Tech Trends
Google-AOL Deal: What Would It Bring?
Although there has been concern voiced about the Google-AOL deal, some analysts have noted that it is very likely the partnership will, in fact, be forged and that changes for users will ...
Putting Open Source to the Test
Microsoft officials said they support open standards and open source but are disappointed that the state accepted Adobe Systems’ PDF product for office applications, yet rejected Microsoft’s OpenOffice XML, a perpetual, royalty-free ...
VoIP Services Enabling Video Calls
SightSpeed figures that as long as it can get people to try out its free product, they’ll become hooked on its superior technology and eventually trade up to a paid premium service. ...
Amazon Rain Forest Shrinking Twice as Quickly as Previously Estimated
Ecologists and Brazilian officials long have known that illegal selective logging occurs, says Dr. Asner, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, based at Stanford University in Palo Alto, ...
Novell Releases SuSE Linux 10
Novell announced that SuSE Linux 10.0 will be available in October 2005 and will include more than 1,500 open-source applications and packages that can be installed for advanced Web hosting, application development ...
Aussies Turn Web Search Upside Down
Andrew Stead, of New South Innovations, is confident that Orion will fill a gap in the market highlighted by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. “Gates was recently quoted in Forbes magazine as saying ...
Massachusetts Plans To Ditch Microsoft Software
Open source consultant Sam Hiser said OpenOffice is widely used in some emerging countries but as yet has very limited use in the US. He added the decision to switch to open ...
Spyware Worm Targets Gamers, Yahoo Users
“We have seen a large increase in these types of Trojans targeting online gamers, as role-playing games have become a big business,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. TIBCO Staffware ...
Broadband Rulings Draw User Concerns
Rulings by the FCC and the Supreme Court that DSL and cable modem services are exempt from telecommunications regulation could boot some ISPs off these facilities or raise their access fees significantly. ...
New York Courts Find Security in IP Video
For the court’s I.T. group, high-bandwidth video is just another stream on an IP network built several years ago with enormous capacity, now tapped to deploy a variety of advanced services. Also ...