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By Stephen Filler, Esq. Web businesses that use images or display third party content should pay attention to an important decision reached last month by a federal appeals court in California. In Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit covering California ruled that an image search engine website that […]

By Erin Joyce Telco provider IDT Corporation has a $30 million investment in the bank while it reckons with the cost of its recent acquisition of Winstar Communications and other telephony investments. The New Jersey-based telecommunications carrier said Liberty Media , a cable company, made a strategic investment of $30 million in IDT Telecom, Inc., […]

Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and priceline.com Incorporated, have come together to form Hutchison-Priceline (Travel) Ltd., a multi-language transactional website that will allow Hong Kong’s leisure travelers to dictate their own prices for hotel rooms and air tickets over the Internet. Hutchison will own 65 percent stake in the new company while priceline.com holds the remaining 35 […]

The market for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) is poised for rapid growth between now and 2006, according to a study released Thursday by Synergy Research Group (SRG). The overall WLAN market for home and business will grow more 30 percent a year by 2006, the study claims. The market will be worth almost $5 […]

Infinium Software , the Hyannis, Mass.-based ASP, today announced the launch of the next generation of its Web solutions. Infinium says its new offerings aim to provide organizations with Internet access to business processes. They can be integrated with industry-specific solutions, and can accommodate to organizational change. The firm’s multi-tier architected products leverage WebSphere, HTTP […]

By Clint Boulton It’s not enough that the MPEG LA has faced upheaval over its proposed licensing terms for the MPEG-4 standard: now the body of patent holders is being lambasted by a company claiming that the group is forging a monopoly on multimedia practices. In a letter addressed to Charles James, assistant attorney general […]

WebEx Communications, Inc. , the San Jose, Calif.-based Web conferencing ASP, today announced The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, the nation’s second oldest mutual life insurer,as its new customer. Through providing its switch-based communications infrastructure that supports interactive data, voice and video communications, WebEx says Penn Mutual is able to hold interactive training sessions and […]

Two European wireless operators, Vodafone Group Plc and T-Mobile International AG said Thursday they were developing a mobile payment platform that they said should increase customer and merchant adoption of mobile transactions. The platform would eventually enable wireless phones to pay for a wide variety of items both in stores and via m-commerce. The companies […]

IBM will begin to include Support.com, Inc.’s automation solutions within its newly released ThinkPad notebooks and NetVista desktops, in accordance with an eSupport initiative forged last year. The pairing is the result of an effort to automate and personalize customer support for all new IBM notebooks, desktop PCs and workstations, and eServer xSeries Intel-architecture servers, […]

Seagate Removable Storage Solutions (RSS), a manufacturer of computer tape drive and tape head products has introduced the new Seagate internal Hornet 40 and TapeStor Travan 40 tape drives and solutions. The Travan 40 tape drives offer up to 20 Gbytes native storage capacity (40 Gbytes compressed) while maintaining backward compatibility with the previous generation. […]

Bredy Network Management Corporation (BNMC), a value-added reseller of storage and disaster recovery solutions in New England, has formed a strategic partnership with Storactive, a data protection. Together, the Companies plan to offer centralized management and continuous backup and protection for data on PC workstations and laptops. “We have found that for-profit and non-profit organizations […]

LSI Logic Storage Systems has completed its certification of Vixel Corporation’s 9200 2 Gigabit per second (2Gb/s) Fabric Switch for use with the MetaStor E4600 2Gb/s Fibre Channel storage system. LSI Logic said the MetaStor E4600 storage system supports up to eight concurrent Fibre Channel host connections at a rate of 2Gb/s each. “LSI Logic […]