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Olympus Debuts Classy Digital Recorder

Digital voice recorders don't have the flashy visibility of their music-playing brethren, but their utility can't be denied. Granted, some digital music players include recording in their repertoire and others can accommodate it with optional add-ons, but for the most part, recording plays second fi...

Google rolled out yet another search product today, turning its focus back to corporate users again as it unveiled an enterprise version of its desktop search tool, one that features enhanced security and other features. Google Desktop Search for Enterprise creates a single interface from which a bu...

Following a week of Microsoft-MTV multimedia blitz on the next-generation Xbox 360 gaming console, Sony today sought the spotlight for its competing PlayStation 3 in advance of the E3 Conference in Los Angeles this week. Sony exposed more of the new machine -- powered by the "Cell" processor designe...

America Online today invited developers to build AOL Instant Messenger or its ICQ instant messaging service right into their games. The company released AOL Messaging Software Development Kit (SDK), which contains the tools necessary to do so. AOL last week announced it would start offering free Web...

Analysts say they expect the Federal Communications Commission will require all VoIP providers doing business in the U.S. to offer basic e911 service to their customers. They also say they expect the FCC to force major telcos to make their e911 infrastructure access networks available to VoIP provid...

Nadeem Malik, the CTO of Pakistan's oldest software company, tells an interesting story about his company, Systems Pvt. Ltd, a software development and system integration company formed in 1976. The tale has it that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's current president and CEO, was visiting Lahore, Pakistan,...

Microsoft's new desktop toolbar, released today in its final version, adds several new features, but is missing the tabbed browsing function for Internet Explorer that had been previewed in beta versions. MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search indexes all files on a hard drive so that users ...

On the heels of last week's announced intellectual property (IP), cross-licensing deal with Japanese PC and electronics giant Toshiba, Microsoft is reportedly seeking a similar sharing agreement with Hitachi. The software giant's effort to cross-license patented technologies from the Japanese compan...

In a landmark move to address customer interoperability needs, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems on Friday unveiled jointly developed specifications to enable Web single sign-on between the company's competing operating systems. The new specs, which are the first fruits of a 10-year technical collabora...

A new variant of the Sober virus reared its ugly head over the weekend and continued to propagate right-wing messages in German and English this morning. Sober is a mass mailing worm spread through a .zip file attached to the e-mail. Once the attachment is opened, the worm uses its own e-mail engine...

The very first thought that crossed my mind when I saw the new Xbox was that this is probably what would have resulted if the rumored merger between Sony and Apple had been successful. It borrows heavily from design elements common in the most aggressive products from both companies and seems to mis...

The adolescent crowd is especially enamored with two items: music and cell phones. Naturally, therefore, handset manufacturers and carriers have begun to find ways to integrate the two. A few devices that integrate static music selections or FM radio signals into cell phones have already started to...

Mike Klein, CEO of network security firm Interlink Networks, knows a good marketing tactic when he sees one. When Zone Labs started giving away no-nonsense firewall protection as a free download, he was paying attention. "They did it well!" Klein told TechNewsWorld. "We based our free WiFi protectio...

PC giant Dell signaled this week it will stretch the reach of wireless connectivity for its computers by using cellular phone networks and reportedly offering mobile phone subscriptions. Although a spokesman for the U.S. PC maker dismissed reports that the company would offer mobile phone service, t...

Yahoo has licensed CD/DVD burning technology from Sonic Solutions for its recently launched online music subscription service and its media player. The multi-year licensing agreement was announced earlier this week. "Because Yahoo Music services are so widely used, Yahoo required a burning engine th...


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