Thursday, November 3, 2005
Business Tech
- Unisys throws weight behind 'mature' Linux
- Hovsepian now heir apparent at Novell
- Windows Live rooted in MSN's past
- Oracle CFO Maffei to step down
- BEA snaps up small data-access company
- Microsoft buys FolderShare
- Microsoft to ship CRM 3.0 update in December
- Firefox beta out of the foxhole
- Mass. bill endangers OpenDocument decision
- Microsoft alums amass thousands of patents
Threats
- 'Critical' Windows fix coming for PCs
- Microsoft: It's time to protect privacy
- SEC accuses Estonian firm of financial news hack
- When deleting data is not enough
- Give developers secure-coding ammo (Perspective)
- Adware maker: We were victims of cybergang
Access
- Nortel has more records subpoenaed in U.S. probe
- FCC to investigate video franchise rules
- Daddy Techbucks makes a village a hot spot
- Vonage considering sale, reports WSJ
Digital Life
- Atari posts wider quarterly loss
- ThinkPad returns to retail
- Stanford using iTunes to take lectures global
- Discount Razr phones on the horizon?
- Samsung upbeat on chip outlook
- Brazil's bumpy road to the low-cost PC
Media 2.0
- Congress divided on broadcast flag plan
- More H1-B visas on the way?
- Tech firms back Bush Net effort
- Amazon, Random House throw book at Google
- Breathalyzer source code must be disclosed
- FCC says emergency alerts should move online
- Internet revives the video star
- Live video news online? Think flying dinosaurs (Perspective)
- Online music hits a crescendo
- Google touts new features in desktop tool
- AOL's got MusicNow
- Online travel keeps humming along
- Digital pens to prescribe paper some rest
- Google adds library texts to search database
- MySpace.com creates own record label
- CBS streams 'Threshold' on demand
- Samsung to lend iTunes rivals more support
Cutting Edge
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Business Tech
- Lawyer: Open-source risks overblown
- Novell to chop 600 jobs, shed division
- Dell trails IBM, HP in server satisfaction
- Microsoft dips toe in shared source
- Intuit buys MyCorporation for $20 million (News in brief)
- Study: Smaller Singapore firms skirt copyrights
- SGI stock faces delisting
- Mercury taps new CEO, delays financial results
- OpenBSD boosts hardware support
- Update to Linux kernel debuts after 'false alarms'
- Intel reopens upgraded chip plant
Threats
- Microsoft patches may break Web sites
- Cisco squashes 'critical' Net attack bug
- Cisco flaw puts Wi-Fi networks at risk
- Study: IM threats zooming up
- Sony to patch copy-protected CD
- British teen cleared in 'e-mail bomb' case
Access
- VoIP providers band together
- Microsoft acquires Net-calling start-up
- Senators back Net phone reprieve
- Deutsche Telekom to slash 32,000 jobs
- If you believe in broadband, free IPTV (Perspective)
- Cable companies call on Sprint Nextel
- Nokia says smart-phone market to double in 2006
Digital Life
- HP to revamp its plastics formula
- Apple hits new high, on video, PC expectations
- Doh! EA deal for 'Simpsons' games (News in brief)
- Linux PCs: Customer service or lip service?
- Toshiba's risky push on HD DVD
- Dongles: Style, function and a human touch
Media 2.0
- Yahoo goes drag-and-drop for mapping
- Democrats defeat election-law aid for bloggers
- iMesh's music filters skipping a bit
- Big Blue dives into podcast waters
- Netflix members eligible for free upgrade
- Nokia: Mobile TV networks ready by mid-2006
- Local-search start-up nabs financing (News in brief)
- ACLU challenges Patriot Act
- Early Skype backers rev for Revver
- Quote of the day: Telecommuters 'subject to more taxes' (News in brief)
- Broadcast flag bills circulate on the Hill
- Time Warner profit rises 80 percent
- Telecommuters: Beware the tax man
- Net campaign finance reform plan draws opposition
Cutting Edge
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Business Tech
- Gates: Microsoft ready to go 'live'
- New competitors in Microsoft's crosshairs
- Novell names new No. 2 exec
- Finger-pointing after Dell's Halloween scare
- Sun to sell 'Niagara' servers this year
- Fabric7 banks on high-end x86 servers
- Oracle links retail, accounting packages
- Sun loss levels; acquisitions bring growth
- Earnings alert: Sun narrows its loss
- Dell's dilemma--it's about pricing
- Quote of the day: Microsoft's 'dramatic sea change' (News in brief)
- SAP challenges Oracle's Air Force contract
- Higher-end dual-core Xeons, servers arrive
- Gates: We're entering 'live era' of software
- IBM, Sun to create 'OpenDocument Foundation'?
