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While Mozilla is celebrating over Firefox's growth in Europe, the open-source browser maker is simultaneously up in arms over software vulnerabilities. A security research firm is reporting Mozilla's current browsers are once again susceptible to a seven-year-old flaw that could let malicious people spoof the contents of Web sites According to Secu...
Sprint Communications recently became the latest wireless communications company to turn over its e-commerce efforts to a third party, extending a trend that recognizes the benefits of having a Web sales specialist handle online sales and marketing Sprint has signed a long-term deal with InPhonic that calls for InPhonic to operate all of Sprint's e...
A battle reminiscent of the titanic Athens versus Sparta wars continues to play itself out in the consumer electronics space. Dating back to the 1970s, industry giants Sony and NEC have developed competing standards for recoding information on a variety of media from VCR tapes to CDs. Their latest skirmish centers on next-generation DVDs, which should start arriving near the end of the year but a clear victor may not emerge for a few years more, say industry watchers...
Black Duck Software announced yesterday that it has secured US$12 million in Series B funding from a group of investors lead by Fidelity Ventures. Intel Capital and SAP Ventures, a division of SAP AG, also participated in the round The funding round adds to the Waltham, Mass.-based software company's existing group of investors which include Red Ha...
Lenovo announced a new tablet PC today, marking the company's first mobile computer product since it acquired IBM's PC division last month The ThinkPad X41 Tablet includes a writeable slate, a full-size keyboard, and a 12-inch screen. It is just over an inch thick and weighs only 3.5 pounds. The Tablet offers ThinkVantage Technologies for wireless ...
Aiming to grab a bigger piece of the online auction business, Yahoo has said it will eliminate fees charged for using its auction site, a move that seems directly aimed at sellers who would normally turn to eBay to sell their goods Yahoo is eliminating both the listing fees -- the up-front charges to put an auction item up for sale -- and the perce...
Hoping to use a hybrid technology to provide fast-growing Internet calling services to customers, Covad and EarthLink today said they would begin testing a service that uses existing phone lines to provide high-speed Web access and voice over Internet protocol calling services The technology uses Covad's Line Powered Voice Access (LPVA) technology ...
Microsoft announced software upgrades today that will give Outlook users free access to wireless corporate e-mail on mobile devices. The move means that millions of wireless handset users will no longer have to wait for IT managers to install separate server computers Specifically, Microsoft is offering free upgrades for Microsoft Exchange Server 2...
Rumors that Apple is going over to Intel were discounted last month, but the company reportedly plans to announce today that it will start using Chipzilla's microprocessors and phase out IBM's Apple plans to use Intel chips, "in lower-end Macs such as the mini in mid-2006, and higher-end models such as the Power Mac in the middle of 2007," CNET sai...
IBM announced today that it will work with one of the leading human intelligence researchers in the world to map how the brain works, a project that Big Blue said emphasizes the continued importance of supercomputers and could produce advances in both medicine and technology IBM said it will give access to a Blue Gene supercomputer to the Ecole Pol...
One of the most interesting, though predictable, empirical regularities in the new software exporting nations' (for example, India, Pakistan, etc.) quest for prominence is the importance of diaspora entrepreneurship. The stories of the instrumental role played by successful non-resident Indians (NRIs) in the relatively short history of the Indian software and IT enabled services (IteS) industry is well documented in literature...
When it comes to open-source technology, there are three camps. Some companies are fully dedicated to open-source software. Others wouldn't dare stray from the commercial applications they know and trust. Still others are interested in integrating open source at some level -- so long as it doesn't require overhauling the entire network IT managers ...
Computex in Taiwan is the showcase for technology coming out of, and into, this country. Much like Comdex, it, and CeBIT in Europe, are the shows that have defined high technology throughout the world. The vendor battles here are no less dramatic than the vendor battles were at Comdex, and, strangely enough, they are often between and among the same vendors...
President Bush let it be known on April 14 of this year that he does not send e-mail -- not even to his twin daughters -- because he fears his "personal stuff" may be made public. His remarks were made during a discussion of whether his administration is being responsive to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act. "There has got to be a certain sense of privacy" he said to the American Society of Newspaper Editors...
Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) connections to the Internet provide business and personal users with near limitless computing convenience. However, unprotected wireless connections can be more damaging to corporate network security and user privacy than always-on cable connections without firewalls Security experts are warning wireless users about the lat...
Google today announced its latest salvo in the hot competition in the search landscape: a free online service intended to allow webmasters to automatically submit their Web pages to Google to be indexed in a bid to improve the results of online searches Google Sitemaps is a beta release and is designed to be a collaborative program between Google a...
Intel wound up a week of multi-core processor madness at Computex in Taiwan, fittingly, outlining its newest mobile chip technology: the dual-core "Yonah" processor and accompanying chipset and wireless module In addition to the dual-core technology, which has put Computex in the spotlight this week with desktop offerings from both Intel and rival ...
Virgin Mobile and BT Livetime announced a partnership yesterday to pilot live digital mobile TV. The duo will work with Microsoft, Sky, Argiva and GCap Media to do a four-month trial run over the DAB digital radio network The television service offers Virgin Mobile's customers access to live digital TV 24 hours a day, and features the UK's first mo...
Nokia has announced a service to allow prepaid subscribers to keep track of their balance and call expenses. The Nokia Prepaid Trackerautomatically displays details about the subscribers' account balance after each call or transaction Nokia said the feature is designed to offer convenience to this significant customer segment by eliminating the nee...
In a move likely to have reverberations across the Web, online poker site PartyGaming has filed for what could be one of the largest initial public offerings in the recent history of the London Stock Exchange PartyGaming, which is based in Gibraltar, said it will seek to stage its IPO by the end of June, with shareholders selling some 23 percent of...
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