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The U.S. Congress is plotting out the transition from today's over-the-air analog broadcast television to digital television -- setting a 2009 date and the basic structure for assisting consumers who do not have satellite or cable TV service While these are necessary first steps, there are still a number of unresolved issues. One concerns who will ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week claimed the CAN-SPAM Act has cut down on the number of unsolicited spam e-mails reaching consumers, indicating the legislation and improved anti-spam technology have resulted in less spam this year compared to 2003 The FTC also announced a cross-border spam crackdown with Canadian authorities and urged e...
Security giant McAfee says 2006 may be the year that malicious software takes off on increasingly connected and unprotected smartphones The security software vendor warned of an alarming growth in mobile Trojans and other malware, which are likely to impact mobile phones on a global basis and cause more damage because the devices generally lack the...
Security giant McAfee says 2006 may be the year that malicious software takes off on increasingly connected and unprotected smartphones The security software vendor warned of an alarming growth in mobile Trojans and other malware, which are likely to impact mobile phones on a global basis and cause more damage because the devices generally lack the...
Predictions for the future and realities of the past are being fused together via Internet technology. Increasingly, Web sites and services are popping up that save e-mails for a pre-determined amount of time that a user can send to him or herself in the near or distant future While there are a number of sites now providing such services, FutureMe....
Digital cinema projection and distribution moved one step closer to the mainstream this week as three major theater companies announced their collaboration on a digital cinema business plan National CineMedia (NCM) founding members AMC Entertainment, Cinemark USA and Regal Entertainment said they would work together to bring down the cost of digita...
Intel will sponsor automobile maker BMW's Sauber F1 racing team and also will partner with the car maker to get more Intel technology into BMW automobiles, the chip giant said this week The Sauber sponsorship is a marketing win for Intel, which will replace rival chip maker AMD as part of BMW's Formula One race team. It also highlights a growing de...
The HD-DVD next-generation video disc format may be losing one of its biggest advantages over the competing Blu-ray format. Toshiba admitted this week that the Japanese launch of its HD-DVD player has been postponed in the latest of a continuing string of delays. With this news, the technology has lost what could have been at least a six-month head start over Blu-ray...
Mobile phone giant Sprint Nextel is reportedly set to offer movies for its cell phone subscribers through a subscription service, a strategy analysts said will likely struggle against limited demand for small-screen content. The company's mobile devices will accommodate downloads of full-length feature films The move is viewed as yet another experi...
At long last, the mobile WiMAX specification, a wide-area wireless solution that extends bandwidth and connectivity, has been ratified by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), clearing the way for standard equipment that uses the technology However, industry observers indicated WiMAX technology will not be available in produ...
The only figure that is larger than the 81 percent of home PCs that lack critical security applications such as anti-virus, anti-spyware or firewall software is the 83 percent of home PC users who falsely believe they are safe from online theft of information and identity, according to AOL's latest Online Safety study The survey indicated phishing ...
Media giant News Corp. is looking to weigh in bigger online, telling investors this week that it intends to build on the success of its MySpace.com site, will show some of its television programming exclusively on the Internet, and will try its hand at Web search There was speculation that the search part of the equation would most likely come thro...
IBM announced its latest "self-healing" software, touting a sidestep to IT staff-stealing glitches and other outages through managed monitoring, application manager, and multi-platform system automation software Big Blue said by freeing IT teams from finding and fixing glitches in typical, sophisticated systems and networks, its simplified manageme...
Microsoft is testing its new comprehensive security software and service, dubbed OneCare Live, promising a simpler solution to anti-virus, firewall and backup, but has not released pricing for the new product due out in final form next year The software giant said the comprehensive PC security service -- rumored for months in the security community...
Just as it helped spawn a movement toward its wireless technology with Centrino, Intel is looking to put the PC in the pole position for home entertainment with its Viiv platform that is now supported by more than 40 software, content and service companies, including TiVo Intel said its Viiv technology -- developer and device integration tools for ...
Just as it helped spawn a movement toward its wireless technology with Centrino, Intel is looking to put the PC in the pole position for home entertainment with its Viiv platform that is now supported by more than 40 software, content and service companies, including TiVo Intel said its Viiv technology -- developer and device integration tools for ...
Several recent software and service offerings indicate there is a market for users of open-source software worried about the intellectual property and related legal repercussions of that use, but how big of an issue, and how big of of a market, is it? Legal observers and those who provide the services said it is a growing market borne out of the re...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission took action against spyware this week by asking a U.S. District Court Judge to halt an operation that allegedly plagued users who clicked for free file-sharing software with performance-slowing, private-information-gathering software that also altered search results for victims The FTC said Odysseus Marketing and p...
RadioShack may be more associated with remote controlled toy cars than cutting edge technology, but a deal with voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) provider Skype puts the retailer at the forefront of the Internet-based voice technology's move to mainstream RadioShack said it will sell Skype hardware and software, previously available only online, ...
The time American Internet users spend online increasingly involves searches for information, with the practice now trailing only e-mail as users' primary purpose of using the Web, according to the latest survey from the Pew Internet Project The group said its survey indicated search engine users in the U.S. jumped from about 38 million in June 200...
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