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Google on Thursday released an enhanced version of Gmail for Mobile Devices, a free Java-based application that allows users to access their Gmail via a cell phone. The interface looks and feels like Web-based Gmail, but with features that are optimized for handheld devices. "We realize the role mo...
A struggle is taking place between frequent business travelers and hotels over high-speed Internet access, with guests demanding free access and hotels trying to recoup their costs. Hotels generally do not employ full-time IT staff, choosing instead to outsource the task of connecting and supporting...
You didn't have to be at the meet and greet event this summer when Virginia Senate hopeful George Allen referred to his opponent's volunteer -- who was present in the crowd video taping the speech -- as "macaca," a remark perceived as a racial slur against the Fairfax, Va., native of Indian descent....
Microsoft has released Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP. Besides offering such incremental improvements as better sync and search capabilities, this latest download is the first with URGE -- MTV Networks' digital music center -- directly embedded into the application as a default setting. This...
MySpace.com on Monday said it has licensed technology to block unauthorized copyrighted music audio recordings from being posted on its site. Like YouTube and other social networking sites, MySpace is feeling the pressure from major record labels and Hollywood studios to stem the tide of copyright i...
Unrestricted access from the office to personal Web-based e-mail can pose security risks to businesses, but the practice is being largely ignored, according to a survey released by a security firm this week. According to a poll taken at the Internet security monitoring portal of UK-based Marshal, 48...
Microsoft is making greater portions of its Sender ID framework, a security standard designed to ensure that e-mails come from legitimate sources, available under its Open Specification Promise program. At one time, the standard -- which is used alone or in combination with others by most of the ma...
Despite the multiple millions of dollars being poured into its development, Internet Protocol Television is still not an eminent threat to old fashioned cable -- but it is edging closer to "prime-time" status. Microsoft is billing its TV IPTV Edition as "better TV, not 'me too' TV." Nortel, Cisco an...
Sling Media on Tuesday announced a partnership with smartphone operating system developer Symbian to bring mobile TV to consumers. Sling Media will deliver a version of its SlingPlayer Mobile software application for the Symbian OS in select European and Asian countries during the fourth quarter of ...
After years of waiting, consumers on Wednesday finally got the chance to download a new version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The software giant released Windows IE 7 for Windows XP, the latest version of the market-leading browser, with plenty of promises. The browser comes with the pledge of g...
Researchers at Stanford University have discovered what they say is more evidence that compulsive use of the Internet may be more than just a bad habit. "Potential markers of problematic Internet use seem present in a sizable proportion of adults," the researchers concluded in an article published i...
Home networks have become relatively commonplace and now are following a trend similar to one found in business networks: creating ways to fulfill a need for higher speed. Because users are now working with more high bandwidth video transmissions, they are on the lookout for new network options to s...
Jeff Taylor is at it again. The Monster.com founder raised US$10 million in venture capital from General Catalyst Partners and Sequoia Capital to launch Eons, a 50-plus-targeted media company that he hopes will inspire a generation of Baby Boomers and seniors to live the biggest life possible. Taylo...
In the recent movie "Thank You for Smoking," a tobacco lobbyist comes under fire for working to protect people's right to smoke. A similar movie could be made about gambling and the villain would be Representative Bob Goodlatte. The Virginia Republican has been fighting to enact legislation on Inter...
Firefox continued to gain ground on Internet Explorer in September, according to the latest browser usage statistics from Net Applications. What's more, the firm reports increasing browser fragmentation among users. Internet Explorer has been the dominant Web browser for many years -- and remains ki...
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