Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

When crises like the recent earthquake in Asia, the London terror bombings and devastating hurricanes such as Katrina strike, more people than ever turn to the Web for news and real-time updates on these history-making events. This is not a new phenomenon, but it continues to be a growing one Rewind four years to September 11, 2001. Terrorism conc...

Red Hat sees virtualization, stateless Linux, and developer enablement as the key drivers to reduce costs by increasing organizational efficiency and agility. So stated the Linux provider in its just-released technology plans for 2006 through 2007 "Technologies are now emerging that will make the deployment of open-source software incredibly strate...

It won't help in the aftermath of hurricanes, but it could help in technology storms Insurance underwriter Kiln plc, a Lloyd's of London underwriter and Miller Insurance Services Limited, a Lloyd's broker, said yesterday that they will offer a new product called Open Source Compliance Insurance. Open Source Risk Management, Inc. (OSRM) will act as ...

America Online may have preferred a sweet treat this Halloween, but what it got instead was a nasty trick as a potentially destructive worm began targeting users of its AIM instant messaging service Dubbed W32/Sdbot-ADD by Facetime Security Labs, the worm installs a rootkit-like backdoor on any computer it can sneak into. A rootkit is a hacker secu...

Sprint Nextel today announced plans to launch a digital music download service as part of an effort to build its entertainment, information and communication services that will operate on its high-speed Vision Network Sprint's timing is good, with research group Ovum predicting the U.S. wireless music download market to be worth US$1.5 billion in f...

The worldwide market for handheld devices experienced its seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year decline in the third quarter of 2005, according to IDC's Worldwide Handheld QView IDC reports device shipments decreased 16.9 percent year over year and fell 8.8 percent sequentially in third quarter of 2005 to 1.6 million units....

The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) yesterday announced several breakthroughs in the fight against its nemesis The alliance of technology companies and public interest groups has decided on a definition for the unwanted and often dangerous spyware infesting computers, and has created a risk modeling document that outlines objective criteria for anti-s...

The office of U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman initiated a special process under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules today to obtain information on China's intellectual property (IP) enforcement efforts The United States is exercising a process established under WTO Agreement provisions on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights...

Zi Corporation yesterday said it has signed a licensing agreement with Nintendo to provide the video game giant's developers the ability to employ its handwriting recognition technology Zi Corporation, a Canadian intelligent interface software provider, said Nintendo plans to use its Decuma technology to create software for the DS handheld video ga...

Information management and storage vendor EMC yesterday announced a definitive agreement to acquire a document imaging technology provider EMC will purchase Captiva Software for US$22.25 per share in cash, or approximately $275 million net of Captiva's cash balance....

New product introductions, portfolio refreshes, and exciting new form factors helped spur growth in the worldwide mobile phone market during the third quarter of 2005, according to IDC, with Nokia continuing to dominate the market IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker reports worldwide mobile phone shipments rose 19.1 percent year over yea...

OpenOffice.org 2.0, the first release of the open-source productivity suite in two years, made its debut today, complete with major renovations The OpenOffice.org Project, an international community of volunteers and sponsors banded together to support and promote OpenOffice.org, is behind the software....

OpenOffice.org 2.0, the first release of the open-source productivity suite in two years, made its debut today, complete with major renovations The OpenOffice.org Project, an international community of volunteers and sponsors banded together to support and promote OpenOffice.org, is behind the software....

Microsoft is streamlining its Shared Source Initiative, cutting seven of its 10 templates in an effort to simplify its licenses governing source code releases The software giant said the Microsoft Permissive License, Microsoft Community License, and Microsoft Reference License are short and easy to understand, effective and modern, efficient and ec...

On the heels of the release of its new lineup of advanced LCD monitor displays tailored to the Pro A/V and corporate communities, Samsung Electronics today said it aims to double its annual sales of LCD panels to US$20 billion by 2010 The Korean electronics giant predicts the worldwide market for flat-panel displays will grow by 75 percent to $115 ...

There's a new word in the Web vocabulary: splogs. Internet users may as well get used to it because, just like spam and spim, splogging is making its way into Web-based communication Splogs are the equivalent of Web log spam, unsolicited posts to a blog that have nothing to do with the subject matter at hand but rather try to peddle vitamins, Viagr...

Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun are some of what you'd expect from a trip to McDonald's. Now, fast food diners can also expect to play some of their favorite video games at the leading burger chain's restaurants Nintendo has signed an agreement with WiFi provider Wayport to install high-spe...

Skype's popularity rose to a whole new level when eBay purchased the VoIP provider last month. Now, the free Internet telephony service has become the victim of a spoof campaign designed to infect users with an IRCbot Trojan Messaging security and management services provider MessageLabs yesterday said it has detected and blocked more than 800 copi...

Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun are some of what you'd expect from a trip to McDonald's. Now, fast food diners can also expect to play some of their favorite video games at the leading burger chain's restaurants Nintendo has signed an agreement with WiFi provider Wayport to install high-spe...

The Open Source Development Labs yesterday said it has formed a new working group focused on accelerating the adoption of Linux in the rapidly-growing mobile market The OSDL said it is creating the Mobile Linux Initiative in response to input from its membership and the growing global demand for Linux-based mobile platform requirements....