It seems that Silverlight, a new web streaming technology from Microsoft, will finally allow us to provide customers with video solutions for the web - something that was not really possible with just Windows Media. Basically, with Silverlight we can build YouTube-like web sites hosted both on Linux and Windows, and viewable on both Windows and […]

Simply booting up a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop can tell people sniffing wireless network traffic a lot about your computer and about you. Soon after a computer powers up, it starts looking for wireless networks and network services. Even if the wireless hardware is then shut-off, a snoop may already have caught interesting data. Much more information […]

Digitization firm Apex Publishing said that it has been chosen by the National Library of Australia to support a major newspaper digitization program that will launch later this year. Under the deal, the library will use Apex’s services to build a database covering 1803-1954 using one major newspaper from each state and territory in Australia. […]

Although it has repeatedly denied it has any intention of taking on Microsoft Office, Google introduced Google Apps Premier Edition, a fee-based version of its free Web-based word processing and spreadsheet applications for businesses. For a $50 yearly fee per account, customers will receive the entire Google Apps package with additional business centric features, plus […]

The Dutch prosecutor’s office is considering legal actions to test the law against child porn in the popular virtual game Second Life. With no clear litigation, it is difficult to act against perpetrators. Linden Lab’s Second Life is an online digital world with almost three million “residents” claimed by the company. Some areas of Second Life […]

Second Life, the virtual world that’s becoming increasingly popular in education, will soon add proximity-based 3D voice capabilities, according to developer Linden Lab. But just what is “3D voice?” According to Linden Lab, it’s a technology that allows Second Life residents to speak to one another using spacial awareness algorithms that take distance and direction […]

A variant of the Trojan horse attacks known as Storm Worm emerged Monday (February 26, 2007), targeting people who post blogs and notices to bulletin boards. “The new Storm Worm variant attacks the users’ machines when they open an e-mail attachment, click on a malicious e-mail link or visit a malicious site,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, […]

Microsoft’s MSN Soapbox video-sharing site is unlikely to knock Google’s YouTube off its pedestal anytime soon. Soapbox, which officially launched for public testing this month, has several interesting features and big brand backing. But it lacks what lured people to YouTube in the first place: originality. And, when it comes to online video, originality is […]

Warner Music’s chief executive Edgar Bronfman said the mobile industry is not doing enough to exploit the vast potential of downloading music to handsets. Speaking at the 3GSM World Congress, Bronfman said the market for mobile music is being held back by ‘cumbersome’ systems for transferring songs to phones. ‘It’s expensive, complicated and slow and […]

Powerset, a San Francisco-based start-up, said it has signed an exclusive, open-ended license to use Internet search technology touted as a potential challenger to Google Inc. The 40-employee start-up based in San Francisco licensed the technology from the developer, Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto Research Center. Financial terms of the arrangement weren’t disclosed. Powerset will start […]

Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz has started his own record label. Duritz said he had no plans to start a label but came across a pair of acts on MySpace that he found irresistible: Chicago-based punk-pop band Blacktop Mourning and a New York rapper known as Notar. “The talent of Notar and Blacktop Mourning just […]

Yahoo says they have now integrated Yahoo! Mail with Yahoo! Messenger. Internet giant Yahoo! happens to be the operator of the web’s most popular webmail service. The company has now said that it has now embedded instant messaging features inside its e-mail program. The company said that the web users can now run both these […]

Google plans to open up Gmail, its free e-mail service, to everyone worldwide. Initially, Gmail was an exclusive club — an invitation from another Gmail user was required. In August 2005, Google opened Gmail up to those willing to submit a mobile phone number as a means of identity verification and as a way to […]

New Internet TV services such as Joost and YouTube may bring the global network to its knees, Internet companies said, adding they are already investing heavily just to keep data flowing. Google, which acquired online video sharing site YouTube last year, said the Internet was not designed for TV. It even issued a warning to […]

Gemalto, a world leader in digital security, today announces the official launch of the MaXSSIMM program, aimed at establishing and promoting a new industrial standard for mobile multimedia services. The program is supported by France’s AII (industrial innovation agency), and is intended to facilitate and accelerate the implementation of personalized and secure Internet services for […]