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San Francisco has selected a joint proposal from Google and EarthLink to run its citywide WiFi network. A panel of tech and municipal experts, which remained anonymous until the decision was announced, selected the two companies over MetroFi and four other bidders. Now city officials will begin neg...
Looking to slice into the hot slim phone market, electronics giant Samsung announced new ultra-thin handset models it hopes will win it more U.S. market share. The South Korean giant will be shipping what it calls the slimmest mobile phones in America with its t509 model that is less than 10 millime...
Despite national legislation, spam remains a menace that clogs e-mail inboxes and costs Internet Service Providers millions of dollars. One California company is trying to stem the flow of unwanted mail, but California legislators are threatening to stand in the way. AOL has partnered with Goodmail...
The typical picture of a hacker has often been one of an introverted, misunderstood teen with a great deal of repressed anger. Launching an attack and disabling thousands of computers somehow seems to compensate for those feelings. Increasingly, however, while the hacker profile remains much the sam...
San Francisco has selected a joint proposal from Google and EarthLink to run its citywide WiFi network. A panel of tech and municipal experts, which remained anonymous until the decision was announced, selected the two companies over MetroFi and four other bidders. Now city officials will begin neg...
The Walt Disney Co. said it will launch a family-friendly mobile phone service in June that will enable parents to monitor and manage how their children are using their cell phones. Disney, which announced the service at the CTIA Wireless 2006 tradeshow in Las Vegas, said the service would go beyond...
Looking to slice into the hot slim phone market, electronics giant Samsung announced new ultra-thin handset models it hopes will win it more U.S. market share. The South Korean giant will be shipping what it calls the slimmest mobile phones in America with its t509 model that is less than 10 millime...
Score one for Microsoft -- at Symbian's expense. After getting out of the gate slowly, Microsoft won its largest-ever contract for mobile phone software from the U.S. Census Bureau. The contract covers 500,000 handsets and could lead the software giant to dethrone Research In Motion's BlackBerry as ...
Hundreds of technology patents from Fortune 500 companies will go to the highest bidders on Thursday in what could be the first live, multi-lot technology patent auction in the United States. Sellers in the auction include Siemens, BellSouth, AT&T, Kimberly Clark and 3Com, as well as mid-sized ...
From billboards to clothing racks, electronic sign makers have paper products in their crosshairs. Among the technologies threatening paper's signage dominion are super juiced LEDs and electronic inks and papers. Billboards have long been ripe for electronic alternatives, but nature, in the form of ...
So you say you want to share slideshows and videos on the Internet without a lot of rigmarole. Problem is, there's just so much noise in the media sharing space, you just don't know where to turn. Well, two well-known Net players have an end-to-end solution for you -- if you're willing to pay a heft...
New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer has filed suit in the New York Supreme Court against Direct Revenue, an Internet pop-up advertising company, for surreptitiously installing spyware on unsuspecting users' computers via free games or software. Adware accompanying the free downloads tracked Web ...
IBM and Power.org member Rapport unveiled a new energy-efficient processor dubbed Kilocore that features more than 1,000 processing elements around a Power chip architecture. Kilocore -- with parallel processing similar to that of the new Cell processor, Sun's Niagara, and Azul's multi-core chip -- ...
When Integrated Direct needed to drive registrations for one of its clients' New York City events, the company included popular social networking site MySpace.com in its online marketing initiatives. "Online registrations doubled compared to previous years just by using MySpace and some other simila...
MapQuest is expanding its services in one of the fastest-growing navigational subsectors -- smartphones and handsets with navigational applications. The company announced it is introducing two new products, MapQuest Navigator and Web-based mobile services. MapQuest Navigator will give users turn-by-...
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