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Netscape, AOL Seal HP Distribution Deal

Like a film that fantasizes what would happen if the other side won the war, AOL's Netscape browser won a huge distribution deal with HP this week, putting the challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer on the PC giant's North American notebook and desktop computers beginning next year The deal is not fiction, though, as Netscape has emerged renew...

Netscape Wins Net Gain With HP

Like a film that fantasizes what would happen if the other side won the war, AOL's Netscape browser won a huge distribution deal with HP this week, putting the challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer on the PC giant's North American notebook and desktop computers beginning next year The deal is not fiction, though, as Netscape has emerged renew...

DVD Format Fight Fueled by Paramount, Others

The lines continue to take shape and blur as technology companies throw their weight behind the competing HD-DVD and Blu-ray high-definition DVD formats, while also hedging their bets by declaring a willingness to support either or both next-generation discs The recent jockeying has included: Microsoft and Intel endorsing HD-DVD; Dell, Hewlett-Pack...

Kodak Takes WiFi Camera to Market

What do you get when you combine two of the hottest consumer electronics technologies and put them into a single device? It's the WiFi digital camera, according to Kodak The company claimed it was first to release such a device, dubbed Easyshare-One, a 4 Megapixel, 3x optical zoom digital camera capable of connecting to the Internet or PC for photo...

Dell Gets Serious With Fun and Games

PC powerhouse Dell this week unveiled its latest line of ultra high-end PCs in its XPS computers and new digital televisions in a quest to capture the usual gaming and technology enthusiast, early-adopter PC market Although much attention has been paid to the next-generation Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles from Microsoft and Sony, Dell said it ...

Microsoft Moves Deeper Into Storage

Looking to leverage the latest trend toward continuous, disk-based backup, Microsoft unveiled this week its Data Protection Manager (DPM) and said its solution was available in storage servers and appliances from Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu and others Microsoft touted a lower-cost backup and recovery capability that is also faster and "near continuous...

Google Gets Bigger, But Doesn’t Say How Much

It is not uncommon for a 7-year-old to view themselves as the center of the universe and the largest persona among their peers, and search engine superstar Google is no different To mark its seventh anniversary, Google touted a Web search index three times that of any competitor, but despite former claims of billions and billions of Web documents i...

Treo Smartphone Gets Windows Put in by Palm

Formerly bitter rivals Palm and Microsoft announced an alliance this week in hopes of strengthening both companies in smartphone technology, devices that combine mobile phone functionality and Internet connectivity So what makes two enemies that have fought fiercely over the mobile handset space come together? The answer is market and money, Ovum V...

When Technology Wastes Time

Technology intended to untie the American worker is actually taking a tremendous toll, according to new research from IT analysis firm Basex. The report indicates that technology tools, including e-mail and instant messaging, are the main culprits when it comes to unnecessary interruptions that cost U.S. companies nearly US$600 billion per year The...

Palm Puts Windows in Treo Smartphone

Formerly bitter rivals Palm and Microsoft announced an alliance this week in hopes of strengthening both companies in smartphone technology, devices that combine mobile phone functionality and Internet connectivity So what makes two enemies that have fought fiercely over the mobile handset space come together? The answer is market and money, Ovum V...

Credit Reporting Companies Co-Opt Encryption

Equifax, Experian and TransUnion have revealed plans to collaborate on encryption standards to strengthen their protection of sensitive consumer data, which has increasingly become the favorite target of attackers motivated by profit There was praise for the agencies' increased protection plan, which will include coordination on industry encryption...

Broadband Growth Burning Out, Report Says

Fewer of the remaining Americans not hooked up to the Internet are getting online, and fewer existing dial-up users are spending enough time on the Web to want to move up to broadband access, reports the Pew Internet Project in its latest study on U.S. broadband growth Pew's May 2005 survey indicated that 53 percent of Americans get online with hig...

Report: Broadband Growth Burning Out

Fewer of the remaining Americans not hooked up to the Internet are getting online, and fewer existing dial-up users are spending enough time on the Web to want to move up to broadband access, reports the Pew Internet Project in its latest study on U.S. broadband growth Pew's May 2005 survey indicated that 53 percent of Americans get online with hig...

Google Goes for Wireless Gamble

Google is synonymous with Web search, but now the company is continuing its recent multi-directional movement by going ahead with Google Secure Access, a beta WiFi connection program available for free Provided to a limited service area, the effort nevertheless marks yet another area in which Google has begun to place its inimitable mark, joining t...

Cellular Broadband Notebooks Boosted By Deals

Three hardware heavyweights unveiled notebook computers capable of cellular broadband wireless service from Verizon this week, bolstering support for the wireless technology and improving its performance with plans for built-in, roaming broadband capabilities Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo all announced new notebook computers that will ship with ...

Symantec Report: Profit-Driven Desktop Attacks on the Rise

Today's virus outbreaks are not as loud as the Code Red attacks of a couple years ago, but beneath the quieter computing landscape is a perilous push to turn the growing amount of personal computers and personal information into profit through cybercrime, the latest Threat Report from security firm Symantec indicated this week The Symantec findings...

Report: Attackers Quietly Target Desktops, Personal Data

Today's virus outbreaks are not as loud as the Code Red attacks of a couple years ago, but beneath the quieter computing landscape is a perilous push to turn the growing amount of personal computers and personal information into profit through cybercrime, the latest Threat Report from security firm Symantec indicated this week The Symantec findings...

RIAA Threatens, File-Trading Grows

Having won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against peer-to-peer (P2P) operators running unlicensed file-sharing networks, namely the once-popular Grokster, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has sent cease-and-desist letters to seven more P2P outfits in the U.S However, online music industry experts indicate that despite its court vic...

Microsoft Reveals Its Designs on Design

Microsoft may be facing the same kind of dominance it owns on the desktop as it looks to further draw developers to its latest software for graphic design and animation, where Adobe and Macromedia own the bulk of the market However, industry observers are quick to point out the benefits of Microsoft's integration of design software with its operati...

Campus Connectivity: No Wires

College has always represented a degree of independence -- free from parents, free from the constraints of childhood, and sometimes free from the "real world" of work, but U.S. campuses are also increasingly representing independence from wires, with mobile phones and notebook computers becoming as popular and prevalent as books and beer Major wire...

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