Archive for April, 2006
Internet telephone company Vonage on Wednesday struck a deal with European WiFi network operator The Cloud. The partnership gives Vonage customers access to its VoIP service over The Cloud’s UK wireless broadband network.
Vonage customers equipped with its WiFi handset will be able to make VoIP calls from The Cloud’s WiFi hotspots as part of the standard Vonage subscription — there will be no additional charges.
“Enabling users to make telephone calls while on the move is the inevitable next stage of the VoIP revolution. Vonage’s partnership with The Cloud will provide our customers with the ability to make cheap voice calls while on their travels,” said Kerry Ritz, managing director of Vonage UK. “For small and medium businesses, where controlling telecommunications costs is important, the service will be a great way of staying in touch while out of the office without relying on costly mobile phones.”
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April 28th, 2006
Skype on Wednesday announced license agreements for worldwide distribution rights to potentially hundreds of thousands of musical works as ringtones for its Internet telephony service.
The eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) subsidiary inked deals with three major music publishing companies — EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music — as well as with the UK’s collecting society for author/publisher rights, the MCPS-PRS Alliance, which is a partnership between the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society and The Performing Right Society.
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April 28th, 2006
Linspire on Monday announced plans to offer a no-cost version of the firm’s operating system called Freespire. Kevin Carmony, Linspire’s President and CEO, unveiled the Freespire project in his keynote address at the 4th Annual Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego.
In his remarks, Carmony explained how Freespire is a community driven and developed project, but unique for open source Linux distributions in that it will allow users the choice to download a version that is 100 percent open source or one that includes proprietary software. The first beta release of the operating system to be made available for download in August.
“Freespire is about choice,” Carmony said. “The user should be free to decide what software they want to install on their systems, be that proprietary or open source.”
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April 27th, 2006
At the National Association of Broadcasters 2006 convention in Las Vegas on Monday, Microsoft and Universal Pictures announced a collaboration on the release of next-generation HD DVD discs.
The discs use VC-1, the video compression standard recently approved by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and one of the mandatory codecs in the HD DVD specification. Universal will also use iHD for the interactive features of the new titles. The launch of HD DVD players and titles last week in the U.S. represents the first broad market availability of high-definition optical media for consumers.
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April 25th, 2006
In the wake of yet another poor earnings report, Sun Microsystems on Monday announced that Scott McNealy is stepping down as the company’s CEO.
Effective immediately, Sun President Jonathan Schwartz will succeed him as CEO and will also retain the title of president. McNealy will continue serving as chairman of the board.
The company said the appointment is the result of Sun’s ongoing succession planning process, but analysts said that the investment community has been calling for McNealy to step down for some time.
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April 25th, 2006
Microsof and AOL on Monday joined forces with the United Kingdom’s new Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Center. The alliance could see photographs of convicted pedophiles posted on the Internet .
The organization will bring together law enforcement officers, specialists from children’s charities and industry to focus on high-risk, high-impact offenders.
Specifically, the CEOP Center will deliver a dedicated 24/7 online resource for reporting instances of online child sex abuse and systems to track sex offenders and to disseminate intelligence globally, resulting in victim identification and the direction of those victims toward sources of support.
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April 24th, 2006
VMwar and a group of hardware , software and service providers on Monday announced the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance to build joint virtual desktop products together. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, NEC, and Sun Microsystems are among the more than 20 companies that make up the new alliance.
Virtualization is a technique for deploying technologies. It allows multiple virtual operating systems to run on a single physical machine while maintaining distinct hardware profiles. In effect, the host operating system executes several guest operating systems.
Desktops are the most underutilized and most difficult to manage IT asset in the enterprise. Today’s business and technology climate has created a new set of desktop management problems such as ensuring data security and privacy within outsourcing and offshoring arrangements and with remote workers as well as ensuring desktop standardization, security and compliance.
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April 24th, 2006
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