Computers
Fake guitar suits keep coming from Gibson
Guitar makers Gibson, who recently filed patent infringement suit against Activision for the Guitar Hero game series has taken the same suit to the makers of Rock Band, MTV Networks, Harmonix, and Electronic Arts. Read more…
The WiMAX monetization challenge: When and how?
While some WiMAX players, such as Sprint, are still just dipping their toes into the waters, others are already gaining an early advantage by diving in to this wireless market, with innovative platforms that include supplemental ads. Read more…
How does the US really rank in broadband access?
In numbers that differ markedly from those cited by the US government and other sources, the European Commission is reporting that eight European countries all have higher household broadband deployment rates than in the US. Read more…
Is the Centro helping or hurting Palm?
It's even shaped like a little lifeboat, and it's supposed to bring the Palm brand out of the doldrums and back into people's pockets. The Centro may be doing so, but the problem is, it's doing so at a cost. Read more…
Italian man jailed for emailing nude photos of ex-lover
An Italian man was jailed for more than two years for putting pornographic pictures of his ex-girlfriend on the Internet and sending them out in more than 15,000 emails. The 32-year-old man had created a Web site that appeared to show his ex-girlfriend offering sexual favors and erotic games, wi... Read more…
Storm worm continues its rampage
Malware writers behind the Storm worm have launched a new spam campaign designed to bring more users into its extensive botnet. The latest round of emails are disguised as greeting cards and contain subject lines such as 'Your ecard joke is waiting,' 'You have an ecard' and 'We have a ecard surpr... Read more…
Microsoft: IE 8 to support standards from the start
Aiming to demonstrate that its commitment to interoperability goes beyond fancy statements, Microsoft said Monday that it is shifting its plans for the next version of Internet Explorer to make the program more friendly to Web standards. The software maker said that a planned standards compatibi... Read more…
New Yahoo bookmarking service aimed at mobile phones
Internet search giant Yahoo unveiled Tuesday a new layer to its search service for mobile phones, allowing users to gather "smart" bookmarks in "One Place" to websites across the Web. Marco Boerries, an executive vice president of the US company, also said at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany... Read more…
Ballmer Outlines Vision For Next Computing Revolution
The rise of PCs, graphical user interfaces, the Internet, and Web 2.0 technologies have obviously had major impacts on the IT industry, but according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the computing revolution that's about to take place will tie up all the loose ends from previous ones. In a keynot... Read more…
Microsoft Office Live Workspace Hits Worldwide Beta
Microsoft Monday launched the [url=http://workspace.officelive.com/]public beta[/url] of Office Live Workspace and added a number of features to the service that users can team with the desktop version of Office. Office Live Workspace is not an online version of Office but a number of services th... Read more…
