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Opera Software today permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its Web browser. The ad-free, full-featured Opera browser is now available for download at no charge. Opera was previously available free of charge with an ad banner. Users had the option of paying a licensing fee to remov...

High-definition television has become a staple in a growing number of households. More than 10 million homes worldwide now have HDTVs and that number will reach 52 million in 2009, according to market research firm In-Stat. HDTV's growing acceptance has created a ripple effect resulting in the emerg...

After years of promising, Google has come through with a blog search engine, one that searches more than just the company-owned Blogger. However, the engine indexes only the content published through RSS feeds, not the full text of the blogs themselves. Google is not the first company to release a b...

Google Adds Blog Search Engine

After years of promising, Google has come through with a blog search engine, one that searches more than just the company-owned Blogger. However, the engine indexes only the content published through RSS feeds, not the full text of the blogs themselves. Google is not the first company to release a b...

If the mainstream media are feeling the pressure from infonews sites and blogs, B-b-b-baby, you ain't seen nothin' yet, to quote the words of rock group BTO. I'm talking about indie 'Net journalists taking over from the scribes of yesteryear with straight-up reporting, untainted by corporate self-in...

Companies investing in VoIP across Latin America and South America are anticipating that they will generate revenue in several ways. There will be call handling, both inbound and outbound communications. There will be monthly subscriptions, with bundled minutes for national and international calling...

Technology writer Robert X. Cringely and PBS TV on Tuesday began offering a Web-exclusive hour of tech talk, appropriately titled NerdTV. Although it may seem like a giant step toward TV on the computer, analysts don't see a significant trend toward Internet protocol TV, or IPTV, among mainstream co...

Enterprises are driving the adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) security solutions, according to new research from the In-Stat group. The report, "Trends and Spending Plans for Security Appliances: Are We Ready for VoIP?," covers the impact of VoIP in the security appliance market, and c...

The U.S. government is again excluding non-Microsoft Internet browsers, as Hurricane Katrina victims seeking to file claims with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) may only do so with Internet Explorer 6.0 or above. Previously, the U.S. Copyright Office came under fire last month when it...

In a move to grab market share in the world's largest population base, Skype this week announced a joint venture with Tom Online, China's leading wireless Internet provider. The joint venture seeks to push Skype's Voice over Internet Protocol software and services to Tom Online's more than 70 millio...

In a move to grab market share in the world's largest population base, Skype yesterday announced a joint venture with Tom Online, China's leading wireless Internet provider. The joint venture seeks to push Skype's Voice over Internet Protocol software and services to Tom Online's more than 70 millio...

In a move that helps it keep pace and push ahead of rivals such as Google and could help it take on pure voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) companies such as Skype and even traditional telecom companies, Microsoft said it would buy privately held Teleo for an undisclosed sum. San Francisco-based Te...

Internet backbone provider 3Com announced a new voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) applications package aimed at connecting remote workers more efficiently and effectively through "converged communication networks." The company, which made the announcement at the VoiceCon conference in San Diego th...

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News syndication and Web logs are two of the hottest technologies on the Internet today. Syndication commonly referred to as RSS or Atom, has become a significant vehicle for delivering news and analysis directly to information hounds and for sharing intelligence within corporations. Web logs, popul...

It has kept domain disputes involving huge companies and small profiteers known as "cybersquatters," as well as other Internet address disputes, out of court, but is the domain arbitration that is mandatory for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) domain registrants fair? Lega...

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