Discussion threads on 2005-02

'Final Fantasy' creator tapped for Xbox 2
3G Linux phone allows video calling, Web browsing
40 percent of US organizations to adopt ITIL by 2007
A big hurdle for VoIP over cell?
A long winding road out of beta
A next big thing: StreamBase
A virus may be in your car's future
A VoIP primer without the "gee-whiz"
A voyage inside the iPod Shuffle
Acer pulls ahead in global PC race
Adobe on Apple: Friend and foe
Adobe versus the world
Adware maker joins federal privacy board
After MSN Messenger fix, eyes fixed on IM security
All software is beta. Get over it.
Amazon invests in blogging site
AMD cuts chip prices
AMD hits its stride
AMD puts the 'hammer' down [LinuxWorld Podcast]
AMD to demo a dual-core desktop chip
AMD updates the Opteron family
AMD wants its name in pixels
Amidst piracy crackdown, has Windows jumped the shark?
AMR's 2005 Innovation Award Winners
Analyst: HP should price Gateway
Anna Nicole ready to take messages
Another B2B exchange is born
Anti-phishing group expands to address pharming
Antivirus to antispyware
Anxious times in the cartoon underground
AOL blocks music-copying feature
AOL goes public with local search
AOL's instant messenger gets hooks to Outlook
AOL: You've got VoIP
Apple on G5 PowerBook: Not so fast
Apple pipes in new iPods
Apple resellers, consumers sue Mac maker
Apple takes a step away from FireWire
Apple upstages Microsoft at VSLive?
Apple's subpoenas challenged in court
Apple, Sony sued over DRM in France
Are customers ready for Sun's utility vision?
Are sharks circling HP?
Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines
Ask Jeeves mulls Firefox-based browser
Ask Jeeves to buy Bloglines?
Ask Jeeves to launch TV spots
AT&T buy shows how far voice calling has fallen
Automation tools to get boost from Sarbanes-Oxley
Bank of America loses a million customer records
Better VPN survivability needed for VoIP
Big Blue backs PHP for Web development
Big news on the patent front
Bill Gates and other communists
Bill proposes e-voting paper trail
Blade pioneer releases AMD-based systems
Bloggers compare browser stats
Bloggers rally for jailed Iranians
Blurring the line between games and life
Boy, were we wrong: All IT plans are not created equal
Broadcom co-founder to buy NHL's Mighty Ducks
Bruce Perens on Carly's ouster
Bush budget boosts tech spending
Bush calls for computerized medical records
Business loses a day a week to e-mail
CA readies patent pledge
CA's unified security management architecture
Cabir mobile virus found in U.S.
Cable Over VoIP subs increased ten-fold in 2004
Cablevision rings in 270,000 phone customers
Cameras, iPods need to talk to each other
Carriers sold on shopping by cell phone
Catfight in the spyware corral
Cell chip: Hit or hype?
Cell phone to double as Net phone
Cell phones get surround sound
Cell-phone makers choose between style, tech
Charity gives 40,000 PCs a fresh start
China making great leap forward in tech
Chip designers focus on safety devices for cars
ChoicePoint data theft widens to 145,000 people
ChoicePoint hit with ID theft lawsuit
Cisco and Avaya vie for VoIP dominance
Cisco CTO: We're still hot
Cisco wins back Merrill Lynch
Cisco, Merrill: "reunited, and it feels so good"
Clueless about cookies or spyware?
Comcast offers free digital music players
Come on...is this the only blog touching ITIL?
Companies warn U.S. lagging behind in tech
Competition grows for global offshoring
Computer Associates may raise its patent shields
Concord debuts $99 slim digital camera
Connexion by Boeing, SAS offer Internet service
Consumers see red over dead pixels
Cookie fans chip away at spyware bill
Correction: Outlook tackles foreign spam
Could recent Microsoft clamp-downs, misteps accelerate Linux adoption?
