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Sony, which has spent the past year touting the Blu-ray high-definition video storage format and rallying other companies to its cause, hinted that it may be amenable to working with its rival format, HD DVD. At a news conference today, Ryoji Chubachi, head of Sony's electronic components and manufa...
Hewlett-Packard is being accused of incorrectly classifying workers as contractors in two lawsuits recently filed in U.S. District Court. The suits highlight a growing issue for technology employers, which sometimes seek to cut costs by classifying even long-term employees as contract workers. In HP...
One reason the Internet gained as much interest as it did in its early days was the convenience that it offered individuals interested in pornography. No longer did they have to visit adult bookstores in person; with a few keystrokes the materials were delivered directly to their personal computers....
While there's been no official word from either company, confirmation is out on the Web that Yahoo has acquired Flickr, the photo sharing company. Rumors of such a deal have been circulating for weeks. Flickr is a Web-based photo sharing system that allows users to add tags to photos, making them ea...
Internet search and content giant Google, known as one of the top aggregators of news and other information online, has been sued by Agence France Press (AFP) for allegedly publishing copyrighted content without permission. The French media publisher -- which is seeking more than US$17 million in da...
The ample media coverage of the U.S. release of Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) makes two things clear: It's a great gaming machine but not a great convergence device; and Sony operates a fabulous buzz machine. The PSP will go on sale Thursday at US$250, and demand is so high that Sony's initial ...
Intrusion detection and prevention systems provider Internet Security Systems (ISS) issued a "protection advisory" targeting older versions of McAfee's anti-virus software engine last Thursday. Attackers are able to trigger a stack overflow within the process importing the McAfee AntiVirus Library,...
In the years I spent running one of IBM's internal audit teams, I developed a methodology for testing organizations to see if they were likely to have problems. At every executive level, you have to be able to trust the people doing the job, but you also need to make sure there are controls so that...
Opera Software this week released a beta version of the next Opera browser for the desktop. The new version includes scalable vector graphics (SVG), which automatically scales any Web page to fit a user's screen. "We believe SVG will enter mainstream Web design in the future and we are very pleased ...
Earlier this month, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his intentions to support a bill outlawing the sale of junk food in schools. Science shows the governor is right to worry about an obesity crisis, but banning candy is schools is like putting a Band-Aid on a third-degree burn.
RIM announced today that it has settled a years-long patent fight by agreeing to pay $450 million to NTP, a U.S. patent-holding company. In exchange, RIM will be allowed to continue operating its BlackBerry wireless business. NTP sued RIM, a Canadian company, for infringing on 16 patents for radio f...
It has become as common for many folks as putting on their socks and shoes: Almost instinctively, they put their cell phones into their pockets, and then later in the day hold them close to their ears to talk with friends, family or co-workers. Cell phone users, who number 150 million in the United ...
After more than doubling last year, portable digital music player sales are set for 57 percent growth in 2005, according to results of a global survey released today. Market research group iSuppli said shipments of MP3 music players rose by 116 percent in 2004 and will expand to 132 million units in...
Computer users who suffer from hand tremors often find it difficult to negotiate a computer because shaking disturbs the smooth flow of the mouse. IBM today announced that its researchers had developed an Assistive Mouse Adapter that compensates for the involuntary motion and allows normal mouse use...
With a landmark Supreme Court hearing on online file sharing slated for March 29, Hollywood is stepping up its multimillion-dollar, international PR blitz to keep peer-to-peer networks in the public eye and to characterize men, women and children who share music and other files online as hardened cr...
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