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VoIP Creates Problems for Using 911

A lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general against Vonage -- which claims the company misled VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) customers about 911 emergency service -- brings up one of the problems with emergingtelecommunications technology ...

Analysts Shrug at IBM Anti-Spam Release

IBM today released a free download of a new spam filtering tool, FairUCE (Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail), which it admits is not a full-fledged solution but a technology foundation that could one day reachthe marketplace ...

Oracle Claims Retek as SAP Withdraws

Oracle and its CEO, Larry Ellison, have won the battle to acquire retail software maker Retek, signing a definitive merger agreement announced today. SAP, Oracle's rival in the quest to buy Retek, bowed out of the bidding ...

Yahoo Buys Flickr Photo-Sharing Service

While there's been no official word from either company, confirmation is outon the Web that Yahoo has acquired Flickr, the photo sharing company. Rumorsof such a deal have been circulating for weeks ...

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PSP: Great for Gaming, Mediocre for Multimedia

The ample media coverage of the U.S. release of Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) makes two things clear: It's a great gaming machine but not a great convergence device; and Sony operates a fabulous buzz machine ...

Hatch To Lead Senate Panel on Intellectual Property

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), once nicknamed "Terminator" for his 2003 comment thatthe recording industry should be allowed to remotely destroy the computersof file-sharers, was named today to head a new Senate subcommittee onintellectual property ...

Oracle Ups Bid for Retek – Will SAP Raise Again?

Oracle bumped up its bid to acquire Retek late yesterday, in the second round of its battle with SAP for the retail applications developer ...

SAP Ups Bid To Wrest Retek from Oracle

SAP took another shot in its battle with Oracle, raising to US$11 a share its bid for Retek. SAP had been set to buy the retail applications provider for $8.50 a share, then Oracle countered at $9 ...

CTO Alan Nugent Leaves Novell

Novell's chief technology officer, Alan Nugent, has left the company, LinuxInsider has learned ...

RIM Settles Patent Suit for $450 Million

RIM announced today that it has settled a years-long patent fight by agreeing to pay US$450 million to NTP, a U.S. patent-holding company. In exchange, RIM will be allowed to continue operating its BlackBerry wireless business ...

IBM Mouse Adapter Helps Hand-Tremor Sufferers

Computer users who suffer from hand tremors often find it difficult tonegotiate a computer because shaking disturbs the smooth flow of the mouse.IBM today announced that its researchers had developed an Assistive MouseAdapter that compensates for the involuntary motion and allows normal mouseuse ...

Google Lets Users Tailor News

Google's news site, perpetually in beta, got an upgrade this week with the addition of a customization feature. ...

SAP, Intel Join To Promote RFID Tags

Software developer SAP and chip designer Intel said today at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, that they would collaborate on technology to allow companies to integrate data collected from RFID chips ...

CherryOS Emulator Faces Licensing Problems

Five months after a preview version of CherryOS was released to cries that it was merely a copy of the open-source PearPC, software distributor Maui X-Stream has done it again. The Hawaii-based company re-released a final version of CherryOS on Tuesday to a similar reception ...

Oracle Muscles in on SAP-Retek Deal

Oracle, never a company to shy from head-on competition, announced todaythat it would outbid rival SAP in its attempt to buy software maker Retek,offering US$9 per share. SAP had agreed last week to pay $8.50 a share ...

Identity Theft Hits Another Data Broker

For the second time in less than a month, Americans are finding out that their private information may be in the hands of identity thieves ...

Arizona Prosecutes Teen for Internet Piracy

While Internet piracy and copyright infringement are usually thought ofas federal crimes, one University of Arizona student found that that is notalways the case ...

Senate Bill Would Add New Tool To Catch Phishers

In an attempt to cut down on the exponential growth of phishing scams, Sen.Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, introduced a bill yesterday that defines the penaltiesfor perpetrators ...

Craigslist Beamed to Extraterrestrials

Craigslist announced today that it would expand theodds of finding true love, a vintage couch or a long lost pal by beaming itsads into outer space ...

Sony’s New Walkman Features Phone, Camera

Sony Ericcson has dusted off the Walkman name and attached it to its latestmultipurpose device: the W800, which contains a phone, a 2megapixel camera and a music player ...

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