[Software News] Dutch want banks help to fight illegal Web casinos
[Software News] Learn To Play Guitar Online
The Professional Choice With over 25,000 students served from over 70 countries, the leading presence in online music education is Berkleemusic.com, part of the world-famous Berklee College of Music. Most students are "working professionals who make either a portion of their income in the music industry or have always dreamed of studying at Berklee," said Debbie Cavalier, dean of conti...
[Software News] Google, IBM Join Forces To Offer Cloud Computing Services
As Microsoft and Yahoo go their separate ways, IBM and Google are cozying up to move into what they think will be the dominant IT delivery model of the future--so-called cloud computing. Over the next year, IBM and Google plan to roll out a worldwide network of servers from which consumers and businesses will tap everything from online soccer schedules to advanced engineering applications. The IB...
[Software News] SAP Is The Latest Convert To Software-Plus-Services Vision
Software as a service made its name with bold claims that it would force on-premises software into extinction. But with SAP becoming the latest vendor to create a hybrid model, the real dinosaur is the idea that companies must choose one approach or the other. By eary next year, SAP will offer what co-CEO Henning Kagermann calls "services by design," an extension of the Business ByDesi...
[Software News] Lohan withdraws from Manson family movie: spokeswoman
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Lindsay Lohan has withdrawn from an upcoming movie about convicted murderer Charles Manson, her publicist said Friday, following an Internet report she had been axed from the project. The 21-year-old actress was due to play Manson family follower Nancy Pitman in the film "Manson Girls", but has pulled out of the production because of scheduling conflicts, spokeswoma...
[Software News] Vint Cerf Supports Municipal Broadband Networks
Municipal broadband networks could help boost the availability of high-speed Internet access and even help to ensure Net neutrality in the U.S., said Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google. Cerf, known as one of the fathers of the Internet for his role in creating its basic architecture, spoke at a lunch in Seattle, a city that is investigating the possibility of building ...
[Software News] Facebook 'Connect' To Let Users Share Profiles
A day after rival MySpace announced it would let users share their profiles and other personal data across the Web, Facebook said it would do the same in the next several weeks. The new features, called Facebook Connect, were introduced on the company's blog as the next iteration of Facebook's platform for developers building applications to run within the social network. Facebook Connect...
[Software News] Facebook to let users carry profiles with them
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc. is loosening its grip on millions of personal profiles to allow inhabitants of its popular Internet hangout to transplant the information and applications to other Web sites. With the changes announced Friday, Facebook joins a growing movement to make it easier for people to share their favorite pictures, information and applications with family and friends anywhere on ...
[Software News] EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire
SAN JOSE, Calif. - EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month. After repeated queries, the online auction company said late Friday it will not institute such a rule in the United States. But it remains unclear whether eBay wil...
[Software News] Microsoft To Release Office 2007 SP1 Via Automatic Update In June
Microsoft plans to release Office 2007 Service Pack 1 via the company's automatic update service starting June 16. The advanced announcement is a result of the software maker's promise to give at least a 30-day notice before making Office service packs available through Microsoft Update, which is a part of Windows Vista and Windows XP, the company said in its Office Sustained Engineering ...
[Software News] U.S. v. 3,000 Microsoft Flash Drives
Three thousand Microsoft flash drives are facing off against Uncle Sam in an Alaska court and even if they win, they lose. Last month, the United States filed a lawsuit to establish the forfeiture of 3,000 flash drives marked with fake Microsoft Windows logos. The flash drives were impounded in March 2007 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at an Anchorage, Alaska, FedEx facility, acco...
[Software News] 'BioShock' Game Coming To Film
SAN FRANCISCO - Take-Two Interactive Software said Friday that "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski will make a movie version of "BioShock", its hit video game about an underwater utopia gone disastrously wrong. The movie will be made by Universal Pictures, a unit of NBC Universal owned by General Electric, and John Logan, writer of "Gladiator" and &...
[Software News] Lawmakers Eye Net Neutrality As Anti-Trust Issue
Federal lawmakers have introduced yet another network neutrality bill, but this time with a focus on fair trade issues. This week, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, has introduced legislation that addresses the issue by labeling it an antitrust matter. Conyers' H.R. 5994 would ban discriminatory network management practices by amending the Clayton Act. The bi...
[Software News] Advocacy groups take aim at Google-Yahoo partnership
WASHINGTON - An online advertising partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. is facing opposition from consumer and civic groups that didn't wait for an official deal announcement to voice their discontent. Top Google executives said Thursday they are interested in a partnership with their closest rival but didn't indicate how close they were to an agreement. A coalition of 16 civil rights and ...
[Software News] Apple Reportedly Agrees To Refunds In Mac-User Suit
Apple has reportedly agreed to give refunds of $25 to $79 in cash to as many as 2.3 million Mac users who bought replacement power adapters for the PowerBook and iBook, court documents revealed Friday. The refund is part of Apple's proposed settlement of a class-action suit filed in 2006 over spark-prone adapters that shipped with the Mac computers. According to documents filed in U.S. Distri...
[Software News] Congress Ponders Differing Net-Neutrality Bills
The Internet neutrality issue has once again taken center stage in Congress, where two bills are under scrutiny. During a hearing to discuss pending legislation, the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet noted that commercial success for many Internet-based companies depends on an open Internet. "The question is whether, in the name of network management...
[Software News] Phishing Campaign Targets Tax Rebate Checks
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) on Thursday issued a warning about a phishing campaign designed to steal personal information from consumers using the promise of a tax rebate check as bait. IC3 is jointly run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The phishing messages claim that the fastest way to receive...
[Software News] McCain and blogger trade barbs over his 2000 vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Did U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain vote for President George W. Bush in 2000? Liberal Internet blogger Arianna Huffington says McCain told her he did not. But the Arizona senator says he did vote for Bush, a fellow Republican, in 2000 and campaigned for him all over the country after his own attempt to win the party's nomination failed. The c...
[Software News] Report: More Than 550 Million GPS Handsets To Ship By 2012
GPS-enabled cell phones are increasingly being fitted with a range of on-board and off-board location-based services that will drive sales of the handsets to more than 550 million units by 2012, according to a market research report released Friday. Dominique Bonte, principal analyst at ABI Research, noted that mobile phone service providers are helping drive GPS handset sales by including commun...
[Software News] Environmental Group Hits Apple
Apple's lack of progress in combating global warming makes it a company to avoid by the climate-conscious consumer, a nonprofit group said. In its second annual Company Scorecard, Climate Counts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to directing consumers toward the greenest companies, gave Apple 11 points out of a possible 100, placing the company last among electronic firms. IBM had the best ...