Court questions FCC's broadcast flag rules
Court: Hollywood gets P2P giant's server logs
Court: Wife broke law with spyware
Crunch time
Damage control dominates Sun CTO's maiden voyage into blogosphere
Dan Farber
Dark fiber: Businesses see the light
Data mining from the pilot's seat
Deceptive clicks?
Dell beats estimates, sets new goal
Dell contributing code to open source clustering techs [LinuxWorld Podcast]
Dell cuts lead, beefs up security in business PCs
Dell servers most favored, IBM servers not
Dell sued over bait-and-switch charges
Dell's stance on AMD: Look but don't touch
Demystifying the grid
Developing markets to get low-power PCs
Development curse
Dismantling the monoculture one piece at a time
Disney: The mouse that won't roar
Dissecting data
Do customers really want SOA?
Do you get what you pay for with Red Hat's enterprise products?
Does desktop Linux matter?
Does HP need a new course?
Does IT matter now?
Don't call this blog open source
DRM and open source
Dvorak's cunning plan
E-mail meltdown claims take heat
EarthLink fries up more spam suits
eBay to give away $200,000 in online treasure hunt
ebXML, revisited
Eclipse lights up Java crowd
EDS expects Navy to offset a GM loss
EDS to move data centers to India
Elementary school nixes electronic IDs
Employees to be billed for personal Net use?
EU questions iTunes pricing
EU to review Microsoft's ContentGuard deal
Europe's patent proposal pending
European patent protesters: 'Innovation--yes!'
ex-World Bank CTO: Desktop Linux Interrupted
Excite founders launching new venture
Expecting an SLA from your independent VoIP provider? Yea, right
Expert: Cooperate, or risk hobbling Moore's Law
Experts: Zombie trick set to send spam skyhigh
Exploding cell phone shocks 911 dispatcher
F-Secure flaw opens door to intruders
FBI rapped over 'antiquated' software
Feds urged to tighten cybersecurity
Fewer pink slips for techies
Fight over 'forms' clouds future of Net applications
Finding a replacement for passwords
Finnish study: Handset radiation within limits
Fiorina falls victim to HP's Switzerland syndrome
Fiorina steps down at HP
Fiorina's fuzzy vision
Fiorina's resignation should have no effect on HP's IP efforts
Firefox 'secret support partner' to be revealed
Firefox reaches 25 million desktops
Firm eyes RSS feeds as ad vehicle
Firm formerly known as Gator looks for credibility
Firms give flaws a grade
Firms seek to reassure e-shoppers over security
Flash on demand from Akamai, Macromedia
Flaw in mail-list software leaks passwords
Flaw threatens T-Mobile voice mail leaks
For MCI, Qwest may not be most desirable
For VoIP, enterprises prefer step-by-step migration
Foundation wants more of the PC to be free
Freeing up one-to-one Web conferencing
From high-tech driver's licenses to national ID cards?
Fujitsu's behemoth Itanium server imminent
Gambling on RFID
Gartner dings Microsoft's security plans
Gartner pitches browser coexistence
Gartner takes Microsoft to task
Gates pours Elixir for Office developers
Gates promises better interoperability
Gateway makes notebooks its business
Georgia schools say Apple's peachy
Getting the premium you deserve
Gmail gearing up for full launch?
Gmail moves to next stage
Going After Phishers
Google "priced to perfection"
Google adds movie search
Google as mental prosthetic
Google blogger: 'I was terminated'
Google book plan sparks French war of words
Google finds its map service
Google gets rights as Web site registrar
Google image index hits 1 billion mark
Google loses trademark case in France
Google Maps adds browsers
Google may host encyclopedia project
Google seeks more marketers
Google's linking toolbar raises ire online
Gosling cites huge security hole in .Net
Gosling questions Sun-Microsoft pact
Gosling: Huge security hole in .Net
Gridless enterprises should be talking to the EGA
Gridware founder plots grid road map for enterprises
Group aims to drastically up disc storage
Growth in server sales suggests shifting market
Growth rate of Firefox usage slips
Hand scan could limit kids' Net access
Handheld market free fall continues
Hands off our Wi-Fi network!
