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The long-discussed consolidation of the wireless communications industry appears poised to pick up speed again, with the Federal Communications Commission said to be on the verge of approving Sprint's US$35 billion acquisition of Nextel Communications Staff at the FCC have reportedly forwarded recommendations to commission members, advising them to...
Cisco and Yahoo have joined forces with several anti-spam companies to propose a standard for filtering junk out of in-boxes Software companies SendMail and PGP worked with the others on DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), which works through public key cryptography. Each message gets a signature, which can then be checked for authenticity by verify...
In a bid to bolster its move from the office to the living room, Microsoft today said it would unveil two new hardware devices for PC entertainment Microsoft Hardware has developed a three-in-one control center for a Windows XP-based Media Center PC with remote, keyboard and mouse capabilities in one device designed exclusively for the living room....
Agents from the European Commission (EC) have conducted surprise inspections of several offices of leading computer chip maker Intel and other high-technology firms, apparently seeking evidence of antitrust behavior Intel said that in keeping with company policy, it was cooperating with investigators. However, the company also emphasized through a ...
Voice over Internet Protocol provider Skype and wireless hotspot operator Boingo Wireless today announced a new service that combines each company's technologies Currently a beta service, Skype Zones is a custom version of Boingo software that will allow Skype's 45 million-plus users to access Internet telephony via Boingo's worldwide network of 1...
Action yesterday by the body that governs the Internet to create a .mobi domain is being touted as a major advance toward making the Web more hospitable to mobile phone users, but according to one analyst the move might be more redundant than revolutionary "The answer isn't having another extension; the answer is having more applications and more c...
My friend Kevin Dart has always had an eye for English antiques. In fact, he regularly makes a pilgrimage to mother England to buy unique or hard-to-find pieces. Aside from working his "day job," his avocation is selling these pieces for a profit back in the U.S While this task of hauling or shipping many heavy objects might seem daunting and labor...
The battle between Microsoft- and Linux-based servers just got a new twist. It is spelled N-O-V-E-L-L. While many IT managers are still arguing about which platform is fundamentally better, Novell is hoping to generate a buzz around its new Open Enterprise Server system Open Enterprise Server is a Linux-based alternative to Microsoft Windows Server...
Microsoft recently announced it would enable RSS feeds in the next version of its operating system -- Longhorn, due out in beta next month. While use of RSS feeds is only at about 5-10 percent of Internet surfers, according to Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio, their endorsement by Microsoft is likely to push them into broader adoption RSS, or reall...
In a ruling that could have ramifications for the entire Web industry, Google has won an arbitration case that gives it control of several similarly spelled domain names The National Arbitration Forum found in favor of Google in a case the search engine company brought against a Russian man, Sergey Gridasov, who registered at least four domains: go...
Microsoft will release its first backup-to-disk software system to manufacturers within 30 days, the company said at its Worldwide Partner Conference The software giant said it has the only product that allows end users to recover lost data from their desktop. Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) backs up data from local or remote ...
College students at one of the universities partnered with Napster for free access to its subscription-style music offering give the service high marks, but more than seven out of every 10 still buy music from Apple's market-leading iTunes Music Store The University of Rochester released results of a survey it conducted of its student population to...
In a move to grab market share in the BlackBerry segment, Good Technology today announced partnerships with Sprint, Microsoft and IBM Good Technology provides wireless hand-held computing software and services in competition with Research in Motion. Good peddles GoodLink wireless corporate e-mail service and develops support software applications a...
Service has been restored on a damaged telecommunications cable that links India and Pakistan to the West, but not before the international service outage caused widespread financial damage, most especially to the cell center industry Service on the cable was restored on Friday. The cable was damaged on June 27, largely cutting Pakistan's telecomm...
IBM last week unveiled details about a dual-core version of its PowerPC processor at the Power Everywhere forum in Tokyo. Big Blue is targeting entry-level servers, clustered environments and the embedded market with its new product The PowerPC 970MP is a dual-core version of IBM's PowerPC 970FX. It is a 64-bit, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)-capa...
One of the big problems for complex companies is the ability, or inability, to use expertise developed in one area in another. This is one of the reasons complex companies like Sony often fail; they have all of the disadvantages of that complexity and don't really get the anticipated synergies or economies of scale that were generally used to justify the creation of their complex structures...
In the late 1990s, Peter Relan was working as a software executive at Oracle when his neighbor, Louis Borders, the founder of Borders Books and Music, offered him a chance to join his new startup Relan was intrigued enough to make the leap to the dot-com world, where he helped develop much of the technological infrastructure for, and went on to bec...
Information technology experts warn that lingering security issues are making Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, another uncontrolled tool for identity theft. RFID is an old inventory control technology that is quietly being deployed throughout business and industry to track everything from pets to people and products. This technology is helping optimize inventory and business systems and is making consumers' lives more convenient...
Federal rules crafted to curtail "adult entertainment" sites will not be enforced against sites involved in litigation against the government until after Labor Day, according to a temporary agreement reached by the U.S. Department of Justice and Web site producers The proposed regulations, amendments to the 18 US Code 2257, are being stayed until S...
RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication, but for technologists with an eye on the Internet's future, it stands for much, much more The technology provides a way for people to opt to have information delivered to their computer desktops without having to burn time surfing the Web....
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