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By Ron Miller RSS and Blogging technologies got a slathering of attention at this week’s DEMO 2004 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, with new product announcements from Six Apart, Feedster and WaveMarket, as well as an opening day panel discussion called the Rise of Blog Nation, featuring many blogging industry luminaries. “I’m not surprised that syndication […]

By Ron Miller IRS Commissioner Mark Everson told Congress Thursday that repeated deliverable delays from prime contractor Computer Science Corp. (CSC) has prompted him to remove CSC from two pieces of the agency’s massive Business Systems Modernization (BSM) program. The program, which aims to modernize all IRS business practices, has been plagued with cost overruns […]

By Ron Miller Hoping to jump start the TD-SCDMA (Time Division – Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) market in China, Siemens Information’s mobile division and Huawei Technologies have announced a joint venture in which both companies will invest more than $100 million U.S. dollars to promote TD-SCDMA, a new 3G cell phone standard being launched […]

By Susan Kuchinskas and Michael Singer UPDATE: Microsoft confirmed late Thursday that portions of Windows 2000 and NT operating systems’ source code “were illegally made available on the Internet.” The company said it’s illegal for third parties to post Microsoft source code, “and we take such activity very seriously. We are currently investigating these postings […]

By Ron Miller PC sales are expected to jump nearly 14 percent this year as U.S. businesses upgrade old machines and consumers snap up PCs that support wireless and digital media, according to a new forecast from Gartner Dataquest. The research group expects PC shipments to top 187 million units in 2004, a 13.9 percent […]

By Sean Michael Kerner A federal court in Seattle Wednesday issued a ruling seemingly in favor of Lindows.com against Microsoft over the use of the word “Windows.” The United States District Court Judge John Coughenour flatly rejected Microsoft’s arguments that the jury should consider the meaning of the term in its current day usage. The […]

Call it fast roaming. Call it seamless handoffs. Call it the next evolution in wireless as we know it today. Either way, it’s coming, and it will almost surely change the business of wireless access. The new standard in question is being developed through the IEEE’s 802.21 working group. The idea is to solve a […]

By Ron Miller Voice over IP (VoIP) pioneer Net2Phone on Monday announced an exclusive two-year deal with Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) to provide VoIP services in previously underserved markets. “This partnership is about going after the underserved market who are unable to afford to make international calls today, and so we designed […]

By Jim Wagner and Erin Joyce Now that it has registered for a copyright on the Unix V code at the heart of its Linux intellectual property challenge, The SCO Group is trying to add two claims of copyright infringement to its $3 billion lawsuit against IBM . A spokesman for the Linden, Utah-based company […]

Sean Michael Kerner One of the first rules of journalism is to make sure you get the details right. The same holds true for networks as a simple overlooked item can cause a complete shutdown, which is exactly what happened to Washington Post staffers on Thursday when their e-mail access was cut off. The reason? […]

By internetnews.com Readers Re: Virus Writing: Not Fun, Not Funny by Chris Nerney One solution to the virus problem is to keep one computer connected online and another computer offline. The online computer is used strictly for communication and is configured and backed-up so that it can be quickly restored to a clean state anytime […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Sony will pump $325 million in IBM’s Fishkill, N.Y., chip foundry. The investment is part of Sony’s continuing partnership with IBM to develop next-generation 65-nanometer chips for its consumer electronic devices. “The deal is consistent with both firms’ strategies to partner to bring these advanced products to market,” Sumit Sadana, director […]