After several months of tests, the TV networks in Japan have added one more service to their portfolio recently: digital broadcasting on customers’ compatible handhelds. Japan has begun to watch digital television broadcasts on mobile telephones, in a highly anticipated service that could lead to a new genre of TV programs. The new TV broadcasting […]

For many businesses, e-mail has become the communication of choice. Unfortunately, e-mail has also become the communication of choice for schemers, hackers, advertisers, virus writers and so many others, which saps the efficiency of email for legitimate use. Symantec Corp. recently announced it is raising the bar for enterprise e-mail security protection by delivering the […]

Lenovo Group and Microsoft ink an expanded global strategic alliance to promote the use of validly licensed Microsoft software products in China and elsewhere. Senior executives from Lenovo Group Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. met recently to reaffirm their joint efforts for market development and to formally sign a global agreement that expands and deepens the […]

Sprint Nextel is preparing to take on the big phone companies in the broadband market. The assault on DSL is coming quietly, but recent announcements and development in Sprint’s technology indicate that the company believes it can be the third pipe into the home–a pipe that would challenge the phone companies’ DSL service and perhaps […]

It’s never been easy to win a fight against people who buy ink by the barrel. The same may be true about those who buy bandwidth by the terabit — as a coalition fighting Internet giant AOL discovered lately. America Online, the world’s biggest Internet service provider has apparently blocked e-mails on its servers containing […]

Chinese search giant Baidu is partnering with Intel’s China subsidiary to develop Internet applications for a variety of computing devices. Intel Corp. and Internet search engine Baidu.com have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop search applications for Intel platforms in a deal that could have important branding and technology implications for the two companies […]

A picture can be worth a thousand words, but an RSS feed is worth a million pictures. Rather than focus on written words, Pixsy Corp. plans to make Web searching visual, and will shortly launch a search engine that is designed to return thousands of photographs and video images from hundreds of sites. That is […]

Leader in advanced analytics adds to Microsoft’s comprehensive BI capabilities. Microsoft has again tapped the nether regions of the western half of the United States for software innovation. Microsoft Corp. recently announced it has agreed to acquire ProClarity Corp., a software company based in Boise, Idaho, that develops advanced analysis and visualization technologies that work […]

New service allows laptop and PDA users to access Internet content offline A Seattle company recently introduced a new service that allows people with laptops or handheld computers to surf through a range of Web content while they are offline. Internet literally means an ‘inter’ connected world. But imagine a world where you have all […]

Internet giant Google Inc. defended bending to China’s strict censorship rules, saying it had no other way to enter a nation with huge online growth potential that may shape the company’s future, Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said in a statement. Schmidt acknowledged heavy criticism on Capitol Hill for submitting its Chinese-language search engine to […]