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Rambus victory upends an FTC unfair monopoly practices finding

April 24, 2008, 7:17 am   [ link da copiare ]
A long-standing claim was that Rambus behaved unfairly by withholding secrets from competitors in standards committees. But an appeals court today erased an FTC decision, on the grounds that those committees may have been useless anyway.

Outlook Express to finally end access to Hotmail

April 24, 2008, 7:17 am   [ link da copiare ]
Yesterday an e-mail was sent out from the Windows Live Mail Team announcing that Outlook Express would be dropping the legacy DAV protocol on June 30 2008, severing access to the Hotmail Inbox from Outlook Express.

Cross-site scripting vulnerability may affect Earthlink, other ISPs

April 24, 2008, 7:17 am   [ link da copiare ]
Security research firm IOActive notes that several ISPs, including Earthlink, are using advertising servers to collect revenue on misspelled URLs, but alleges that in so doing, they may have mistakenly exposed users to cross-site scripting.

Microsoft to end support for MSN Music DRM

April 24, 2008, 7:17 am   [ link da copiare ]
As of August 31 of this year, Microsoft's "Plays for Sure" technology -- once codenamed Janus -- will no longer play for sure -- unless, that is, users play back the tunes on the same computers and OS forever.

Alltel Wireless gets the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone

April 24, 2008, 7:17 am   [ link da copiare ]
The latest Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone, the Curve 8330, is now on its way to three different US mobile phone networks on May 1, the latest addition being Alltel.

Analyst: Mobile DTV standards problem may never be solved

April 24, 2008, 7:17 am   [ link da copiare ]
In-Stat has published a report that forecasts the future of the worldwide mobile TV market, anticipating a total of $12 billion dollars in revenue in 2012, but it appears the fragmented nature of standards is here to stay.

Microsoft seems prepared to walk away from Yahoo deal

April 24, 2008, 7:17 am   [ link da copiare ]
In the face of better-than-expected financial results last quarter for Yahoo, Microsoft now seems to be indicating that it is ready to move on.

Microsoft takes on Google with CRM Online

April 24, 2008, 7:17 am   [ link da copiare ]
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online left beta this week for general release, amid industry scrutiny as to how well Microsoft's software as a service (SaaS) will fare against that of rival Salesforce.com.

Apple buys embedded chipmaker for $278 million in cash

April 24, 2008, 7:17 am   [ link da copiare ]
In response to media inquiries, Apple disclosed early Wednesday that it had purchased embedded chipmaker P.A. Semi, whose chips may end up in the Cupertino company's devices.

GroupTweet to blame for Twitter security 'compromise'

April 24, 2008, 7:07 am   [ link da copiare ]
Twitter, the moment-by-moment status update ("What are you doing now?") site that's the buzz among social networking circles, was shaken by a potentially embarrassing foul-up.

Iomega surges ahead with a half-terabyte home theater drive

April 24, 2008, 7:07 am   [ link da copiare ]
On its way to becoming an EMC division, Iomega today announced its new 500 GB ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive, designed to let users watch entertainment content on their TVs and home theater systems without the need of a PC.

Stellar growth for online CRM spurs a Microsoft / Salesforce duel

April 24, 2008, 7:07 am   [ link da copiare ]
Microsoft and Salesforce.com are at loggerheads over online CRM. Microsoft just rebranded its service and retooled its software, Salesforce is partnering with Google to parry Microsoft, and verbal attacks from both sides verge on vicious.

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