A mobile network set out to prove that its data packages are truly unlimited, by encouraging its users to download as much data as possible, with one user downloading 419GB over 3G in a single week. More...
I've been puzzling over transcripts of a couple of recent speeches by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates where he discussed his vision for the end of phone numbers. But it wasn't until today, when I learned... More...
Dell directors met with shareholders for the first time since uncovering a major accounting scandal at the company, announced a $10 billion stock buyback and said they believe their turnaround strategy is a long-term play.... More...
French web users caught pirating movies or music could soon be thrown offline. Those illegally sharing files will face the loss of their net access thanks to a newly-created anti-piracy body granted the wide-ranging powers.... More...
A partnership between the Google-founded Climate Savers Computing Initiative and a National Governors Association program has already yielded a commitment from two state governments to buy more energy-efficient computers. The governors of Kansas and Minnesota... More...
AT&T is now allowing iPhone users to remove their iPhone data plan, allowing them to save at least $20.00 monthly if they feel that they don't use the EDGE network enough, don't need it all... More...
The General Services Administration has announced that project Alliant has been halted after a group of technology service providers claimed that the U.S. government broke its own laws in August when it selected contractors to... More...
Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, believes that Africa needs to embrace wireless broadband since it is "cheaper, easier and more efficient to communicate wirelessly." Less than 1% of Africans have access to broadband and only... More...
BT has backed a global wireless sharing service called Fon, touting it as the "world's largest wi-fi community" since it lets people share a "small portion" of their home broadband connection by opening up a... More...
German anti-monopoly authorities have approved plans by mobile phone operators T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone to create a joint technical platform to bring television to mobile phones. The three operators will work to develop broadcasts on... More...
AT&T Incorporated has started offering a broadband Internet service for $10 a month, cheaper than any advertised plan. The DSL plan introduced Saturday is part of the concessions made by AT&T to the Federal Communications... More...
If you caught my previous story, my apologies for the mix-up. Dell Incorporated has denied reports that it plans to stop making LCD TVs. A report in the Taiwanese newspaper Economic Daily suggested that Dell... More...
The federal government will release its plan to combat identity theft in the U.S. on Monday. After nearly a year's work, the President's Identity Theft Task Force will release its findings Monday at a press... More...
Sirius Satellite Radio Incorporated has announced that its customers would get the option to pay below the current $12.95 per month subscription fee for just the channels they want, if the company's plan to buy... More...
Facing a market glut of microprocessors and weak corporate demand for PCs running Microsoft's new Windows Vista OS, Intel hopes to stay profitable by producing new chip designs faster than its competitors, Intel CEO Paul... More...
US media company Viacom has been planning, for many months now, to allow people to take videos from a number of its websites and post them on their own blogs and sites. Viacom, which is... More...
Plextor LLC, a leading supplier of optical disk drives (ODDs) that belongs to Japanese electronics giant Shinano Kenshi, said on Tuesday that it would not exit the market of optical disk drives, despite of announcement... More...
VoIP provider Skype has rolled out a new pricing plan that eliminates per-minute charges in favour of a connection fee for certain calls. SkypePro subscribers will now be charged a connection fee of €0.039 to... More...
Researchers at Samsung, one of the leading producers of flash-memory chips, recently announced a new chip that can hold twice as much data as before, and without an increase in its footprint on a circuit... More...
I know it's been a while, but just wanted to toss up this reminder.... End of support for Windows XP Service Pack 1 On October 10, 2006,... More...
The European Commission welcomed on Monday U.S. government moves to make the company that manages Internet domain names independent by 2009, but said it would monitor the process carefully. The Internet Corporation for Assigned... More...
Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it plans to release a new music and entertainment player and accompanying software under the "Zune" brand this year, in a belated attempt to challenge the dominance of Apple Computer... More...
Microsoft on Wednesday took the wraps off a desktop virtualization licensing plan for Windows Vista Enterprise and other licensing changes to accelerate the uptake of its Software Assurance update and maintenance program. Customers that acquire... More...
Cablevision Systems Corporation said on Tuesday it plans tomake its digital home phone network compatible with any U.S. wirelessnetwork, allowing subscribers to transfer calls between the two.PatriciaGottesman, Cablevision's executive vice-president of product managementand marketing, told... More...
