voice over Internet Protocol software and services to Tom Online's more than 70 million wireless Internet users The joint venture builds...
Internet TV -- long hyped by Microsoft and other major computer industry players -- has a new advocate. A non-profit corporation is developing a free, open source, Internet TV (IPTV) platform with funding from technology industry luminaries Mitch Kapor and Andy Rappaport. The organization, Worcester, Mass.-based Participatory Culture Foundation, and its Internet TV application, DTV, will deliver full-screen Internet TV to desktops...
Except for those of us who build our own desktop computers, laptops have become the product that increasingly defines our personalities and which one we choose says more and more about who we are. Until recently our choices were defined by vendors: Apple if you favored high design, IBM if you liked reliability and unique features like secret keyboard light, Dell if you were driven by price and Sony if small was your thing...
You have a right to privacy at home, and can e-mail anyone, or visit any Internet site you choose. But do you have the same legal protections at the office? Probably not, experts tell TechNewsWorld, as, increasingly, employers monitor not only e-mail, but Internet usage, and, in some cases, phone calls as well. As the economy expands, employers are anxious to ensure that workers remain productive while they're at the office...
A number of new music file-sharing projects are in the offing here and overseas, enabling pop music fans to swap songs for a fee This month, Sony BMG will begin offering a legal, peer-to-peer music file sharing service with UK-based Internet service provider (ISP) Playlouder. Customers can share files with others who subscribe to the network, using...
As heart-wrenching images of devastation and despair from New Orleans and others parts of the Gulf Coast of the U.S. continue to rivet Americans from coast to coast, computer security experts are warning that scammers have already devised elaborate phishing attacks and other online scams meant to target the outpouring of response to hurricane Katrina...
Once perhaps the most prominent seller of desktop PCs to consumers, Gateway has announced a new small business server aimed at diversifying its product line, increasing its margins, and leaving behind its more recent marketplace struggles Gateway announced its new E9220T server as a "low-cost, entry-level performance oriented server platform ideal ...
Intel and Philips are working together to build and market home entertainment centers that will run on Intel processors, the chipmaker said at IFA, the International Consumer Electronics Fair, in Berlin Both personal computer makers and consumer electronics manufacturers have been touting centralized home media centers, but the question is whether ...
In a blow to Microsoft and a strong vote of support for open-source software, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is putting in motion a plan to abandon the use of the Microsoft Office suite of desktop productivity applications in favor of an open-source approach that may make it easier to share documents The state announced this week that after a le...
Linspire said yesterday that it would give away free copies of its Linux desktop operating system until Sept. 6. Linspire Five-O was launched in March and retails for US$49.95 The company said it decided to give away the software because a package called Freespire has caused confusion in the marketplace. Freespire is comprised of various open-sourc...
Nikon this week announced two WiFi-enabled digital cameras, the Coolpix P1 and P2. The models allow consumers to immediately transmit images wirelessly directly to a computer or printer adapted for wireless printing Analysts said the Coolpix eight-megapixel P1 and the five-megapixel P2 are indeed the world's first digital cameras with built-in WiF...
Toshiba, the main backer of a next-generation DVD disc format known as HD-DVD, has signaled it will not ship its players based on the technology before the end of the year, leading some analysts to doubt the format's ability to compete with the Sony-backed Blu-ray format Furthermore, although some have noted that the two formats both have unique te...
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