Hasbro unveils phone-like device for kids
He should have used a Tablet PC
Hide and seek on the Web
High expectations for "Google Calendar"
Hitachi, Panasonic team on plasma technology
Homeshoring: Tech jobs in mid-size America
Hotmail outage peeves some e-mail users
House approves electronic ID cards
House panel approves spyware bill
How far does $100 million go?
How good are the open source Windows apps?
HP Sun : A good combination?
HP delivers first earnings report post-Fiorina
HP exec follows Fiorina out the door
HP plugs Linux for 64-processor servers
HP to debut new Opteron servers Monday
HP to start a printer price war?
HP tools would limit virus damage
HP, Intel target Oracle over dual-core licences
HP, Intel tussle with Oracle over dual-core chips
HP: Don't like software patents? Learn to deal
HyperTransport Consortium adds new members
IBM 'hypervisor' software makes stealth debut
IBM brings Power5 to low-end Unix server
IBM expands corporate search ambitions
IBM extends lead in server market
IBM looks to spread Linux with 'Chiphopper'
IBM revises 2004 revenue
IBM server design drops Itanium support
IBM taking open source on world tour
IBM to boost iSeries partnerships
IBM to invest $100 million in Linux push
IBM to ship supercomputer system this month
IBM to use X factor to sell servers
IBM-Lenovo deal has PC buyers looking elsewhere
ID-theft alert follows break-in at federal contractor
IDC's musings on OpenSolaris
IDC: Phone shipments surged in '04
IE update to debut ahead of plans
IE vs. Firefox: a mindshare report
IE vs. Firefox: the mindshare front
If Sun builds it, will you come?
If Sun builds it, will you come?
Illinois seeks to restrict violent games
iMesh almost ready to become paid file-swap network
In hopping chips, will IBM hop Solaris and Windows too? [LinuxWorld Podcast]
In Molly's defense...or not
Indiana kills anti-muni broadband bill
Infiniband in the kernel
Intel digs deeper into TV market
Intel expanding 64-bit Xeon family
Intel expects twins in the second quarter
Intel gives health care a dose of tech
Intel helps build low-power transistor
Intel may get antitrust warning in Japan
Intel show to tackle debate over dual-core chips
Intel to detail dual-core Itanium at conference
Intel to spotlight new Itanium: 'Poulson'
Intel unveils new class of Pentium 4s
Intel unveils silicon laser
Intruder alert: Paris Hilton, FBI, love
Intuit sees TurboTax retail sales rise
IP indemnification more than an open source issue, says IDC
Irish VoIP company sets record
Is hard time for worm author too harsh?
Is Microsoft outFirefoxed?
Is Scalix a contender or pretender for Microsoft Exchange?
Is SOAP a washout?
Is surround sound the future, or another Betamax?
Is the fear of the monoculture genuine?
Is your TV virus-proof?
IT managers: Yes to Cisco, No to IBM
IT salaries sagging
It's Windows vs. Windows as Microsoft battles piracy
ITIL adotption underway, but road to maturity long
Jef Raskin, Mac pioneer, dies at 61
Judge slams SCO's lack of evidence against IBM
Kazaa purchase exposed in copyright trial
Kazaa's a nuisance--so says Kazaa maker's staff
Key to CRM success? Bribery?
Kinks in the armor of the MS-Sun deal?
Lafayette hits snag in fiber build
Lavasoft does right
Lawmakers to act on ChoicePoint ID theft
Lawyers ride shotgun for open source
Let the mergers begin
Level 3 to cancel 3Tone Net phone service
Lexus: Cabir won't infect our cars
Liberty Alliance update steps up security
Limp Bizkit porn leak could lead to Hilton hacker
Linux developers create forum to air core flaws
Linux license overhaul--don't hold your breath
LinuxWorld: The Linux beat goes on
Long fuse for Microsoft's security challenge
Loosely coupled Microsoft Office
Ma Bell to have local rebirth online?
