Skype Launches Next Generation Free Internet and Video Calling for Everyone
Partnerships with Logitech, Six Apart and Creative enhance experience for Skype consumers worldwide — LUXEMBOURG, 1 December 2005 - Skype, the global Internet communications company, today released ...
Microsoft Touts Vista's Restart Manager Feature
Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot ...
Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed
Some Say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer — A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service providers should be allowed to strike de...
A false Wikipedia 'biography'
"John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both ...
Crippling Firefox Bug On Mac OS X
As I'm sure you all know, Firefox v1.5 has been officially released and is available for download. Got a G5 processor? Check out this page to download a G5-optimized version of the Fox that is a bit...
Upload, Store, Play and Share in a Few Clicks
IN Hollywood, young screenwriters have "elevator pitches" always at the ready - pithy descriptions of their screenplays, intended to capture the imagination of passing movie executives. You know: "It...
Windows OneCare Security Goes 'Live'
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows OneCare PC security bundle is now available to the general public. — The consumer-facing tool, which features virus scanning, firewall protection, data backup and PC cleanu...
The only thing worse than flying is open source code
And ninthly — Worn down with labors from morning to night, and day to day; knowing them as fruitless to others as they are vexatious to myself, committed singly and in desperate and eternal contest ...
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Yahoo Aims To Deliver Latest News To Users' E-Mail Boxes — High-Tech Industry Returns To Mergers As Growth Strategy — Is Yahoo The King Of Media? — The story is this: Yahoo vs. The New York Time...
Last century codecs for next-gen Blu-ray
As Sony prepares for the introduction of the first commercial Blu-ray products early next year, its film and TV division is planning to release its first movies on the format using a decade-old codec....
NEC Debuts Laptop Without a Hard Disk
TOKYO—NEC has developed a laptop computer targeted at corporate users that doesn't include a hard-disk drive, the company said today. — The "PC Parafield" has been developed as a replacement for exi...
Judge rules against BlackBerry patent settlement
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal judge ruled invalid Wednesday a $450 million settlement between a small patent holding firm and the maker of BlackBerry e-mail devices, Research in Motion Ltd. — The r...