Matthew Hicks

Vonage Holdings Corp. has sued AT&T Corp. for trademark infringement, alleging that the name of AT&Ts newly launched VOIP service is confusingly similar to its company and product name. In its lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, Vonage alleges that AT&T is infringing on its name by launching a VOIP […]

Microsoft Corp.s MSN division laid out more of its Web search plans Friday, saying it will launch separate Weblog search and news search services later this year. The two services—MSN Newsbot for news and MSN Blogbot for blogs—will likely come out ahead of MSNs introduction later this year of its own algorithmic Web search engine […]

Google Inc. wants to make search more personal. The search giant on Monday unveiled two projects from its labs that let users receive customized search results and e-mail alerts. Google Personalized Web Search lets users set preferences that are used to tailor search-engine results to a users specific interests, Google announced. With Google Web Alerts, […]

As Google Inc. and its competitors race to scour the far reaches of the Web for the most relevant results, a new breed of search engine is focusing on its own virtual corner. GlobalSpec Inc., a search and directory site for applied engineers, this week relaunched the site with its own search engine that is […]

SAN FRANCISCO—A day after Microsoft Corp. entered the speech technology market, the two leading speech vendors on Thursday echoed the message that speech is hitting its market stride during a keynote here at the AVIOS SpeechTEK 2004 conference. Executives from Nuance Communications Inc., of Menlo Park, Calif., and ScanSoft Inc.s SpeechWorks division, which together account […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday launched Speech Server 2004 during a trio of conferences here, showcasing a range of customers and announcing pricing for the two versions of the software and a development platform for creating and running speech applications. Bill Gates, Microsofts chairman and chief software architect, unveiled Speech Server 2004 during his keynote […]

SAN FRANCISCO— IBM on Tuesday launched a series of upgrades to its speech technology offerings and announced plans to support Linux in its speech server software during the first day of the AVIOS SpeechTEK Spring 2004 show here. IBM plans to add Linux in the second quarter as one of the supported operating systems for […]

SAN FRANCISCO—With Microsoft Corp. poised on Wednesday to formally launch its Speech Server 2004 during a trio of conferences here, its partners are preparing announcements on a range of new speech applications to run on the platform. ScanSoft Inc. will launch on Wednesday a speech-enabled change-of-address application, while Pronexus Inc. will announce an application for […]

Cisco Systems Inc. has brought together eight years of its work on internal streaming media and video on demand in a new product offering for enterprises wanting to broadcast video over IP networks. The San Jose, Calif., company on Tuesday launched its Business Video Solution. The package combines Ciscos routers and switches for managing IP […]

Terra Lycos HotBot search site on Monday launched a search toolbar that includes the ability to search local hard-drive content and to read RSS feeds. The HotBot Desktop, a free download available now, includes the typical search toolbar features such as a search query box and pop-up ad blocker. But unlike most others, it also […]

When European Union regulators rule this week in their antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., their decision will do more than possibly force the software maker to offer Windows without a bundled multimedia player. It appears likely to set a precedent for when and where Microsoft can integrate other software into the operating system and also […]

Yahoo Inc. continued its rollout of search services since dropping Google Inc.s results with an announcement Friday of a revamped search index for news content. Yahoo of Sunnyvale, Calif., has switched its news search to an index that combines content from its 100 news partners with 7,000 sources from the Web. The index marks a […]