Discussion threads on 2005-01

iWork productivity software targets Microsoft's Office
'Critical' patches released for Windows, IE
'Evil twin' could pose Wi-Fi threat
'Homeshoring' to trump offshoring?
'Project Fusion' to dominate Ellison's calendar
'Vision crisis brewing' says academic
2005: More money means more decisions
A call for fine-grained, universal identification
A new hope for BitTorrent?
A software comeback?
Abandoning *ix
Adobe releases Acrobat 7 with Linux reader support
Airbus throws party for double-decker jet
Alltel to buy Western Wireless for $6 billion
Altnet seeks patent royalties from P2P
Amazon search pictures your destination
Amazon sets delivery date for PSP
Amazon Web services fan out
AMD expects flash memory to hurt revenue
AMD gains market share, but so does Intel
AMD's Centrino challenger: Turion
Amiga seeks life through partners
Analyst: Comcast VoIP should price less, explain more
Analyst: IBM's patent pledge good for Web services
Another H-1B battle coming?
Another view on telco vs. pure-play VoIP
Answering the question: 'Will this work on my PC?'
Anti-spyware bill gets new life
AOL shutting down newsgroups
AOL testing free 100MB storage locker
AOL to expand capabilities in Web searches
Apple aims for mass appeal with $499 Mac
Apple centers Spotlight on desktop search
Apple cuts Mac Mini upgrade prices
Apple debuts new, low-priced iPod
Apple earnings sail past expectations
Apple eyes fizz in Pepsi iTunes giveaway
Apple mindshare explodes
Apple office software seems likely
Apple releases patch for Mac OS X
Apple suit foreshadows coming products
Apple suit tests First Amendment
Apple unveils $500 PC, new iPod
Apple's 'mindshare' off the charts, says ZDNet Research
Apple's Xserve serves up more speed
Are tech analysts worth it?
Are users really to blame for poor security?
At the heart of the open-source revolution
ATI moves to head of class in graphics
Bagle virus makes a return
Banks bearing the brunt of phishing scams
Banned in Beijing: China cracks down on games
Barely legal? Strip poker hits Cingular phones
Barrett: One chip to rule the radio waves
Bawdy holiday worm preys on prurience
Behold the $55,000 PC
Belarussian men face U.S. child porn charges
BellSouth begins Microsoft IPTV trials
Berlind's PodTop
Beware the Centrino brand
Big Blue's patent pledge nice, until you see them
Bill Gates' extreme makeover
Bill Gates: Chairman of the couch
Blinkx launches desktop search for Mac
Boom of the iPod add-ons
Brush up your Shakespeare
Bush taps judge to head Homeland Security
Californians get more time on Microsoft claims
Can face recognition keep airports safe?
Can IT find something better to do?
Can technology close journalism's credibility gap?
Can we, should we, reign in XML ?
Canon thinks small with new camera
Car adapters keep iPod rocking
Car makers take iPod for a drive
Car, play me Eminem's latest hit
Carbon TVs to edge out liquid crystal, plasma?
Carnivore gone--but it's not dead
Case accepts blame for AOL-Time Warner debacle
Cell phones channel TV broadcasts
China's Red Flag joins Linux consortium
Cingular posts loss on AT&T Wireless buy
CIOs: Apple's not ready for business
Circuit City looks to redefine the in-store shopping experience
Circuit City nabs Gateway-AMD desktop exclusive
Cisco buys wireless start-up for $450 million
Cisco eyes the software prize
Cisco finds more security flaws in router software
Cisco finds security flaw in router software
Cisco to resell EMC gear
Civil liberties watch: The digitization of physical surveillance
Comcast expected to raise broadband speeds
Comcast plans major Net phone push
Comcast pushes VoIP to prime time
Comcast raises broadband speed
Comcast to launch IM with video
Come join my VoIP online "focus group"
Company offers 10GB of Net storage, for free
Completely lost in the password maze
Computer, physical security expected to merge
ComputerWorld: IBM choking on own dog food
Computing's silent revolution
Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections
Connecting the home networking dots
Consumers really do care about Wireless Security if given a chance
Consumers: Cell phone service still stinks
Convergence clearly not the key driver for VoIP
Cool infographic shows Apple's 'tipping point'
Coop sends Bill Gates packing
Could Californians who distribute Kazaa/Skype go to jail?
CounterSpy is cool, FavoriteMan is not
Court deals Microsoft setback in piracy case
Court nixes RIAA subpoenas
Court rules in pop-ups' favor
Court: Hynix infringed on Rambus patents
Creative Commons and music
Criminal IT: Should you trust the Internet?
