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A growing number of corporations are installing Voice over Internet Protocol applications. While the technology has the potential to cut their telecommunications costs, it also presents new challenges. "IT managers are looking for their vendors to offer them ways to monitor and improve VoIP performa...
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates this week stressed coming security advantages for users of Microsoft's Windows XP and forthcoming Vista operating systems, highlighting an identity management strategy that seeks to pare down on passwords. Speaking to attendees at the RSA Security Conference in San Jose...
Opera Software on Wednesday announced an agreement with Nintendo to provide a browser that will allow video game lovers to surf the full Internet from their handheld systems. "The incredibly popular Nintendo DS is already WiFi enabled to support real time gaming, so adding Web browsing capabilities ...
Few people hold the status of "visionary" in the computer processor field, but Sun Microsystems' Marc Tremblay fits the bill. Sun fellow, vice president, and chief architect for the firm's Scalable Systems Group, Tremblay foresaw the advent of "throughput computing" and the jump in performance affor...
European cellular network provider Virgin Mobile is the first company in Europe to offer its customers the latest in wireless content: digital TV and radio services. Virgin Mobile will begin selling smartphones that can receive the service later this year, it said. Users can see and hear the content...
Handset heavy Motorola and software giant Microsoft will team to integrate Windows Media technology into Motorola music handsets, the companies announced at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain this week. A number of new Motorola "music handsets" will add support for Windows Digital Medi...
AOL on Monday launched the first beta version of its new Chinese language AOL.com Web portal. The new site is aimed at the Chinese American and Chinese speaking community in the United States. Created in both simplified and traditional Chinese characters, the site offers Web search, blogs and e-mail...
Nico Popp can see the day when proving who you are on the faceless Internet will be as easy as using a picture I.D. in the real world. Popp is the point man for a new authentication program launched Monday by VeriSign, which runs the Net's largest domains, .com and .net, its biggest certificate vali...
Satellite voice service providers have been on a roller coaster ride. In the late 1990s, the industry was abuzz with grandiose expansion plans designed to take advantage of the dot-com explosion. When that boom went bust, providers had to scale back their plans dramatically and some were even forced...
Microsoft is aggressively promoting its push e-mail service as a slew of partner carriers announce its availability at an industry trade show. Microsoft has been honing its wireless messaging strategy at least since last fall, when it released its Exchange Server Service Pack 2, according to Gerald ...
Nvidia hopes to bring console-quality graphics and fluid, digital video to mobile phones with its multimedia-minded GoForce 5500 graphics processing unit (GPU), announced this week at the 3GSM Conference in Barcelona, Spain. The graphics giant said the new processor architecture would deliver improv...
Nokia on Monday introduced three new mobile phones with an emphasis on connectivity. The Nokia 6131, 6070 and 6136 handsets seek to converge style with the latest in wireless technology. While the 6131 and 6070 are mid-range phones targeting consumers, the 6136 may pique the interest of enterprise c...
In yet another step toward mobile TV mainstreaming, British Telecom Group, Virgin Mobile and Microsoft are expected to announce a partnership on Tuesday at 3GSM in Barcelona, the largest mobile phone industry conference of the year. While other companies will be launching new mobile handsets, this t...
A lot of interesting things happened last week. RIM finally released its plan to work around NTP's patents, Google decided to use some of the massive amount of cash it got from investors to buy real estate on desktop PCs, and ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina stepped back into the limelight, talking about ho...
Many cases centered around document management, retention and disposition could be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court in the next year, as companies run into challenges resulting from a disorganized or inadequate document management strategy, experts tell TechNewsWorld. The Supreme Court has, in past...