- Mass. officials criticize OpenDocument decision
- HP's Itanium blade due in early 2006
- AMD, IBM expand chip technology research pact (News in brief)
- Google chase could trip up Microsoft
- Red Hat looks under Linux's hood
Threats
- Symantec cuts revenue outlook
- MessageLabs to buy OmniPod for IM security
- British man jailed for eBay phishing fraud
- Apple update fixes Mac OS X flaws (News in brief)
- Sony CD protection sparks security concerns
- Halloween treat for Oracle: A database worm
- British teen in court over 'e-mail bomb' charges
- The battle to shape data security laws
- Bird flu virus infects PCs
- U.S. mulls new digital-signature standard
Access
- Sprint deal with cable TV operators seen
- Motorola settles suit with Nortel's new CEO
- 3Com to take control of Huawei joint venture
- Lessons learned at wireless software maker
- Estonia sets shining Wi-Fi example (Perspective)
Digital Life
Media 2.0
- Opera browser to take flight
- Nominee's past rulings give hint of tech views
- NBC to air Nightly News online
- Lance Armstrong wins cybersquatting case
- Warner Bros. presses play on UMD format
- Wikipedia may go to print, says founder
- Technology and the new class divide (Perspective)
Cutting Edge
Monday, October 31, 2005
Business Tech
- Bulging capacitors haunt Dell
- Dell's third-quarter earnings slip
- Apple releases Mac OS X update (News in brief)
- Insurer launches $10 million open-source policy
- Sun's Solaris now an option for IBM blades
- Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming
- Google throws bodies at OpenOffice
Threats
Access
- Level 3 to acquire WilTel
- Telecom megamergers get final federal OK
- Supreme Court rejects cell phone radiation appeal
- Using Wi-Fi as a competitive weapon
Digital Life
- Will Wal-Mart sell $398 notebooks, desktops?
- Dell lowers third-quarter forecast
- High-tech hijinks for Halloween
- Supreme Court won't review Microsoft patent appeal
- Hitachi profit tumbles
- TV: The extra-large, ultra-small medium
- Samsung readies seventh-generation LCD line
Media 2.0
- Google hiring like it's 1999
- Start-up Revver zooms in on Net video sharing
- Steve Case resigns from Time Warner board
- Sprint dials into music
- Study: Online holiday sales to top $18 billion
- Google names public-affairs chief (News in brief)
- iTunes store counts 1 million video downloads
- Future of TV coming into focus
- The Internet and the future of TV
Cutting Edge
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Business Tech
Digital Life
Media 2.0
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Access
Digital Life
- LG abandons tube TVs in Europe
- Too much tech clutter in your car?
- Making the virtual world a better place
Media 2.0
Friday, October 28, 2005
Business Tech
- Oracle to offer free database
- This week in Microsoft
- HP to unveil Itanium blades next week
- SAP plans to split shares four ways
- Acer sees profit jump, misses forecasts
- Toshiba rides flash chip boom to higher profit
- Microsoft to take Windows from South Korea?
- Microsoft launches Search Technology Center in China
Threats
- Authentica aims to secure BlackBerry e-mail (News in brief)
- Symantec looks to sell more services
- 'Sophisticated' eBay fraudsters jailed in Britain
- AIM worm plays nasty new trick
- This week in biometrics
Access
Digital Life
- This week in legal issues
- VHS lives on--just barely
- Week in pictures: Blue Gene, thinking green
- Palm opens engineering center in Ireland (News in brief)
- Expected 19 percent rise in Lenovo Q2 profit
- A virtual holiday in the virtual sun
- IBM to use Google desktop search deep inside firms
Media 2.0
- Will bloggers get to cover Libby trial?
- This week in Google
- Bloggers jump on Libby indictment
- Purported Janet Jackson nude video hits Net
- Net firms reach deal to avoid new blackout
- Friendster turns up multimedia features
- Sex.com domain hijacker captured
- AirTran exits Expedia (News in brief)
- Police blotter: Feds' cell phone tracking denied
- Cheney aide Libby charged in leak probe
- Singapore bans gay Web site, fines another
- Goodbye songs, hello videos (Perspective)
- 'Lost' finds deeper reality online
Cutting Edge
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Business Tech
- Kai-Fu Lee's California case put on hold
- Intel moves into volume with new chips
- Solectron expands in Mexican 'Silicon Valley' (News in brief)
- NEC Electronics CEO ousted after losses mount
- Blue Gene/L tops its own supercomputer record
- Microsoft earnings present a mixed bag
- Developers get latest Microsoft database, tools
- Taking stock of Sun
- Sun investors just say no to 'poison pill'
- Microsoft shuffles execs as reorg continues
- Intel introduces small-business storage
- Andy Grove donates $26 million to alma mater (News in brief)
- VeriSign grabs Retail Solutions
- Rackable tries to shake up server market
- Sun's CFO to retire
- Microsoft's 'big bang' could be its last
Threats
- Oracle password system comes under fire
- Group pitches anti-spyware guidelines
- Microsoft takes on spam zombies
- Microsoft outlines IE7 security plans
- Flaw hunters pick holes in Oracle patches
Access
- Motorola, Intel team on mobile WiMax
- SBC to use the AT&T name
- Ghost-poets roam on Chinese mobile phones
Digital Life
- RIM inks deal for JPEG patent
- Florida bill aims to curb violent game sales
- Need a job? Don't use a Mac
- U.K.'s oldest court gets high-tech makeover
- Gates foresees Chinese, Indian competitors
- Sony Q2 profit rises 52 percent
- Getting girls in the game
Media 2.0
- NASA financial systems under scrutiny
- RealNetworks swings to profit
- Milk, baseball's next scandal?
- Google flight search takes off
- Amazon ends Drugstore.com deal (News in brief)
- XM Satellite Radio adds subscribers, widens loss
