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By Tim Scannell Visto Corp. announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Good Technology, which makes mobile messaging solutions. The Santa Clara, Calif., company’s technology is available on both the Palm and Windows Mobile platforms and will soon be unveiled for the Symbian operating environment on Nokia cell phones. The suit, […]

By Ed Sutherland Tired of being an also-ran in the digital music arena, software giant Microsoft is reportedly considering offering its own device. The company ignited the discussion with its December shift of its digital media software division and the MSN Music service to the Entertainment & Devices division, which experts agree is the likely […]

By Ed Sutherland Sprint Nextel today asked a Florida court to grant an injunction stopping a company’s “egregious disregard for privacy.” Sprint Nextel alleged that 1st Source Information Specialist, the parent of several Web sites offering detailed cell phone data, committed fraud by posing as Sprint Nextel customers to gain records. Sprint is only the […]

By David Ian Miller Growth in online retail spending will be healthy over the next few years, but retailers will have to scramble for the attention of a maturing population of online shoppers, according to a forecast by JupiterResearch. Online retail sales are expected to hit $95 billion in 2006, an 18 percent jump over […]

By Ed Sutherland Broadcom’s purchase of Ethernet switch maker Sandburst for $80 million is “sort of a ‘perfect storm’ of technology and markets coming together” said Martin Lund, vice president and general manager of the networking switching business unit at Broadcom. Cable and DSL providers are increasingly turning to Ethernet for the backend of converged […]

By Ed Sutherland As the computer virus marks its 20th anniversary, one company says traditional e-mail-borne spam is adopting new tactics. “Eighty to 90 percent of spam now have URLs,” said Pat Peterson, vice president of technology at IronPort Systems, a San Bruno, Calif., e-mail security vendor. IronPort today unveiled Web Reputation, extending its Anti-Spam […]

By Ed Sutherland Auto makers and retail giants are in the driver’s seat of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), an industry expected to experience “explosive growth” over the next five years, according to analysts. Used to track everything from Pepsi to people, 33 billion radio tags will be produced by 2010. Only 1.5 billion of the […]

By Ed Sutherland Companies walk a tightrope when it comes to protecting copyrighted work with Digital Rights Management (DRM), according to a new report. ” Sony’s recent DRM fiasco highlighted the tightrope content producers are currently walking,” according to Ben Macklin of eMarketer. Getting DRM right is made even more important as more people turn […]

By Ed Sutherland There’s a first time for everything. The European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region in 2005 shipped more computers, according to numbers by Gartner. The EMEA region shipped 72.6 million PCs in 2005 versus 67.2 million by the U.S. In the fourth quarter alone, more than 20 million PCs were shipped last […]

By David Miller When Yahoo failed to satisfy investors’ appetites for earnings on Tuesday, despite meeting analysts’ expectations, the market responded with a flurry of tech sell-offs and gloomy forecasts about the near future for tech stocks. But on Wednesday most analysts called the response an overreaction while warning that earnings optimism seems to be […]

By Ed Sutherland UPDATED: Adobe today expanded its OpenHD Alliance to include 10 new companies offering high-definition products for Windows. The alliance, formed in April with Microsoft, Intel, Dell and HP, certifies hardware and software for creating high-definition video. The 10 new companies — AJA, AMD, Blackmagic, Bluefish, CineForm, Focusrite, Huge/Ciprico, Matrox, NVIDIA and Rorke […]

By Ed Sutherland Motorola today announced plans to buy Kreatel Communications AB, a Swedish company that develops set-top boxes for Internet television (IPTV). Although IPTV is not expected to challenge U.S. cable offerings for several years, broadcasting television via the Internet is a growing market, according to analysts. While television delivered via the Internet in […]