Critical Windows fix on the way
Cutting through Microsoft's latest FUD attack
Darwin flaws survive in Apple's Mac OS X
Data leak puts PayPal users at phishing risk
Dell expands lead in still-growing PC market
Dell's CEO unfazed by Apple gear
Dell's Rollins dismisses iPod as a 'fad'
Deloitte publishes Sarbanes-Oxley guide
Democrats allege e-voting problems in Ohio
Device brings your iPod music to any radio
Disk drives to stop shrinking
Disney ring tones to feature Goofy, Pooh, others
Disrupt or reinforce?
DivX courting studios with new tech
DSL provider thinks Firefox is foxy
DVD burners--the new feature in budget PCs
EarthLink puts stop to 'Alabama spammers'
EarthLink, SK to announce mobile deal
Easy router: are proprietary routers and adapters justified?
eBay fights back against phishers
eBay officially revokes Microsoft's Passport
EDS makes an outsourcing push
Electronic Arts plays hardball
Electronic Arts signs licensing deal with ESPN
Ellison outlines the future: Project Fusion
eMachines' winter desktops cozy up to customers
Embedded Windows systems architect revisiting platform choice
Entertainment execs see piracy as major threat
Entrepreneurship not in Europe's blood?
EU: We could fine Microsoft into submission
Evaluating open source Windows
Evolution coming to Windows
eXeem opens new file-swapping doors
Expert: Flaw still dogs Windows patch
Face Off: Sun issues open letter to IBM's Palmisano
FAQ: CableCard? What's that?
FBI cans controversial surveillance tool
FBI's $170 million custom application a bust
FCC chairman plans to resign
FCC chief buoys VoIP, satellite radio
FCC: 'Saving Private Ryan' not indecent
Federal agent raps ISPs over cybercrime
Federated identity management and Web services
Federated identity's new advocate
File swapping war takes a dangerous turn
Firefox 1.1 delayed
FireFox continues gains against IE
Firefox flaw raises phishing fears
Firefox flaw sparks a fiery debate
Firefox has much to learn
Firefox has much to learn
Five years of Ballmer--the effect on Microsoft
Flaw finders go their own way
Flaw found in Office encryption
Fortune on why Fiorina's big bet is failing
Franken-rats thrive on chips
FTC sues to stop porn spammers
Fujitsu-Siemens to pay per-machine fee for piracy
Gambling on a new Linux license
Gates donates $750 million for child vaccines
Gates seeking samba with Brazil's president?
Gates touts TiVo deal at CES
Giant step for Microsoft spyware killer
Giants' new plans for Net radio
Global warming, not asteroid, cause of extinction?
Gmail glitch yields access to messages
Google aims to outsmart search tricksters
Google begins recruiting in India
Google loses trademark dispute in France
Google readies budget search appliance
Google riches outed on the Web
Google rolls out TV search prototype
Google snaps up top Firefox programmer
Google VoIP? No way: read the ad again
Google wants 'dark fiber'
Google's AdWords gets API beta
Google, Cisco fail to win patent reform bid
Got VPN? You'll still want new 802.1x hotspot
Government IT Projects Are Different
Guess where I found $207,000 in Cisco VoIP gear on sale for ...
GuruNet launches new search service
Hack university: Learning from the pros
Hacker can't hide from his past
Hackers build movie player for Xbox
Hackers eavesdrop on phone networks to steal data
Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university
Hackers step up search for unpatched servers
Hardi Likes Cheese
Harvard student finds lawyer to defend Apple suit
Health study urges caution with cell phones
Hello, TalkBack; meet blogs
Hewlett-Packard to accelerate ID tagging
High hopes for Macworld
Hitachi ditching notebooks
Hitachi drives get bigger--and smaller
Home electronics giants launch antipiracy strategy
Homeland security gets e-learning boost
Homeward bound
Hotmail goes mobile in India
How big will the Mini be?
How the Mac was born, and other tales
How to fight against patent terrorism
How to fix spyware
HP augments Itanium server line
HP bringing key feature to Itanium servers
HP combines printer, PC units
HP focuses on paparazzi-proof cameras
HP to rejuvenate OpenVMS on Monday
HP unveils plans for digital home invasion
HP, Intergraph settle patent dispute
IBM ads put human face on services
IBM beefs up WebSphere for integration
IBM in 'flexible' outsourcing deal with insurer
IBM offers 500 patents for open-source use
IBM profit tops $3 billion
IBM's 500 Patents: Gift or gauntlet?