Macromedia Cold Fusion goes mobile
Made in lower-cost America
Making your IM secure--and deniable
Man charged with selling dinosaur fossils on eBay
Man pleads guilty to hacking WebTV
McAfee plans daily virus updates
MCI's Capellas: A Superman or a Clark Kent?
MCI, Qwest edging toward deal?
MCI: The end of a telecom icon
Meet Time Warner's new VoIP offerings
Memo to Sun: stop whining
Memo: HP after Fiorina
Merger mania promises fewer, bigger telcos
Merger wave could leave telecom gear makers at sea
Michigan governor asks voters to fund high tech
Microcommerce and enterprise IT
Microsoft acquires software tool
Microsoft beefs up site for small businesses
Microsoft cracking down, making Linux look good
Microsoft customers evaluate European sanctions
Microsoft delays CRM release after exec shuffle
Microsoft denies blackmail regarding EU, patents
Microsoft fixes potential antipiracy hole
Microsoft forces IM upgrades
Microsoft gets set for database revamp
Microsoft heralds study on customer legal protections
Microsoft IM release expected soon
Microsoft pitches new Visual Studio .Net tools
Microsoft ponders open-source database
Microsoft probes anti-spyware Trojan
Microsoft puts a little money where its mouth is
Microsoft recalls Xbox power cords
Microsoft releases 'critical' patches
Microsoft says Indigo is the color for spring
Microsoft says sorry for AntiSpyware error
Microsoft signs on Alcatel for IPTV
Microsoft taps wireless exec for Windows post
Microsoft to buy antivirus software firm
Microsoft to disable product activation over Net
Microsoft to give developers a new look at Longhorn
Microsoft to help governments with security
Microsoft to release more source code?
Microsoft tries to spill 'Wine'
Microsoft's antipiracy plan heads south
Microsoft's Office bucks for a promotion
Microsoft's shadow, open source and the next great user interface
Microsoft, eBay join antiphishing initiative
Microsoft, Flextronics partner on cell platform
Microsoft: Antispam tools assist HIV research
Microsoft: interoperability good; open source bad
Microsoft: Longhorn beta will arrive by June
Microsoft: SP2 shimmy's not a flaw
Microsoft: two views
Microsoft: two views
Microsoft: Watch out for rogue code
Midnight at the OASIS
Misconceptions about Samba, and interoperability
Mobile-virus expert: 'Fasten your seatbelt'
Mobiles beat handhelds because of connectivity
MontaVista aims to simplify cell phone Linux
More from Brown
More lawyers on our side
Motorola sees its edge as razor-thin
Motorola to sell cheap phones
Motorola to use Wi-Fi, VoIP to move cell calls to Net
Motorola unveils Razr successors, iTunes phone
Motorola's Skype deal may tick off cell phone companies
Movie blackout for P2P networks?
Mozilla releases Firefox security update
MP3s for pennies? Russian cops say no
MP3tunes.com shuns digital rights management
MSN Messenger hit by double-whammy worm
MSN Messenger outage blamed on 'data center' issue
MSN Music to offer free songs
Muslim women find a new world online
MySQL Network shifts pricing and licensing
Napster's ad: Forget fashion, music's a value play
Napster's music free, after all
Net scams driving rise in ID theft
Neuromancer gets a little closer
New billing system makes your employer your ISP
New bonuses for Google execs up to $3 million
New cell networks seen as risky bets
New copy-proof DVDs on the way?
New Focus: Triple worm attack
New Gateway servers for business, education
New IT opportunites tease small business
New VoIP user can't get a dialtone-have ideas to help?
New vulnerability scoring system shooting for common language
Nokia, Microsoft shake hands on mobile music
Non-profits jump on services models for software
Novell names new marketing exec
Novell taps open source for security
Novell tunes in open-source server software
Novell's Linux makeover
OASIS is not an island
OASIS patent policy sparks boycott
Online retailers play pricing games
Open attack on Wine
Open source threat to Windows
Open-source board eyes fewer licenses
Open-source honchos trash software patents
Open-source leader steps aside at industry group
Opening doors for women in computing
Oracle's 'Project Fusion' on collision course with NetWeaver
P2P rivals flock to BitTorrent
P2P service gets label deals
Paris Hilton worm spreads
Paris Hilton's cell phone hacked?
