Emerging from a public beta process which began last September, the Lotus brand once again represents a suite of general purpose applications...and it doesn't look to make much money from that just yet.
The game is officially joined. Up to now, the leading full-release application suites supporting OpenDocument Format have been the open source OpenOffice, Sun's commercial StarOffice, and Corel's commercial WordPerfect Office. We know the next version of Microsoft Office, currently code-named "Office 14," will support ODF optionally the way WordPerfect Office does now.
Korea's fine against Intel ends a two-year-long investigation by the Korean Fair Trade Commission into allegations of abuse of Intel's dominant position in the CPU market.
On Wednesday, the Korean FTC announced it will fine Intel 26 billion won ($25.4 million USD), for giving rebates to two Korean computer manufacturers in exchange for promises from them not to purchase chips from rival AMD.
Based upon the SearchMonkey platform, Yahoo users can now enhance their searches with developer-created apps.
The enhancements (there were 39 available as of 1:00 pm EDT today) available in Search Gallery highlight specific sites in results such as public domain book text from Feedbooks, Last.fm song and artist information, and Yahoo Local data.
Last month's shareholders lawsuit filed against Yahoo has revealed the existence of a poison pill to defend the company against hostile takeover -- one which investor Carl Icahn is now publicly working to have extricated.
There is little question that, over Microsoft's history, fortune has smiled upon it, and it's often ended up getting its way anyway, sometimes despite itself. If Microsoft's intention by even considering a Yahoo deal was to eliminate one major roadblock between it and Google in the online advertising and search space, walking away from the deal last month may end up achieving the same objective, if investor Carl Icahn has his way.
The official release notes are now live on Mozilla's servers, along with Release Candidate 2 of the organization's next Web browser, which was published yesterday.
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC2 for Windows from FileForum now.
While much of the buzz surrounding Apple's annual developer event has been about the iPhone, news reports indicate the company may also debut the newest release of its operating system at WWDC.
Hints of the next major OS upgrade first surfaced in the iPhone SDK, where Mac OS X 10.6 is reportedly referred to within the code. Additionally, Apple's invitation has dubbed this year's WWDC "a landmark event in more ways than one," suggesting that the iPhone won't be the sole topic.
Verizon has announced it will be rolling out 60 new channels to the
FiOS TV lineup region-by-region beginning in July, at least 25 of these will be HD.
Verizon today claims FiOS will have between 52 and 65 HD channels, depending upon the subscriber's region. Some of the FiOS channels to receive the HD upgrade are Lifetime, Animal Planet, TLC, Science Channel, and Smithsonian Channel, as well as five new channels from Starz and Showtime.
Confirming market speculation, the two companies released a joint statement Thursday that said Verizon would acquire the equity of Alltel as well as assume its debt.
Verizon Wireless is jointly owned by US telco Verizon and European telco Vodafone, which yesterday was the first to confirm that talks between VZW and Alltel were taking place.
Sony has selected IGA Worldwide as its first partner to provide dynamic in-game advertisements for PlayStation 3 games, with an initial focus on the frequently delayed MMO undertaking called Home.
Within Home, the company says the simulated environment will "depict brands in various forms...where users would expect to see them in real life: on billboards and posters, on shopping bags and soda cans and on images of TV screens."
The Wikia search engine, controversial brainchild of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, this week added groundbreaking social networking-oriented features that give Web users the ability to make adjustments to the search results others see.
After startup search engine Wikia entered alpha in January, it got drubbed by many critics, who objected to its reportedly paltry search results and failure to move much beyond the machine-generated approach of existing search engines.
No, it's not WinFS, the file system that was supposed to revolutionize the way files and documents are stored in Windows. But if it gives users tools that accomplish the same things WinFS was supposed to provide, does Search 4.0 come close?
Download Windows Search 4.0 for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 from FileForum now.
Time Warner Cable and Comcast are launching tests this week of new management controls for bandwidth consumption -- alternatives to the approach of throttling packets outright, though they may not prove to be any more popular.
Both major cable ISPs are limiting their tests for now to just a few places in the US. Yesterday, it was learned that TWC plans to try out a new metered billing scheme that will charge users on the basis of individual bandwidth consumption.
The ad-supported music service said today it had struck an agreement with major record label EMI, meaning it will now carry content from two of the four majors.
The service apparently struck an agreement with EMI previous to its launch back in 2006, but the deal fell through, and it launched with only Universal Music Group and a scant few independents last September.
The versatility of Microsoft's previous generation of operating system is about to be shown off some more, with a new edition that will be customizable for various embedded devices, using a special version of Visual Studio.
It's no secret that the Windows XP kernel is better suited for small devices than the Vista kernel, whose new architecture -- including such features as Address Space Layout Randomization -- requires a larger memory footprint. What may be a surprise is how much Microsoft has managed to compress into the next edition of Windows for embedded devices, now called Windows Embedded Standard, including .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Media Player 11, Silverlight, and Internet Explorer 7.
Google is coming under fire from members of 14 advocacy groups, who want the search engine giant to post a link to its privacy policy directly from its home page so as to assure compliance with a California privacy law.
"Google's reluctance to post a link to its privacy on its home page is alarming," contends a letter sent to Google CEO Eric Schmidt by a coalition of groups that includes the World Privacy Forum, the ACLU of Northern California, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, for example. "We urge you to comply with the California Online Privacy Protection Act and the widespread practice for commercial Web sites as soon as possible."