InternetNews Staff

NEW YORK — A new open source alliance is in town, consisting of “nobody and everybody” in open source development and looking to do some good. Called the Open Solutions Alliance, the group unveiled itself at the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit today as first first reported by internetnews.com. The consortium counts companies such as Jaspersoft, […]

By Siobhan Fitzpatrick Not enough love in your online dating world? If so, you haven’t looked very hard. From the biggies, such as Match.com, eHarmony, Yahoo Personals, to smaller, niche Web sites like ChristianCafe.com, JDate (for Jewish singles), sites that offer match-ups, hookups and dating prospects are, well, blooming. Even the newer social network sites […]

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune says the city’s municipal wireless network, being installed and run by US Internet, is ahead of schedule and could go live as early as April, at least in the downtown area. The $20 million project will provide consumers with 1 to 3 Mbps downloads for $20 a month; eventually, it will cover […]

Click to ViewAt the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, Nokia has already introduced several new wireless products, including the N800 Internet Tablet. Nokia’s N800, a followup to the 770 Internet Tablet, is already available in the U.S. for $400 and in select European markets for 399 Euros. Nokia has brought the […]

Happy holidays for the Big Easy: As anticipated, EarthLink announced the official opening of its New Orleans Wi-Fi network today. Muni Wi-Fi analyst Craig Settles calls it “a pretty good day for the good guys considering how much that city had to fight the Evil Empire in New Orleans’ darkest hour.” (That Evil Empire in […]

RaLink Technologies’ new 802.11n draft-compliant chip supposedly has the longest range in the industry. The RT2800 will double the range of other chips using a “patented, low-noise circuitry that pinpoints and recovers the high-speed 802.11n streams of data,” according to RaLink’s claims. The chip can be used in APs for residences, business, and outdoors. It is […]

UPDATED: Traders hit the markets today with holiday cheer, hefty bonuses and a brighter than expected economic outlook to help boost stocks and indexes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average skirted past the 12,400 mark in a fourth quarter rally helped by strong corporate earnings. NASDAQ stocks also benefited by solid Holiday season sales and economic […]

Googleplexers will be able to sell their vested stock options as part of an innovative online auction that could give them even more cash and clout than they might find in the major markets. Under the Transferable Stock Option (TSO) program, employees of the search giant will still be able to exercise their options, but […]

The state capital of New York, Albany, today announced plans to deploy Cisco ServiceMesh equipment (via integrator Tech Valley Communications) throughout the city. The network will be used by the public, visitors, and by city employees. That includes use of the 4.9GHz spectrum reserved for first responders. Cisco equipment will also be used  by Singapore […]

Intel  is upping the stakes in its chip building plant in Vietnam to $1 billion, more than three times its original price tag. The world’s largest chipmaker said it would increase the size of the assembly and test facility it is building in Vietnam from 150,000 square feet to 500,000 square feet. It had planned […]

Business is good for phishers. The size of their average catch increased almost five-fold, from $257 per victim last year to $1,244 in 2006. According to Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, this is happening because scammers are identifying higher-income targets, moving their phishing sites more frequently and switching up the types of business they try to […]

The MuniWireless State-of-the-Market Report is out (in time for the MuniWireless ’06 conference in Minneapolis)  and it predicts that $3 billion will be spent in the United States from 2006 to 2010 by municipalities that want Wi-Fi. $235 million will be in 2006 alone, an increase over the previous forecast of $177 million. It’s not […]