I know what you're thinking. We're thinking it to. But we've got nothing else to write about. Microsoft, via Todd Bishop's great weblog, have released a copy of the meal plan for the... More...
Google Inc. has teamed up with EarthLink Inc. to craft a citywide Wi-Fi proposal for San Francisco, which closed the RFP process for its wireless broadband initiative on Tuesday. Cisco Systems Inc. and... More...
Microsoft Corp. has averted a looming conflict with U.S. officials by agreeing to disclose more information about its Windows server operating system, according to documents filed in federal court on Wednesday Lawyers at the U.S.... More...
America Online's plan to start charging businesses to send commercial e-mail messages is creating an uproar among some marketers, a newspaper reported Monday. Some marketers argue AOL's plan to implement a certified e-mail system, which... More...
The House of Representatives on Monday approved legislation to complete the country's transition to new, higher-quality digital television by February 17, 2009. Under a deal negotiated by Republicans in the Senate and House, a $1.5... More...
Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals... More...
Google's expansion into public Wi-Fi could be a boon to the embattled municipal broadband movement and presents intriguing new possibilities for the search giant, though putting the traditional carriers out of business isn't likely to... More...
Chances looked slim that consumers will be spared a DVD format war, as the backers of one standard said on Friday there was no common ground for a unified format and it was on track... More...
Google's most recent service, Google Print, has been temporarily suspended until November. The aim of Google Print is to make the world's books accessible to internet users with full-text search. Books would be scanned from... More...
Recycling paper, plastic, and glass has become routine, but what are you supposed to do with the old laptop or analog television that's taking up precious storage space in your attic or basement? Electronic devices... More...
More than 100 influential developers using Microsoft products have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. The developers, members of... More...
Mozilla has just announced that it will not be releasing or supporting any subsequent versions of its "Mozilla Suite" software. The suite has been moved aside so that Mozilla can focus on developing its key... More...
At this year's VS Live and Windows Anywhere event, Microsoft showed of new technology it plans to launch with Longhorn for laptops and PCs, Techworld reports. The company plans to offer a system... More...
Chris Gorog is convinced people won't continue to pay $1 a song for online music. That is despite Apple's record string of recent achievements, including 200 million songs sold at its iTunes Music Store, and... More...
For years, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company designated its chip generations by the letter K. The company sold K-6 chips in the late '90s, and the Athlon and Opteron were brand names for, respectively, the K7... More...
Swedish developer Digital Illusions CE has announced financial results for the nine months ended September 30th, revealing a 23 per cent jump in revenues, continued strong sales of the Battlefield franchise, and plans for a... More...
Intel Corp. on Thursday said it has scrapped plans to enter the digital television chip business, marking a retreat from a major component of its consumer electronics initiative. The cancellation, which follows a string of... More...
If everything goes as planned, for 72 hours next February hackers from all over the United States will hit targets across the Internet in the largest mass attack to date. But the... More...
Wasting no time with its fight with SPAM Microsoft plans on rolling out its own antispam plan called Sender ID. Microsoft announced that it will incorporate Sender ID into Hotmail, MSN, and its Microsoft.com... More...
During the whole PeopleSoft and Oracle trial nothing has come up more than Microsoft's plans to purchase SAP. Earlier last year Microsoft talked to SAP about a possible merger. Oracle continues to shift... More...
Microsoft's plan to reduce spam by forcing an email sender's machine to solve a puzzle may be defeated by the Internet's army of zombie PCs, say security experts One of Microsoft's plans... More...
When exactly does Intel plan to align its desktop and notebook processor families around the same architecture? Recent roadmaps cited by Japanese web site PC Watch put it in 2006 with the launch of 'Merom'... More...
European Union officials are proposing to spend more than £30m to try to make the internet safer for children. The four-year plan has been put forward by the European Commission. The program, which... More...
Microsoft's Robbie Bach will reportedly discuss next-gen software strategy at the San Jose developer's summit. The consensus in the industry is that the Xbox Next probably won't be released until 2005--at the... More...
Intel's announcement that it would finally release its own 64-bit extension to developers next US fiscal quarter has raised eyebrows at rival chip-maker AMD. (Oh I donno... Seems like this baffles not just AMD, but... More...
Yahoo, rethinking earlier plans, is quietly exploring ways to develop a music download service as archrivals Microsoft and America Online place bigger bets on digital song sales. According to knowledgeable sources, Yahoo... More...