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The European Court of First Instance buzzed with energy this week as Microsoft and the European Commission squared off over a damaging 2004 ruling that, along with a fine of 497 million euros (US$613 million), creates a new Microsoft product and exposes the company's valuable intellectual property. ...
Internet telephone company Vonage on Wednesday struck a deal with European WiFi network operator The Cloud. The partnership gives Vonage customers access to its VoIP service over The Cloud's UK wireless broadband network. Vonage customers equipped with its WiFi handset will be able to make VoIP cal...
Skype on Wednesday announced license agreements for worldwide distribution rights to potentially hundreds of thousands of musical works as ringtones for its Internet telephony service. The eBay subsidiary inked deals with three major music publishing companies -- EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music...
Some 97 percent of Web surfers are just a click away from infecting their computers with adware and spyware, according to anti-malware software maker McAfee, of Santa Clara, Calif. McAfee came to that conclusion after analyzing 14,464 responses to a spyware quiz taken by consumers at its SiteAdvisor...
Seagate has unveiled a monster hard drive in its Barracuda line that packs in 750 gigabytes of photos, video, music and other digital data using perpendicular recording technology. The California storage giant said the new Barracuda 7200.10 drive family would reach, for the first time, above the cur...
For heavy duty imaging work on a PC, there are some very powerful programs on the market. My application of choice is Corel Paint Shop Pro, primarily because I've been using it for years and have become comfortable with its interface. That's not to say its competitors -- like Ulead PhotoImpact and A...
Microsoft has expanded its Genuine Software Initiative, a pilot program to notify users of non-genuine Windows operating systems that their copies of the software are illegal. The software giant is using the "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" tool -- a virtual equivalent of the exploding dye ...
Seagate has unveiled a monster hard drive in its Barracuda line that packs in 750 gigabytes of photos, video, music and other digital data using perpendicular recording technology. The California storage giant said the new Barracuda 7200.10 drive family would reach, for the first time, above the cur...
Major international music artists based in Canada have banded together to form a group aimed, among other things, at protesting the recording industry's practice of targeting fans with lawsuits. Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan are among the group's members. Most of the campaignin...
The New York Department of Education took Toquir Choudhri to the City's Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, which presides over disciplinary cases from almost every city agency. Choudhri, an employee for 14 years, had disobeyed a supervisor's order to stop surfing on the Internet. Administ...
An inability to reach a compromise in forging an industry standard has delayed delivery of Ultra Wide Band products and may make it possible for alternative technologies to usurp its role in supporting Personal Area Networks. A rift between the different factions had been ongoing for a few years and...
Amazon has developed an elegant solution -- albeit a temporary one -- to a problem that has been nagging electronics goods retailers: what to do until the high-definition DVD format struggle reaches its conclusion. For retailers, the unresolved war between Blu-ray and HD DVD formats means they will ...
Universal Serial Bus technology will continue to be widely used for PCs and other electronics, and, with the help of wireless USB, is poised to double in shipments from 1.4 billion in 2005 to 2.8 billion in 2010, research firm In-Stat reported this week. The market forecast indicates USB will contin...
At the National Association of Broadcasters 2006 convention in Las Vegas on Monday, Microsoft and Universal Pictures announced a collaboration on the release of next-generation HD DVD discs. The discs use VC-1, the video compression standard recently approved by the Society of Motion Picture and Tel...
Intel is making its first platform pitch to the enterprise with its new vPro package, promising desktop security and manageability, energy-savings and support from a long list of technology partners, including Symantec, Cisco, Lenovo, Microsoft, Novell and others. While Intel indicates the effort wi...
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