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Some 72 percent of the businesses evaluated by a Boston-based research firm scored poorly on their policies for re-using their customers' personal data for marketing purposes, but the researchers maintain that more companies are sensitive to privacy issues than ever before and are acting on that awareness Other findings in the report prepared by Th...
In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies Dubbed Intel Viiv (rhymes with "five"), the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment of digital entertainment. The...
This week, a group of legal scholars, high government officials, Nobel prize recipients and economic experts gathered for the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, to discuss e-government, telecommunications and intellectual property, among other issues One of the more colorful speakers was Mart Laar, former president of Estonia...
America Online will pay New York state US$1.25 million and revamp its customer service approach to settle charges that it continued to bill some customers after they canceled their online access accounts New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said AOL agreed to pay the fine and to reimburse any state residents who continued to receive bills even a...
The U.S. Copyright Office is facing harsh criticism after proposing a rule for pre-registration of copyrights over the Internet that would require Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to guarantee a successful application. The move leaves a significant swath of Web users excluded and triggered objections from a number of technology experts, including the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, often considered the father of the Internet...
After months of speculation, Microsoft has inked a deal with Hollywood to make a movie based on its popular science-fiction video game series "Halo." Universal Studios and Twentieth Century Fox agreed to pay Microsoft US$5 million plus up to 10 percent of domestic box office receipts. Universal will handle the film's production and domestic distri...
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calling company Vonage Holdings Corp. is reportedly putting the finishing touches on a plan to go public, a move that could help it raise as much as US$600 million in cash as it girds for battle with a slew of competitors The Daily Deal and the Wall Street Journal reported that Vonage has already raised some $400...
In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies Dubbed Intel Viiv (rhymes with "five"), the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment of digital entertainment. The...
A pact between chip king Intel and Research in Motion (RIM), Canadian maker of the Blackberry mobile communication device, appears less imminent than originally reported Rumors of a technology exchange deal between the companies spread like an airborne virus on Monday following a CNBC report predicting an agreement would be announced at the Pentium...
Intel and Cisco announced this week they would bolster wireless local area networks (LANS) and the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) by businesses with a new wireless suite The two companies said they had jointly produced a new set of features that pull together Cisco's wireless infrastructure and Intel's Centrino mobile chip technology, p...
In a recent decision that might have long-term implications on how Internet search engines run their advertising programs, the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia released its written opinion on Government Insurance Company v. Google, Inc., et al., a case decided a while back The Court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to b...
Some pundits contend that if Microsoft's Media Center Edition of Windows XP is going to break through the barrier between the living room and the home office, it's going to have to do it on the notebook platform. Toshiba is taking that notion seriously with its new line of Qosmio portables The latest edition of the notebook with the name that looks...
Consortia led by Hewlett-Packard and Earthlink are the finalists for a proposed city-wide WiFi network in Philadelphia that government officials hope to have online within two months. While San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is making headlines in the west, back east, the city WiFi network is close to a reality According to Varinia C. Robinson, progr...
Intel and Cisco announced this week they would bolster wireless local area networks (LANS) and the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) by businesses with a new wireless suite The two companies said they had jointly produced a new set of features that pull together Cisco's wireless infrastructure and Intel's Centrino mobile chip technology, p...
After delivering the industry's first 2.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drive in January 2004, Fujitsu Computer Products this week set out to close the performance and capacity gap between desktop and laptop computers when it announced its latest hard disk drive The MHV2160BT is a 4200 RPM, 160 GB 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) drive engineered to address ...
In what appears to be a clever strategic move to level the playing field, Microsoft is negotiating with the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) to undergo a joint study to determine which operating system best suits the needs of today's enterprises OSDL representatives did not return calls seeking comment....
Yahoo and Viacom have struck a multi-year deal in which Yahoo will provide search and search marketing services to Viacom's vast array of online properties, providing a sizeable boost to Yahoo's core search business Specific financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. It calls for Yahoo to have its search capabilities built into many Viacom-own...
Marking perhaps its most ambitious departure to date from its core search business, Google unveiled its own instant messaging platform yesterday, one that includes voice chat options Some analysts say the service could become a prelude to an even bigger leap in which Google becomes a provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone service...
After nearly two weeks of market speculation, Intel this week began detailing its switch from existing NetBurst chip architecture to a new processor platform that borrows heavily from its Pentium M mobile chip, a move that rival AMD is paralleling in order to adjust to the market preference for notebooks and other mobile devices Analysts said users...
The good and the bad associated with Voice over IP (VoIP) is becoming clearer. Increasingly, consumers and enterprises are turning to VoIP because it can save them money and enable them to take advantage of features, such as unified messaging. As this networking option gains popularity, however, it has also become a prime target for hackers "You c...
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