Ryan Naraine

Internet webcasters facing massive copyright royalty fees could get a six-month reprieve if a bill introduced by House Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner gets approval from Congress. Sensenbrenner introduced the bill late on Thursday, seeking a six-month delay to the October deadline for royalty payments owed by webcasters. Sensenbrenner is pushing for a vote on […]

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Norway’s Opera Software Thursday released a revamped Opera 6.0 for Mac Beta 1 browser, hailing the upgrade as the most advanced currently available for the Mac OS X operating system. Opera, which is putting the finishing touches on its “Project Presto” Opera 7 browser, said the new Mac release includes user interface changes and other […]

IBM’s mission to push the Linux OS into the mainstream got a boost Wednesday with a deal to fit point-of-sale applications into 2,700 movie concession stands run by the Regal Entertainment Group. The deal with Regal Cinemas, the largest rollout of Linux in the retail point-of-sale environment, gives Big Blue a significant client for its […]

The Mozilla open-source project Tuesday released a new lightweight browser that promises to strip away the bloat and double the speed in which Web pages are displayed. The AOL-backed Mozilla project, created to prod developer interest in browser technology, described the new Phoenix browser was a redesign the Mozilla browser component, similar to Galeon, K-Meleon […]

In its ongoing quest to lure new paying subscribers for its a cable-style Internet audio and video subscription service, RealNetworks on Tuesday announced the Gold released of its RealOne v2.0 media player. RealOne Gold, which runs of the company’s Helix platform, is billed as the “final code-complete version” of the media player and showcases improved […]

Search technology powerhouse Google has set it sights on the news aggregation market, officially rolling out Google News, which shuttles third-party links to the day’s top news stories. As earlier reported, Google News points surfers to news stories from 4,000 content providers in five categories: world, U.S, business, entertainment, technology and sports. The new search […]

Oracle boss Larry Ellison has resigned from the board of directors of Apple Computer , citing scheduling difficulties. Ellison, who is chairman and CEO of Oracle , has served on Apple’s board for five years but announced on Friday he would step down because “my schedule does not currently allow me to attend enough of […]

NEW YORK — In what is being hailed as the largest deal in its 25-year history, enterprise software firm J.D Edwards on Thursday announced it would pre-integrate its flagship products with IBM’s middleware platform. The Denver, Colorado-based J.D Edwards, which makes software designed to help companies manage their books and fulfill orders, said the non-exclusive […]

In its ongoing battle to put a dent in Microsoft’s command of the market for word processing software, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday extended the ambitious StarOffice giveaway program in schools throughout Europe and South Africa. Coming on the heels of similar giveaways of the StarOffice software to education ministries in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, […]

An Internet security firm is warning that the AES data encryption technique adopted by the U.S government may be vulnerable to an attack; however, there is no evidence the weakness is great enough cause panic yet. In the Crypto-Gram newsletter, Counterpane Internet Security founder Bruce Schneier said it was possible that two researchers may have […]

Researchers have found a flaw in Mozilla-based browsers that springs data on the Web surfing movements of users. Head researcher at Neopoly Sven Neuhaus said the bug, first discovered in May, is a serious privacy issue. In a demonstration of the flaw, Neuhaus says it exposes the URL of the page a user is viewing […]