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Time Warner's long-suffering Internet division, AOL, is showing signs that it can stem the tide of customer defections and may be positioned for a turnaround. AOL, which has gone through several rounds of layoffs, improved its bottom-line results in the first quarter, posting income of US$277 million, up from $194 million in the year-ago period, t...
It may be coming half a decade late, but an independent software seller is now offering a service pack for Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), which Microsoft itself never got around to doing. And just as Alper Coskun released his own "unofficial" service pack for the aging but well-liked Microsoft operating system, the software giant indicated it wou...
Google has ended the suspense -- for now -- by filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise as much as US$2.7 billion through an initial public offering of stock. But, like many things the search-engine company has done, the IPO will have its share of twists. Mountain View, California-based Google said it will sell all of its s...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) this week brought out another round of copyright infringement cases, including lawsuits against individuals at 14 U.S. universities. The civil actions targeted 477 alleged file-sharers, including 69 individuals allegedly using university networks to distribute copyrighted sound recordings illegally on unauthorized peer-to-peer services.
Tired of paying 99 cents a track for your music downloads? Try paying for them by the megabyte An online store based in Moscow is selling music downloads by popular artists like Norah Jones, Usher, Prince, Outkast and scores of others for 1 to 2 cents per megabyte of song....
An appeals brief filed by lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission argues that a legal decision earlier this year by an administrative law judge favoring Rambus was incorrect, and that the chip products maker may gain as much as US$3 billion in illicit royalties as a result of its allegedly fraudulent business practices "The force of the deceptivel...
In the first case brought under the CAN-SPAM Act that took effect January 1st, U.S. federal officials have charged four men from suburban Detroit, Michigan, with bombarding consumers with unwanted e-mail messages. Prosecutors alleged the men sent more than a million messages attempting to sell bogus diet products and other items. Federal regulator...
In mid-March, BJ's Wholesale Club announced it was investigating a security breach that involved theft of credit card information from its computer network. Company officials ordered an exhaustive review of the retail outlet's state-of-the-industry technology systems with a leading computer security firm. Following that review, BJ's ruled out the ...
In my recent commentary on the role dishonest and incompetent IT textbooks play in education [Paul Murphy, "Eight IT Textbooks, 4,031 Pages, 17 Mentions of Linux," LinuxInsider, April 2, 2004], I used the acronym PHB (pointy-haired boss) to refer to people who just don't get it with respect to systems. Unfortunately, that also demonstrated that I don't get the global nature of the LinuxInsider readership, because I didn't stop to think that not everybody gets the Dilbert cartoons and so a lot of people wouldn't grok the reference...
As more people choose to pay bills online rather than shelling out for stamps and envelopes, a quiet battle is taking place behind the scenes: Retail banks are squaring off against companies that bill consumers directly, such as credit-card firms and utility companies This skirmish for consumer attention is not simply a matter of pride for banks th...
With Web services bringing together an array of different users, applications and services, their interactions must be choreographed, so the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the first in a series of drafts for the Web Services Choreography Description Language, Version 1.0 (WS-CDL) The consortium, created to leverage the Web through co...
The Open Park Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, launched the first public outdoor wireless Internet hotspot in the nation's capital today. The free service provides coverage in front of the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and the Capitol Visitors Center site. The Capitol Hill hotspot is the initial step in Open Park's plan to provide free public wireless Internet service across the National Mall...
In a bid to boost sagging demand for its devices, palmOne has launched two new products in its popular Zire line of handheld computers: a lower-end model designed to appeal to price-conscious consumers and a higher-end model with multimedia and Bluetooth wireless functions. The Palm Zire 31 is designed to be a step up from the Zire 21, which Palm ...
A new worm materialized yesterday in the U.S. Pacific region and was continuing a slow circulation across the U.S. mainland last night in search of compromised computer systems VeriSign engineers have been tracking increased Internet traffic on customers' computer systems around the country since April 16th. The increase in suspicious activity thro...
Tokyo-based Turbolinux this week disclosed that it has developed a new Linux operating system for home PC users -- the Turbolinux 10F Turbolinux is said to be the best-selling Linux distributor in the Asia-Pacific region....
The chief executive of Yahoo has announced that his company is positioned to compete with main rival Google even if that company pulls off its much-anticipated blockbuster public offering CEO Terry Semel said search is expanding into new areas, opening up enough opportunities for both companies to co-exist in the space....
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has kept Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology free from the same regulatory requirements and fees charged to traditional circuit-switched telephone carriers, but the agency also has been considering how much VoIP purveyors must pay for use of local exchange networks In a recent interview, Yankee...
UK residents volunteering their faces, irises and fingerprints for a pilot passport program are previewing what may become mandatory for all of England if draft legislation is enacted. The ID-card approach is being promoted by the country's Home Secretary, David Blunkett, and is touted as the key to the United Kingdom's future and as a defense against terrorism, fraud and identity theft...
Sales growth was slower than expected -- and inflated by the depressed dollar overseas -- at IBM last quarter. So Big Blue is reorganizing a bit "IBM today is a company ready to focus more on opportunities than on threats," said IBM chairman and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano in a speech earlier today at the company's 2004 annual stockholders meeting in P...
Morgan Stanley has signed a US$575 million contract with IBM to employ utility computing for its Individual Investor Group and Discover Financial Services John Hancock, Equifax and ING also recently have signed deals for IBM's on-demand services, but Morgan Stanley's contract is different. Rather than just paying for computing power it uses, the in...
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