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YouTube is planning to test new technology that will help it identify copyrighted video content that has been uploaded onto the site illegally, according to reports. In tests with Time Warner and the Walt Disney Co., the video-sharing site will assess software developed by engineers at its parent co...
Google Friday unveiled Google Calendar Gallery, a platform that allows one-click importing to Google Calendars of event and listing content found on other Web sites. Google has always envisioned Google Calendar to be capable of easing the hassle normally associated with calendar management, the comp...
If there's one thing Windows users share -- other than their conflicted emotions toward Microsoft -- it's an insatiable yearning to boost the performance of their computers. Windows, despite all its warts, gives them a dizzying number of ways to to do that -- with the right tools. Such a tool is Cac...
Last week, history was made. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were physically on stage together -- for just the second time ever -- in what many have described as something of a love fest, with Bill repeatedly praising the Mac. Kind of makes you wonder what the two of them could have done as close partners...
A new installment of Mozilla's sterling e-mail program, Thunderbird, has been released, and while this new variant doesn't blow the doors off its predecessor, version 1.5, it has some tantalizing enhancements that spurred me to upgrade to the new edition without hesitation. A major change in the app...
Barracuda Networks has added advanced reporting capabilities to its Barracuda Web Filter appliance, the company announced Wednesday. The new in-depth reports provide network administrators deeper visibility into corporate Web usage, enabling better management and assignment of bandwidth. "The applia...
Windows Vista is selling faster than any of its predecessors and exceeding Microsoft's own expectations, Chairman Bill Gates said as he kicked off the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday. One hundred days after Vista launched in January, the latest version of Win...
Microsoft will literally place its stamp on a new wave of qualified mobile phones that are designed to be compatible with its main communications products. The software giant unveiled 15 phones made by a variety of vendors including Samsung, LG-Nortel, NEC, Plantronics, Asus, GN, Polycon, Tatung and...
Microsoft has decided to slash several key features from its Windows Server virtualization software, code-named "Viridian," in an effort to meet quality goals and a release deadline. The new hypervisor-based virtualization technology, available as part of Windows Server "Longhorn," will ship without...
Veteran users will barely recognize Microsoft Word 2007 as their venerable word processor of choice. That can be good or bad, depending on how you've used Word in the past. If you're a mechanic and loved tinkering with the host of customizable features in the older versions of Word, you'll very like...
After more than two years of testing, Microsoft is launching Windows Live Hotmail, the successor to MSN Hotmail, making it available in 36 languages across the world. The software giant has closed the public testing period and has started the process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its W...
Adobe Systems created a media tsunami earlier this month when it released its Creative Suite 3, a two-year project designed to roll all the company's formidable software packages for creative types into an integrated monolith. Needless to say, since the package costs more than $1,000, it isn't somet...
When Microsoft rolled out its Silverlight application platform this week, it threw down the proverbial gauntlet, so to speak, at longtime rival Adobe, whose Flash product has thus far been the dominant interactive content creation tool on the market. The availability of Silverlight will undoubtedly ...
Microsoft released last week details about its SecPAL project to encourage collaboration from the grid computing community on methods for greater security and access controls. Microsoft developed SecPAL, or Security Policy Assertion Language, as a research project to develop a language for expressin...
Microsoft has released the first publicly available beta of its next-generation Windows server operating system, code-named "Longhorn." Longhorn Beta 3, the first feature-complete version of the product, builds on Windows Server 2003 by addressing the automation of daily management tasks, enhanced s...