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European antitrust regulators said they will conduct an in-depth review of the proposed acquisition of digital rights management company Contentguard by Microsoft and Time Warner The European Commission said Wednesday it would proceed to a second-phase investigation of the deal, which was announced in April. Under that agreement, the two companies ...
UK security firm Sophos is warning computer users of a new worm with the ability to take over computers and view and capture images of victims through their own Web cameras. The worm, known as W32 Rbot-GR, spreads through network shares as opposed to e-mail, and installs what is known as a backdoor Trojan horse While the worm was not widespread, it...
The scene opens. It's Google's day. The festivities are full steam ahead, the skateboarding mathematicians are jumping for joy and have thrown away their used hockey sticks while sipping champagne. They are now calculating the tractions and the centrifugal forces of their new Ferraris Looking from a wider perspective, beyond the Google IPO, it seem...
P2P operators aren't responsible for their users' online file-swapping activities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled in the landmark MGM v. Grokster decision Still, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) boss Mitch Bainwol says, "This decision does nothing to absolve these businesses from their responsibility as corporat...
Oil prices continued to slide well below recent record levels Tuesday, but once again the stock market seemed to shrug in reaction Crude futures fell for the third straight day....
Nearly three-quarters of IT managers are planning to deploy the Windows XP Service Pack 2 update to their systems, research shows Some 63 percent of UK IT managers are looking to install SP2 before the end of the year, according to a survey conducted by LanDesk Software....
A fully interactive, Web-based three-day conference and expo set for November is designed to connect contact center professionals with developers of IP technology and industry experts in what the promoters say is the first-ever virtual event of its kind for call centers The IP ONLINE Conference and Exhibition, running November 9 through November 11...
RealNetworks today announced that the company sold more than one million songs in the first week of its "Freedom of Choice" campaign The combination of the ongoing 49-cent-per-song RealPlayer Music Store promotion and a simultaneous promotion of Rhapsody resulted in the highest number of songs sold in a week by RealNetworks and the busiest week eve...
Eastman Kodak has signed an agreement to purchase National Semiconductor's imaging business unit, which develops and manufactures metal oxide semiconductor image sensor (CIS) devices. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed As part of this agreement, Kodak will acquire certain assets, including intellectual property and equipment, and plans to hi...
Cisco Systems announced an agreement to acquire privately held P-Cube of Sunnyvale, California P-Cube is a developer of Internet service control platforms designed to help service providers identify subscribers, classify applications, improve service performance and charge for multiple IP services without costly infrastructure upgrades....
Vonage, a broadband phone company, has teamed with Netgear to develop a suite of broadband telephony devices. These devices will incorporate the latest version of Texas Instruments' Voice over IP (VoIP) and wireless LAN chipsets First available will be a VoIP-enabled 802.11g wireless router followed by a wired two-port telephone router. These produ...
Linux vendors have issued patches to address vulnerability in the Qt, a software toolkit that simplifies writing and maintaining GUI applications for the X Window system The flaw was unveiled by security researcher Chris Evans, who uncovered a heap overflow in the BMP image decoder in Qt versions prior to 3.3.3. Flaws were also discovered in prior ...
Intel cut the prices of many of its most popular semiconductors, a move that might be designed to help clear the way for the company's next generation of chips The price cuts, which were announced on the company's Web site, were being billed as part of the normal course of doing business and not as a reaction to rising inventories that many analyst...
It's as jarring as former First Lady Nancy Reagan saying yes to drugs The maker of the code hackers love to crack -- Macrovision -- is touting the sharing and copying features of the next version of its CDS-300 copy-protection scheme when it's released in this year's fourth quarter....
Lawyers and programmers have a lot in common. Programmers write code and lawyers write legal documents. Both consider the issues, generate written work product, check it for bugs and then release the product. Both professions rely on libraries to avoid reinventing each aspect of the product There are many other similarities. Like programmers, lawye...
Micro marketing, one-to-one marketing, niche marketing. Whatever buzzwords are used to define it, the trend driving businesses today and tomorrow is the need to profitably serve smaller and smaller audiences This focus on knowing thy customer on a one-to-one basis is fueled by advances in technology, global competition and the Internet. It also has...
Recent events in Nepal could spill over into India and hurt technology and financial firms in the United States and UK The United States finds itself in a dilemma, with the policies of the previous two U.S. administrations serving less to promote security or democracy in the region and more to incite Maoist rebels to attack U.S. interests in India....
AT&T today announced that Best Buy will be among the first national retailers to offer AT&T's residential Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service, called the AT&T CallVantage Service, in its 628 stores nationwide and online at bestbuy.com AT&T CallVantage Service will be available in Best Buy stores beginning this fall. According to the companies, Best ...
AT&T today announced that Best Buy will be among the first national retailers to offer AT&T's residential Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service, called the AT&T CallVantage Service, in its 628 stores nationwide and online at bestbuy.com AT&T CallVantage Service will be available in Best Buy stores beginning this fall. According to the companies, Best ...
AT&T today announced that Best Buy will be among the first national retailers to offer AT&T's residential Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service, called the AT&T CallVantage Service, in its 628 stores nationwide and online at bestbuy.com AT&T CallVantage Service will be available in Best Buy stores beginning this fall. According to the companies, Best ...
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