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Skype Technologies has begun allowing users to beta test free two-way short text messaging, the company announced yesterday. In addition to already receiving SMS messages for free, Skype users can now also send them via the company's "Skype to SMS" service. "We launched our 'SMS to Skype' service ju...
This week, the California Telephone Association met in Monterey, Calif., to think about the future of advanced communications. The topics that these small telecom companies discussed will affect consumers across the country. Predictions are difficult, but as musician Webb Wilder once said, it's eas...
Leveraging the buzz around the 77th Annual Academy Awards taking place this weekend, yesterday Google launched its new movie search feature. Analysts said making movie showtimes available is yet another advantage that helps Google compete with search rivals Yahoo and MSN. In addition to rental recom...
As a judicial panel heard arguments this week on a scheme to fight the piracy of digital television broadcasts, a civil libertarian group in San Francisco launched a guerrilla program to undermine the plan. The scheme is the so-called "broadcast flag," a digital rights management (DRM) system for co...
A recent vulnerability found in the popular open-source database MySQL revealed a persistent problem for IT managers: password management among administrators. Most talk about password security traditionally centers around end users and the use of weak, easy-to-guess passwords. In companies where ad...
A characteristic that HIV shares with spam has led Microsoft and AIDS researchers to team up on developing a vaccine to kill the deadly disease. Just as spam merchants make tiny changes in the words that are blocked by filters, so, too, HIV mutates rapidly and in tiny ways that keep it one step ahea...
Less than 24 hours after Intel erased Advanced Micro Devices' status as the sole provider of 64-bit chips by announcing its own, AMD demonstrated a dual-core Athlon 64 processor, touting multiple core capability in its chips for servers, workstations and desktops and claiming it is the only company ...
A Georgia woman has filed a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard over the company's use of chips to disable printer ink cartridges after a certain date. The suit, filed in Santa Clara (California) Superior Court, seeks class-action status on behalf of anyone who has purchased an inkjet printer with smart...
Intel has finally matched its foe AMD in delivering 64-bit silicon solutions to the market in the form of five new Pentium 4 processors. The market, however, may not be ready for the more powerful chips. Intel said the new desktop chips -- a 3.73 GHz P4 Extreme Edition and four new 3.0-3.6 GHz P4s -...
Leveraging its partnership with IBM, Opera announced a voice-enabled Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for home media yesterday. The software does away with remote controls and lets people interact with their DVD players, DVRs and digital TV set-top boxes. The announcement signifies Opera's efforts to ...
Caution: Click-through agreements may be hazardous to your rights of privacy and free speech. Those are the sentiments expressed in a white paper released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as part of a campaign to raise consumer awareness of some of the dangerous terms found in End User Li...
The advent of a new technology often requires building a whole new set of rules to govern its use. Occasionally, the technology's use easily falls under a set of rules already in place. Either way, there is often a gap between the widespread use of the technology and the cementing of policies and pr...
This last month saw a number of dramatic changes, not the least of which was the involuntary departure of HP's CEO, Carly Fiorina, and the voluntary departure of her closest supporter, Alison Johnson, who was largely responsible for turning HP into a marketing powerhouse. I'd like to relate those tw...
Samsung Electronics stayed a bit ahead of the curve with its announcement yesterday that it has developed the first working DDR3 DRAM (dynamic random access memory) device. The 512 MB DDR3 (double data rate 3) can process data at 1,066 mbps, which Samsung equated with 8,000 newspaper pages a second....
Every year, the RSA security conference convenes in San Francisco to discuss the latest technology and issues involved in information security. The event still feels a bit like pre-tech-bubble days, with free gizmos galore, but the topics, such as identity management, looked to the future. One of th...
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