Ryan Naraine

Tech giant Tuesday rolled out a new digital video surveillance and security service, and vending consulting and deployment services for IP-based systems that will replace aging analog videotapes. Big Blue’s move into the space comes as enterprise customers have been beefing up videotape-based surveillance systems to take advantage of the capabilities on newer, digital technologies. […]

Looking to cash in on the popularity — and exclusivity — of online audio broadcasts of baseball games, Major League Baseball’s Web portal on Tuesday launched a new MLB.TV service that offers on-demand and live access to pay-per-view video feeds. Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM), the New York-based company that runs the pro baseball’s […]

The open-source PHP programming language can be found on more than 10 million domains worldwide. Mega portal Yahoo is migrating from a proprietary system written in C/C++ to PHP for its backend scripting and companies like Motorola, EarthLink, Lycos and IBM are all using PHP for high-traffic Web applications. Yet, the lack of marketing muscle […]

Red-faced officials at the University of Texas at Austin admitted a massive security breach of its computer system exposed crucial personal data of approximately 55,200 individuals. The breach was the result of a “deliberate attack” on Sunday morning, the school warned. The vulnerable system was shut down and analysis revealed that a “security weakness in […]

Apple Computer is close to inking a deal with the major record labels for a fee-based music subscription services for users of its Mac OS, a somewhat surprising move from a company that has heavily hyped the operating system’s “rip, mix, burn” capabilities. Apple officials refused to comment on rumbles throughout the industry that its […]

Microsoft on Wednesday raised the stakes in the big bet on Web collaboration within its Windows Server 2003 (formerly .NET) infrastructure, joining Intel Capital and Accel Partners in a $38 million round of funding for Beverly, Mass.-based Groove Networks. Microsoft, which invested $51 million to acquire a minority stake in Groove in October 2001, will […]

When the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the sound-alike name of a Kentucky mom-and-pop sex toy shop was not enough to establish trademark violation against Victoria’s Secret, the decision was seen as a serious blow to efforts by big business to curb cybersquatting. In a landmark 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that there was […]

In a week of increasing noise from the digital music subscription sector, Chicago-based FullAudio is fine-tuning plans for a revamped — and renamed — service that adds unlimited tethered downloads and streamed songs for $9.95 per month. With analysts positioning FullAudio as a prime candidate for an acquisition, most likely by Microsoft , the company’s […]

The Sendmail Consortium has released version 8.12.8 of its popular open-source Message Transfer Agent (MTA) to plug a “critical security problem” in header parsing which was discovered by the Internet Security Systems’ X-Force unit. Previous versions of Sendmail, which handles between up to 75 percent of all Internet e-mail traffic, contain a buffer overflow flaw […]

When Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang briefed analysts recently on the company’s plans for a fee-based video-subscription service — a demonstration that included outtakes from the American Idol reality show — the competitive threat resounded loudly at RealNetworks headquarters in Seattle. Yahoo Platinum, which sources say will debut in the first week of April, is targeted […]

The big players in the digital music space continued to make multiple bets on paid subscription services, a trend that further signals consolidation among competitors. A day after Seattle-based MusicNet backer RealNetworks acquired a minority interest in rival Listen.com, reports say Sony Music, which co-owns the Pressplay service, has acquired a 4 percent stake in […]

The battle against the distribution of counterfeit copies of popular software products continued this week with authorities swooping down on a ring in Queens, NY, and seizing about $10 million worth of software from Symantec and Microsoft . The bust, though small in scale, signals an escalation of the ongoing fight against counterfeit copies of […]