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In a move to further extend its reach beyond the desktop, Yahoo on Wednesday said it is making its suite of mobile applications available for phones using Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system Users of phones such as the Motorola Q can now tap into Yahoo Go for Mobile services, which include mail, search, photos, an address book and a calenda...
Amazon.com has begun peddling Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system on its Web site. The Internet giant is displaying the Vista logo and has priced the software at US$100 to $399. Pricing is similar to what Microsoft currently charges for most versions of Windows XP The software is not yet currently shipping, but Amazon is allowing customers ...
Google Google has added a new feature to its Book Search program that allows users download and print classic novels and obscure books from the public domain -- for free The program launched Wednesday to give readers the ability to view, browse and read the full texts of books that are in the public domain....
The WiFi Alliance on Tuesday announced plans to certify interoperability of WiFi products that include baseline features from the developing Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.11n standard in the first half of 2007 This is the first phase in a certification program of the next generation of WiFi products. A second phase brings fu...
StopBadware.org on Monday put AOL's version 9.0 on its "Badware Watch List." The anti-spyware group cites, among other factors, the inclusion of bundled software applications and nondisclosure of additional installed components as reasons for its concern The report is one in a recent series released by the group, which is backed by Harvard Law Scho...
Corel on Monday announced it would acquire InterVideo in an all-cash transaction worth US$196 million InterVideo develops multimedia DVD software that lets users record, edit, author, distribute and play digital multimedia content on PCs and other devices. InterVideo's 2005 majority interest acquisition of Ulead allowed the company to gain traction...
Taking another step intoMicrosoft territory,Google on Monday launched Google Apps for Your Domain, a set of free hosted applications targeting small- to mid-sized businesses The software allows users to send e-mail through Google's Web-based Gmail service that displays the company's domain name. The communications bundle also includes Calendar, an ...
The confusion around Microsoft's plans to support high-definition protected content in its Windows Vista operating system continued on Friday as conflicting reports flood the news media Australian tech publicationAPC Magazine first reported in its coverage of Tech2006 in Sydney that Microsoft would never support high-definition protected content, s...
Microsoft on Thursday took the cover off Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), the last version of the popular browser it expects to release before going live with a final version later this year RC1 may not look much different from the most recent IE 7 beta on the front end, but Microsoft said it has tuned up the browser to offer noticeab...
School children will have to take the "P" out of whatever mnemonic they use to help them remember the solar system's planet lineup. That's because astronomers decided on Thursday to nix Pluto from the group of nine planets under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system The International Astronomical Union withdrew Pluto's planetary st...
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday activity carried over from last week into this one as the software giant promised to issue a fix for its latest Internet Explorer security patch, which apparently carries a security bug of its own The vulnerability could allow attackers to take complete control over a Windows PC running IE 6 with Service Pack 1 and the MS0...
Microsoft on Tuesday launched a legal campaign against parties that register Web addresses designed to attract visitors by using trademarked terms and common misspellings of more popular domains The software giant filed three lawsuits this week against alleged "cybersquatters" and "typosquatters." Microsoft estimates that these types of individuals...
In a move to compete with Google's controversial book search service, LibreDigital on Tuesday announced a service of its own that allows book publishers to digitally capture and deliver controlled book content online LibreDigital, a division of NewsStand, said its Warehouse service makes it possible for publishers to bring their top titles to the W...
Microsoft is extending an olive branch of sorts to rival Mozilla Sam Ramji, director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, has offered to help Mozilla make sure its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client run smoothly on Windows Vista....
Samsung Electronics on Sunday announced the first 70-inch LCD panel aimed at the consumer marketplace Until now, Sharp offered the largest LCD TV screen, at 65 inches. Samsung will demonstrate its 70-inch LCD HDTV at the International Meeting on Information Displays 2006, which will open in Daegu, Korea, on Wednesday....
SanDisk on Monday unveiled the 8-gigabyte Sansa e280, which offers audio, photo viewing and video clip playback capabilities at a price tag of US$249.99 The e280 is the latest in SanDisk's lineup designed to compete with Apple's market-leading iPod....
Amid the chatter over fixes included in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release for this month, the software giant quietly announced that two patches in its Aug. 8 security bulletin also pertain to Windows Vista A posting on the Windows Vista Security blog confirmed that MS06-042 and MS06-051 are also intended for Vista Beta 2. Windows Vista is the first...
Microsoft on Friday said it added US$16.2 billion to its ongoing share buyback plan, nearly doubling its repurchase authorization to $36.2 billion through June 30, 2011 The software giant is sitting on a stockpile of cash. Microsoft had $34.16 billion in cash and short-term investments as of June 30, the end of its fiscal year. Last month, the comp...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the agency that supervises Internet domain names, has renewed its contract with the United States Department of Commerce to continue to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority function The IANA function includes Internet Protocol address space allocation, protocol identifier assignmen...
New developments are shaping the high definition DVD landscape. The latest news in the evolving Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format battle comes from Sony, which this week said Japan and the United States will share the same region code for Blu-ray disc players. The company also announced that it has started shipping 50 GB dual layer Blu-ray recordable, write-once media...
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