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While touting speed and convenience for credit card users, JP Morgan Chase & Co.'s Chase Bank is also causing some concern among security experts with its "blink" technology announced this week, which will allow contactless credit card purchases with the consumer's wave of the card at convenience stores and other establishments Chase said its Visa ...
America Online may have hit on the perfect way to get the name Netscape back into the midst of the browser wars with Netscape 8.0, unveiled today. At least one analyst has said that Web users should seriously consider switching to the browser, which has been in public beta testing since March "In some ways this is the most innovative thing to come ...
Wal-Mart and Netflix have struck an agreement that calls for the retail giant to bow out of the online DVD rental business, a potentially huge victory for Netflix, but one that might only forestall the inevitable decline of the rental business amid the rise of video-on-demand Under the agreement, Netflix will promote DVD sales at Wal-Mart. In excha...
The president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. put his foot down today, leaving it up to Toshiba to yield its position in discussions over a unified format for next-generation DVD technology Kunio Nakamura said his company -- and its partner Sony -- won't back down. The powerful duo supports Blu-ray. Toshiba supports HD-DVD, a newer DVD tech...
America Online today announced the launch of the all-new Netscape 8.0 browser. The new version automatically adjusts safety and security settings to help protect users from phishers and other online exploits as they explore the Web Based on Firefox 1.0.3, Netscape 8.0 seamlessly and automatically switches between the rendering engines used by the F...
In the highly competitive cellular marketplace, carriers are always on the lookout for an edge, a way to differentiate their services from their competitors' offerings. Somewhat surprisingly, for more than a decade, Nextel has been able to use one enhanced service, Push-to-Talk (PTT), not only as a differentiator but also as a way to prop up its revenue and margins. That may soon change, however, as other carriers are now poised to deliver similar services...
Microsoft has allegedly stolen technology developed by a Guatemalan inventor. The technology in question is designed to link spreadsheet data between two of Microsoft's programs Plaintiff lawyers delivered opening statements in a jury trial that started on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Central California....
Oracle announced it's working to allow developers to use the open source PHP scripting language to work with its 10g database The company and Zend, which was founded by the writers of PHP, will release Zend Core for Oracle some time in the third quarter. The scripting engine is designed to ease the development of PHP applications in Oracle....
Not to be left out of the furious technology tussle that has Sony and Microsoft gaming over their next-generation consoles, Nintendo touted the deep game support and backward compatibility of its own Revolution console this week While Microsoft and Sony have touted improved power and graphics in their Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 -- which have transf...
In a bid to beef up its instant messaging product and provide users with another reason to make it their Web portal of choice, Yahoo has rolled out an upgraded version of its Yahoo Messenger tool that features enhanced PC calling services Yahoo launched what it's calling a "public beta" of its upgraded messaging platform, citing a number of enhance...
EMC this week launched its network storage virtualization product, Invista. Analysts said the technology validates the concept of intelligent storage area network (SAN) on switch platforms Network storage virtualization provides for the creation of "virtual volumes" within the storage network, forming a dynamic environment in which physical storage...
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down some states' regulations limiting out-of-state shipments of wine. The ruling could help spur some e-commerce sales of wine, at least among individual vineyards, which might gain the right to sell directly to individuals However, such sales are a small fraction of the overall market for wine, by ...
Everyone has heard the expression, "You get what you pay for." It suggests that the functionality of something is directly proportional to its price. But that rule of thumb is being turned on its head by open-source software Open-source software is free, but it differs from "freeware" in some major respects....
Digital voice recorders don't have the flashy visibility of their music-playing brethren, but their utility can't be denied Granted, some digital music players include recording in their repertoire and others can accommodate it with optional add-ons, but for the most part, recording plays second fiddle to playing tunes....
Google rolled out yet another search product today, turning its focus back to corporate users again as it unveiled an enterprise version of its desktop search tool, one that features enhanced security and other features Google Desktop Search for Enterprise creates a single interface from which a business user can search the Web with Google, as well...
Following a week of Microsoft-MTV multimedia blitz on the next-generation Xbox 360 gaming console, Sony today sought the spotlight for its competing PlayStation 3 in advance of the E3 Conference in Los Angeles this week Sony exposed more of the new machine -- powered by the "Cell" processor designed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba -- touting its advanced ...
Pushing the boundaries of Internet video, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), has announced plans to test a program that would make full-length versions of its television shows available for download The TV programs, which would be available free of charge, would be protected with digital rights management (DRM) software that enables a user to ...
IBM and Red Hat today announced a Solaris-to-Linux server migration program designed to grab market share from Sun Microsystems. The "Solaris to Linux Migration Factory" and additional solutions and support offerings are designed to help customers migrate from Solaris to multi-platform Linux servers The service includes a pre-funded, pre-sales migr...
America Online today invited developers to build AOL Instant Messenger or its ICQ instant messaging service right into their games. The company released AOL Messaging Software Development Kit (SDK), which contains the tools necessary to do so AOL last week announced it would start offering free Web mail to entice more users and steer away from its ...
Hoping to spur wider use of mobile data services, especially among its key business customers, Verizon has rolled out support for a new high-end smartphone model and lowered the fees it charges enterprises to use hand-held devices to retrieve e-mail and perform other remote tasks Verizon said it would offer its NationalAccess plan for US$59.99 per ...
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