IBM-Lenovo deal said to get national security review
IBM-Lenovo deal up for extended review
Iceland buses come clean with hydrogen
IE flaw threat hits the roof
Imation DVDs resist everyday rigors
Implanted ID chip finds way into ERs, bars
In wake of Fortune's story, picking apart HP...
Integration at warp speed?
Intel accelerates virtual-desktop plans
Intel launches broad reorganization
Intel lets Linux into Centrino camp
Intel seeks lift from Centrino follow-on
Intel teams with Chinese firm on WiMax
Intel to back municipal broadband role
Intel updates Centrino
Intel's mystery mark sparks intrigue
Interpreting Sun's behavior
iPod jazzes up accessory market
Is anyone standing up for bloggers?
Is Novell's Groupwise on death row?
Is SELinux ready?
ISP suffers apparent domain hijacking
IT execs declare Apple irrelevant to business
IT salary survey: Recovery not making cents
IT security setting a torrid pace
It's time to evaluate Bill Gates
Itanium gives OpenVMS new lease on life
Itanium--one step forward, one back
iTunes hits 250 million downloads
iWork or not, Microsoft will continue with Mac Office
JibJab's jokesters take new jab at D.C.
Jobs and his new mini Mac
Jobs: Better to look better on paper?
JohnKerry.com not quite finished yet
Judges protect right to boot suspected spammer
Karma Chameleon
Labor group: Tech firms tops at courting foreign workers
Lawmakers raise heat on Lenovo deal
Lawsuit claims Apple violates law with iTunes
Leap in profit for Symantec
Lenovo to expand beyond China
Less is More
Lexus a nexus between cars and phone viruses?
Life as a tech-nomad
Life in a fishbowl
Linksys feels the need for more Wi-Fi speed
Little green men and butt-massaging easy chairs
Look out paid Wi-Fi: EV-DO (3G) is on a roll
Lotus leaf bumps the secret to smooth surfaces?
Mac Mini a maxi deal? Depends what you want
Mac Mini demand downs Apple's store briefly
Mac Mini finds its Target
Mac Mini makes its retail debut
Macs: It's all about style
Man arrested in tsunami death e-mail hoax
MapPoint users find service to be quite a trip
Massachusetts, California best states for nanotech
Maxell: Feel free to bang this DVD around
McAfee selling research arm to Sparta
MCI to buy security services firm
Media Center not yet a home run
Media credibility: Where podcasting meets transparency
MedicAlert to arm patients with USB drives
Microsoft Verizon: Most underrated victory?
Microsoft calls in cops after firing staff
Microsoft cuts 62 testing jobs
Microsoft earnings top expectations
Microsoft finance chief heads off to new venture
Microsoft kicks off search effort
Microsoft launches anti-spyware beta
Microsoft offers subscription Outlook
Microsoft previews Avalon graphics engine
Microsoft recruits patch testers
Microsoft Research goes to Bangalore
Microsoft to expand Redmond headquarters
Microsoft turns to Elixir for Office boost
Microsoft won't fight EU ruling--for now
Microsoft woos PeopleSoft customers--even big ones
Microsoft worker wants to be Trump's 'Apprentice'
Microsoft worrying about the wrong things?
Microsoft's Longhorn may roll sevens
Microsoft's sleeping giant
Microsoft, Macrovision align on copy protection
Microsoft, regulators to meet over Longhorn
Microsoft: Legit Windows or no updates
Microsoft: No flaw in Media Player
Microsoft: No new versions of IE for Mac
Microsoft: Slow going for desktop search in Windows
Missing the point on open source benefits
Misundestimating open source
Mobile positioning: Track your friends
Mobile Trojan launches Skulls attack
More Mozilla talent Google's way
Motorola to pump music into outerwear
MPAA files new film-swapping suits
MSN debuts portable video downloads
MSN tests new blog, search features
MSN's Web search picks up steam
Music exec defends file-sharing lawsuits
Music industry embraces an online future
Music, games drive RealNetworks growth
My Mac Mini and me
My take on expert's 3 VoIP predictions
MyDoom--one year and counting
MySQL readies database beta
MySQL worm halted
MySQL worm hits Windows systems
Napster targeted by infringement suit
Net mourns death of Johnny Carson
Net telephone fees have users fuming
Netscape readies antiphishing browser
New PowerBooks speed up, do new tricks
New TalkBack feature
News Focus: It's gadget heaven at CES
News Focus: Jobs unveils iWork, $499 PC
Next Exchange to combine e-mail, voice mail
Next-gen display to park itself in cars
Next-generation DVD formats rally support
NFL to offer time-shifted broadcasts of games
No passing grade for tech ed reform
No-cost Skype strikes chord with businesses
Nokia: We beat our foes 'left and right'
Nortel, LG to form joint venture
Novell's Linux strategy worries some customers
Novell, Red Hat ready Linux servers
Offshore-outsourcing spending to creep up
Ohio, New York to VoIP users: we wanna tax you, sucker!!
