Matt Hines

New research indicates that manufacturers shipments of new mobile phones reached an all-time high during the fourth quarter of 2005, but experts said that increasing device saturation and demand for cheap handhelds will likely drive down profits for the gadgets this year. According to the latest market figures published by researchers iSuppli, wireless phone shipments […]

Microsoft has released the latest beta version of its Internet Explorer 7 software, giving developers working on its XP operating system an additional preview of the browsers new features. Dubbed as Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, the company is making the test version of the application […]

A federal court in New Jersey granted an injunction to Verizon Wireless in the companys latest case against third parties charged with obtaining and selling information about the carriers customers. Verizon officials said that a federal judge in Trenton, New Jersey issued a preliminary injunction against the current and former owners of an online company […]

Security researcher Michal Zalewski has identified an issue related to the manner in which most Web browsers process so-called cookies that he contends may leave many Web sites open to malicious attacks. Zalewski, best known as the author of security tome “Silence on the Wire,” has labeled his discovery “cross-site cooking” and claims that the […]

Adobe Systems last week introduced a new document sharing software package aimed at the process of designing and building products. Customers were upbeat about this targeted version of Acrobat, which could supplant expensive CAD applications in manufacturing businesses. Dubbed Acrobat 3D, the system offers the ability for manufacturing companies to author, edit and distribute documents […]

Level 3 Communications announced that it has acquired Progress Telecom, a provider of wireless and land-line phone services in the Southeastern United States, for about $137 million in cash and stock. Under the terms of the deal, Level 3 will pay $68.5 million in unregistered shares of its stock and $68.5 million in cash to […]

Microsoft has released a revision of the Simple Sharing Extensions guideline it first detailed in November, which is aimed at improving the way applications such as calendaring tools allocate data updates to help process RSS feeds more effectively. In a posting to Microsofts RSS Team blog, Jack Ozzie, vice president of development at the software […]

Opera Software released a final version of its new browser for wireless handsets, known as Mini, and said it hopes to spur increased use of the mobile Internet by distributing the application free of charge. The browser was designed as a simplified version of the Norwegian software makers previous wireless offering, Opera Mobile Browser, which […]

Rumors that Apple Computers iWork desktop productivity software isnt selling well appear to be false, based on new research from NPD Group indicating that the package finished second only to Microsofts Office at U.S. retail stores during 2005. While Corels WordPerfect software ranks second overall in the United States across all sales channels, NPD Analyst […]

Elements of Microsofts next-generation Web browsing software have been posted on a Windows-related blog site, including screen shots of what the application may look like and a link to some of its code. While the links to the build code for what appears to be a beta version of Internet Explorer 7 have since been […]