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Great Britain's On Demand Distribution (OD2) might be the biggest online music downloader in the region right now, but the company is preparing for battle with the likes of Apple's iTunes and the reborn Napster, unveiling this week its own digital jukebox that will provide pay-as-you-go music for ab...
Details of five new mobile devices, a software roadmap overview, new mobile infrastructure equipment and updated 2004 volume projections all featured prominently among the news at the annual Nokia Connection conference held today simultaneously in Singapore and Helsinki. Chairman and CEO Jorma Ollil...
Last week I attended the HP analyst conference and I suddenly realized that the dynamic surrounding the mess we currently have with consumer electronics has changed. For some time I've been concerned that we have been focusing, as an industry, way too much on technologies that engineers care about a...
German-language spam containing right-wing messages and proclaiming disapproval with the presence of Turks and other immigrants in Germany were being received around worldwide today. The barrage began on Wednesday and initially inundated e-mail accounts of users in the United States, the Netherlands...
Arrests have been made in several countries stemming from the October 2003 theft of computer source code for a Half-Life 2, a much-anticipated sequel to the popular computer game Half-Life. Tips from an online gaming community led to the arrests after an eight-month investigation by the U.S. Federal...
Among the first to realize the potential of a computer that could be used by individuals and learning students, Alan Kay has been awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for his life's work at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and elsewhere, which laid the groundwork for today's PC. As the winner of t...
The Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a critical six-minute trajectory correction maneuver May 27th to put it on course with its first encounter, Saturn's outermost moon Phoebe, set for June 11th. The spacecraft is operating normally and is in excellent health. "The maneuver is very critical...
It's not clear why the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) chose San Francisco, home of "Protesters R Us" and "Rent-a-Mob," for its annual convention this week. But one thing is for sure, the byproduct has been a measure of enlightenment, particularly concerning the protesters. These are 1960s...
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has become an increasingly hot market, with new players such as Vonage touting the ability to deliver voice communications for less cost. While there are technical, regulatory and other issues that remain ahead for VoIP, security was highlighted as a chief concern...
The entertainment industry and civil liberties advocates have their dirks leveled at each other's throats again -- this time over a proposed California law aimed at protecting anonymous free speech on the Internet. While proponents of the legislation say it's needed to protect employees exercising t...
Spam is stuffing consumer and corporate e-mail inboxes with useless pitches for unwanted products and services. It is also clogging bandwidth and contributing to traffic congestion on the Internet. Experts estimate that as much as 60 percent of all e-mail that enters inboxes every day is spam, unsol...
VeriSign's quarterly domain name report indicates that with more than 63 million registered domain names, the Internet's .com and .net top level domain (TLD) names are at an all-time high. At the same time, the number of domain names that are actually connected to working Web sites is also on the up...
Microsoft probably does not mind that its monthly round of security patches for June are causing much less of a ruckus than previous months when the company was caught in the middle of a worm war that targeted its Windows systems and forced the company to play catch-up with vulnerabilities that were...
NASA's solar-powered Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is beginning on Thursday what controllers expect to be frequent use of an overnight "deep sleep" mode to stretch the robot's power supply. Opportunity has managed only one to two hours of activity on many recent days while it has been examining...
Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia said Tuesday its global market share tanked in the first quarter due to bad design and shaky business relationships. Nokia's global market share fell to 28.9 percent in the first three months of the year, compared to 34.6 percent it held a year ago, reported Gar...
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