Online scams emerge in tsunami's wake
Open source concept forked again
Open source reshaping services market
Open source version of Solaris comes out tomorrow (sort of)
Open-source database gets backing
OpenSolaris lives
Opera releases browser beta for Linux
Oracle fires PeopleSoft executives
Oracle set to announce PeopleSoft layoffs
Oracle shuffles out two top execs
Oracle takeover: It's a wrap
Oracle to cut 5,000 jobs in PeopleSoft merger
Oracle to PeopleSoft: The pink slip's in the mail
Oracle to PeopleSoft: The pink slip's in the mail
Oracle urges customers to apply critical update
Oracle's eye on the future
Oregon angles for open-source businesses
Outsourcing to Oklahoma?
Outsourcing, consulting pace Accenture
PalmOne exec Mendez to leave for Cisco
PalmOne scores patent victory
Patching up problems
Pay now, play later with PSP
Peeking underneath IBM's patent pledge
Phil Windley asks: Whither innovation?
Phil Windley to ZDNet
Phishers learn new tricks
Phone giants give birth to Super 3G
Phones dial in personal computers
Photos: Apple's Mac Mini
Playboy: Let the online games begin
Playing the Microsoft game
Polese opens up on open-source plans
Porn industry mulls next-generation DVD
PostgreSQL database opens up to Windows
PPTP VPN authentication protocol proven very susceptible to attack
Preparing for a doomsday attack
Professor's Web posting at center of libel suit
Profit falls as Sony focuses on revamp
Proof that Google is vulnerable
Pulver debuts P2P Bellster network
Putting a plug in insider leaks
Putting the Mac Mini in your dashboard
Putting XML in the fast lane
Qualcomm wins in court, kind of
Race is on to accessorize Mac Mini
Radio stations vow to speed digital moves
Rambus files new memory suit
Rate hikes ahead for satellite TV fans
Real open source JDK?
Real's Rhapsody RadioPlus to play on Comcast
Record industry veteran Iovine to advise Sirius
Red Hat tests new programming aid
Red Hat tries again with developer program
Red Hat, SUSE release Linux patches
Refresh of Internet Explorer inevitable?
Regulators tell Microsoft there's plenty in a name
Reminder: Wi-Fi ≠ Centrino
Report: Big boost for blogs in 2004
Report: FBI may scrap new computer program
Report: HP board mulls Fiorina's duties
Report: Major Windows security update foiled
Report: Schools swamped by spam
Report: Schools wired, but still not Internet savvy
Researcher faces jail for finding bugs
RFID revenues on upswing
RIAA settles with 12-year-old girl
RIAA sues 717 file-swappers
Samsung cranks out next-gen Rambus memory
Samsung phone supports 3G multimedia
Samsung to sell motion-sensitive handset
SAP buys PeopleSoft support firm
SAP chief wishes Oracle 'good luck'
SAP, Microsoft tighten development tools
Satellite TV snubbing Microsoft
SBC cuts DSL price with bundled service
SBC readies Net phone service
SBC to acquire AT&T for $16 billion
SBC, HP form alliance
Schwartz to IBM: Don't lock us out
SCO looking like toast
Securing data from the threat within
Sega takes leash off robot dog
Seven versions of longhorn rumored to be on the way
Single and Skype? If you're lookin' for love, read on
SIP-based softphone club has a new member
Sirius taps Microsoft for mobile video
Size Matters
Skype creeps under phone giants' radar
Slow growth on tap for consultants
Snooping by satellite
Software by subscription: What about support?
Software firms want copyright law rewrite
Software-as-a-service: Phase II
Solicitor General, conservatives back Hollywood
SOMA and IBM's brave new world
Sony PC doubles as TV
Sony vague on PSP American launch
Space probe phones home from Titan
Spectrum hog leads the race for 802.11n ratification
Sprint PCS opens EarthLink portal
Spyware by any other name
Spyware planning off the mark
Spyware planning off the mark, says ZDNet Research
Spyware: Gridlock within a year?
