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A Paris-based media watchdog has set its sights on helping anonymous bloggers avoid Internet censors in countries like Iran and China Reporters Without Borders, an organization better known for tracking the abuse and murder of journalists, has turned its attention to online protesters with its "Handbook for Blogger and Cyber-Dissedents."

In yet another step toward the day when consumers everywhere will watch TV on mobile devices, mobile network operator O2 and broadcaster Arqiva have teamed up with Nokia to kick of the United Kingdom's first trial of a full multi-channel mobile TV The trial will run for up to six months and is designed to test and showcase the televisual capabiliti...

Sales of desktop computers made by Hewlett-Packard have exhibited a recent year-over-year surge, according to a report released this week by ChangeWave Research, of Rockville, Md ChangeWave -- which conducts periodic surveys of an "alliance" of some 5,000 business. technology and medical professionals -- reported that 20 percent of the respondents ...

Dell this week announced six personal technology products, including a tiny new music player aimed at grabbing market share from Apple's iPod Shuffle Weighing a little more than an ounce, the Dell DJ Ditty music player is the latest addition to Dell's Digital Jukebox lineup. It holds up to 220 songs and supports FM radio and digital books with a pr...

In a move meant to help enterprises search existing data deep in legacy systems, Google has launched a partner program that will enable Google enterprise search to be integrated into existing data management and storage programs Google today launched Google Enterprise Professional, a bid to reach out to service providers, systems integrators and co...

In the never-ending quest to differentiate themselves from competitors, online retailers often turn to content to set themselves apart and enhance the quality of their Web contact with customers and would-be customers The need to automate the distribution of content has given rise to a fast-growing software niche of Web Content Management (WCM), to...

Internet technology is unquestionably poised to transform home entertainment. A quick scan at technology news headlines reveals companies like SBC, Alcatel, Microsoft -- and a host of ancillary service providers -- are gearing up for what some are calling an Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) revolution TDG Research is predicting global IPTV revenues will...

Google is synonymous with Web search, but now the company is continuing its recent multi-directional movement by going ahead with Google Secure Access, a beta WiFi connection program available for free Provided to a limited service area, the effort nevertheless marks yet another area in which Google has begun to place its inimitable mark, joining t...

A day after Symantec's newest Internet Security Threat Report claimed that Firefox has twice the number of vulnerabilities as Internet Explorer, Mozilla released a security update of its popular open-source Web browser Released today, Firefox 1.0.7., is billed as a security and stability update in response to a flaw announced yesterday. The patches...

Dell yesterday announced six personal technology products, including a tiny new music player aimed at grabbing market share from Apple's iPod Shuffle Weighing a little more than an ounce, the Dell DJ Ditty music player is the latest addition to Dell's Digital Jukebox lineup. It holds up to 220 songs and supports FM radio and digital books with a pr...

Microsoft hasn't discussed the strategy behind the reorganization and new leadership the company announced yesterday other than to say that it wants to "speed decision-making," but there are some messages that can be gleaned from its choices, one analyst said "In some ways this is the pushing out at the highest level of the old vanguard," Joe Wilco...

Opera Software yesterday permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its Web browser. The ad-free, full-featured Opera browser is now available for download at no charge Opera was previously available free of charge with an ad banner. Users had the option of paying a licensing fee to remove the ad banner and receive premium support....

After months of complaints that its Google Library effort constituted a violation of copyright law, Google has been sued by a leading writer's association and three writers who claim that the search giant is infringing on the works of thousands of individual writers The Authors Guild and three individual writers -- a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, ...

Just a week after announcing new x64 servers code-named Galaxy, Sun Microsystems yesterday released Sun Fire servers powered by new UltraSparc IV+ processors The new Sun Fire V490, V890, E2900, E4900 and E6900 servers are powered to run on Solaris 10 or earlier versions of the company's flagship operating system. The company said the UltraSparc off...

OK, so here we are a week later and what do we know for sure? Well, lots of things. First, Oracle now has seven assorted CRM packages from its acquisitions and those of its acquired companies -- if you count Siebel. The issue with counting Siebel is that the deal is not done yet. Don't look for the shareholders to derail this one since many have been clamoring for greater returns on their investments for quite a while. And don't look to the SEC to stop this one either. Unlike Peoplesoft, Siebel wants to be acquired, so the whole process should go much faster...

I have received many responses to my previous columns for LinuxInsider, and though I took a breather from columns for the summer, I wanted to follow up on a couple of the responses Drew Tech and Other GPL Cases...

Darknets, Greynets. Dark traffic. The words are frightening. The reality behind them is even more frightening. Increasingly clever hackers, thieves and scoundrels are using the Internet, peer-to-peer products, instant messaging and e-mail to wreak havoc, in ways and for purposes never before seen. Their motivation is clear: They want money, and lots of it. Worst of all, they prey on human nature -- and business infrastructure -- to do their dirty work for them...

Three hardware heavyweights unveiled notebook computers capable of cellular broadband wireless service from Verizon this week, bolstering support for the wireless technology and improving its performance with plans for built-in, roaming broadband capabilities Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo all announced new notebook computers that will ship with ...

Microsoft has filed lawsuits against eight software re-sellers, saying that consumers helped lead them to the firms accused of selling pirated versions of the company's software Microsoft said it sued eight companies located in Arizona, California, Illinois, Minnesota and New York, with the information used in the suits gathered during investigatio...

In a case that underscores the growing pains of the online search business and the Web sector in fast-emerging China, Baidu.com has been ordered to stop providing referrals to music download sites offering certain copyright-protected songs The order from a Chinese court came in conjunction with a case in which Baidu has been found responsible for c...