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2008-10-07
Verizon had accused Cox of infringing six patents related to Internet telephony. Verizon settled a similar suit against digital phone service provider Vonage last year for $117.5 million.
2008-10-07
Mozilla Labs is set to launch a geolocation add-on called Geode in the wake of related Web services such as Yahoo Fire Eagle and Google's Geolocation API. This latest application development effort from Mozilla comes as location-based Web services are heating up. But what form will such services take beyond the now-cliche restaurant reviews scenario?
2008-10-06
Proofpoint joins the list of vendors supporting bounce address tag validation, also known as BATV. Webroot and Cisco also support BATV in their e-mail security offerings. Earlier this year, Symantec noted the rise of backscatter spam in its monthly State of Spam report.
2008-10-06
Deutsche Telekom says it reported the theft of names, addresses, cell phone numbers, e-mail addresses and dates of birth of millions of mobile phone customers in 2006 and found no evidence the information was abused. German government investigators are analyzing potential danger from the data leak.
2008-10-06
Hakia relaunches its semantic search engine to better differentiate itself from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other search engines. Application development efforts have made Hakia a fully tabbed search engine, with a credible sites tab for validated expert results. Hakia joins Microsoft's Powerset, Wikia and others in trying to provide users with a different experience from Google.
2008-10-06
Web communications firm Skype faces a backlash at home and in China for apparently allowing core principles to be compromised in order to meet the demands of Chinese censors, analysts warned. Skype, with its promises of total security and privacy, has long been popular with Chinese looking to keep their conversations away from the prying eyes of government censors.
2008-10-06
The first touch-screen phone from Nokia, the world's top mobile phone maker, will go on sale in India, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia and Spain by year-end, but will miss the Christmas shopping season in most developed markets.
2008-10-06
IBM opens a beta for Bluehouse, the company's SAAS social networking and collaboration platform. The offering will compete with cloud computing solutions from Google, Microsoft and Cisco at a time when messaging and collaboration platforms are moving into the Web.
2008-10-03
The merger of online health sites Revolution Health Network and Waterfront Media could challenge WebMD's dominance in the online health care space.
2008-10-02
Skype says its co-owned China venture monitors users' text messages and chats for politically sensitive keywords and stores information about those users in places accessible to the Chinese government.
2008-10-02
A new survey shows quality and performance are falling as barriers in making the decision about switching exclusively to wireless and cutting landline service. J.D. Power study ranks Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile as tops in call quality and brand image.
2008-10-01
Web radio-enabled MP3 player Slacker challenges the Apple iPod by allowing users to acquire new music for free. The $200 Slacker G2 music player comes in 4GB and 8GB versions and refreshes its music stations automatically.
2008-10-01
MTV will provide advertiser partners with data on how the videos and ads on its site are watched by users online. MTV will also measure video usage of MTV-owned videos that have been shared or embedded on other social networks such as MySpace. Advertisers will be able to use personal data of visitors to MTV's Web sites for anonymous user tracking and ad campaign targeting.
2008-10-01
Zoho, increasingly a thorn in the sides of Google and Salesforce.com, launches Zoho Marketplace, a market for enterprise applications. Developers get to keep the fees for the fruits of their labor. Zoho also launches Zoho Creator 3.0, the latest iteration of its application development platform to help programmers build tools for users.
2008-10-01
OneSeason.com, a day-trading website where sports fans, traders and gamblers can invest real money in stocks representing U.S. athletes, teams, leagues and other sports personalities, launched on Wednesday.
2008-10-01
Slide, the maker of software apps for social networks Facebook and MySpace, signed a deal with CBS Interactive, Comcast's E! Entertainment channel, Time Warner's Warner Brothers, News Corp and NBC Universal's Hulu to distribute video content on Facebook.
2008-09-30
eBay's Skype VOIP telephony business adds some improvements to the second beta of Skype 4.0 for Windows, including the return of the compact screen and group contact capabilities. Reintroducing features from Skype 3.8 seems retro, but Skype needed to make the moves to keep its over 300 million users happy. Such improvements could lead new VOIP and telephony customers looking for free messaging and collaboration apps to Skype in a time of financial distress.
2008-09-30
Microsoft plans to continue charging licensing fees from handset makers for using its mobile operating system and not follow the free offerings of Google and Nokia.
2008-09-30
Google, Microsoft, Apple, RIM and other bellwethers in the high-tech sector spit the bit on Black Monday. eWEEK wonders how enterprises can cut costs and finds out from Forrester and Gartner analysts that SAAS and Web-based messaging and collaboration tools from Cisco, Microsoft and IBM may get ringing endorsements from businesses looking to slash travel expenses via Web conferencing and phone bills via VOIP and enterprise instant messaging.
2008-09-30
IBM Lotus releases iNotes ultralite, a Web application available as part of IBM's Lotus Domino Web Access 8.0.2, that lets users access their Notes e-mail from Apple's iPhone. The messaging and collaboration application heightens the iPhone's viability as an enterprise-grade device. How soon before IBM creates a Lotus Notes application for T-Mobile's G1 phone, based on Google's Android operating system?
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