Spyware: IT's public enemy No. 1
Standards aim to secure e-voting systems
Standards effort could improve USB flash drives
Start-up beams TV to your hand
Start-up pictures video-ready wireless networks
Start-up to promote security system for servers
State bill could cripple P2P
States battle FCC Internet phone ruling
States to test ID chips on foreign visitors
Study: Broadband to surge in Europe
Study: Home networking on shaky ground
Study: Net users confused about search
Sun ekes out profit, but revenue slide returns
Sun license gets open-source nod
Sun names new communications exec
Sun poised to take open-source Solaris step
Sun promises surprises at today's OpenSolaris launch
Sun to release first OpenSolaris scrap Tuesday
Sun ups the patent ante - but not enough
Sun warms to open-source server software
Sun: Patent use OK beyond Solaris project
Supreme Court sets date for file-sharing case
Symantec to launch security e-mail appliance
Symantec, Veritas reach out to investors
T-Mobile: Hacker had limited access
Taxpayers get unexpected return--sex chat
Tech community joins tsunami relief effort
Tech industry sheds fewer jobs in 2004
Tech IPOs 'rise from the ashes'
Tech jobs at your service
Tech worker job confidence rebounds
Teen gets 18 months in prison for worm
Tesco stocks up on RFID tags
Texas aims to snag spammers
The Berlind Triangle
The broadband crisis that isn't
The embedded Linux battle
The features that you insist VoIP must have: and the ones you don't care about
The new Metasploit is out
The real deal on the Mac mini
The right role for WiMax
Them is Us
There must be some misunderstanding?
This state *already* has a VoIP tax (sort of)
This week in gadgets
Thousands of Ford workers to go wireless
Thunderbird promises to fend off phishers
Titan scientist: 'We've got a flammable world'
TiVo goes mobile with new free service
TiVo surfs Internet for new service
TiVo to create DVR sans cable box
Too much innovation or too little talent?
Transmeta mulls exit from processors
Trojan horse rides off with game accounts
Trojan piggybacks on Microsoft patching
Tsunami 'wave rat' had best intentions, mother says
Tsunami moves North Pole, shortens daytime
Tsunami separates Overstock.com, Red Cross
Turning nose movements into mouse movements
U.S. firm sweet on offshoring deals gone sour
Ultra wideband to get first airing at CES
Up to 4-week wait for Apple iPod Shuffle
User: Vonage calls work well, but their customer service does not
Users sue Verizon Wireless over (lack of) features
VeriSign to battle rivals for .net domain control
VeriSign to buy messaging firm LightSurf
Verizon raises DSL prices to cover tax costs
Verizon taps Microsoft for mobile TV
Verizon wants its M(icrosoft) TV
Video game sales up 8 percent in 2004
Vienna to softly embrace Linux
Viewing 2004: The security threats
Vinegar: Will Windows viruses work on Wine?
Virgin launches online music service
Virus hooks onto CNN headlines
VoIP and open source, the next great frontier
VoIP customer service has problems, challenges
VoIP enhanced 9-1-1? We're getting there, industry group says
VoIP to Bush: leave us alone
VoIP: Has the dream of convergence failed?
VoIPs burglar alarm transmission vulnerabilities described
Vonage to take VoIP on the road
Vonage: Nobody's getting in our way
Vulnerability found in open-source audio player
Wall Street: 'Blogs insignificant'
Washington Post article is a good post-Powell FCC primer
Watch 'Regis and Kelly' while trekking in Nepal
Webcam virus writer arrested in Spain
WebEx: The bumpy road to five-nines
What does Microsoft really think of open source?
What FCC chair Michael Powell's regulation means for VoIP
What if? An alternative history of tech
When ring tones are jarring
Who is winning the IBM-SCO trial?
Why blogging matters to your business and your IT
Why IT policy won't change under Powell replacement
Wi-Fi goes (West) Hollywood
Will Mac Mini spur petite-PC revolution?
Will Microsoft's monoculture take the 'pod' out of podcasting?
Will more XML traffic on the Net mean traffic jams?
Will Net music services ever take off?
Will phishing spoofees like eBay and banks get hip to RSS for the end run?
Will Sun's 1600 patents suck the life out of Linux?
Workers to employers: Show me the time off
Worm exploits tsunami to spread virus
Worm plays games with victims
Worried about Wi-Fi security?
XML performance: another view
Yahoo beats the Street
Yahoo heads for Hollywood
Yahoo joins desktop-search fray
Yahoo to acquire Inktomi
Yahoo, Microsoft gaining ground on Google
Year in review: Networking gets secure
Yet another cybersecurity chief steps down
You use my Hotspot; I'll use your credit card
You're right: Vonage ads are *everywhere*
ZDNet conducts experiment in media transparency
Zend buffs up corporate open-source effort