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In a move to attract new users and entice existing customers to migrate to broadband, AOL and Clearwire on Thursday announced an agreement to offer wireless broadband access. Consumers will now be able to get AOL combined with high-speed wireless broadband provided through Clearwire's Wi-Max class s...
Sony on Thursday announced it would delay the release of the first Blu-ray discs until June 20, giving rival DVD standard HD DVD time to gain traction. Sony said the discs are ready, but retail and hardware partners asked for the month-long delay so the product launch would coincide with the availab...
Skype on Wednesday released the beta version of Skype 2.5 and an early preview of live moderated conversations that allow groups of up to 100 people to talk to one another from anywhere in the world. The Web phone service provider is attempting to take the online social networking concept to Voice o...
Helio on Tuesday launched a U.S. mobile service aimed at young consumers who want to surf the Web with their cell phones. Users can send content, photos and video messages to friends. Dynamic news feeds are incorporated to keep them connected. "Helio is custom-built for the lifestyle of young peopl...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) on Monday introduced a bill that would lower the barriers for phone companies to offer video programming. Telecom titans like AT&T and Verizon lobbied for legislation that would make it easier to get local franchises from thousands of mu...
Recent news headlines have chronicled instant messaging worms and viruses authored by malicious thieves intent on stealing identities. That's only half the story. There is another side to the IM vulnerability threat: internal theft. Internal theft not only compromises privacy assurances, but also pu...
Hundreds of Internet message boards are a haven for teens who cut, scratch, burn or otherwise mutilate their bodies, a Cornell University study reveals. "Internet message boards provide a powerful vehicle for bringing self-injurious adolescents together, and to a great extent, they provide a safe fo...
A new company focused on protecting computer users and businesses against zero-day attacks before exploits hit users' hard drives launched a test version of its first product on Monday. Exploit Prevention Labs introduced a beta edition of a security application dubbed SocketShield. The software inte...
Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed software designed to enable people to share their high-speed wireless connections without sacrificing security or privacy. Researchers believe the software can improve Internet connectivity in residential areas at n...
Nintendo has revealed that it will call its next-generation gaming console simply "Wii." The system will go head to head with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3. Nintendo revealed the new identity of the much-anticipated video game console, previously code-named Revolution, on Th...
Internet telephone company Vonage on Wednesday struck a deal with European WiFi network operator The Cloud. The partnership gives Vonage customers access to its VoIP service over The Cloud's UK wireless broadband network. Vonage customers equipped with its WiFi handset will be able to make VoIP cal...
Skype on Wednesday announced license agreements for worldwide distribution rights to potentially hundreds of thousands of musical works as ringtones for its Internet telephony service. The eBay subsidiary inked deals with three major music publishing companies -- EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music...
At the National Association of Broadcasters 2006 convention in Las Vegas on Monday, Microsoft and Universal Pictures announced a collaboration on the release of next-generation HD DVD discs. The discs use VC-1, the video compression standard recently approved by the Society of Motion Picture and Tel...
Microsoft and AOL on Monday joined forces with the United Kingdom's new Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center. The alliance could see photographs of convicted pedophiles posted on the Internet. The organization will bring together law enforcement officers, specialists from children's chari...
Opera Software on Thursday announced the first public Beta of Opera 9. Opera has been testing the free browser software since last October. The Norwegian software company's latest version includes widgets, small Web programs that run in their own windows on users' desktops. The Opera 9 Beta also fea...
A group of technology industry leaders on Wednesday launched The Green Grid, an effort to help reduce growing power and cooling demands in enterprise datacenters. AMD, HP, Sun Microsystems and IBM are the founding sponsors of the organization whose goals are supported by the Environmental Protection...
Riding on the back of the second annual E-mail Authentication Summit in Chicago, Microsoft on Tuesday claimed rapid adoption of its Sender ID framework for e-mail authentication to fight spam. It also launched improved postmaster services for consumers. There has been a threefold increase in Sender ...
Personal computers may dominate Internet usage today, but mobile phones are poised to invade that territory with wireless browsing capabilities, a new study says. Internet access via the mobile phone actually outpaces wireless access from a notebook PC in many of areas of the world -- a statistic dr...
Technology is all around us. We work on computers, listen to MP3 players, talk on smartphones, snap photos with digital cameras and, well, you get the picture. Technology makes every day life easier -- when it works. What about when it doesn't, or at least when you can't figure out how it does? Man...
Microsoft's latest series of patches is brewing trouble for some customers. While the MS06-015 patch was designed to fix a flaw in Windows Explorer, it is also causing plenty of problems for people who use HP printers, scanners and digital cameras. Those who use Sunbelt Software's Kerio Personal Fir...
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