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The punches are starting to fly fast as Yahoo and Carl Icahn duke it out over the company's future. Yahoo shot down a new offer by Microsoft over the weekend to buy the search portion of its business and leave the remaining pieces under Icahn's control. Now, Icahn and the current board of directors are in a heated war of words over who has the shareholders' best interests in mind.
Palm on Monday launched the latest version of its Treo smartphone, the 800w, on the Sprint network. Aimed at business users, the digital assistant and mobile phone offers access to e-mail, voice calls and other forms of messaging.
Since the dawn of video games, drug use has had its place. Recently, however, more games are including drug paraphernalia and references. "Elder Scrolls: Oblivion" has its stuttering, jittery skooma addicts. "Haze" has its soldiers pumped up with nectar to enhance their combat abilities. "Grand Theft Auto 4" has Jacob, a Rastafarian who is consta...
Part 1 of this two-part series examined the effects phishing can have on a business as phishers target smaller businesses. Part 2 looks at its impact on Web users If one were to look for sure bets in the online world, phishing would be right up there on the growing list of security concerns. The art of phishing has been a remarkable study in techno...
Part 1 of this two-part series examined the real estate industry's emerging adoption of CRM tools, thanks largely to the newfound popularity of on-demand applications As more buyers and sellers look to the Web and as other parties in the real estate value chain move to Web-enabled business software platforms, the real estate industry has begun to e...
Sometimes it's the little things that can cause you to step back and rethink how you look at a company. For much of this decade Microsoft has been the "evil empire" with Apple, Linux and Google on the side of the Force (sorry for the "Star Wars" metaphor) With Microsoft actually doing some positive creative things for once, Apple's decision to rais...
A Kmart advertising circular is a strong indication that the rumors about a possible price cut for the Xbox 360 might be right. The discount chain's sales ad for the week of July 13 lists a US$299 price for the 20 GB Xbox 360. It represents a $50 decrease from the $349 Amazon.com lists as the price for the console When asked to confirm the price dr...
Two more Internet service providers (ISPs) have joined New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's crusade to block access to online child pornography at a key distribution source. AOL and AT&T have joined ISPs Verizon, Sprint Nextel and Time Warner Cable in this agreement, in which they cut off server access to Web sites that contain child por...
Advocates of Net neutrality are preparing to chalk up their first victory following press reports that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has recommended prohibiting cable giant Comcast from blocking Web traffic between peer-to-peer networks The recommendation, which still requires action from the full commission, could be prec...
Verizon Wireless has agreed to a US$21 million payout to settle lawsuits alleging that the wireless carrier's early termination fees (ETFs) were too high and unfair to consumers While Verizon has not admitted any wrongdoing in the case, the multi-million dollar settlement covers not only a California-based class action lawsuit but a variety of case...
The secret to affordable fuel-free energy may lie in some pretty-looking glass. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to use dye-colored glass to harness clean and renewable energy -- and to do it in a practical and cost-effective way The research, published in Friday's Science journal, builds off ideas first test...
Part 1 of this two-part series covers the potential problems Web users can experience when information about them is posted online So, you've got an online image control crisis. Now what?...
Americans are focused more than ever on the price of oil. After all, gasoline is at an all-time high; airline prices have gone up because of the extra costs of fuel; and even the cost of home delivery of a pizza has gone up -- all because of rising oil prices However, although Americans are presently being hit in their pocketbooks because of rising...
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are demanding the same level of quality and functionality for their IT Web infrastructure as larger enterprise IT organizations. Many SMB organizations are implementing their own application delivery optimization solutions; however, others prefer to outsource their application delivery optimization infrastructure to managed hosting providers (MHPs). ...
More than 200 scientists and longevity activists gathered at UCLA recently to discuss advancements in repairing humans. New technology is making it possible to imagine a world with ever greater life spans, but old world issues pervaded the discussions The Methuselah Foundation's Aubrey de Grey organized the event and kicked it off with a theoretica...
President George Bush has signed into law a measure that overhauls wiretapping rules and grants immunity to telecom companies that cooperated with a secret warrantless wiretap program. The administration established the spying operation after Sept. 11 to gain greater flexibility in eavesdropping on suspected terrorists' conversations. The bill add...
MTI Micro and NeoSolar, a portable device manufacturer known in some markets as "Wibrain," announced a deal Thursday to develop fuel cells for NeoSolar's portable devices including its ultra mobile personal computers (UMPC). The two companies will use MTI Micro's Mobion fuel cell technology to ultimately build external Mobion power sources such as...
Its stock price is in free fall and it still faces a potential takeover led by rogue investor Carl Icahn. However, Yahoo can still fire shots across the digital bows of Google and Microsoft; it is inviting third-party developers to use its search technology so they can build their own search engines Yahoo calls the new strategy "BOSS," which stands...
Earlier this year, a careless employee at a Washington, D.C., area investment firm learned a painful lesson: Sharing files through peer-to-peer Web sites like LimeWire can easily expose internal data in a corporate network. In this case, the employee worked for Wagner Resource Group, which counts several politically connected people, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, among its clients.
A new analysis of some very old rocks is reshaping our understanding of the moon. Scientists used modern techniques to search for tiny traces of hydrogen in a set of lunar sand samples taken by Apollo astronauts in the '70s. The systems used in the study were able to break down the rocks 10 times more effectively than any past techniques. The find...
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