Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

Solid Information Technology on Monday announced an open source strategy to create a solidDB Storage Engine for MySQL The high-end database company is adapting its proven online transaction processing (OLTP) storage engine to work with MySQL Server. Businesses can adopt open source relational databases for mission-critical applications using Solid'...

Mozilla on Thursday made it easier for Mac users to browse the Web with Firefox. The open source software developer released a new version of its browser with more Mac support and several security fixes The big story with Firefox 1.5.0.2 is that it adds native support for Apple's Mac OS X running on Intel's processors, according to JupiterResearch ...

In a move to compete with rival Sling Media in the place-shifting market, Orb Networks on Thursday announced a new software product that allows TiVo users to access content anywhere and everywhere Dubbed DVR Everywhere, the application allows TiVo Series 2 DVR users to play and program their television recordings for free anywhere in the world from...

Sprint is taking the guesswork out of keeping tabs on your kids Thewireless carrier on Thursday launched the Sprint Family Locator. It's a location-based service (LBS) that lets a parent use a phone or PC to pinpoint the location of a child on a map, complete with the address and surrounding landmarks, and to verify the accuracy of the information ...

Sprint is taking the guesswork out of keeping tabs on your kids Thewireless carrier on Thursday launched the Sprint Family Locator. It's a location-based service (LBS) that lets a parent use a phone or PC to pinpoint the location of a child on a map, complete with the address and surrounding landmarks, and to verify the accuracy of the information ...

Intel China, a subsidiary of Intel Corporation, and Chinese language Web search engine Baidu on Thursday announced an agreement to co-develop Internet search and related applications in China "Baidu is committed to providing the best way for people to find information. In addition to PCs, our users will soon be able to access Baidu search services ...

Paramount Pictures and Microsoft on Wednesday entered into a partnership to push the movie studio's trailers into the software giant's Xbox Live service Dubbed the Xbox Movie Showcase, the service will feature free, high-definition, downloadable content from two of the most highly anticipated films of the summer: the action-thriller "Mission: Impos...

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday issued a slew of fixes in its April release, most of which focused on browser flaws. The software giant's monthly security update issued five patches in all, including three "critical," one "moderate" and one "important" patch Ten vulnerabilities in all were addressed in the cumulative fix. Of special note, this month's pa...

Amid controversy over digital download music prices, an Anglo-Italian band is making its own headlines -- and a bit of history -- by releasing Britain's first "mobile only" single Planet Funk will release the single "Stop Me" on May 8 over mobile media company 3's network. Planet Funk is hopping on a bandwagon of musical artists using new media lik...

Is that a newspaper article you are reading online? Or an excerpt from a blog with commentary to follow? It's getting difficult to tell these days -- and it may get more difficult starting this week Pluck is set to release a syndication service on Tuesday that delivers commentary from 600 bloggers. The company is targeting newspaper publishers look...

Violent video game play leads young men to believe it's acceptable to smoke marijuana and drink alcohol, according to the latest study on the digital entertainment medium Dr. Sonya Brady at the University of California, San Francisco and Professor Karen Matthews at the University of Pittsburgh set out to test the effects of media violence exposure ...

Google has gobbled up yet another technology -- this time from a computer science student Down Under Google bought a new search algorithm created by Ori Allon, a 26-year-old Israeli Ph.D. student from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. Allon patented a new way of exploring the Web that he believes could revolutionize existing se...

Microsoft is reviewing a lawsuit filed against it by Lucent Technologies. The suit alleges that Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console contains technology that infringes on a Lucent patent Lucent filed the suit in the U.S. District Court in San Diego on March 28. The company is seeking an injunctive relief and unspecified damages....

Score one for Microsoft -- at Symbian's expense After getting out of the gate slowly, Microsoft won its largest-ever contract for mobile phone software from the U.S. Census Bureau. The contract covers 500,000 handsets and could lead the software giant to dethrone Research In Motion's BlackBerry as the most prolific device on the market....

Hundreds of technology patents from Fortune 500 companies will go to the highest bidders on Thursday in what could be the first live, multi-lot technology patent auction in the United States Sellers in the auction include Siemens, BellSouth, AT&T, Kimberly Clark (NYSE: KMB) and 3Com, as well as mid-sized companies and notable individual inventors.

Netflix on Tuesday filed a patent infringement suit against Blockbuster alleging the bricks-and-mortar movie rental chain illegally copied its ideas. Netflix is seeking a court order that would force Blockbuster to change its online rental processes and pay patent royalties The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. At issue a...

Intel and Red Hat on Tuesday announced a global program designed to help customers plan for, accelerate and optimize their deployments of Linux solutions The firms said the program will initially focus on developing and disseminating tools for platform virtualization and grid computing....

When Integrated Direct needed to drive registrations for one of its clients' New York City events, the company included popular social networking site MySpace.com in its online marketing initiatives "Online registrations doubled compared to previous years just by using MySpace and some other similar free sites," Chris Consorte, owner and operator o...

Webcasts are finding an audience with everyone from basketball fans to churchgoers to music lovers. Now, record companies are beginning to wake up to the possibilities of Webcasting as a scouting tool RCA/Sony BMG has signed a little-known British singer to a record deal after watching live performances webcast over the Internet from her living roo...

In response to advertising industry concerns over Internet security, MySpace.com has removed 200,000 "objectionable" profiles from its social network. The site erased profiles containing risque or hate speech content Ross Levinsohn, president of MySpace parent company News Corp.'s Internet division, made the announcement at the Bank of America Medi...