- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
Illegal file-sharing through peer-to-peer networks continues to be a problem for copyright owners despite efforts by various industry groups and court rulings. However, recent developments might provide hope for copyright owners as zealous prosecution of users by the entertainment industry across the globe might be providing the proper deterrence T...
The theory goes that each side of the brain controls a distinct mode of thinking: holistic and synthesizing on the right and logical and sequential on the left. Many people believe that they lean to one side or the other in their approach to learning and doing Now help is on the way for right-brained thinkers who must make sense of CRM systems -- ...
The open-source KDE Project announced yesterday the release of its K Desktop Environment 3.4. The latest release, which has been in development for more than a year, includes accessibility features the organization says will be a boon for partially sighted and speech-impaired users KDE 3.4 includes an advanced KDE text-to-speech framework, which in...
Novell's chief technology officer, Alan Nugent, has left the company, LinuxInsider has learned "Alan has left Novell to pursue other interests. We appreciate the work he's done for us and wish him well," Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry told LinuxInsider. "The folks that were reporting into Alan, a fairly small team, will now report into the senior e...
Motorola and Acer are among more than a dozen commercial software and appliance products vendors that have been accused of misusing software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Thirteen companies received an open warning letter at the CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany, last week Harold Welte, free software developer and founder...
RIM announced today that it has settled a years-long patent fight by agreeing to pay US$450 million to NTP, a U.S. patent-holding company. In exchange, RIM will be allowed to continue operating its BlackBerry wireless business NTP sued RIM, a Canadian company, for infringing on 16 patents for radio frequency wireless communications in electronic ma...
As MP3 players revolutionize the portable music device landscape, video download services and device makers are hoping the digital transition will spread from audio to visual presentations. A pair of announcements today from CinemaNow and MediaPass Network set the stage for what content providers and device manufacturers are hoping will become another niche market in the mobile arena...
The name IBM is the world's most distinct and valuable corporate identity. Its three letters, parked in this unique random arrangement, are worth many billions of dollars. Meanwhile, Lenovo of China is the new owner of IBM PC and will also use the IBM name for the next five years, while IBM will use its identity for higher-end technology and consulting services. How will all this work?...
It has become as common for many folks as putting on their socks and shoes: Almost instinctively, they put their cell phones into their pockets, and then later in the day hold them close to their ears to talk with friends, family, or co-workers. Cell phone users, who number 150 million in the United States, believe their actions are innocuous, but there is a group of scientists and vendors who think otherwise...
Regulators in Europe have cleared the way for Microsoft and Time Warner to acquire a content-protection company that could accelerate the adoption of digital rights management, reduce software piracy and make it easier for content owners to distribute movies and music on the Internet The European Commission dropped its objections to the acquisition...
After more than doubling last year, portable digital music player sales are set for 57 percent growth in 2005, according to results of a global survey released today. Market research group iSuppli said shipments of MP3 music players rose by 116 percent in 2004 and will expand to 132 million units in 2009 from 36.8 million in 2004 Inside Digital Med...
Computer users who suffer from hand tremors often find it difficult tonegotiate a computer because shaking disturbs the smooth flow of the mouse.IBM today announced that its researchers had developed an Assistive MouseAdapter that compensates for the involuntary motion and allows normal mouseuse The company has licensed the technology to a small Br...
More than 60 percent of Americans now subscribe to wireless calling plans as the cell phone industry continues to post dramatic growth and readies for the next generation of wireless services, according to new data from an industry association CTIA, the wireless industry association, said in its semi-annual industry survey that wireless subscriptio...
Novell is on the move with its Linux enterprise strategy with a series of announcements that began last week with the release of its Open Enterprise Server (OES) product. The company has since released details about its ZENworks 7 Linux management line, and several other vendors are also launching software to support Novell's Netware platform It al...
What infectious disease killed more adults and young people around the globe at the end of the 20th century than any other? What resurgent disease has become resistant to each new drug developed since the discovery of streptomycin in 1944? What disease kills one third of all people who die with AIDS? The answer is tuberculosis, also called TB, cons...
The debate over software patents is getting quite dramatic. For some, more than just lines of code are at stake. Rather, it is nothing less than freedom itself. As in the apocalyptic "Lord of the Rings trilogy," the armies prepare for war. The battle cry from Free Software Foundation Europe sounds: "Join the Fellowship and protect your freedom!"...
With a landmark Supreme Court hearing on online file sharing slated for March 29, Hollywood is stepping up its multimillion-dollar, international PR blitz to keep peer-to-peer networks in the public eye and to characterize men, women and children who share music and other files online as hardened criminals In the U.S., nearly 10,000 people have bee...
Both Yahoo and America Online have struck deals with Research in Motion, the maker of the hugely popular BlackBerry hand-held, to put their respective versions of instant messenger software on the devices Research in Motion announced pacts with both companies today, saying that devices integrated with the chatting software would be available in com...
America Online's Instant Messenger (AIM) is getting lots of press lately, but not for the reasons the Internet Service Provider had hoped when it announced its partnership with popular Web sites late last month AOL's updated privacy policy is under public scrutiny. The online giant updated its Terms of Service for AIM last year, but many have claim...
The Federal Trade Commission has barred an operation that offered bogus spyware detection scans. The free scanner "detected" spyware whether it was present on the user's computer or not in an underhanded attempt to peddle its non-working anti-spyware software, according to the government agency The U.S. District court has barred MaxTheater, the Spo...
Loading ...
