PKWare and WinZip, companies that have been competitors in the world of the popular Zip file format, have called a truce on the latest versions of their products in hopes of cultivating greater interoperability between the two companies' file-compression and decryption technologies. Highly used in e...
Move over, pop-ups. There is a new Internet advertising format that promises television-quality video and audio without the usual stutters that typically have been associated with streaming media. Online advertising company Unicast unveiled this week its "video commercial" online ad format, which th...
Consumer electronics giant Panasonic has begun to advance a vision founded on the concept of computing without PCs. Part of the company's plan is to create home networking with a new power-line technology that does not require traditional computers. Scoffing at the PC crowd's contention that compute...
More than three-fourths of all Web users access applications such as instant messaging, media players and file-sharing applications -- not just browsers -- in connecting to the Internet, according to a new study by Internet researcher Nielsen//NetRatings. Out of a total audience of 106 million peopl...
Buzz about Microsoft seeking to partner with or purchase search-superstar Google startled Internet users this week. However, despite rumors to the contrary, Microsoft might wind up using its own technology to compete against Google and other major Internet vendors, such as Yahoo and Amazon. Most rep...
Promising quality improvements and furthering the competition for media players and broadband subscribers, Microsoft's MSN is offering free streaming video in a beta version that will be available to all MSN subscribers in the United States this winter. The move comes as Microsoft seeks to broaden i...
Timing technology updates with the start of school, Apple announced it has sped up its iMac desktop computers with faster processors and beefed up the storage in new iPod digital music players, which are now offered in 20- and 40-GB models. Against a backdrop of lawsuits filed by the Recording Indus...
Lifted by higher sales of more powerful and less expensive notebook computers, the worldwide and U.S. PC markets are delivering better results than expected, according to industry research firm IDC. In its upcoming quarterly forecast, IDC ups its numbers two points, raising the global market growth ...