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Social networking software and Web-based tools have proliferated in the past few years. These networks operate by creating a tree of contacts beginning with the user, followed by the friends and associates to whom she or he extends an invitation, the friends to whm they extend an invitation, and so on. The contacts are then linked in varying degrees and can act as an introduction of sorts...
Storage giant EMC today announced updates of two backup products, just days after it went on the attack, beginning a campaign -- "Safe Switch" -- to lure customers from its rival and the leader in the backup software market, Veritas EMC has released Legato NetWorker 7.2 and Dantz Retrospect 7 for Windows. NetWorker targets enterprises that have lar...
Take-Two Interactive Media may not have hit a home run, but the video-game maker swatted a solid double against its major opponent, Electronic Arts, when it cemented a deal with Major League Baseball Take-Two, developer of the wildly popular Grand Theft Auto franchise, signed a long-term agreement with MLB and the MLB Players Association for third-...
In the never-ending march of new search engine features, Yahoo Local this week added a "send to phone" option to itssearch results Now customers who have mobile phone service from Cingular/AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint or Nextel will be able to send text messages with the address and phone number of, for instance, a restaurant directly from thei...
Google's latest release is a tool not for search engine users, but for thecompanies that advertise on the site. The API (application developmentinterface), made available yesterday in beta, should give its partners moreprecise ways to manage their online advertising campaigns, Google said The API is linked to the AdWords program, which allows adver...
Microsoft has taken another step to clamp down on pirated software, announcing yesterday that it will require participation in its Windows Genuine Advantage program to get updates and downloads from its Web site The software giant did not go so far as to cut off users from its automatic updates, which means that even people using pirated versions c...
Searching for video content online may be a hard nut to crack, but that hasn't stopped fierce competitors Google and Yahoo from entering the fray, albeit in different fashions Search engines must consider both the difficulty of searching video using a written medium and the intellectual property rights of the content owners....
IBM is set to tackle the entry-level server market next month with the release of its two-way OpenPower 710 The RISC-based open-source server is designed to compete head-to-head with Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems' servers for Unix and Linux, but Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff told LinuxInsider that IBM's product has a built-in advantage....
In a clever twist on mass-mailed malware, a new worm masquerades as a CNNbreaking news bulletin complete with updated headlines to mimic the storiesappearing on CNN.com The content of the e-mail also comes directly from the news site. Astutee-mail users will note, however, that the bogus e-mail contains an attachment,the worm known as Crowt-A, whil...
Sun is expected to take a step forward next week with its plan to release the code for its Solaris 10 operating system. The company has scheduled a news conference on Tuesday where John Loiacono, Sun's executive vice president of software, will give an update on the issue Sun's Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) was approved earlie...
Microsoft today upped the ante on Web-based consumer services, announcingMicrosoft Office Outlook Live, which synchronizes Outlook and Hotmailcontent The service will cost US$59.95 a year but is being offered through April 19for $44.95. For that price, consumers get the downloadable Outlook 2003 for Subscription Services, 2 GBof Hotmail or MSN Mail...
Having gobbled up JD Edwards and PeopleSoft, Oracle yesterday held a comingout party for "Project Fusion," its plan to meld theproducts of the three companies and hold onto the customer base for which it paidUS$10.5 billion "The big news is that Oracle is not forcing customers to migrate," EvanQuinn, vice president of enterprise application researc...
Google added to its big picture today with the release of Picasa 2 photo management software. The search engine company is giving away the new release, a major upgrade from the first version, which it acquired when itpurchased its developer, also named Picasa, in July Picasa 2 is available for download from the Google download site....
After eight years at the helm, TiVo co-founder Mike Ramsey has decided torelinquish the CEO's chair when a successor is named. Ramsey will continuein his role as chairman TiVo's struggles to gain market share in the digital video recorder (DVR)market that it pioneered are well documented. Last week at the ConsumerElectronics Show, the company annou...
A new phone from Samsung Electronics has the ability to recognize and respond to the motion of its user, opening the door to a host of new mobile phone features The SCH-S310, to be released in Korea in March, allows callers to perform such functions as speed-dial by gesture, such as "writing" a number in the air with the phone....
Oracle today officially released the mobile version of its grid computingdatabase, 10g A version of Database Lite 10g has been in use since 1996 as a means ofaccessing the main 10g database through PDAs, laptops and handheldcomputers. The company says its new release is a giant step ahead of theprevious mobile management offering....
International Business Machines announced today that it plans to provide free access to the information in 500 company patents to individuals and groups working on open-source software The company said this could be the largest pledge of patents of any kind and applies to any individual, community or company working on or using open-source software...
Samsung has found a way to increase memory while allowing for theever-thinner profile of mobile devices, the company announced today Its eight-die multichip package (MCP) creates an eight-layer chip stack1.4 mm thick, the space normally taken up by four chips. The chips have acapacity of 3.2 GB....
In the doldrums of January, how could it be hard to sell Tahiti? Perhaps that was TiVo's thought when it named the strategy it unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. "Tahiti" is the umbrella term for the company's plans for a host of premium services designed to compete against the ever-encroaching DVR boxes from cable and satellite TV providers...
McAfee has released a list of the top 10 computer threats of 2004, but the security firm hasn't gone far enough, according to one analyst "The McAfee list, while I'm sure it's accurate according to theirmethodology, leaves quite a few very important points unsaid," Ed Moyle ofSecurityCurve told TechNewsWorld....
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