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French legislators approved a bill this week that will force technology companies such as Apple Computer to share proprietary technology with rivals. Such a move is not only a recipe for disaster but completely unnecessary. The digital music market has always been a tumultuous place. For a long ti...
Sony disclosed more about its next-generation Playstation 3 console, due at the end of the year, by outlining the company's vision for the product, which includes live, multi-player online play and even digital distribution of games through downloads. However, much of Sony's strategy still lies in w...
Concern that a dearth of external e-mail accounts at the FBI will effect the agency's ability to fight crime and terrorism is "overblown," according to Coleen Rowley. Rowley is a former principal legal advisor with the bureau known for blowing the whistle on oversights it made prior to the World Tra...
Yahoo on Wednesday introduced a public beta of its instant messaging suite with voice capabilities. Consumers can now get a local telephone number in their city of choice for just US$2.99 a month. Yahoo Messenger with Voice is going head to head with Skype with a monthly price tag that runs about $1...
Back in 1996, I was fortunate enough to be one of the first journalists to cover a national political convention online. This was the Democratic National Convention in Chicago -- where Bill Clinton was nominated for President for a second time. In those days, not so long ago, really, we were excited...
At the risk of revealing my age, I can remember when a 10 gigabyte hard drive seemed enormous. Of course those were the days before PCs became vaults for music collections, family photo albums and home video libraries. Now, it seems, no matter how much hard disk space we have, we always need more, w...
Samsung says it has begun offering a 32 gigabyte NAND flash solid state disk drive, a development the South Korean company calls a "historic milestone" for flash memory as it enters the mass market for notebook PCs, which today rely on hard disk drive technology. Samsung announced the new flash-base...
Yahoo on Wednesday introduced a public beta of its instant messaging suite with voice capabilities. Consumers can now get a local telephone number in their city of choice for just US$2.99 a month. Yahoo Messenger with Voice is going head to head with Skype with a monthly price tag that runs about $1...
As states and other government jurisdictions continue to enact -- and enforce -- restrictions on the use of cell phones while driving, consumers are suddenly demanding more, easy ways to access their mobile phones and improve their safety. A new survey demonstrates that more than 75 percent of cell ...
Internet giant Google is teaming with athletic shoe titan Nike to prepare the field for soccer fans worldwide with a new multi-language site that coincides with this summer's World Cup competition in Germany. Dubbed "joga.com," joga being Portuguese for "play," the new site will allow players and fa...
Microsoft may have missed the Web 2.0 bandwagon's first go-round, but the software giant is emerging with a set of new tools designed to deliver better customer experiences online. The company also released a test version of the new Internet Explorer browser. The announcements came during MIX06, a c...
A coalition of some 600 organizations opposed to a scheme by America Online and Goodmail Systems to "tax" e-mail claimed on Monday that supporters of the plan have a long-term agenda to make everyone pay for exchanging electronic missives over the Net. Under the proposed plan, bulk senders of e-mail...
WiFi equipment suppliers are reaching a crossroad: more users are purchasing their products, but at the same time, pricing is declining. To try and prop up their profit margins, suppliers are experimenting with various packaging techniques, such as bundling or unbundling value-added features. For us...
Looking to expand its enterprise reach, Microsoft laid out its latest software and marketing drive late last week, trumpeting its "People-Ready" strategy of software-driven efficiency and collaboration for workers. In announcing details of the plan, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer also jabbed at softwar...
Search engine users concerned about the government's new interest in search term data were relieved by a Federal judge's ruling on Friday. Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said Google must provide the government with 50,000 Web addresses in its sea...
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