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Within six months, Philips Electronics expects to release a new interoperable digital rights management (DRM) system. That will be good news for music consumers currently befuddled by a hodgepodge of schemes promoted by the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Napster and RealNetworks. "At the moment various ...
The Canadian equivalent of the Recording Industry Association of America has signaled that it might follow the U.S. model of launching lawsuits against individuals accused of illegal music trading, which the Canadian Recording Industry Association blames for CAN$425 million in lost sales annually. A...
Backing up its declarations that it will refocus on core competencies and protect and grow its communication strength, mobile phone maker Motorola has selected former Sun Microsystems president Edward Zander as its new chairman and chief executive officer. Zander, 56, will take the helm of a 75-year...
Laptops are no longer the slow-but-necessary alternative for mobile professionals. Today's notebooks offer powerful processors, dazzlingly large LCD screens, improved upgradability and features as potent as those you'd find on many desktops -- all at attractive prices. Couple that with the siren son...
Claiming that industry-accepted, association-endorsed CD burning technology in use by several hardware and software companies is infringing on its own 1997 patent, Optima Technology has sued rival Roxio in an attempt to enforce its patent protections. The suit, filed in federal court in Orange Count...
It may have been a long time coming, but Microsoft's newest Service Pack 2 for Windows XP represents several significant changes to the software. Many of the updates and new features, which analysts have said could amount to an entirely different operating system altogether, center on security. The ...
Customers of large big banks, beware. You might be surfing the Web with a bull's-eye on your browser. That's because Internet scam artists have targeted the customers of large financial institutions for their nefarious efforts. The technique used by the grifters is a cyberspace version of the old ba...
Still looking for the perfect gift for that special someone? If that person is a fan of technology, you might want to consider giving him or her one of the latest gadgets to hit the market. Many new products are out this holiday season. To help you narrow the search, TechNewsWorld talked with severa...
In clarifying what is legal for Canadian online music fans, the Canadian Copyright Board ruled that downloading music files from peer-to-peer networks is acceptable. However, the board declared that uploading music files is illegal and also approved a levy on digital music players based on their sto...
In a move that falls in line with analyst predictions about offshore outsourcing, IBM plans to move nearly 5,000 software programming jobs to India and other foreign nations beginning next year, according to a published report. Yankee Group program manager Andy Efstathiou told TechNewsWorld that in ...
I spent the middle part of last week at Microsoft headquarters. For the first time in a long while, I saw an energy that few firms I've covered or worked for have been able to match. It struck me that most of the folks who disagree with my perspective about Microsoft are thinking of the company the ...
Those wanting to represent the Internet graphically to a lay audience are fond of animations showing a spinning Earth criss-crossed by a network of buzzing, vibrating lines. Lift those animations up from the planet a bit, and you get a picture of what space someday could become -- a place where comm...
An alleged sender of unsolicited e-mail whose success earned him the title of "spam king" has been arrested in Virginia in what is being called the first felony prosecution of a spammer in the United States. Virginia officials, who announced the arrest with AOL, MCI and UUNet, charged that Jeremy Ja...
Portability and price have combined to fuel consumer thirst for personal computers, according to IDC findings on worldwide PC shipments -- a trend the company says will be matched by more corporate spending through 2004. Updating its Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, IDC forecast "record levels" for 2...
At the same time that a judge's call for evidence sent SCO Group's stock price lower, the Lindon, Utah-based company was taking a hit on its Web site, against which attackers launched a denial-of-service attack that also knocked some of the company's internal operations offline. SCO, hit by a simila...
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