AP - U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's campaign Web site remained offline Thursday, and federal and state authorities were investigating why it crashed on the eve of this week's defeat in a high-profile primary.
Macworld.com - For the people who create Mac software, there’s nothing quite as exciting as a Worldwide Developers Conference keynote that previews the features slated to appear in an upcoming OS X overhaul. And there’s nothing as terrifying for those same developers as waiting to see if those new features do similar things to the software they’re already selling.
AFP - Google announced a deal to make the books from the University of California library available online.
AFP - Advanced mobile technology for monitoring medical patients emerged as the top idea as six finalists were named at a technology contest being held here for students from around the world.
The Motley Fool - Earlier this week, fellow Fool Tim Beyers had an enlightening article on IBM's (NYSE: IBM - News) recent decision to transform some of its expertise in research and development into new offerings from its global services team.
Macworld.com - Although Intel has been using the Xeon name since 1998, the dual-core Xeon 5100 processors that power the Mac Pro and Xserve lines are entirely new chips, based on Intel’s 64-bit Core architecture platform.
It's funny how an established player like Microsoft can be described as disruptive, as that term is usually used to describe pal Michael Robertson who first established MP3.com and Lindows, before starting GizmoProject.While it may be semantics, I think what...
The report from TeleGeography shows that cable is winning the VoIP War hands down.This has to be great news for Level3 and Sprint as the two companies provide much of the bandwidth to the cable companies, but are the main...
Yesterday Bloomberg and others reported that Vonage founder Jeffrey Citron purchased 1.26 million dollars worth of Vonage Stock.It looks like the profits he reaped on his original sales tied to his warrants are now being plowed back into stock. That's...
Vonage in the UK goes mobile VoIP with calls now being made in London's Financial District called the City.This is an area I am keenly interested in, and I fully expect Telecom WinePal Steve Howe and his Earthlink team to...
If we have seen the rise of the alternative voice services in 2005 and the first half of 2006, I'm fairly confident that the balance of 2006 and into 2007 will be the rise of the category I affectionately have...
AP - Millions of veterans and active-duty troops whose sensitive personal information was lost by the Veterans Affairs Department will receive some form of credit protection against identity theft, the government said Wednesday.
PC World - Exec says Google has security measures in place to prevent the release of user search histories.
New sound libraries and a mechanism to call phone numbers found on web pages are the new features found in Skype 2.6, an unsupported PC version that was pushed out today.The click to call feature is very neat, but that...
AIM PhoneLine is offering a free phone number and soon a lot more. I say that largely based on plans discussed in an open session yesteday by pal Ragui Kamel at the VOIP Developer's Conference about a new program that...
AP - IBM Corp. took another step to build out its software portfolio Thursday by announcing a $1.6 billion acquisition of FileNet Corp., which helps companies route data through business applications.
Reuters - IBM , the world's largest information technology company, on Thursday said it agreed to buy FileNet for $1.6 billion, its third software-related purchase announcement in a week.
AP - Although he was alarmed by AOL's haphazard release of its subscribers' online search requests, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday the privacy concerns raised by that breach won't change his company's practice of storing the inquiries made by its users.
USATODAY.com - Boarding school student Jimmy Hopkins is either a good kid with a penchant for bad behavior or a delinquent who sometimes does the right thing. It all depends on what you decide. Hopkins, 15, is the central character in Bully, a PlayStation 2 game from Rockstar Games.
AP - XM Satellite Radio Inc. has made a deal with Alltel Wireless, a cell phone service provider, to distribute some of XM's commercial-free channels over cell phones.
PC Magazine - The two new versions could represent Apple's strongest challenge yet to enterprise solutions such as those offered by WebEx and Microsoft.
USATODAY.com - The splendid-sounding state-of-the-art headphones (and earphones) I've been testing can help you escape the weight of the world, at least temporarily. Of the four tests, two cost as much as or more than the iPod I tested them with. But the others deliver fine results without breaking the bank.
AFP - A Chinese online encyclopedia has closed down due to government pressure as China continues to crack down on Internet information it sees as dangerous, an international rights group said.
TechWeb - AOL said it would start offering next month personalized email domains at no charge.
TechWeb - Interactive Intelligence has released an upgraded version of its unified communications software, Communite, which offers unified messaging, interactive voice response, and real-time communications services.
