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Microsoft has partnered with Samsung Electronics in a high-definition technology alliance intended to take gaming to the next level. Microsoft announced Samsung as its worldwide marketing partner for the next-generation Xbox yesterday. The Xbox/Samsung HDTV combination is designed to deliver the mo...

Prone to typos? Beware. Hackers have revived a once common scam in which they use a URL that contains a misspelled real site to spread malware. The latest targets Google users with the misspelled "www.googkle.com." Users can't check it out, even out of curiosity, anymore because it has already been ...

OPINION

Blimps, Broadband and Bosses

It's not a bird or plane, it's the "stratellite," a huge broadband blimp announced this month. It will make high-speed Internet junkies gleeful, leave broadband competitors fearful, and tell policymakers to ignore warnings of an imminent broadband monopoly. Some might be surprised to learn that any...

Nokia has launched its N90 multimedia phone, one in a line of new N series phones introduced by the company this week. The phones target the top-end business user market with features ranting from music playing to Web browsing to camera and video capabilities. Juha Putkiranta, Senior Vice President,...

Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) figures if people like to watch classic movies and old "Seinfeld" episodes, they will also be interested in discontinued, out-of-date video games, including arcade and classic console hits. The media giant, a division of Time Warner, said its GameTap games-on-demand ...

Within the next year, Hewlett-Packard will shift its entire line of ProLiant servers and storage to 2.5-inch, 10K RPM disk drives, the company said yesterday. The small form factor (SFF) drives offer several benefits over the 3.5-inch disks in common use today. The smaller drives are denser, allowin...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Roxio Upgrade Worth Price of Admission

For a long time, while Apple computer users enjoyed the advantages of an integrated multimedia software suite, Windows users who wished to experience the i-life had to be satisfied with standalone applications or meek integrated products. Then Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 entered the picture. EMC 7 is...

Despite recent announcements from major telecom companies such as Verizon and SBC to ensure emergency 911 calling capability on Internet-enabled voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phones, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin indicated this week the regulatory body will deve...

After completing the acquisition of Tally Systems Corp. on Monday, Novell said it plans to ship its Zenworks Asset Management suite next week. Novell acquired Tally Systems in order to expand its Zenworks systems management offering. The result is a set of integrated tools with discovery and invento...

They are the bane of many consumers' existence, but the boon to many corporate executives' business plans: Speech recognition systems can make consumers' blood boil as they unsuccessfully try to respond to prompts, such as "Enter your account number," but the technology can also help executives redu...

Web server hacks and Web site defacement are growing at a hefty pace, according to Zone-H, an Internet security monitoring group that released findings of a new study this week at the Infosecurity Europe 2005 event in London. Although it may often be seen as digital graffiti committed by so-called "...

In an April 20 report, Rafael Fernandez, the Recording Industry Association of America's VP of Latin music, declared: "We know that more than any other genre, Latin music is the most heavily pirated." The Big Four record labels' RIAA claims P2P file sharing is wreaking havoc with sales, causing terr...

Municipal wireless networks are generating a great deal of controversy lately, compelling some state legislatures to seek to outlaw them. The reason for the public policy power play at state houses? Powerful wireless service providers and cable companies are lobbying behind the scenes, in states lik...

Touting support from hardware makers and a new crop of hardware drivers, Microsoft this week announced its Windows XP operating system is finally making the move to 64-bit computing. The software giant announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle today that it would s...

The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) is heading up an effort to develop a rating and filtering system for mobile content. The wireless industry trade group is launching the initiative amid the growing interest that the adult entertainment industry, including Playboy, Hus...


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