Microsoft has threatened to withdraw its Windows software from South Korea if the country’s antitrust agency orders it to unbundle its instant-messaging and media player software from the operating system.
South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) has been investigating allegations that the world’s top software maker breached antitrust laws by incorporating the services into Windows. (more…)
People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates. The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search. He said that competition had ultimately been good for web users because it had pushed search technology. This meant search would be “far better” in a year. (more…)
Motorola and Intel are teaming up to accelerate the development and adoption of a broadband technology called WiMax for mobile devices, the companies announced Thursday.
The two industry giants have been working side by side on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.16e standard, which provides specifications for both fixed and wireless broadband applications. But now Motorola and Intel, which has been a leader in WiMax development, plan to collaborate and share testing results and design information to ensure that the new products they are developing are interoperable. (more…)
Microsoft is tightening up the way its Internet Explorer browser handles HTTPS for version 7, which is used to secure online transactions, in an attempt to give people more protection online.
The software giant said it would work with the Open Content Alliance (OCA), set up by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online. (more…)
In a move that could put Google in competition with eBay, the search giant is testing a new service that would allow people to post and make searchable any type of content, a Google spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday.
A screenshot of a page for “Google Base” gives as examples of items that can be posted to Google’s server: “description of your party planning service,” “articles on current events from your Web site,” “listing of your used car for sale,” and “database of protein structures.” (more…)
t’s a “Star Wars” fan’s dream–the first public display of props and costumes from all six films in the series, including a replica cockpit of Han Solo’s asteroid-battered Millennium Falcon.
But the $5 million exhibit goes beyond entertainment and turns “Star Wars” into an educational tool for science and technology, fields in which U.S. dominance faces a challenge from a new generation of engineers in Asia. (more…)
The key net oversight body has settled a long-running dispute with Verisign, a company which has significant influence over how people find websites.
Under the terms of the deal, Verisign has dropped an anti-trust lawsuit against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). (more…)
New federal wiretapping rules forcing Internet service providers and universities to rewire their networks for FBI surveillance of e-mail and Web browsing are being challenged in court.
Telecommunications firms, nonprofit organizations and educators are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., to overturn the controversial rules, which dramatically extend the sweep of an 11-year-old surveillance law designed to guarantee police the ability to eavesdrop on telephone calls (more…)
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