InternetNews Staff

Oracle’s dogged pursuit of PeopleSoft was rewarded on December 13, 2004, as PeopleSoft’s board of directors agreed to sell the company for $10.3 billion. The announcement ended 18 months of tense legal battles and market unrest that shook PeopleSoft. Below is a look back at some of the key highlights in the fight to merge […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A gathering of Wi-Fi vendors always means a lot to take in, but only a handful of companies continue to truly innovate and bring something new to the table. That handful, narrowed down from an exhaustive list of potential winners, is what makes up the best on the show floor at […]

Week of November 29-December 3, 2004 You don’t have to print out the grocery list anymore: six Kroger supermarkets in Seattle are now outfitted with Wi-Fi for customer use. The network is installed and run by Ecuity using hotspot-in-a-box equipment from Colubris Networks. Users get full Internet access and can even download Ecuity’s VoIP software […]

Fraudsters may be licking their chops over nefarious plots to scam online holiday shoppers, but good old common sense can be an effective security shield against their ploys, researchers say. For starters, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, said Andrew H. Te, CEO of PowWeb, a hosting company for small […]

French technology play Thomson is taking a stake in digital rights management tech provider ContentGuard. The move could help cool simmering European Union objections to the acquisition of the company by Microsoft and Time Warner . The Paris-based Thomson said Monday it will make a strategic investment in ContentGuard. The deal places Thomson in partnership […]

Before Tuesday, the chief concern of broadband telephony providers was the possibility of facing a hodge-podge of state regulations. The Federal Communications Commission took care of that yesterday, asserting Washington’s jurisdiction over Voice over Internet Protocol providers. But other challenges remain, including technology to allow federal law enforcement agencies to tap calls. In August, the […]

America Online plans to trim just over 700 employees at its Northern Virginia headquarters by the end of the year, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to internetnews.com. The cost cutting measure represents about 5 percent of the ISP’s overall U.S. employee base of about 13,000. Some 5,000 are employed in AOL’s headquarters in […]

By Mac McCarthy In an effort to make it easier to sell, distribute and buy cell-phone applications, Nokia has announced the launch of Preminet, a service to distribute certified Java- and Symbian-based mobile software. At the heart of Preminet, which Nokia says has been in beta test for more than a year with a number […]

For the second time in three days, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed an anti-spyware bill, this time adding criminal penalties to tough civil provisions of legislation passed on Tuesday. The Internet Spyware Prevention Act of 2004 (H.R. 4661), which passed on a 415-0 vote Thursday, makes it a crime to intentionally access a […]

Dell Computer , Nokia and Apple Computer are among 34 companies manufacturing giant Honeywell has filed suit against, charging they infringed its patent on liquid crystal display technology (LCD). In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the district of Delaware, the company claimed its technology is being used in a variety of consumer […]

In its release about the completed renovation of the Bourbon Orleans in New Orleans’s French Quarter, Wyndham International says that in addition to a new jazz/blues bar, a southern-fusion restaurant, and packages for those going to Mardi Gras or hoping to see some paranormal happenings in the reportedly haunted floors of the hotel, they’ve also […]

They did it for Charlie, so why not for Frances? T-Mobile Hotspots across the soon to be very wet state of Florida will be offering free access until the end of the day on Monday, September 6. The service is ostensibly for hurricane-displaced persons needing to stay in touch with family and friends, but is […]