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Mobile phone malware may be farther off than antivirus software makers say, and how far off is up for debate among analysts A Gartner report by security analysts John Pescatore and John Girard released yesterday says that despite the warning signals being sent by antivirus companies, mobile phone users don't really have anything to worry about for ...
The Liberty Alliance today announced it will write specifications designed to enhance the privacy of mobile messaging, a lucrative, but insecure way of selling content. The alliance is a consortium of industry representatives working to create online authentication standards The newly formed alliance team will focus on SMS (short message service) a...
Microsoft will release the beta of its long-talked-about Longhorn Server in August, at about the same time as it releases the beta for the Longhorn desktop OS, Senior Vice President Bob Muglia said in an online chat last week Muglia also suggested that the company may be working on a home version of the 64-bit server system, although one analyst wa...
When Sony opened the proprietary Universal Media Disk (UMD) format it uses in its PlayStation Portable (PSP), it wanted to encourage other companies to provide content specifically for the hand-held device Sony Computer Entertainment, the wholly owned subsidiary of Sony responsible for its game segment, surely had tamer movies and music in mind, bu...
Yahoo has lifted the veil on the "deep Web" with the beta version of Yahoo Subscription Search The "deep Web" includes information on the Web that is not available for free. This information is not listed within general search results. Yahoo will now offer results for sites such as The Wall Street Journal, which offer subscription access and requir...
Yahoo has lifted the veil on the "deep Web" with the beta version of Yahoo Subscription Search The "deep Web" includes information on the Web that is not available for free. This information is not listed within general search results. Yahoo will now offer results for sites such as The Wall Street Journal, which offer subscription access and requir...
Ericsson and Napster said yesterday they will step into the emerging service of offering music over mobile phones. The announcement follows a deal made public yesterday between Sirius radio and Sprint, in which music-enabled Sprint phones will offer streaming content from Sirius Ericsson, the world's leading telecommunications equipment provider, p...
Ericsson and Napster today said they will step into the emerging service of offering music over mobile phones. The announcement follows a deal made public yesterday between Sirius radio and Sprint, in which music-enabled Sprint phones will offer streaming content from Sirius Ericsson, the world's leading telecommunications equipment provider, plans...
Skype, which offers computer-to-computer Voice over IP (VoIP) service, yesterday added voicemail to its repertoire Skype Voicemail service costs US$19 a year or $7 for three months, pre-paid, and allows subscribers to leave unlimited messages for all Skype users and receive messages from any caller. Customers can also send pre-recorded voice messag...
Nokia broadened its cell phone line today, releasing seven new models that it hopes will solidify its No. 1 spot in the market The company has added a 2-megapixel camera phone and three CDMA (code division multiple access) phones. Nokia has faced increasing competition from Motorola and Samsung in the United States, where mobile phone service provi...
In a deal analysts say should make some stockholders happy, Sun Microsystemsannounced today that it would buy StorageTek for US$37 a share, or $4.1 billion, in cash. Both boards of directors have approved the move Sun also agreed to assume StorageTek employees' stock options. Buying the data storage equipment maker gives Sun a wider range of data s...
A beta tool launched by Yahoo Research Labs this week gives searchers control over the way results are sorted with the slide of a bar. At one end of the spectrum is commercial sites and at the other, informational sites Yahoo ranked sites from most commercial (-2 points) to most informational (+2), but cautions that the rankings may need fine-tunin...
Microsoft claims its Xbox 360 promises an all new gaming experience, but the company has ensured that the sound will remain the same by re-upping its deal with Fonix Speech for voice recognition technology Fonix already provides the voice recognition for Xbox games such as the Tom Clancy series including Rainbow Six 3, Rainbow Six 3 Black Arrow, Ra...
Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced that it has been testing a digital rights management (DRM) system called "sterile burning" and has already released 10 CD titles -- about 1 million discs -- with the copy protection. It did not say which ones they were "Sterile burning" limits the number of copies a consumer can make from a purchased CD and pr...
As Sony and Toshiba jockey for position in the next-generation DVD battle, storage company Iomega looks farther into the future Sony, backer of the Blu-ray high-definition DVD format, and Toshiba, backer of rival HD-DVD, have been going head-to-head for three years over which format should prevail, but time is running out. HD-DVD products are slate...
With the help of a racy ad featuring Paris Hilton and outcry from watchdog groups such as the Parents Television Council (PTC), Carl's Jr. has scored a hit so big it just may be hotter than the spicy burger the ubiquitous heiress so suggestively eats in the spot Along with the 30-second commercial, which has been airing in major media markets for a...
With the release of two toolkits this week, IBM has dramatically sped up the time it takes to find and solve application problems by more closely linking development and operations, analysts said The company has integrated Tivoli, its application management software, with Rational, its testing and development tool....
An easy-to-write hack could leave computer users locked out of their own files. The scam, discovered by San Diego security firm WebSense when one of its clients was attacked, encrypts files on infected computers and then seeks a ransom to unlock them It is not the first time security experts have seen "ransom-ware," but it is also unlikely that it ...
The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) has gained another means of fundraising with a special edition notebook computer from Hewlett-Packard and AMD. The Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC has the Livestrong message on the cover and a reproduction of Lance Armstrong's autograph. HP has pledged that US$50 of the purchase price of each PC will be donated to the LAF...
Just a few hours after releasing its new browser, Netscape 8.0, to analysts' praise, America Online has issued a critical update that plugs 44 security holes AOL touted Netscape 8.0's security features, so the release of the patch could be considered a blow. The problem arose because, while the browser emulates Mozilla's open-source Firefox and Mic...
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