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I've been looking forward to publishing my first column for ECT News Network. After doing an interview with TechNewsWorld about the intersection of technology and music, I was invited to write a regular column on music, technology and related subjects In my opinion, there are lots of crossovers between the worlds of technology and music -- and not ...
Propose a technology that will stem the flow of unwanted e-mail spam, and the industry will definitely listen -- but if it's Microsoft that is doing the proposing, suspicion and fear follow that interest Such is the case with Microsoft's proposal for a caller ID system for e-mail that would diminish spammers' ability to fake or spoof the origin of ...
Oracle has reported third-quarter sales rose 9 percent year over year to US$2.5 billion while profits climbed 11 percent to $635 million. Both numbers were in line with analysts' estimates. The company also issued a positive outlook for the rest of 2004, a prediction that could help the stock market end a week-long slide. Oracle said new software ...
A new, national report by comScore Networks indicates broadband Internet access is ready to overtake dial-up access as the top online subscription service in major metro markets in the United States The study, released this week in the Reston, Virginia-based company's fourth-quarter market-share report, states that in many of those major markets, l...
Yahoo on Thursday announced an offering that will marry its instant messaging offering with British Telecommunications' BT Communicator service, creating a call management package that integrates PC-to-phone calling, Internet call waiting and directory lookup with Yahoo's Messenger service Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has been slow to catch ...
Online music store Napster announced this week a new cache-management technology that uses Linux, open standards and IBM services to provide its music service for universities, ISPs and businesses without impacting bandwidth or introducing security threats The application, dubbed "Super Peer," will use IBM eServer BladeCenter systems running Linux ...
A group of major technology players has announced an initiative to get a top-level domain (TLD) -- such as .com, .net and .org -- specifically for mobile sites to bridge the Internet and mobile worlds Microsoft, Nokia, Vodafone, HP, Orange, Samsung, Sun and the GSM Association are applying for the mobile domain from the Internet Corporation for Ass...
Designing death is not a simple matter. Consider the following. You spend hours, days, weeks playing in an online universe populated by characters from the Star Wars saga, developing your character's skills until you are a mighty hero. Then one day you take on one too many bad guys at once, and your beloved warrior walks into a laser blast and dies...
In a move that could threaten a key source of recent and future growth, Intel has said it will be forced to stop shipping some of its Centrino mobile computing processors to China because it cannot comply with that country's government-mandated standards Intel told customers in meetings this week that it will be unable to meet China's June 1st dead...
A measure aimed at countering product piracy of all sorts -- from digital music to ladies' handbags -- has produced a sour aftermath following its approval by the European Parliament this week Supporters as well as opponents had something critical to say about the compromise measure that appears to have more camel than thoroughbred in it....
What really are the most fundamental differences between Windows variants like 2003/XP and Unix variants like Linux? From a practical perspective, cost is an obvious differentiator, as are access to source and the ability to run outside the Intel processor environment. But it's possible to argue that those differences are neither real nor important...
Latin America, as commonly defined, extends from the U.S.-Mexico border in the north to Argentina's remote Tierra del Fuego peninsula in the south. Yet, although many Latin American countries share similar languages and cultural heritage, it would be a mistake to consider the region as a homogenous market. Latin America is characterized by great diversity and strong, pervasive feelings of national, cultural and ethnic identity. This is no less true when it comes to development of e-businesses and applications in the region...
Cisco Systems introduced new products Tuesday that advance the company's so-called "Self-Defending Network" strategy. In accordance with that strategy, these new hardware and software offerings are designed to improve enterprises' ability to protect and defend their networks at all points According to the company, its portfolio of new products work...
Microsoft is probably glad its latest monthly round of software patches is relatively mundane, with three separate holes in Outlook 2002, MSN Messenger and Windows Server 2000 service packs all rated as medium-level threats There was some concern that the Outlook 2002 hole -- addressed in an Office security update (Service Pack 3) -- actually might...
Last week, a U.S. court invalidated key telecommunications regulations created by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This is the third time the Commission's rules have been struck down, making it imperative that the Bush Administration act to fix the nation's telecommunications mess In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of ...
An alliance of leading Internet companies -- including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and EarthLink -- has filed a wave of lawsuits against "hard-core" spammers under the new CAN-SPAM law that took effect at the beginning of 2004 The companies said they have filed six lawsuits that name hundreds of alleged spammers as defendants under the law, which is form...
Law enforcement officials are moving forward with a controversial antiterrorism database on the state level as the federal government is expanding the amount of information collected and retained about private citizens This week, authorities disclosed that the state of Wisconsin had joined the Multistate Antiterrorism Information Exchange, known by...
Having to send someone from the IT department to a desktop every time there's a computer glitch is inefficient and uncomfortable both for challenged users and skilled tech-support workers. But desktops increasingly are being treated as servers. That is, they are expected to self-report issues, head off breakdowns and remain running without disrupting the network...
A group of Europe's largest semiconductor companies and research centers has announced a project called NanoCMOS that will push developments in semiconductor materials, processes, architecture and interconnection through use of nanotechnology Participants in the project include Infineon, Philips, STMicroelectronics and European research centers and...
After a rough start to the year, with serious security problems and European antitrust regulators aiming to separate Windows from the company's media player, Microsoft got a win this week as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rejected the patent claims of Eolas and the University of California The news also is good for Microsoft independe...
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