TechWeb - Taking advantage of increased worries about Mac OS X vulnerabilities, McAfee Thursday launched an anti-virus product for Intel-based Macs.
TechWeb - Two of the trio affect Windows, while the third will resolve one or more issues in the Microsoft Exchange mail server software.
InfoWorld - Menlo Park, Calif. - Java development is expected to get a boost on Linux at the JavaOne conference in two weeks, with partnerships anticipated for including the Java Runtime Environment with Linux distributions, Sun officials said on Thursday.
Investor's Business Daily - A pocket-sized symbol of change in China's vast struggle to cultivate a capitalist/communist economy: wireless cellular handsets.
Reuters - A major video game conference next week could prove pivotal for a multibillion dollar war over high-definition DVD standards brewing in Hollywood.
Reuters - Blogging is booming in China with the number of bloggers expected to hit 60 million by the end of this year.
AP - The new generation of video game consoles from Sony Corp., Nintendo Co. and Microsoft Corp. have more than zippy processors and flashy graphics in common: They're also getting serious about online services.
AP - Shareholders of Pixar Animation Studios Inc. Friday voted to approve the company's acquisition by The Walt Disney Co. for $7.4 billion in stock.
AP - AOL is set to offer its instant-messaging users a free phone number to use for incoming calls, and for a fee, the ability to call regular phones from the software.
AP - A growing number of parents, teachers and city lawmakers are demanding that the New York City school system reverse its longtime ban on students' cell phones inside school buildings.
AP - Two years after conceding his company erred in failing to develop its own search engine, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer boasted Thursday of progress in fighting industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
AP - Despite a judge's recommendation that he only receive a reprimand, a city worker accused of disregarding warnings to stay off the Internet at work has been fired.
LiteScape Technologies, Inc. (www.litescape.com), a leading provider of technology that integrates business applications with VoIP and wireless devices, today announced that it has been awarded a General Services Administration contract. This contract now allows all agencies within the United States Federal Government to quickly and simply purchase VoIP applications and identity management solutions from LiteScape Technologies, providing ease of ordering and pre-negotiated discounts for products and services.
Wi-fi technology is helping aid workers and residents of hurricane- ravaged New Orleans get the city back on its feet. Last fall, IT administrators in New Orleans set up the nation's first free wireless Internet network that is solely owned and operated by a major U.S. city. The move was first aimed at helping aid workers do their jobs and was then expanded to boost the city's struggling businesses and enable residents to communicate with friends, relatives and much-needed federal and city services.
We're often at a loss as to why the citizens of earth deem it necessary to partake in these "outdoors" of which they speak, but if such an action must be done, might we recommend a WiFi umbrella to help combat the elements? The premise is pretty simple, the umbrella handle has an LED that glows based on the likelihood of precipitation, so instead of taking the 30 seconds necessary to look up the weather on the Internet, or sticking your head out of a window, you can just glance at your umbrella on the way out.
The company that led a 2005 legislative effort to allow wireless gambling in Nevada won a recommendation Wednesday from regulators for licensing needed to market its hand-held, mobile gambling devices in the state.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted on Wednesday to preserve its May 14, 2007 deadline for some high-speed Internet broadband services to comply with laws that require access for law enforcement officials to conduct authorized surveillance.
Since it was announced nearly two years ago, Mayor Street's plan to bring citywide wireless broadband service to Philadelphia has crept along at dial-up speeds. But a City Council vote yesterday has backers convinced that the plan is finally ready for the information superhighway. Or at least the political one.
SpectraLink Corp., the leader in workplace wireless telephony, is demonstrating the ability to port SpectraLink's industry-leading PBX integration technology to third-party devices including dual-mode (Wi-Fi/cellular) handsets.
CINLUG, the Central Indiana Linux Users' Group, a not-for-profit group of Linux experts and enthusiasts, in cooperation with OfficeTone, is hosting another in its Boot Camp series of day-long hands-on training seminars. This one will focus on Asterisk, an Open Source project that allows a common PC to become a complete PBX phone system.
Sri Lanka plans to test the limits of smart digital mesh boxes to connect 30 rural homes onto the World Wide Web, officials said. Costing just under 30,000 dollars, this pilot project is initiated by the ICTA – the government’s key IT agency – is due to kick off in July, giving free internet access to children in the village of Mahavilachchiya, 50 kilometeres off Anuradhapura.
NETGEAR, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products, today announced pricing and preorder availability for the much-anticipated NETGEAR Skype WiFi phone (model SPH101), the first device certified to make mobile Internet telephony a reality for the tens of millions of Skype users worldwide.
Clearwire provides service over WiMAX-class networks in 27 small and medium-sized cities. Initially, AOL said it is offering the service in Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, Florida and Stockton and Modesto, California. AOL said Thursday it is starting to offer its service via wireless broadband provided by Clearwire Corporation. Cellular pioneer Craig McCaw founded Clearwire in 2004.
For millions of users, voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, is lowering phone bills for calls they make from their PC or land-line phone. But soon VoIP could cut cell-phone bills, too - most of all for international users.
Although neither device has a true VoIP option yet, UK tech site T3 is reporting that "a source close to...Vonage" (i.e. a friend of a friend of a friend) has confirmed that the VoIP provider is developing WiFi calling solutions for both the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS.
