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More and more consumers -- not just twenty-somethings -- are interested in giving up their conventional landline telephone for a mobile phone. According to the latest research from Boston-based Strategy Analytics, one in five mobile phone users in Western Europe would consider disconnecting their la...
Microsoft has adopted new guidelines for deciding how to respond to a foreign or U.S. government request to shut down a blog. The company has attracted withering criticism from the blogosphere ever since it complied with the Chinese government's demand several weeks ago to deny access to the Microso...
The U.S. government's efforts to conduct surveillance and gather data on the nation's citizens has been aided by huge U.S. companies, specifically AT&T, which are privy to the telephone calls and e-mails of millions of Americans, according to a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation...
Could GoogleTunes be in the future for digital music fans? Will the company buy Napster or start its own service? Should Apple be concerned, or is the possibility of Google entering the space just another unsubstantiated rumor? There are many questions today, and fewer answers. Though Napster's shar...
Here's the scenario. Something ugly has happened to your computer. Irreplaceable files have been clobbered. You seek assistance from a PC pundit, but you know your files are fly food as soon as you hear, "You're supposed to back up your files, you know." Let's face it. We all have good excuses for f...
In a move to keep up with the competition, IBM on Monday introduced a free version of its DB2 database product. Big Blue hopes to win the favor of more software developers in smaller companies and projects. The "express" version provides the same core data server features as DB2 Universal Database E...
Five major anti-virus and security companies this week announced a collaboration effort aimed at fighting spyware, promising to share detection, testing and methodology for the benefit of consumers. McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, ICSA Labs and Thompson agreed to create standardized identification an...
America Online on Monday announced that it has teamed up with Mark Burnett Productions, the company that propelled the concept of reality television into the mainstream. The companies have signed a major production deal to develop a real-life treasure hunt airing exclusively on the AOL.com Web site....
They were a staple of cloak-and-dagger drama, both fictional and real, during the Cold War and now they're being offered to consumers as a passive means of protecting their personal property. They're microdots. DataDot Technology USA, of Redmond, Wash., introduced Monday a US$19.95 kit that allows c...
A new report indicates that worldwide mobile phone shipments grew 19 percent year-to-year in the fourth quarter of 2005, reaching a record 810 million units for the year. What is more, this sales boom happened despite "moderate" industry-wide component shortages. Fourth-quarter volume reached an "...
Google has streamlined its Toolbar and rolled out a new product, Toolbar for Enterprise, tailored to the corporate environment. Both versions, which are still in beta, give users new options to customize their search. The added features include customizable buttons, online bookmarks, new sharing ca...
Don't count America Online out of the broadband Internet access business just yet. Despite its focus on new offerings, the media giant on Friday announced plans to expand its broadband network coast-to-coast. AOL will partner with BellSouth, Time Warner Cable and Verizon, as well as other major DSL ...
Be especially wary of unsolicited e-mails claiming to contain obscene pictures and sex movies this week. The W32/Nyxem worm is set to trigger its data-destroying payload on February 3. The W32/Nyxem-D worm can spread via e-mail using a variety of pornographic disguises in an attempt to disable secur...
Last week I was in Monte Carlo to speak at a conference for distributors in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Traditionally these regions have been referred to as "emerging markets," but with sales in the tens of billions of dollars and growth rates in the high double digits, I think it's safe to ...
New research by the Arlington, Mass.-based Cutter Consortium indicates that business requirements for IT and even management trends appear to be increasingly driven by IT innovations in the marketplace, not the other way around, as traditionally believed. A copy of the research from Cutter's senior ...
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