Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

Cingular Wireless on Tuesday launched an on-demand streaming video service with a selection of content from providers including Fox and HBO Consumers can now watch video clips of their favorite television shows, sports, news and weather, entertainment and premium content on their high-speed 3G-capable Cingular phones....

Yahoo on Tuesday said it is planning to make four new and enhanced interfaces available to independent developers in a move designed to tap into free marketing research The Web service Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are intended to enable developers to use and build on technology from Yahoo Photos, Calendar, MyWeb and Shopping....

Samsung Electronics on Monday unveiled the world's first 8GB hard-disk embedded smartphone. The phone includes an MP3 player that could compete with Apple's iPod Dubbed the SGH-i310, the model breaks the storage limit in mobile phones. As such, Samsung believes the new handset will change the way people manage and use mobile phones....

In the past, cyber attacks were largely designed to destroy data, but today's attacks are increasingly designed to silently steal data for profit without doing system damage that would be noticeable to a user, according to the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Symantec released on Tuesday the ninth volume of its ongoing threat report,...

Sun Microsystems is attempting to take the concept of pervasive computing into the mainstream with a new battery-operated platform for development of wireless sensor networks, robotics and personal consumer electronics Dubbed Project Sun Small Programmable Object Technology, or Sun SPOT, Sun hopes the Java-based platform will open the door to devel...

In a move to extend its reach, NBC Universal on Monday agreed to buy iVillage, a leading online destination for women, for approximately US$600 million in cash NBC Universal, which runs the NBC television network and the Universal film studio, will pay $8.50 in cash for each share of iVillage's stock. That figure is 6.5 percent higher than iVillage...

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Thursday unveiled new legislation that would ensure what he is calling "net neutrality," or equal delivery of content on the Internet for consumers and businesses Under Wyden's bill, dubbed the "Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006," telephone and cable companies would be prohibited from charging businesses for ...

How different would the IT world look if Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) joined forces in the operating system arena? Sun CEO Scott McNealy has already imagined such a scenario The executive is urging its bitter rival to unite its HP-Unix operating system with Sun's Solaris Unix operating system. McNealy posted a mem...

Video game maker S2 Games is testing a new delivery system that is beginning to catch on with both independent computer game makers and industry giants: Web downloads. S2 Games plans to sell its new title "Savage 2: A Tortured Soul" exclusively online when it is released in October High-speed Internet connections and cost savings are driving game p...

Skype has landed in the midst of a semiconductor industry battle betweenAMD andIntel. AMD, the No. 2 chipmaker, is seeking documents from theVoIP company about its dealings with market leader Intel, according to a Feb. 28 subpoena Skype, now owned by Internet auction gianteBay, has set up the second version of its software program so that Intel-bas...

Film animation giant DreamWorks is jumping on the service-oriented architecture bandwagon. The company on Wednesday announced it has implemented an HP solution based on SOA to simplify and consolidate key business operations SOA is an approach to building and managing IT infrastructures using standards-based software and services as autonomous, re-...

Two new Trojan horses are being billed as "first-of-their-kind" bugs Security alerts are warning of a "crossover" virus that leaps from one device to another; in addition, a new Java Trojan has been detected that could infect almost any cell phone....

Yahoo on Monday filed a lawsuit against wireless content company MForma and a group of former Yahoo employees, alleging the theft of the Internet portal giant's trade secrets According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Santa Clara County state court in California, the employees copied large amounts of confidential business and technical data when ...

America Online and Yahoo are under fire for plans to charge for e-mail. A group of nonprofit and public interest groups on Tuesday launched a campaign to protest the online giants' scheme to charge high-volume e-mail senders a fee in exchange for a guarantee that their messages will be delivered AOL and Yahoo are working with Goodmail Systems, crea...

Most households that are not on the Web already have little intention of logging on. So says a study released by market researcher Parks Associates on Friday The study found few new households willing to subscribe to Internet services, which, the study predicted, would limit 2006 growth in overall Internet penetration to a meager 1 percent -- from ...

Microsoft said it would release six different flavors of its Windows Vista operating system, scheduled for rollout in the second half of 2006 The Windows Vista product lineup consists of two versions for businesses, three for consumers, and one for emerging markets, the software giant said. The products have been dubbed Windows Vista Business, Wind...

As part of its new "Live" branding strategy, Microsoft is reportedly beta testing a new Web-based service designed to help parents manage their children's computer use to improve their safety Microsoft announced the service, dubbed Windows Family Safety settings, in January. Part of Windows Vista, the service includes parental controls that allow p...

Yahoo has engaged in a battle with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), at least indirectly Yahoo's digital music service executive on Thursday boldly suggested to Music 2.0 conference attendees that music labels sell their songs online without digital rights management (DRM) software....

Google is venturing into new Internet waters -- again The search giant officially launched Google Page Creator on Thursday to beef up its ever-evolving Web-based toolbox. Google's new service will compete with products from Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and MySpace....

Sun Microsystems on Thursday said it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Aduva Aduva's solution attempts to ease the management of open- and mixed-source server stacks. Aduva's technology competes with products from Levanta, Red Hat, PatchLink and BigFix....