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Software productivity maker Autodesk is gearing up for a new generation of Web mapping applications after it contributed its MapServer Enterprise code to the open source community. The latest move adds an enterprise offering to existing open source mapping efforts currently underway. MapServer Enterprise is Autodesk’s next-generation of its MapGuide software, which helps users create […]

It text messages, launches phone calls via your broadband connection, enables video along with all that VoIP and keeps track of other important messaging info via SMS alerts. Small wonder that AOL is calling its latest instant messaging client, AIM Triton, the new “front door” to digital communications. The latest version is live, as in […]

Microsoft released a bulletin for a Windows patch labeled critical. The security bulletin addresses three vulnerabilities, each affecting the graphics rendering engine in Windows 2000, Windows XP SP1/SP2, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 SP1. The bulletin’s number is MS05-053. The main culprit behind this security bulletin is a critical vulnerability in the Windows […]

Mozilla Firefox fans can list plenty of reasons they chose that browser over Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The latest could be that they got paid to. Google recently expanded its AdSense for publishers programs to include referrals to both its Adsense program and Firefox with Google Toolbar. The new Firefox referral will pay AdSense publishers up […]

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Microsoft in the long-running patent dispute over browser plug-ins brought by Eolas Technologies. This time, Microsoft could end up paying damages as a result of the high court’s decision not to take up its appeal. “The ruling confirms the pattern of judgments supporting the University’s position and […]

Looks like that meeting of the Anaheim City Council worked out well for EarthLink. The ISP-turned-WISP announced today that it has the “exclusive franchise” to build the city’s broadband Wi-Fi network — or it will, once the contract is approved. The network will cover 50 square miles (does that include Disneyland?) eventually, but will start […]

License proliferation in the open source community is a much-debated and hotly contested topic. Microsoft, a company often reviled in the open source community, has taken dramatic steps to simplify its open source style shared source licenses by paring the number it offers down to three. Microsoft established its Shared Source Initiative in 2001 and […]

If content is king, VeriSign must be royally happy with its $30 million cash acquisition of Moreover Technologies today. The purchase pairs giant infrastructure services company VeriSign , with Web content aggregator Moreover. Currently, Moreover aggregates more than 12,000 news sources and millions of blogs. Moreover uses an advanced content tagging system with more than […]

Rival handheld computer makers Palm and Research In Research said today they would incorporate RIM’s wireless e-mail service into Palm’s popular Treo 650 smartphone as well as future mobile devices from Palm. RIM’s BlackBerry Connect will be made available only on Palm’s Treo 650, and is to roll out in early 2006. The deal, which […]

WASHINGTON — Naked DSL is baring itself again on Capitol Hill as a possible condition for the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) approval of the Verizon-MCI and SBC-AT&T mega-mergers. If ultimately approved by the FCC and the Department of Justice, the mergers will combine the nation’s two largest telecoms with the leading two long-distance providers. Combined […]

Must be nice to be a patient at the Century City Doctors Hospital  in Los Angeles (well, except for that whole “being sick” part). The medical center has been outfitted completely with a BelAir Networks mesh network that is used to provide not just high speed Internet but also digital satellite TV and movie on […]

Roku’s Cisco says that under new rules for Software Defined Radios set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), its own 802.11a radios will be the first certified SDR Wi-Fi products. This means the current radios in the Cisco Aironet 1240AG Series access points, using 12 channels in 5GHz frequency UNII-band, can be upgraded in the […]