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Hoping to boost mobile Web use and unlock potentially massive revenue in the process, Cingular Wireless has revamped its mobile Web services with an eye toward making it faster and easier for users to access the Internet from the phones. Cingular, the largest U.S. mobile carrier in terms of subscrib...
Sony this week said it would venture into the world of Voice over Internet Protocol -- with a twist. The electronics giant is partnering with Glowpoint to offer a new consumer version of Sony's Instant Video Everywhere (IVE) service featuring free, unlimited video and voice service for consumers wor...
Podcasting changed the face of audio on the Web and now it's altering the face of hosting, too. The technology that moved blogging from eye to ear has hosting services revising their pricing to attract the growing ranks of podcasters to their servers and has increased pressure on niche players to re...
Imagine a world where China argues for guaranteed freedom of speech and Cuba and Iran push for democracy. If that sounds like an episode of "The Twilight Zone," then welcome to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's new show set to air again next week in Tunisia. Readers should know that the reason these...
A national survey released today indicates that instant messaging (IM) has grown 19 percent since last year and is penetrating the United States market as deeply as e-mail -- with many Americans sending as many, if not more, IMs than they do e-mails. What's more, at-work and mobile messaging usage h...
As the potential of that indefinitely defined technology called Web 2.0 becomes more and more apparent, new applications seem to be appearing on an almost daily basis. But for users forced to hop from site to site for their Web services, the new social Net can be a drag. Moreover, using the new soc...
The controversy over the Federal Communications Commission's proposal to allow wiretapping of Internet telephone calls continues -- as experts on both sides of the question battle it out in federal court and in the court of public opinion. Last week, an alliance of Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP...
Lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that would offer providers of fast-growing Internet calling services the same access to E-911 service that traditional phone companies have and give them more time to put the emergency service in place. The legislation, which was approved by the Senate Commer...
A white paper published this week by the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank in Chicago, is critical of a "discussion draft" of legislation released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce concerning a new regulatory regime for Internet telephony. The document, entitled "The Metaphys...
A white paper published yesterday by the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank in Chicago, is critical of a "discussion draft" of legislation released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce concerning a new regulatory regime for Internet telephony. The document, entitled "The Metaphys...
When crises like the recent earthquake in Asia, the London terror bombings and devastating hurricanes such as Katrina strike, more people than ever turn to the Web for news and real-time updates on these history-making events. This is not a new phenomenon, but it continues to be a growing one. Rewi...
I'm either fortunate or unfortunate enough to have gone through a couple of significant corporate cycles in the world of business in recent decades. In the 1980s IBM started as the most respected company in the industry and ended as that decade's "Evil Empire." In the '90s, and over what seemed to...
Although Web logs, or blogs, have attracted a lot of ink and electrons, the keys to their creation and upkeep remain a mystery to many Net surfers. That's not to say that there aren't minds at work in the electronic plasma ruminating on ways to encourage even the meekest Websters to try their hand a...
There's a new word in the Web vocabulary: splogs. Internet users may as well get used to it because, just like spam and spim, splogging is making its way into Web-based communication. Splogs are the equivalent of Web log spam, unsolicited posts to a blog that have nothing to do with the subject matt...
Skype's popularity rose to a whole new level when eBay purchased the VoIP provider last month. Now, the free Internet telephony service has become the victim of a spoof campaign designed to infect users with an IRCbot Trojan. Messaging security and management services provider MessageLabs yesterday ...
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