A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users. In a report published Thursday, StopBadware.org faults the latest version of RealPlayer for secretly installing its Rhapsody...
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Apple's soon-to-be-launched iPhone is "a great music phone, and I'm sure it will be fantastic and have an interesting user interface. However, it's a closed device that you cannot install applications on, and there's no...
As the IT industry enters the last two days before daylight savings time, many solution providers are scrambling to help customers avert major impacts from computer hardware and software that have yet to be updated...
Greenpeace has slammed Apple, Motorola and others over their environmental policies, while offering some praise to Nokia for its proactive approach to environmental protection. Greenpeace, which publishes the Green Electronics Guide every three months,...
Apples chief executive Steve Jobs spoke out ahead of the Apple showcase in Paris stating that record companies are becoming "greedy", pushing for higher prices on music downloads from iTunes music store. Jobs is determined...
Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather movie trilogy, has revealed his anger at Paramount's decision allowing Electronic Arts to produce a videogame tie-in. In an interview with US television show Sunday Morning...
In the wake of Real Software Inc. announcing a new version of its Realbasic application development tool, the company is concerned about a patent application Microsoft Corp. has filed that could affect all BASIC-like programming...
Halpin lashes out at "me-too politics" as Yee promotes reworded bill in California The Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association, a US body which represents videogame retailers, has criticised efforts in California to legislate...
A federal judge overseeing the SCO case against IBM slammed SCO's case, and said the company's arguments were "puzzling". The announcement came in response to an IBM attempt to defang SCO's claims. Judge...
A new report into videogames from the US National Institute on Media and the Family has accused the industry of confusing parents with mixed messages over the importance of the ESRB ratings system. ...
Linus Torvalds and two other European software luminaries have thrown their weight behind a campaign to block software patents from being legitimized in Europe, ahead of a critical European Competitiveness Council decision later this week....
A new version of the MyDoom worm has appeared (MyDoom.m/MyDoom.o). This worm has quickly flooded mailboxes, and has slowed down several search engines. Such as Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, and even Google. McAfee...
Aiming to portray itself as the victim of overreaching regulators, Microsoft on Wednesday released a position paper insisting that the European Union's antitrust sanctions amount to "new law" that could hurt others in the technology...
A new version of the MyDoom worm appears to be circulating on the Internet and may be responsible for some disruptions to Microsoft Corp.'s Web site Sunday night and Monday morning, researchers say. When it's...
HP's move to release an own-branded digital-music player based on Apple's iPod – and to ship iTunes pre-installed on all HP PCs – has angered Microsoft. General manager of Microsoft's Windows digital media division David...
In a bold assertion of independence, Israel has thrown the full weight of its antitrust legislation at Microsoft. The Israeli Ministry of Commerce has suspended all governmental contracts with Microsoft, and indicated...
Nokia's head of entertainment and media, Ilkka Raiskinen, has attacked Nintendo's GBA in today's Dow Jones, accusing the system of failing to appeal to adult demographics, and has revealed some details of the development business...
Online game retailer Gameplay.com has begun a campaign calling on the government to close a loophole in European tax laws which allows offshore companies to import cheap goods into the UK VAT-free. Under current legislation,...
The latest flaw with a major Microsoft product shows Redmond is unlikely to have anything that approximates to secure software until 2004 at the earliest. That's the damning assessment of analysts Gartner in response to...
Top reporter accuses government of underhand tactics Downing Street has angrily denied claims that members of its staff hacked in to the BBC's computer network in a bid to influence news coverage...
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