Ryan Naraine

Voice-over Internet Protocol (Vo-IP) wholesaler ITXC has received a patent that covers monitoring, evaluating and managing voice quality in data network-based telephony networks. With the patent win, the New Jersey-based ITXC said it would accelerate technological improvements in the way telephony services are routed and managed over Web-based IP networks. With the telco giants swiftly […]

IBM has inked a multi-million dollar pact to install Intel-based servers to power in-store kiosks and photo lab systems for digital photography firm Fuji . Big Blue’s announced its eServer systems and PCs would be installed in thousands of Fujifilm’s Frontier Digital Labs throughout the United States to enable the delivery of a wide range […]

NEW YORK — Sun Microsystems continued to hog the spotlight at the Bear Stearns technology conference here Thursday with CEO Scott McNealy insisting Wall Street was misinterpreting the company’s recent string of executive departures. “Even with the management changes, the work chart doesn’t change. I don’t think people understand that the average tenure among Sun […]

Microsoft issued a slew of advisories late on Wednesday, spelling out bugs in the Remote Access Service (RAS) phonebook implementation that puts users of Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP at risk. The company said security firm Next Generation Security Software detected an unchecked buffer in the RAS phonebook that could Lead to […]

With antsy shareholders pushing for an outright sale of the company, online music firm Liquid Audio on Thursday announced all-stock deal to merge with privately-held Alliance Entertainment. When terms of the stock swap agreement are settled, Liquid Audio said it would issue about 46.2 million new shares to Alliance, which would own a 67 percent […]

NEW YORK — Texas Instruments vice president Rich Templeton Wednesday argued that growth in the wireless industry will lead the revival of the bruised semiconductor chip sector. Delivering a keynote address at the Bear Stearns tech conference here, Templeton likened the problems in the chip sector to the beating the PC industry took in the […]

The battered telecommunications sector took another body slam Tuesday with a warning from bellwether Nokia Corp. that it would miss its second-quarter sales because of a slump in demand for mobile phones and network equipment. With all eyes on its earnings projections, the Finnish mobile phone giant backed off previous forecasts for growth in the […]

With revenues falling and its market dominance in jeopardy, Palm on Monday begun shipping its new operating system to PDA hardware vendors, touting the new Palm OS 5 as a faster, more secure platform. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based Palm, facing intense competition from the likes of Microsoft and Handspring, said the OS 5 platform would […]

Venture capital flow into Israel’s celebrated high-tech sector has hit a downward spiral, raising fears the ongoing political tension could dampen interest in the industry but many investors blame the dwindling numbers on the state of the economy in general. In and around Israel, the political conflict is matter-of-factly described as ‘The Situation’ and many […]

Menlo Park, Calif.-based Nokia Venture Partners has set up shop in the blooming Korean tech market, opening an office in Seoul and investing $5 million in wireless software firm WiderThan. The VC firm, which manages about $650 million and invests investments in early stage mobile technology companies around the world, said the move to open […]

A new virus that masks as an e-mail promising World Cup soccer results is dribbling its way across the Internet, anti-virus software firm Sophos warned Friday. The U.K.-based Sophos said the VBS/Chick-F virus spreads via email and Internet relay chat posing as a web utility to see up-to-the-minute results from the wildly popular international tournament. […]

Two Web sites that promised video highlights of select World Cup soccer games have been forced offline by a legal threat from KirchMedia, which owns exclusive broadcast rights to the wildly popular international tournament. KirchMedia, which owns the exclusive worldwide television, Internet and radio broadcast rights to the World Cup, demanded the shutdown of the […]