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Reports of Apple's inability to patent the interface software in its popular iPod music player and Microsoft's efforts to stake its claim to such technology through its own patent application have sparked wide speculation that Microsoft might make royalties off the Apple devices, which sold to the tune of nearly 20 million units in the last year Ho...
Today it's the direct form that rules, the manufacturer's product going straight to the lap of the end user. No matter if the end user is a teenager, a roofer or a big business, a single-item purchase is sufficient No more demands to buy large inventories. No middle layers, no costly structures, no bureaucracies and no extra hoards of people or any...
Not long ago, it sometimes took Web pages 30 seconds to load, thanks to slow, dial-up connections over-burdened servers and inexperienced Web design Now, with high-speed connections and rapidly evolving technology, the days of slow-loading pages are gone. However, users might want to get used to waiting 30 -- or 15, or 10 -- seconds to see their ch...
The once thick walls that have traditionally been separating IT departments from its business leaders at companies both large and small are beginning to thin and crack. In fact, all signs indicate that these walls will soon crumble completely to create a new environment in which business leaders and technology leaders interact and work toward common goals, with end results likely to have significant impact on the bottom line...
Bidding to become a key entry way for the purchase of mobile services and content, America Online has launched a mobile storefront that users can customize to hold features designed for their phones and other hand-held devices AOLMobile.com was built by AOL through a partnership with InPhonic, which handles online sales of wireless services and dev...
Novell this week launched the latest version of its collaboration platform. GroupWise 7 is now available on multiple operating system platforms Novell said the new version delivers significant advances designed to increase end-userproductivity, including integrated e-mail and instant messaging, enhanced Microsoft Outlook support and a pre-bundled l...
Fresh off a social-networking buy, traditional media giant News Corp. may be looking to further extend its online reach and has reportedly moved to acquire search engine Blinkx, which has specialized in helping users find music, video and other media online Neither company would comment, but several published reports say talks are under way about a...
The open-source Firefox browser may be the new kid in town, but Microsoft is out to show that the sheriff is back with a vengeance, according to some analysts. New figures from Web monitoring firm Net Applications reveal that Microsoft regained some ground from alternate browsers -- including Firefox -- last month In July, 87.2 percent of Web site ...
Agilent Technologies is selling its semiconductor business in yet another example of how the chip industry has blossomed with consumer, mobile and networking technology and devices, but has become a fast-moving, boom-or-bust business that is difficult to deliver for Wall Street The expected sale, a US$2.66 billion acquisition by Kohlberg Kravis Rob...
In an aggressive move to entice dial-up surfers to upgrade to broadband service, BellSouth announced a deal with Napster yesterday that the Baby Bell hopes Websters will find hard to refuse Under the agreement, new subscribers to BellSouth's FastAccess DSL service will get a free 256-megabyte digital music player (DMP) and a free three-month subscr...
Without access to e-mail, many of us would cease to function. If you use e-mail regularly, there is a 100 percent chance that some of the e-mails you send or receive will be blocked. If such e-mails are not important to you, then you might not notice. However, if those e-mails are important, then inconvenience or anguish might result There are prec...
Y2K may be a distant memory, but there are plenty of other threats against corporate IT systems. In fact, today's list of disaster threats includes more than just hurricanes and blackouts -- chemical attacks and terrorist bombings have become a stark reality Although fires, floods and earthquakes are no more devastating now than they were five year...
Music being burned onto CDs is becoming a bigger threat than P2P file-sharing to both the music industry and record stores The news comes from Recording Industry Association of America chief Mitch Bainwol, speaking for his bosses and the RIAA's owners, the members of the Big Four record label cartel....
In a trial that could mark the arrival of more widespread on-demand television programming and further rock the traditional media advertising industry, digital video recorder maker TiVo said it would offer original content from the Independent Film Channel (IFC) for download over the Internet The content that's the focus of the deal includes the fi...
Agilent Technologies is selling its semiconductor business in yet another example of how the chip industry has blossomed with consumer, mobile and networking technology and devices, but has become a fast-moving, boom-or-bust business that is difficult to deliver for Wall Street The expected sale, a US$2.66 billion acquisition by Kohlberg Kravis Rob...
Once-dominant modem maker U.S. Robotics has agreed to be acquired by a private equity firm that indicated it would make its deep pockets available for expansion and other purchases to help the company find growth again as Internet access technologies continue to evolve Platinum Equity did not disclose the price it would pay for the privately held U...
The open-source Firefox browser saw growth slip in July, according to the latest report from measuring and monitoring service NetApplications, which watches growth in adoption among a variety of popular Internet browser alternatives The NetApplications report for the month of July indicates that, for the first time, Firefox slightly receded in its ...
Intel is reportedly set to divulge more details of its switch from its current microprocessor architecture to a fuller use of the chip giant's Pentium M mobile platform, which affords Intel the energy efficiency and lack of heat its previous transistor-heavy processor platform did not The company will detail the next generation of Intel chips at th...
I would like to imagine a world where I never have to go to a mall, never have to wait in the checkout line behind the person returning 23 items, where I never have to make my tenth circle in the parking lot and engage in a to-the-death fight with that hulking SUV for the last space. I would like to imagine a world where I could do all my shopping online -- every last bit of it...
We covered software alternatives in last week's column, so now it is time to look ahead at changes coming in hardware over the next few years, and the players driving those changes It is certainly time for a change. In 1984, we had two PCs in the business space. Apple enjoyed 40 percent market share and had two innovative designs, the Apple II and ...
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