Patch for masses swats Windows bug
Payroll hole exposes dozens of companies
Payroll site closes on security worries
PC users suffering from 'pseudo-A.D.D'
Phishing flaw a danger to alternative browsers
Picture this: A new breed of cameras
PlayStation 3 Cell chip aims high
PlayStation 3 chip has split personality
PlayStation Portable coming next month
Plodcasting
Political Web ads may be curtailed
PowerPC support on tap for Red Hat Linux
Price tag added to online music videos
Public TV, cable industry ink digital deal
Qualcomm sees $50 3G phones
Quantum crypto firm charts way to mainstream
Qwest buying MCI? I *still* say Verizon would be the better suitor
Qwest continues its fight for MCI
Qwest in talks to buy MCI
Qwest move could keep MCI bid alive
Qwest readies new offer for MCI
Rage against the patent machine, but is anybody listening?
Ready or not, SP2 is coming
Real-time augmented reality
Red Hat unveils government business unit
Red Hat updates premium Linux
Red Hat: Fedora will engage customers
Regional carriers expand horizons
Rely on cash mice, not cash cows
Report: China's outsourcing industry lags India's
Report: healthcare market, broadband provider promotions to boost WiFi-VoIP handset growth
Report: Talks progress between Verizon, MCI
Report: Verizon floats informal bid for MCI
Researchers band together for solar fabric
Researchers: Digital encryption standard flawed
Researching spyware
Reversal of fortune--tracking Web trackers
RFID: Five years or bust
Rowling warns Harry Potter fans about Net scams
Russell Crows: I *Was* Right About Verizon Buying MCI
Saddam Hussein 'death' photos used as worm bait
Salesforce.com woos Office programmers
SanDisk queues up 1GB mini memory card for $100
SBC, AT&T say Bell breakup doesn't work
Scalix offers Firefox-based imitation of Outlook [LinuxWorld Podcast]
Scalix potentially a serious contender to Exchange
Scammers access data on 35,000
Scientists envision granting sight to the blind
SCO Group faces possible Nasdaq delisting
SCO may be delisted from Nasdaq
SCO suit dying
SCO-IBM judge floats like butterfly, almost stings like bee
Scott McNealy's Carly Fiorina moment?
Second start-up tackles open-source hygiene
Second-tier Linux sellers agree to merge
Secret 'bus cams' challenged in court
Security show tackles online threats
Seeking focus, CA will mothball some products
Shorter hours in software
Shouldn't Outlook stop spam with foreign characters?
Sick of your PC? Why not pulverize it?
Silicon Valley's China syndrome
Singapore to create threat center
Skype callers: 'Customer service, please?'
So what the heck are Web services?
Software as service
Software firms fault colleges' security education
Software patents threat or menace?
Software seeks out casual connections
Software-as-a-movie
Sony Ericsson set to unveil Walkman phones
Sony hits play for new game plan
Sony to withdraw from PDA market
Sources: IBM ditching Itanium altogether
Spanish site offers music-file fiesta
Special Report: If Sun builds it, will you come?
Speed wins at Owens & Minor
Spyware infiltrates blogs
Spyware takes aim at Mozilla browsers
Spyware, spam turning home users off the Net
Study: Antispyware market to boom in 2005
Study: Fee-based music makes gains on swapping
Study: Few bugs in MySQL database
Study: Net phones key to WiMax success
Study: Paid search to continue climbing
Study: Security fears daunt online shoppers
Sun aims to sell computing like books, tickets
Sun and IBM capture most server news interest
Sun bangs utility computing drum
Sun burnishes next-gen Sparc chips
Sun floats open-source database idea
Sun gives way more than an inch, but open source advocates want the whole mile
Sun lays off software employees
Sun releases Solaris 10 for free
Sun to revamp blade servers in 2006
Sun to turn computing power into pork bellies?
