Erin Joyce

Relief groups such as the American Red Cross were providing online information Monday about how to donate aid, as the world community responded to coastal nations in southeast Asia that were devastated by a massive underwater earthquake and tsunami Sunday. Bloggers also picked up the links and ran with them, quickly spreading information about the […]

UPDATED: Microsoft said it plans to offer a version of Windows in European markets with its media player stripped out by January, following a European court ruling that upheld antitrust penalties against the company. The ruling Wednesday by the European Court of First Instance is a blow to Microsoft, which had asked the EU high […]

A European court has upheld a European Commission ruling that Microsoft must unbundle its media player from the Windows operating system and allow access to some of its application programming interface (APIs) for software companies. Microsoft had asked the European Court of First Instance to stay the March judgment by the European Union’s Anticompetition Commission […]

The European Court of First Instance is slated to issue its ruling on Microsoft’s appeal of antitrust penalties Wednesday, a person familiar with the EU’s schedule told internetnews.com. In the meantime, Microsoft is girding for the decision, which asked the EU appeals court for a stay on penalties it was hit with last March when […]

Twenty-five years after the first voicemail systems debuted on servers the size of refrigerators, the feature has grown into a sleek, nimble feature of Internet protocol communications. Communications and Voice over IP software provider Avaya is throwing voicemail a kind of birthday bash with an update of its IP telephony suite. Called Modular Messaging 2.0, […]

Call it the new, vertically integrated, horizontal search engine with artificial intelligence to license — and no worries about its growth plans against bigger search players. Since its official launch Monday in New York with the help of former President Bill Clinton, business search engine Accoona said it is mulling a plan to license its […]

It seemed there wasn’t any escaping the tsunami of blog news this week. Microsoft launched its MSN Spaces blogging service; online dictionary MW.com anointed ‘blog’ the word of the year; HighBeam Research tapped a Blogger-in-Chief; and Bloglines’ trumped its international expansion. It was all-blogs-all-the-time, until IBM news made waves of its own. The New York […]

AOL is teaming with Kayak Software to build a free travel search offering, the company said Friday. Currently in beta, Kayak is the brainchild of the founders of Orbitz, Expedia and Travelocity. AOL said it took a minority investment in Kayak as part of the deal. The move comes as more players crowd into the […]

Microsoft is opening its latest search technology beta Thursday, a spokesperson told internetnews.com. The move represents the latest beta release of the company’s search effort, which MSN released earlier this year. It also represents Microsoft’s response to the growth and competitive threat from search king Google . Microsoft has warned that it’s preparing a Google […]

On Demand. Organic computing. Utility computing. It all adds up to one thing: a big shift under way in the technology industry to make systems more nimble and cost-effective. While internetnews.com has covered the trend for the past few years, the terms to describe the trend have grown, too. In this installment of our ongoing […]

A big post-election discussion in the blogosphere this week is whether the Republican party will overreach with its agenda, now that it has extended its hold on the House and Senate in the wake of President Bush’s re-election. As bloggers grow in readership and influence in the media world, they might consider the same question. […]

They’re not even called cars anymore. IBM’s pervasive computing unit has dubbed it a “server platform on wheels.” OnStar, the in-car communication network, calls it a smart system that can remind you when you need an oil change, while keeping your car data scanned. Your mechanic is likely to scratch his head and call it […]