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Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun are some of what you'd expect from a trip to McDonald's. Now, fast food diners can also expect to play some of their favorite video games at the leading burger chain's restaurants. Nintendo has signed an agree...
Skype's popularity rose to a whole new level when eBay purchased the VoIP provider last month. Now, the free Internet telephony service has become the victim of a spoof campaign designed to infect users with an IRCbot Trojan. Messaging security and management services provider MessageLabs yesterday ...
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun are some of what you'd expect from a trip to McDonald's. Now, fast food diners can also expect to play some of their favorite video games at the leading burger chain's restaurants. Nintendo has signed an agree...
Inform Technologies today announced a Web site that lets online news consumers navigate through multiple news Web sites in one location. Inform.com went live today in a beta version. Inform is the brainchild of Neal Goldman, founder of Capital IQ, who sold a similar information distribution tool for...
Palm yesterday unveiled a new PDA with built-in WiFi and -- rock n' roll. Palm is working with Alliance Group Entertainment to provide multimedia content on Palm handhelds, mobile managers and smartphones. Dubbed Palm TX, the PDA-maker's latest device hit store shelves yesterday complete with the so...
Skype has been making some new friends since it was acquired by eBay last month. The VoIP provider's latest announcement taps Cisco Systems' Linksys division. The companies announced an agreement this week to market a cordless phone designed to take free Skype Internet phone calling off the computer...
The past two years have seen several high-profile corporate scandals that illustrate the dramatic consequences of e-mail misuse -- and those are just the ones that have made headlines. In fact, one in five employers has had an e-mail subpoenaed by courts and regulators, and another 13 percent have b...
WiFi may see more rapid advancement, thanks to a new coalition determined to accelerate the IEEE 802.11n standard development process. Twenty seven WiFi industry leaders banded together this week under the name Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC). These diverse companies have one common goal: to spee...
In the latest in a long string of mergers and acquisitions in the security segment, Check Point Software Technologies yesterday said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sourcefire for about US$225 million in cash and stock. Sourcefire is the developer behind Snort, an open-source intrusion p...
AOL has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weblogs, Inc. AOL said the acquisition gives it a cadre of online content that ranges from music to movies, travel to tech, food to fashion, medicine to mortgages and offers online consumers new micro-communities where they can connect, debate, edito...
America Online this week announced new initiatives aimed at protecting its 20 million Internet service subscribers from phishing attacks. As a result, AOL said it is blocking roughly 8 million phishing attempts against its members each day. Phishing is the use of fraudulent e-mail and fake Web sites...
AOL today signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weblogs, Inc. AOL said the acquisition gives it a cadre of online content that ranges from music to movies, travel to tech, food to fashion, medicine to mortgages and offers online consumers new micro-communities where they can connect, debate, edi...
Dell yesterday began peddling its latest PC without an operating system. The computer is designed for consumers who plan to install open-source software instead of commercial tools and platforms. Dubbed the Dimension E510n PC, the computer comes with a blank hard drive and a copy of the FreeDOS oper...
Motorola will tap Microsoft's platform to enhance its emergency services software applications, the company announced today. The Microsoft-Motorola alliance will provide marketing and development support to deliver a rapid incident management solution for law enforcement, first responder and crimina...
Low-cost general use PCs are becoming a reality with recent announcements from both the MIT Media Lab and AMD. Chipmaker AMD began peddling a US$299 PC designed for emerging markets at U.S. Radio Shack stores over the weekend. AMD launched the the Personal Internet Communicator (PICs) in India about...
Smart mobile devices are surpassing the growth in the overall mobile market, according to new research from Canalys. Shipments of converged smart mobile devices, namely smartphones and wireless handhelds, grew from 3.6 million in the first half of 2004 to 9.6 million in the first half of 2005, repre...
In a move to tap into the growing popularity of the digital device type that Apple's iPod has made a household name, the Walt Disney Co. yesterday announced plans to peddle a kid-sized MP3 player. Disney Mix Sticks is about the size of a pack of gum, holds about 60 songs on a 128 Mb storage card and...
MIT researchers are forging ahead with plans to put US$100 laptops into the hands of the world's children. A prototype of the low-cost laptop is due in November, but Negroponte showed off blueprints at the Emerging Technologies conference at MIT this week. MIT Media Lab leader Nicholas Negroponte sa...
In its first release since it was acquired by eBay earlier this month, VoIP provider Skype yesterday introduced a new version for Windows platform. The new Skype for Windows 1.4 includes more mobility options, new ways for callers to personalize Skype with ringtones, sounds and pictures. Skype recen...
In its first release since it was acquired by eBay earlier this month, VoIP provider Skype today introduced a new version for Windows platform. The new Skype for Windows 1.4 includes more mobility options, new ways for callers to personalize Skype with ringtones, sounds and pictures. Skype recently ...
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