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NTT DoCoMo, Google To Partner on Mobile Internet
January 24, 2008 2:44PM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us DoCoMo and Google will also continue to study the possibility of bringing Android-based handsets to the Japanese market. Android was announced by the ...
Time Warner Trial Could Stifle Online Movies
The actual cost to Time Warner of additional bandwidth usage is unclear, since Net access providers do not provide a breakdown of costs, but some industry observers have said that the majority ...
Network Solutions Slammed for New Domain Policy
Many are saying that Network Solutions is “front running” — a scheme used by domain-name scammers to register domain names only to sell them later for higher prices than the initial fees. ...
OpenSocial Faces Off with Facebook
December 14, 2007 11:13AM Facebook’s announcement that it would license its platform has renewed speculation about the impact of social networking for the enterprise. The momentum for interoperability of applications between consumer-based, ...
Ask.com Gives Privacy Control to Users
December 11, 2007 8:58AM Following news that Ask.com has introduced a new tool, called AskEraser, that can prevent Ask.com from storing any search data, EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg said Ask.com’s AskEraser is a ...
U.N. Web Forum Takes on Cybercrime
November 15, 2007 7:36AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us The four-day U.N.-sponsored forum, which ends Thursday, brings together some 2,000 representatives from the information-technology industry, governments and civil society to discuss the ...
MySpace Still Denies Security Holes
Following widespread reports that the MySpace pages of music bands are regularly being infected with malware, Andrew Storms, director of security operations for nCircle said he agrees that there is a yet-to-be-reported ...
Study: Online Games More Captivating
October 18, 2007 7:44AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Joshua Smyth, a Syracuse University psychology professor, noted that most of the public debate on video games has centered on their often violent ...
California Hacks Its E-Voting Machines
July 31, 2007 8:56AM Following a report from a team of experts indicating that electronic voting systems are vulnerable, vendors fought back at the public hearing in California, with officials from Sequoia ...
Vista’s First Service Pack Coming Soon
July 31, 2007 9:54AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Windows Vista’s first service pack is arriving on August 14 through Windows Update, roughly six months after Microsoft released Vista. It is not ...