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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) sellers anxious to keep offering voice and data services using the Internet are asking the federal government to continue to refrain from regulating the industry. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has kept VoIP free of the same regulatory requirements an...

As the writer of several top-20 MP3.com hits last year, Paul Korda's perspective on the convergence of technology and music comes from many years of working as a musician and songwriter. He has seen the old technology meet the new -- and has witnessed the transformation of monolithic Big Music into ...

A new study by a researcher at Cornell University indicates people are more likely to be truthful in e-mail communications than in other media or even in face-to-face conversations. The report, to be unveiled in detail at a human-computer interface conference in Vienna, Austria, this spring, is beli...

Not long ago, TechNewsWorld published a story describing divergent conclusions reached by two recent studies of Web server market share. One, the latest in an ongoing series conducted by UK-based Netcraft, cast its net wide and surveyed a sample of more than 45 million Web sites. It concluded that o...

Microsoft has made available a beta version of its forthcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2, due in full form in the middle of this year. The beta is currently available to testers who will get a glimpse of the major security upgrade that many liken to an entirely new operating system. The new Service ...

At the RSA security conference in San Francisco Tuesday, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices announced a new, security-enhanced Alchemy Au1550 network processor aimed at bolstering security without bogging down servers and applications. AMD said the Au1550 -- armed to support both SSL and IPsec virtual...

When I first moved into management, I was a big fan of outsourcing. It has huge advantages if your eye is on the next higher job. It removes -- almost immediately -- the vast complexities of managing lots of people, and in most countries that includes racial issues, sexual issues, benefits, unions, ...

In what's been called the "Academy Awards for Engineers," four distinguished figures in personal computer history will be awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize tonight at a dinner in Washington, D.C. Sharing the $500,000 prize will be Robert W. Taylor, Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson and Charles P. ...

IBM and Dutch astronomy group Astron have announced a joint research project that will harness the supercomputing capability of IBM's Blue Gene/L to peer back billions of years, deep into the history and even the birth of the universe. Supported by the Dutch government's Ministry of Education, Cultu...

IBM and Nokia have unveiled the latest 9500 Communicator -- a BlackBerry-like handheld capable of running IBM and other enterprise office software applications on Nokia's Symbian operating system. IDC analyst Alex Slawsby told TechNewsWorld that although the new Communicator offers unparalleled mobi...

LOOKING FORWARD

The Shapes of Things To Come

Beige boxes may still be the norm for lots of desktop computer equipment, but people have been fooling around with design ever since they began making machines. While computer design has, by and large, stuck to the basic need for a protective enclosure, there have been some outstanding ideas and som...

Move over, parental warning labels for explicit lyrics and violence, there's something more important on the industry's agenda: preventing piracy. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced with intellectual property purveyors -- including the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),...

A proposed federal lawsuit by a woman in New Jersey alleging racketeering by major music labels is "preposterous" and has little chance of prevailing, entertainment industry lawyers tell TechNewsWorld. The forthcoming lawsuit by Michele Scimeca, said to be a countersuit against members of the Record...

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

VoIP and the New Telecommunications Industry

Voice over Internet Protocol pioneers Skype, Vonage and other voice-communications purveyors have been quietly generating huge user bases online. Market analysts are reporting that VoIP services stand poised to displace conventional telecommunications pricing models. Given the success of improved Vo...

Adding incentive for companies to adopt its Internet Protocol (IP) telephony products, networking giant Cisco has announced new software and hardware to deliver broadcast-quality video and voice over IP networks. Cisco said the addition of video will round out its IP communications offerings. While ...


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