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Using e-mail for personal and business correspondence has become as commonplace today as the VCR and the office water cooler. All three items are often taken for granted. Consumers have come to expect certain constants when it comes to computing: antivirus and firewall software are must-have security tools and e-mail should be free The notion of fr...
Internet service provider EarthLink and South Korean mobile communications company SK Telecom today announced a joint venture to market wireless voice and data services in the U.S The company will be called SK-EarthLink, and EarthLink founder and director Sky Dayton will serve its chief executive. The US$440 million, 50-50 joint venture will offer ...
As the controversy over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks goes before the U.S. Supreme Court, the recording and film industries are enlisting celebrities to help make the case that network operators should be held liable for the illegal file sharing that occurs over their networks. The tech industry, meanwhile, fears that an adverse ruling might stifle innovation...
Speakeasy, a national broadband Internet service provider (ISP), said it will be the first to distribute a customized version of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser to its customers The development was immediately being called significant because it stands to open up an entirely new distribution channel to help get Firefox into the hands of us...
Searching for video content online may be a hard nut to crack, but that hasn't stopped fierce competitors Google and Yahoo from entering the fray, albeit in different fashions Search engines must consider both the difficulty of searching video using a written medium and the intellectual property rights of the content owners....
Microsoft announced today that it will combat piracy of its flagship product by requiring Windows users to verify that their copy of the operating system is genuine in order to receive timely updates and security fixes. The new initiative, called Windows Genuine Advantage, will phase in beginning in February Microsoft believes the best way to fight...
Sun Microsystems officially started down the path to an open-source version of Solaris on Tuesday with a partial release of source code which ultimately will be OpenSolaris. Sun also launched OpenSolaris.org as a community site for the project Being released under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), which was reviewed and appro...
For any corporation with plans to hit the markets with an IPO in 2005 or beyond, here are some key points Just as how your latest technology and other corporate assets are essential to develop great financials for a potential IPO, your corporate image and brand name recognition are equally important to get the word out in the marketplace. Both are ...
During his daily commute into Manhattan from Long Island, George Miller's notebook computer can connect to dozens of networks without his even realizing it. Indeed, as Miller's train weaves and winds its way into the city, his notebook computer discovers dozens of unsecured wireless networks emitting signals from banks, retail stores, hospitals and homes...
As part of a search industry move toward multi-media, Google today launched a new service that enables users to search the content of television programs Google will let people search for text in closed-captioning of television shows on PBS, the NBA, Fox News and C-SPAN, among others. The news comes a day after Yahoo said it would make the video se...
Security software giant Symantec -- which has grown to cover a wider range of security solutions with acquisitions and partnerships -- this week rolled out two e-mail security appliances featuring anti-spam, antivirus and e-mail firewall The company said Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series appliances -- two different models aimed at organizations of...
Rumors that Google is actively developing its own browser -- talk that Google downplayed last fall -- have gained new life as the leading search engine hired the engineer most responsible for development of the Firefox browser Ben Goodger, the lead programmer of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox, which has taken the browser market by storm and becom...
If ignorance is bliss, then that would explain why so many Internet users are happy with the online search experience. A new survey by Pew Internet & American Life shows that while users are extremely satisfied with search engines, they are also strikingly unaware of which results are paid listings Analysts said search engines will be forced to mak...
IBM has agreed to pay US$182 million in cash to acquire hosted applications firm Corio in a move aimed at strengthening Big Blue's line of application services The deal gives IBM control of Corio's Applications on Demand platform, which targets midsized businesses that need applications quickly but do not want to run them on their own networks....
Popular style guides such as Strunk and White's 1918 classic The Elements of Style and the original 1906 Chicago Manual of Style were published before the advent of computers or e-mail. As such, their rules are not always relevant to the exigencies of e-commerce and electronic business communications Updated style guidance is needed for the era of ...
You can possess a business card that says you're the boss, or be promoted to a position that gives you control and authority over other people, but that doesn't necessarily make you a leader The definition of a true leader is someone who gets the job done, along with the efforts of other people who gladly and confidently follow. Notice that there a...
Every day, vendors are working to deliver faster microprocessors that work with more memory. Meanwhile, software suppliers are designing more sophisticated applications that work with data, voice, and recently even video information As higher volumes of data are generated, a need for faster local area networks arises. A few years ago, in anticipati...
Travelzoo, which came to be on the strength of dot-com promotional blitz that included stock giveaways and more recently became a rising star among e-commerce stocks, today said the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating stock market activity by some employees for possible insider trading violations The announcement of the SEC pr...
Texas Instruments and Nokia announced today that a new single-chip mobile phone solution will take cutting-edge chips to the volume market of simple mobile phones Delivering on a promise to provide a single processor with digital baseband, memory, logic, radio frequency, power management and analog functions, TI said its Digital RF Processor (DRP) ...
Microsoft today said it will not appeal a European Union court order to immediately implement antitrust sanctions. The defeat forces the company to remove its Media Player and video software from its Windows platform in the 25-nation block and to give interoperability information to rivals Microsoft lost a bid to delay sanctions imposed by the Euro...
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