Handset giant Nokia has partnered with software Goliath Microsoft in licensing the latter's PlayReady digital rights management technology for its phones. 8 Aug 2007
Nokia Siemens Networks is to expand fixed access networks for Tunisie Telecom in Ennasr, Jardin du Lac and the Kheireddine industrial zone. 7 Aug 2007
USA - Auction Sentry Software joined the ranks of Microsoft, Adobe and Corel when it was awarded the People's Choice Award 2007 at the Software Industry Conference in Denver, Colorado. The flagship eBay sniping software product, Auction Sentry Deluxe, was voted Best Vertical Market Program or Utility. Users around the world cast votes for the People's Choice Awards on web sites such Download.com, PC World and Tucows. 6 Aug 2007
USA - Internet marketing firm, AdAuthority, has launched AVIA (Advanced Verification & Integrity Analysis). Utilising a combination of data cross referencing and patented algorithms, it determines consumer demographics and behavior markers for integrity of incoming marketing data. 6 Aug 2007
As Web services applications began to be developed, vendors tried to outline ways to secure information at the application level. "Vendors have developed a broad suite of standards to protect Web services transactions," said Randy Heffner, an analyst with Forrester Research. 6 Aug 2007
Google's mysterious poking around in the wireless communications space is spawning rumors of an advertising-supported smartphone carrying the Google brand. 3 Aug 2007
With session initiation protocol, or SIP, instantaneous collaboration using any device is automatic and device-independent, so call center operators don't have to worry about how their customers and employees connect. Need to move from a phone call to an interactive video? It's effortless, because SIP lets you adapt dynamically. 3 Aug 2007
Following its July 18 remedy to the security hole created between the Firefox and Internet Explorer Web browsers, Mozilla on Monday released a new version of Firefox. Version 2.0.0.6 takes further steps in resolving the vulnerability presented when a user surfs a malicious Web page on Microsoft's Internet Explorer when Firefox is also installed on the system. 2 Aug 2007
Apple IMC Southern Africa is opening of its first iStore in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday, 4 August. 2 Aug 2007
"Parents should use URL filtering software to control their children's Web surfing. These solutions allow parents to block Web sites that are inappropriate for children," Lawrence Orans, research director at Gartner, told TechNewsWorld. 1 Aug 2007
Snooth has announced that it's released the Snooth Facebook wine application, allowing Facebook users to interact with, and explore, Snooth's functionality from within their Facebook account. Using Facebook's API to access Snooth's database of millions of wine ratings across hundreds of thousands of wines, users can now rate and review wines, get recommendations and see what their friends are drinking as well as find retailers to purchase specific wines from. 31 Jul 2007
IBM, whose 20th century employees were parodied as corporate cogs in matching navy suits, doesn't have an avatar dress code. However, guidelines suggest being "especially sensitive to the appropriateness of your avatar or persona's appearance when you are meeting with IBM clients or conducting IBM business." 31 Jul 2007
Openads has developed an open source adserver now used by over 20,000 publishers. 31 Jul 2007
USA - Koch Equipment LLC has announced the introduction of a new MADO frozen meat grinder for the meat and poultry industries that grinds fresh and frozen product at high levels of efficiency with minimal temperature rise, which reduces bacteria and contaminants. 30 Jul 2007
There is clearly concern that an individual's right to privacy is being steadily eroded by governments responsible for protecting citizens and by multi-national corporations, whose tremendous power and influence over political and legislative processes has become a given. 30 Jul 2007
While they were all students at Harvard, 23-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg worked briefly with twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra on what eventually became ConnectU, a less-successful social networking site. A short time later, he launched Facebook. Now, ConnectU's founders want Facebook shut down. A federal judge, however, isn't eager to do so. 27 Jul 2007
Software developers and vendors have used standard contracts to protect themselves, their products and services, and to set the terms of agreements with customers. However, in doing so they often set legally binding terms and conditions that consumer advocacy groups in the US and elsewhere would argue overstep the bounds of what should be expected or permissible. 26 Jul 2007
This is the second time a trio of former Harvard classmates has sued Facebook alleging its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, stole their code and used it to build his site. 26 Jul 2007
Not one to be left out, Yahoo has joined the chorus of search engines boasting new privacy policies. Yahoo has chosen to ‘anonymize' users' search histories after 13 months, rather than the 18-month period settled upon by most rivals. The company's announcement came fresh on the heels of similar news from Microsoft and Ask.com. 26 Jul 2007
Peer-to-peer, or P2P, file sharing is an attractive way for people to create culture and interact with music and film. However... 26 Jul 2007
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