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Linux-based messaging vendor Scalix Corporation announced late last week a wireless solution designed to extend its e-mail and calendaring software to mobile devices Developed in partnership with enterprise mobility solutions vendor Notify Technology Corporation, the Scalix Wireless Solution provides wireless access and synchronization of e-mail, c...
There is no doubting the importance of Windows Vista, formerly known as "Longhorn" and the successor to Windows 95 through XP, as it forms the foundation for Microsoft's future fortunes just as its predecessor did for the company in years past. Vista will be Microsoft's strongest response to competitive pressure from platforms like Linux and the Mac OS...
Two of the world's most important public broadcasters have seen the future of TV -- and it is on the broadband Internet The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) have disclosed plans to launch Internet-only programming, starting this September....
The federal government is now in the zombie-hunting business -- and is deputizing virtually every Internet Service Provider in the United States as it seeks to halt the flow of unwanted spam e-mail in this country and overseas The Federal Trade Commission, the federal anti-trust watchdog, is planning in coming weeks to begin sending ISPs reports on...
Eying expanding opportunities in the corporate mobile data realm, Sybase said today it had agreed to buy a software company that makes middleware for enterprises Sybase said it would pay about US$71.3 million in cash to acquire Extended Systems, an 11-year-old company whose main product, known as OneBridge, helps enterprise applications work with m...
An Internet scam that lures would-be foreign investors into fraudulent schemes by posing as U.S. government regulators and Internet sites has prompted a warning from the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), which warns investors are losing billions every year The NASAA highlighted an uptick in phony correspondence used by c...
Two reports on the state of the wireless industry indicate strong growth is continuing apace, with handset shipments riding a wave of sales in countries with emerging economies and U.S. mobile carrier subscription rates and mobile data usage continuing to expand The reports from Strategy Analytics highlight the continued success of some wireless ha...
Three years after tablet PCs made their way to market, shipments are markedly increasing and the next few years will show multibillion-dollar growth, according to research firm In-Stat Referring to PCs that run Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, tablet PC shipments have yet to reach the lofty heights that some backers predic...
The man who helped safeguard e-mail with his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) desktop encryption program is now at work on ensuring no one can eavesdrop on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) conversations Phil Zimmermann was scheduled to demonstrate his VoIP security program at Black Hat Briefings, an Internet security conference in Las Vegas, yesterday....
In a bold move to modernize America's outdated communications laws, this week Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) introduced the Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act. It's about time Congress embraced this issue, particularly since technology has vastly changed the way communications affect economic growth Technology boosts productivity and allows...
Major Hollywood movie studios announced this week that they, along with movie theater and technology industry players, have reached agreement on the specification for next-generation, digital film distribution and projection. The news comes amid sliding box office sales and heavy competition from home video, which has greatly improved in terms of quality in recent years...
In a snapshot of how competitive the battle has become to capture users' digital photography endeavors -- and the dollars that could follow -- Shutterfly has said it would begin offering its members free Web pages where they can store and share their images Shutterfly Collections, as the service is known, enables users to create their own Web addre...
London Transport has issued a warning about misleading spam e-mail. The widely circulated messages claim that by dialing 112 you can get through to London's emergency 999 service even without having an available signal on your mobile phone. London Transport said this is completely untrue "This e-mail is incorrect. The 112 number does link people th...
The man who helped safeguard e-mail with his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) desktop encryption program is now at work on ensuring no one can eavesdrop on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) conversations Phil Zimmermann was scheduled to demonstrate his VoIP security program at Black Hat Briefings , an Internet security conference in Las Vegas, today....
When AMD reported second quarter sales of US$1.26 billion and net income of $11 million buoyed by its processors, it also passed the 10 percent barrier in x86 market share for the first time in company history According to a report from analyst firm Mercury Research, AMD's share of the x86 server processor market grew 51 percent in the second quart...
A new study reveals that today's teenagers are more wired and Web-savvy than ever but also indicates that they are embracing non-traditional means to use the Internet -- bypassing e-mail in favor of instant messaging, for instance -- a trend that experts say will force the e-commerce industry to be more creative in order to reach that audience The ...
In a move to compete against search rivals in the mobile phone market, AOLyesterday said it is testing a suite of new services in the United States that will allow cell phone users to scour the Web The new beta services include AOL Search Service, Pinpoint Shopping Search and AOL Yellow Pages. The features allow users to search the Web, comparison ...
Web surfers are annoyed as hell and they're doing something about it That's the thrust of the findings in a survey to be released next week by Hostway, a Chicago-based Web site hosting service with more than 400,000 global clients....
According to the American Bankers Association, the average consumer has two accounts with any one bank. One is typically a checking account, and with the plethora of free checking options available today, that one hardly counts. It's not profitable Relationship banking is the carrot, not the stick, approach to growing profitability. Banks incent th...
Cellular carriers have spent more than a decade and billions of dollars building out their networks so customers can use their services wherever they may roam. Coverage has improved along and on many city streets, but in-building reception has remained spotty in many cases Companies such as Andrew Corp., MobileAccess Networks, InnerWireless, InterD...
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