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A federal appeals court has invalidated patents for bar codes and machine vision in a case that could have significant implications for the technology industry, experts told TechNewsWorld. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -- the appeals court for patent cases, based in Washington, D...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week claimed the CAN-SPAM Act has cut down on the number of unsolicited spam e-mails reaching consumers, indicating the legislation and improved anti-spam technology have resulted in less spam this year compared to 2003. The FTC also announced a cross-border s...
Google is teaming up with digital media technology provider Lexar Media to offer USB flash drives with popular Web applications. Lexar said yesterday it would bring Google applications, including Picasa, Google Toolbar and Google Desktop Search applications on its USB flash drives. The company said ...
Cyber-attackers are delivering an early Christmas gift this holiday season, albeit one more unwanted than the proverbial bag of coal. This Christmas-themed worm attack is not leaving anyone out. It's delivering its rootkit payload to instant messaging (IM) users of AOL, MSN, Windows Messenger, ICQ a...
Security giant McAfee says 2006 may be the year that malicious software takes off on increasingly connected and unprotected smartphones. The security software vendor warned of an alarming growth in mobile Trojans and other malware, which are likely to impact mobile phones on a global basis and cause...
Although blogging has gained a certain amount of notoriety in the media, its tool base remains relatively immature. There are some viable tools available to bloggers offered by hosting services like Blogger and Typepad, but a truly integrated approach has been lacking. But, as any savvy technologist...
Security giant McAfee says 2006 may be the year that malicious software takes off on increasingly connected and unprotected smartphones. The security software vendor warned of an alarming growth in mobile Trojans and other malware, which are likely to impact mobile phones on a global basis and cause...
Guess what? Your digital music library is not actually a library. It's considered "hoarding." The entertainment cartels have already pirated the word "pirate" to replace "counterfeit" and/or "duplicate" and/or "share." It's so much more PR-friendly -- more emotive and evocative. And it works so well...
Convergence has been an ongoing goal for telecommunications suppliers in recent years. Today, cable companies sell not only video but also Internet access and telecommunications services. Recently, they have begun to get ready to deliver wireless services, which would enable them to deliver a quadru...
Predictions for the future and realities of the past are being fused together via Internet technology. Increasingly, Web sites and services are popping up that save e-mails for a pre-determined amount of time that a user can send to him or herself in the near or distant future. While there are a num...
HP is playing both sides of the DVD format standard battle. The company on Friday announced its support for the HD-DVD high-definition DVD format, in addition to the Blu-ray Disc format, in an effort to "provide consumers with the best possible high-definition experience." HP also said it would join...
The most pronounced vendor battle we saw this past year was the battle between Microsoft and the open-source community. This one was particularly strange to watch because it seemed that both sides were doing more to help, rather than hurt, the other. Almost every time a large number of open-source ...
An industry forecast released this month by Wellesley, Mass.-based Mobile Ecosystem, a wireless industry consultancy, indicates that wireless carriers in 2006 will be launching a new "wave" of multimedia and entertainment applications on new, 3G networks. A copy of the forecast by analyst and founde...
Sony BMG is seeing a revolution of sorts, but perhaps not the kind it was hoping for this holiday season. U.S. band My Morning Jacket is up in arms over its record label's controversial copy-protection software. The uproar started when the band's fans discovered they could not transfer the album "Z"...
Digital cinema projection and distribution moved one step closer to the mainstream this week as three major theater companies announced their collaboration on a digital cinema business plan. National CineMedia founding members AMC Entertainment, Cinemark USA and Regal Entertainment said they would w...
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