Ryan Naraine

Competition in the enterprise handheld PDA space got a little more heated Tuesday with Sharp Electronics Corp. introducing two new Linux-based models for the U.S and Japanese markets. The rollout of Sharp’s new Zaurus handhelds, specifically built for enterprise users and professional consumers, comes just a week before Dell announces its entry into the PDA […]

A significant percentage of Liquid Audio successfully derailed plans for the company to merge with privately-held Alliance Entertainment. Liquid Audio, a digital media software firm based in Redwood City, Calif., announced the scrapping of the all-stock merger in a brief statement Monday but provided no details about its next move. “The management of both companies […]

Looking to expand its footprint by targeting the non-techie market, Macromedia Inc. on Monday rolled out a new desktop application that lets IT managers delegate Web site editing responsibilities. Macromedia Contribute puts the company’s flagship Dreamweaver software before a brand-new audience by allowing IT managers to set role-based privileges for non-technical users to edit a […]

On the heels of crucial patent deals with Palm Inc. and Handspring , Canada-based Research in Motion has now added mobile phone giant Nokia as a licensing partner. RIM announced a deal with Nokia to license certain Blackberry software for use in Nokia products, most likely cell phones. The non-exclusive deal, terms of which weren’t […]

Just months after its chief editor quit the post to run the subscription-based services for RealNetworks , news site MSNBC.com plans to start charging for some of its online multimedia content. A spokesman for the online version of cable news outlet MSNBC confirmed the site would add a subscription-only section to its free Web audio […]

Despite deals with PC makers to push its WordPerfect office suite as an alternative to Microsoft Office, Canada-based Corel Corp. plans to cut about 22 percent of its workforce in an effort to be profitable. Corel, which spent much of the last year in hibernation, said the layoffs would affect 220 jobs in all departments […]

If you’re using early copies of the Mozilla open-source Web browser, chances are your PC is vulnerable to attacks via a half-dozen security holes. Pre-version 1.0 rollouts of the alternative browser project, which is backed by AOL-Time Warner’s Netscape unit, contain about a half-dozen vulnerabilities. It appears most of the bugs, which were posted on […]

Virus protection firm Trend Micro has clinched a deal with Nokia to partner on content management security services for enterprise clients. Trend Micro and Nokia plan to roll out a new appliance — the Nokia Message Protector SC6600 — for the enterprise clients, which serves as a dedicated SMTP message protector sitting at the Internet […]

A low-impact e-mail worm targeting a known vulnerability in Microsoft Windows has been detected in the wild and online security firms are warning that the worm is capable of spreading a variant of the active Funlove virus. Software consultants F-Secure said the Bridex (Braid, W32/Braid@mm, W32/Braid.A-mm, I- Worm.Bridex) worm arrives in e-mails without a subject […]

With online security alerts and virus attacks at an all-time high, SBC Communications on Monday launched an anti-hacker research center aimed at protecting consumers and Internet networks from security violations. The Dallas, TX-based telecommunications giant said the Internet Assurance and Security Center (IASC) laboratory would mimic servers, firewalls and other structures of an ISP to […]

Alameda, Calif.-based “embedded” software maker Wind River Systems on Friday took a page from rival Microsoft’s book, announcing a major pricing policy shift aimed at simplifying its sales process. Wind River announced it would change its pricing policy to per-seat annual subscriptions instead of the complicated per-project licensing arrangements that handles the way clients had […]

Software giant Microsoft on Friday released its Windows Movie Maker 2 beta for Windows XP, a video editing tool that promises to simplify home movie-making for consumers. The Movie Maker, which comes with built-in support for Windows Media Video 9 compression, is seen as Microsoft’s latest response to the well-chronicled moved by rival RealNetworks to […]