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A Georgia woman has filed a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard over the company's use of chips to disable printer ink cartridges after a certain date The suit, filed in Santa Clara (California) Superior Court, seeks class-action status on behalf of anyone who has purchased an inkjet printer with smartchip technology in the United States since February...
The language of the business culture, or "corporate lingo," took a dramatic turn with the advent of the word "software." What changed is history. Now, once again, techie lingo is teasing our communication skills and our corporate understanding There are terms like BAM for "Business Activity Monitoring" and CEM for "Complex Event Management." What t...
The European Commission recently tolled the death knell for the EU Software Patent Directive, or more precisely, the "Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions." Like most Americans, I am fairly clueless about the EU political process, and I wouldn't presume to write about exactly how it was killed. But the decision may hav...
You move into a new neighborhood, and you need telephone services. Who should you call? In the past, your selection was limited to the local phone company or one of the long distance carriers. Recently, a third option emerged: your local cable television operator After years of talk about delivering voice services, cable operators are now aggressiv...
HP announced a line of new routers it says will aid security at thenetwork's edge and sell for half the price of offerings from Ciscoand other networking rivals The new ProCurve Networking products are the Secure Router 7000dl series and Access Controller Module software for the ProCurve Switch 5300xl. HP said that the new router will include a fir...
Targeting a sizable and fast-growing market niche that it says has largely been ignored by major carriers, Movida Communications said it had forged several partnerships to help it bring wireless services to the Hispanic community Miami, Florida-based Movida said it would work with the Cisneros Group, Sprint and Wal-Mart to provide and sell nationwi...
Intel has finally matched its foe AMD in delivering 64-bit silicon solutions to the market in the form of five new Pentium 4 processors. The market, however, may not be ready for the more powerful chips Intel said the new desktop chips -- a 3.73 GHz P4 Extreme Edition and four new 3.0-3.6 GHz P4s -- represented the latest in high-performance proces...
Leveraging its partnership with IBM, Opera announced a voice-enabled Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for home media yesterday. The software does away with remote controls and lets people interact with their DVD players, DVRs and digital TV set-top boxes The announcement signifies Opera's efforts to make inroads into the home media market with its We...
Google is facing criticism for a feature in the latest version of its browser toolbar that can add hyperlinks to Web pages, potentially giving the search engine giant powerful control over where surfers go on the Internet The feature, known as AutoLink, is being criticized by some bloggers, who see the tool being used by Google much in the way that...
Reports that Nokia has replaced 55,000 desktops running Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser in favor of Mozilla's Firefox at its Swedish operations are bogus, according to the company Nokia spokesperson Chantal Boeckman told LinuxInsider that "the IDG reporter got the information wrong. We have contacted the reporter to correct the situation...
Caution: Click-through agreements may be hazardous to your rights of privacyand free speech Those are the sentiments expressed in a white paper released by theElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as part of a campaign to raise consumerawareness of some of the dangerous terms found in End User LicensingAgreements (EULAs), commonly found on the Inter...
Two motorcycles collide, Ben Hur style, spilling four lads out across the roadway, slick with gray water. They pick themselves up, brush off their clothes, pull fenders and other peripherals back into place, then speed away. Not one harsh word is exchanged. Nor is there a single helmet among the lot of them Welcome to the old Saddar market area of ...
The advent of a new technology often requires building a whole new set of rules to govern its use. Occasionally, the technology's use easily falls under a set of rules already in place Either way, there is often a gap between the widespread use of the technology and the cementing of policies and procedures that will cover most circumstances under w...
In a matter of just a few years, open-source software has gone from the back room and skunk works to serious contender for corporate budget dollars No longer is open source just an academic and hobbyist pursuit. Major technology vendors have taken note of its evolution and want to ensure they have a piece in its future. One can now count numerous i...
This last month saw a number of dramatic changes, not the least of which was the involuntary departure of HP's CEO, Carly Fiorina, and the voluntary departure of her closest supporter, Alison Johnson, who was largely responsible for turning HP into a marketing powerhouse I'd like to relate those two exits at HP to something I noticed last week, whe...
Computer security, until now, was a matter of bolting on third-party hardware products or adding on software to screen out unauthorized users. Not so any more Keyboard-bound passwords, smart cards and dongles are becoming a thing of the past. These staples of the old school of computer security are as archaic as the small, single-toothed lock and k...
A partnership between publisher Random House and Vocel, amobile application start-up based in San Diego, is designed to deliver language lessons and videogame guides to mobile phone subscribers The agreement, announced today, gives Random House aminority interest in Vocel. Vocel gains the right to use Random House'sLiving Language and Prima Game br...
In the latest battle in a fierce war over intellectual property, the European Parliament yesterday rejected software patent legislation that some fear would result in overly broad patents on software ideas. The governing body sent the directive back to the European Commission for review and possible resubmission Backers of the measure -- which woul...
Britain has the dubious honor of being named the world's largest market for downloading pirated TV, according to Internet monitoring company Envisional. According to the firm, increased bandwidth, technological advances and a growing demand for early access to popular American TV shows is driving the negative trend High-quality, pirated versions of...
Not willing to give up its attempts to acquire the last large remaining long distance and corporate communications company, Qwest Communications said it would submit a revised bid for MCI in an effort to wrest the acquisition prize away from cross-country rival Verizon On Monday, Verizon announced it had reached a deal to acquire MCI for US$6.7 bil...
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