Sun's no-op announcement
Sun's open-source gamble
Sun: Chip connection tech on horizon
Super Bowl advertisers use Net for end run around NFL, Fox
Supermarket: Let your fingers do the paying
Surge in smart phone sale seen
SuSE releases critical patches
Symantec flaw leaves opening for viruses
Symantec, Computer Sciences team up
Symantec: Who's afraid of Microsoft?
Syrians adjust to broadband restrictions
Tablet OS glitch has fans crying over spilled ink
Talking to your TV
Talon news Web site closes amid heavy criticism
Tech execs ask Bush for cybersecurity commission
Testing 1 2 3
That's nice, but where's Cisco? SBC? Comcast? Vonage?
The anti-marketing of SugarCRM
The anti-Windows parallel universe
The deluge of peer-to-peer bits
The escalating conflict over Web forms standards
The flip side of database snooping
The fork in Linux' road
The great divide
The JetBlue of Enterprise Applications
The life and times of Bruce Perens [LinuxWorld Podcast]
The network services ecology
The new alignment
The open-source patent conundrum
The reality of Grid computing
The SkypeOut Forum as a complaint gallery
The state of security: It ain't pretty
The way it should be: A vendor responds directly in our blogs
They've completed a Skype call from high over the Atlantic
Third buy's a charm for Microsoft?
Three recommendations for de-bloating XML
Time to regulate the software industry?
Time Warner spruces up VoIP for businesses
Time Warner stops granting stock options, mostly
TiVo shares jump on Apple speculation
TiVo upgrade roils some subscribers
To heal a child...
Toyota near deal on hybrid car chips
Trojan attacks Microsoft's anti-spyware
True grid
Typical Comcash: they charge arm and leg for VoIP, but no ...
U.K. to issue public virus alerts
U.S. makes first arrest for spim
U.S. tech leadership to go way of 2004 Dream Team?
UDDI, version 3 on the way
Understanding the priorities in cryptography
Undetectable spyware?
Updated MyDoom targets Google--again
Verizon's sure to buy MCI. Here's why
Verizon, MCI link up in $6.7 billion merger
Viewability of SQL Server code is far cry from open source
Vigilantes launch attack on scam sites
Virgin has cure for bad dates
Virus arrives in e-mail allegedly sent by FBI
VMware unphased by Vanderpool, Xen virtualization techs
VoIP is ready for prime time
VoIP migration: gradually or all at once?
Vonage to FCC: get the telcos off our back
Warming up to open source
Webroot latches on to $108 million in VC funding
WGA side-effect aims at Linux
What price, Real ID?
What the GPL should, and shouldn't, be
When games get gory
When paying with plastic, why swipe? Just wave
While some VoIP providers scratch their heads, Packet 8 expands E911
Who gets the credit (or blame)?
Who will lead HP now? Experts offer their picks
Who's buying iPods?
Why China can't compete in IT services, yet
Why Microsoft should reveal SQL Server code
Why Microsoft should reveal SQL Server code
Why our broadband policy's still a mess
Wi-Fi phones don't add up to much
Wi-Fi visionary: better case for VoIP WiFi than VoIP over cell
WiMax may pose fresh challenge to broadband
Windows anti-spyware to come free of charge
Windows gets a splash of Indigo
Windows glitches to get fixes
Wireless start-up targets Hispanic market
Woman advocates regret Fiorina's departure
Work-life balance can override salary
Worm tries to entice with 'lov ya' message
Worm uses funny face to distract from danger
Worst kept secret: Upgrade to IE on the way
Xdrive adds music streamed to phones
Xen lures big-name endorsements
XM Satellite's loss shrinks
Yahoo Japan launches blog beta
Yahoo launches 'contextual' search
Yahoo unveils test toolbar for Firefox
Yale women demand stand on gender controversy
Yankee Group wants HP to split up
You can never be too rich or too thin
Your privacy is in bad hands
Zafi virus a top holiday hangover
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