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Adding yet another wrinkle to the emerging music-on-mobile-phones trend, satellite radio provider Sirius has announced a partnership to provide some of its streaming programming directly to Sprint users Sirius and Sprint said they struck a deal to make select programming available to certain phones, with channels that stream new hits, classic rock,...
In a bid to recover lost market share, Sun Microsystems today officially released Solaris as open-source software Sun hopes to compete more effectively against rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft with its open-source strategy that shares code from its once popular Unix version. With Linux and Microsoft battling for mind share, Unix has lost some of i...
In what could be a glimpse into the future of mobile-driven commerce and a preview of how hand-held devices might enable a range of consumer purchases, a Japanese carrier has launched a service that uses mobile phones to identify, locate and purchase music heard on the radio or elsewhere The service, which uses technology developed in part by Emery...
Skype, which offers computer-to-computer Voice over IP (VoIP) service, yesterday added voicemail to its repertoire Skype Voicemail service costs US$19 a year or $7 for three months, pre-paid, and allows subscribers to leave unlimited messages for all Skype users and receive messages from any caller. Customers can also send pre-recorded voice messag...
Spam-fighting strategies used by ISPs and consumers might be turning the tide against unwanted e-mail. However, innovative phishing scams continue to target both corporate users and consumers Users of file-sharing networks are particularly vulnerable to attacks, a new industry analysis warns....
Partitioning of servers in the data centers of its top customers is putting pressure on Oracle, which is making a number of moves to cope with the trend, experts say Earlier this month, Oracle changed its licensing terms for users of Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10.0 operating system, lowering the price for customers who only use Oracle software on pa...
Microsoft is edging closer to a release of its long-awaited new operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- with the debut of two technologies expected to be included in the OS, and the announcement of a new suite of applications for next year, Microsoft Office 12.0 "Those areas where Office has gotten richer will be in the next big release, which i...
Looking to match the kind of computing power it created in the BlueGene/L supercomputer -- a system made up over more than 130,000 processors -- IBM launched this week what it called the fastest privately-owned supercomputer in the world. The system is sister to BlueGene, dubbed "BGW," and is expected to rank among the world's three fastest public/private super systems...
In what appears to be a move to attract more subscribers, Vonage today announced a trade-in promotion that offers U.S. customers a Linksys WiFi access point Consumers can trade in their used router for a Linksys Wireless-G Router configured with Vonage when they sign up for Vonage's broadband phone service through July 23....
Taking a page from other rivals of the market-leading iTunes Music Store from Apple, Microsoft's MSN Music is close to adding a subscription-style offering to its existing pay-per-download model MSN Music is expected to add the monthly subscription option made popular by RealNetworks, Napster and others by the end of the year....
Nokia broadened its cell phone line today, releasing seven new models that it hopes will solidify its No. 1 spot in the market The company has added a 2-megapixel camera phone and three CDMA (code division multiple access) phones. Nokia has faced increasing competition from Motorola and Samsung in the United States, where mobile phone service provi...
Sony Ericsson launched four new mobile phones today targeting the youth and mid-markets. Analysts said this is a smart move by the handset maker The S600, Z520, W600 and J210 expand the company's portfolio of 3G handsets and offers a broader range of low-cost phones....
Web conferencing and Web-based seminars are taking a bite out of traditional business travel and telephone conference-call budgets, with companies like WebEx, Microsoft, Raindance and Netspoke leading the revolution. Indeed, with the surge in demand around Web conferencing technologies rapidly increasing, IDC predicts that the conferencing-applications market will grow from nearly US$600 million in revenue in 2003 to more than $1.1 billion in 2007...
In the recent cases of customer data sales by bank employees, employers came face to face with their biggest security challenge: trusting their employees "It's pretty much the toughest security problem to deal with," says Rich Mogull, research vice president at Gartner, Phoenix....
EnterpriseDB made its official debut in May with the release of its EnterpriseDB 2005 public beta release. Built on the open-source PostgreSQL database, the company is touting it as the world's most advanced and mature open-source database While MySQL, the open-source database leader, may have something to say about that, it is clear that the incum...
Finally, after sending signals of this move ever since Steve Jobs re-took Apple's helm, the company last week announced that it will move to the x86 platform. While I had clearly anticipated this move for some time I also expected their execution, once announced, to be much more rapid than it will be. Apple's traditional mode of operation is to wait until the absolute last minute and then announce any major release to avoid the Osborne effect, (named after a failed computer company that was known to announce new products a year in advance of their release)...
Widespread use of computer networks and the adoption of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phone service are fueling the rapid growth of electronic learning beyond the classroom. The e-learning technology is improving the way for students to earn degrees and enhancing the way employers in-service their workers' job skills and reduce training costs...
A major shareholder advisory firm is urging stock owners to vote against Symantec's US$11 billion purchase of Veritas Software Glass, Lewis & Co. recommended Symantec shareholders oppose the acquisition of Mountain View, Calif.-based Veritas when they vote on June 24, saying the deal appears to lack clear strategic benefit....
VeriSign has won the right to operate the .net domain registry for another six years, securing a new contract from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) after a lengthy and sometimes controversial process ICANN's Board of Directors chose VeriSign to continue running the registry, which is now populated with more than 5 mil...
A spam campaign that claims that Michael Jackson has attempted suicide is seeking to infect e-mail users with a Trojan horse, SophosLabs said yesterday The message text claims, "Last night, while in his Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson has made a suicidal attempt." When users click on the link they are taken to a Web site which secretly installs ma...
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