Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

The mobile adult services market is set to reach US$5 billion by 2010, according to a new wireless Internet applications service report from Strategy Analytics. But analysts said fear of consumer backlash and government regulation is stalling wireless adult content growth stateside Jupiter Research analyst Joe Laszlo told the E-Commerce Times he do...

Sun said yesterday it would modify its licenses to make Java source code access more open, but analysts said it's still miles away from the open-source status that the developer community is calling for Sun is introducing two licenses for using the Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), the software for building and running Java programs on a PC, as part ...

Motorola and Acer are among more than a dozen commercial software and appliance products vendors that have been accused of misusing software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Thirteen companies received an open warning letter at the CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany, last week Harold Welte, free software developer and founder...

As MP3 players revolutionize the portable music device landscape, video download services and device makers are hoping the digital transition will spread from audio to visual presentations. A pair of announcements today from CinemaNow and MediaPass Network set the stage for what content providers and device manufacturers are hoping will become another niche market in the mobile arena...

After more than doubling last year, portable digital music player sales are set for 57 percent growth in 2005, according to results of a global survey released today. Market research group iSuppli said shipments of MP3 music players rose by 116 percent in 2004 and will expand to 132 million units in 2009 from 36.8 million in 2004 Inside Digital Med...

Novell is on the move with its Linux enterprise strategy with a series of announcements that began last week with the release of its Open Enterprise Server (OES) product. The company has since released details about its ZENworks 7 Linux management line, and several other vendors are also launching software to support Novell's Netware platform It al...

America Online's Instant Messenger (AIM) is getting lots of press lately, but not for the reasons the Internet Service Provider had hoped when it announced its partnership with popular Web sites late last month AOL's updated privacy policy is under public scrutiny. The online giant updated its Terms of Service for AIM last year, but many have claim...

The Federal Trade Commission has barred an operation that offered bogus spyware detection scans. The free scanner "detected" spyware whether it was present on the user's computer or not in an underhanded attempt to peddle its non-working anti-spyware software, according to the government agency The U.S. District court has barred MaxTheater, the Spo...

With a new and improved Microsoft Internet Explorer looming, the Mozilla Foundation said late last week that it is shifting its focus completely to its popular Web browser and e-mail applications In a letter posted on Thursday on its Web site, Mozilla announced its intent to pull the development plug on the integrated Mozilla Application Suite, a.k

When Matt Chasen's mother called him in tears because she couldn't afford to pay US$800 to ship an heirloom dresser across the country, he set out to solve the problem. His solution was the genesis of an innovative online company called uShip The light bulb moment came when Chasen was driving from Seattle to Texas to enter the McCombs MBA program a...

IBM today announced the availability of its world renowned Blue Gene supercomputing system at its newest Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center in Rochester, Minn The new Center will allow customers and partners, for the first time ever, to remotely access the Blue Gene system through a virtual private network and pay only for the amount of capac...

Novell announced yesterday the availability of its latest offering targeting experienced Linux home computing users. SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 boasts a complete Linux operating system, over 3,000 open-source packages and hundreds of open-source applications, productivity software, and home networking capabilities "SuSE Linux Professional has alwa...

The search engine industry is constantly evolving. It seems like every other week there is news of a new announcement -- the latest innovation in search that is sure to be copied within months, or a legal issue that threatens to change the landscape Search has transitioned from a simplistic entry point to King Content to a more interactive arena th...

In its latest move to compete with rival Intel, AMD today introduced Turion 64 mobile technology, the latest in a succession of chips based on AMD64 architecture Turion is designed for thinner and lighter notebook PCs with longer battery life, enhanced security and compatibility with the latest graphics and wireless solutions. AMD said Turion will ...

What will Google do next? How will Yahoo counter the move? And how will this impact MSN Search, Ask Jeeves and the scores of smaller players vying to get their share of the search engine revenue pie? Rumors abound about what will come next for major players in search. Some believe Google is preparing to launch a free Internet telephone service in t...

In a move to boost its small business services, Yahoo today announced the launch of its online Yahoo Small Business Resource Center. The center offers more than 1,000 articles on key business issues, including marketing, legal and human resources "The new Yahoo Small Business Resource Center provides information and resources that will help entrepr...

America Online announced plans yesterday to offer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to its customers within a month AOL Chief Executive Jon Miller said "it's really time" for VoIP services during his keynote address at the VON Spring 2005 conference in San Jose, Calif. Even though Miller admitted that "there's a lot we don't know, a lot o...

Users of T-Mobile's Sidekick devices experienced a "degradation of service" yesterday that prevented them from using e-mail, instant messaging and other data services Creator of the Sidekick devices Danger Inc., which also provides Sidekick services on behalf of T-Mobile, posted a notice on its user forum, Hiptop.com: "This morning some users may e...

Microsoft detailed its user-friendlier "Project Green" at the Convergence 2005 conference in San Diego today. The enhanced technology road map for Microsoft Business Solutions' development effort includes support for current business management solutions until at least 2013, the company said "With our customers' business in mind, we continue to inv...

Microsoft is expected to unveil new network communications software tomorrow at the 2005 VON Conference in San Francisco. Codenamed "Istanbul," the product will let businesses manage telephones, instant messaging, e-mail and video conferencing through a unified system The company hopes Istanbul will build on the recent success of its Microsoft Off...