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Ask Jeeves Launches Advertising Network
AP - Backed by a new owner known for shaking up the status quo, Ask Jeeves Inc. is launching an upstart advertising network powered by its own search engine — a move likely to rankle its longtime business partner, Google Inc.
Nextel to seek more time for locating 911 callers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nextel Communications Inc. NXTL.O plans to ask for a waiver from a December deadline that 95 percent of its customers' wireless phones be capable of identifying the location of a caller to emergency personnel. Analysts Say ATM Systems Highly Vulnerable
AP - A report Tuesday from Gartner Inc., a technology analyst firm, estimates that 3 million U.S. consumers were victims of ATM and debit-card fraud in the past year.
Apple starts iTunes online music service in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. launched its iTunes online music store in Japan on Thursday, bringing its market-leading download service to the world's second-largest music market by album sales.
IBM silicon process speeds communications chips
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N plans to introduce on Friday an improvement to a microchip manufacturing process that it says will allow for the production of faster silicon devices for cellular handsets and other communications devices. Baidu Shares More Than Quadruple in Debut
AP - Baidu.com Inc., the maker of China's leading Internet search engine, mesmerized Wall Street Friday as its stock more than quadrupled — a dazzling debut driven by the company's connections to Google Inc. as much as its own tantalizing potential.
Cisco mulls buying Nokia-paper
Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc. is considering buying
the world's top mobile handset maker Nokia in a bid to gain its
wireless infrastructure technology, the Business newspaper
reported on Sunday.
Search concepts, not keywords, IBM tells business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM IBM.N plans to give away key search technologies for corporate data retrieval that use concepts and facts instead of simpler 'keyword' searches relied upon by consumer Web companies such as Google Inc. GOOG.O, the world's largest computer company said on Monday. Yahoo extends phone calling via instant messaging
Reuters - Yahoo Inc. has begun allowing users to
make telephone calls and search the Internet via its instant
messaging system instead of relying only on Web browsers or
e-mail, the company said on Monday.
Microsoft Trying to Fix Security Hole
AP - Microsoft Corp. is attempting to plug a glaring hole in some versions of its Windows software, a weakness similar to those exploited by the devastating 'Blaster' and 'Sasser' attacks, a security expert said Tuesday.
Big Blue Didn't Sell Its Soul
The Motley Fool - In May, when IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) finalized the sale of its PC division to Lenovo -- allowing the Chinese company to become the world's third largest PC maker behind Dell (Nasdaq: DELL - News) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ - News) -- it seemed as though the company had lost part of its soul. After all, the company is named International Business Machines, and what could epitomize a business machine more than a PC -- a device that IBM practically defined?
Intel to unveil shift in design of its PC chips
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. is preparing to unveil a significant change in the underlying technology of its computer chips, one that emphasizes power efficiency and multitasking as much as raw speed.
Fla. man guilty of stealing 1.5 billion data files
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - A Florida man who ran a bulk e-mail company was convicted on Friday of stealing more than 1.5 billion data files from Acxiom Corp. ACXM.O in what federal officials said was one of the largest recorded cases of data theft.
Music Industry Worried About CD Burning
AP - Music copied onto blank recordable CDs is becoming a bigger threat to the bottom line of record stores and music labels than online file-sharing, the head of the recording industry's trade group said Friday.
Philips buys lighting firm stake for 765 mln euros
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch group Philips Electronics PHG.AS PHG.N said on Monday it would buy Agilent Technologies Inc's A.N 47 percent stake in lighting firm Lumileds for about 765 million euros in cash.
Japan's biometric security firms see demand booming
TOKYO (Reuters) - Firms providing the latest in biometric security, using systems that can identify an individual's face, hand or fingerprint, are enjoying a boom in Japan amid an increase in forgery and cybercrime.
Microsoft hires third co. to build Xbox 360
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O, which has used two companies to build its Xbox game console, said on Tuesday it is expanding that roster to three for its next-generation Xbox 360 due out later this year.
Matsushita to sell 65-inch TV in Japan from Nov
TOKYO (Reuters) - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. 6752.T said on Thursday it will start selling a high-definition 65-inch plasma television in Japan from November 1 for less than 1 million yen.
IBM to sell data recovery, target small businesses
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - IBM IBM.N is set announce plans on Friday to sell software that helps small businesses recover from computer crashes, expanding a technology it first developed for large companies.
Suspected computer worm authors arrested, FBI says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities in Morocco and Turkey have arrested two men for unleashing computer worms that disrupted networks across the United States last week, the FBI said on Friday.
ITunes Music Phone Set to Launch
AP - A long-delayed cell phone from Apple Computer Inc. and Motorola Inc. that can play iTunes music downloads is finally set to debut through Cingular Wireless, a research analyst said.
Japanese Robot Knows Words, Can House-Sit
AP - A child-shaped humanoid robot that can recognize about 10,000 words and work as a house sitter will go on sale in Japan in September.
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