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In a move to generate additional gaming revenues, Microsoft is implementing a new royalty program tied to the new Xbox console scheduled for release this holiday season. Analysts said the move could help Xbox get into the black. The software giant is also placing restrictions on which vendors can se...
In a four-year-old case closely monitored by civil liberties groups nationwide, a federal appeals court in Boston yesterday said a businessman charged with intercepting and reading his customers' e-mails can be tried under a federal wiretapping law. The wiretapping law was passed in 1968 and amended...
Two new phishing scams, one targeting PayPal and one eBay, are making the rounds on the Internet today, the anti-malware company Sophos said. In the first, scammers are using a new twist: Instead of trying to get PayPal customers to input personal information on a bogus Web site, the e-mail sends th...
Memory chip maker Samsung Electronics yesterday claimed that it is leading the industry shift from Double Data Rate 1 (DDR1) to second generation DDR2 main memory. Analysts said Samsung has a six- to nine-month lead against its competition. DDR2 provides faster speeds, better signal integrity, impro...
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made an important ruling in favor of competition in broadband services. This change points the country towards greater broadband deployment, investment, and innovation. The Supreme Court's Brand X decision in late June made it clear that cable ...
Broadband Internet service and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) companies must build technology that allows "tapping" for interception by U.S. law enforcement officials to comply with a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission last week that critics complain unnecessarily and unilaterally ...
Memory chip maker Samsung Electronics today claimed that it is leading the industry shift from Double Data Rate 1 (DDR1) to second generation DDR2 main memory. Analysts said Samsung has a six- to nine-month lead against its competition. DDR2 provides faster speeds, better signal integrity, improved ...
Intel may be in talks with Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) to use its chipsets for entry-level motherboards, according to a report circulating on Chinese news wires today. SIS, a unit of United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), has secured an order from Intel for low-end chipsets, said the report, whic...
In announcing its new anti-piracy protections, the Blu-ray Disc Association indicated it had adopted the same content management system used in the HD-DVD format, known as Advanced Access Content System. Blu-ray backers said they had also included a "Blu-ray specific" enhancement for content protect...
Microsoft yesterday issued its monthly round of patches, including a fix for a security flaw that could allow an attacker to gain control of a computer. The software giant released six security bulletins this month, compared to 12 bulletins in the last round of patches in July. Three of the flaws we...
What do you do if you need to prove your software is virtually hack-proof? Well, you could always hire a renowned former hacker to attempt to foil the system and mount a successful phishing attack. That's just what 41st Parameter did. The company's patented anti-fraud technology, dubbed TimeDiff Lin...
A spyware ring has infiltrated the IT systems of as many as 50 international banks and logged social security numbers, credit card and bank account numbers, passwords, eBay and PayPal account information and chat transcripts, according to the security firm Sunbelt Software. The anti-spyware manufact...
Virtual infrastructure software vendor VMware yesterday made competitive moves against rivals Microsoft and the open-source Xen project with new partnerships and shared source code announcements. The company expects standard interfaces for hypervisors to enable interoperability for customers with he...
Web services provider Affinity Internet launched a service today that allows small businesses to target online advertising to Web searchers in specific geographic areas. As its name suggests, Value Traffic Local localizes online advertising efforts to ensure businesses that primarily serve local cus...
AOL, the Internet company struggling to shed its desktop days and move further into the more profitable mobile and wireless industry, continued its mobile-by-acquisition strategy this week, announcing it was acquiring handset software maker Wildseed. AOL indicated that Wildseed -- known for its Smar...
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