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The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it would look into ways to keep cell phones free of spam, while the Federal Trade Commission said it would explore whether it could duplicate its “Do Not Call” anti-telemarketing registry for e-mail users. FCC Chairman Michael Powell likened spam messages to “cockroaches” and said he hoped government and […]

The Federal Communications Commission in November 2003 said that starting in July 2005, all digital video-recording devices recognize a “broadcast flag” encoded in the digital television stream. Recorders must then encode a flagged program so it cannot be shared from machine to machine or over the Internet. The American Library Association, Public Knowledge, the Electronic […]

John Kerrys website was found to have many pages filled with vulgarity, but a spokesman for the campaign said to the Boston Herald that he believed the Web site was struck by “a virus.” “He then promised to get back to us with a better story, but never did,” the Boston Herald reported. One item […]

Intel Corp. will stop selling its Centrino product in China. Starting June 1st, China will require all wireless-networking imports to support an encryption technology produced only in China. Intel will continue talks with Chinese authorities, according to Chuck Mulloy, a spokesman for Intel. Read the full story at Bloomberg.com Asia

Microsoft is acknowledging that a substantial number of its MSN services customers experienced a major service outage on Friday, but is still saying little about the cause. By Saturday morning, Hotmail, Passport and MSN Messenger seemed to be functioning properly again. Microsoft did not respond by press time with an update as to when the […]

Microsoft Corp. will use its Mobile DevCon later this month to talk up its next release of its SQL Server CE platform, Version 3.0, code-named Laguna. Like Yukon—the next version of the full-fledged SQL Server release—Laguna is unlikely to debut before mid-2005. Microsoft officials acknowledged earlier this week that Yukon wont ship by the end […]

For months, rumors have swirled around the Web alleging that Microsoft helped finance a small Utah software companys suit against IBM and two corporations that use Linux software. BW Online has learned that Microsoft (MSFT ) did not put up the money, but did play matchmaker for SCO Group (SCOX ) and BayStar Capital, a […]

Last week one of my colleagues said, “The technology of Linux seems to be doing a better job of converging, while the support orgs around it are acting more and more like the Unix fragmentation of old.” I agree. Too many Linux, open source, and free software advocacy groups seem to act as if they […]

Voltaire Inc. this week announced that it has secured $15 million in funding in an oversubscribed fourth round, bringing the companys total funding to date to $50 million. The company offers intelligent InfiniBand hardware and software solutions that let high performance applications run on distributed server, storage and network resources. VCs continue to show strong […]

Matsushita Electric said it will join Sony Corp. in July as the second manufacturer to offer Blu-ray disk recorders. Matsushitas Blu-ray disk recorders will feature recording capability on 50GB two-layer disks that can store 4.5 hours of HD video. The company in March demonstrated a prototype incorporates tuners that cover all digital TV broadcasting in […]

iQstor Networks Inc. recently unveiled a new Serial ATA-based RAID system with 1TB of raw storage capacity in a 3U rack-mount chassis. The companys iQ1200 Storage System can be ordered in a base configuration with either a single or a dual controller and a recommended minimum of six 80GB Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives to […]

Worldwide handset sales in 2003 totaled 520 million units, according to research firm Gartner. Growth in 2003 exceed expectations with a 20.5 percent increase over 2002. Nokia lead in market share with 34.7 percent of units sold in 2003, followed by Motorola at 14.5 percent. Read the full story at InternetNews.com