Topic: WebTechnology

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 01:49 AM

SAN JOSE, Calif. - It's every parent's nightmare: You take your children to an amusement park jammed with people. Distracted for a moment, you turn around and they're gone, vanished into the crowd. At Paramount's Great America in late July, Jennifer Winding's 5-year-old nephew ran off to see a Spongebob Squarepants character strolling nearby. Later, her 4-year-old daughter headed in a different direction when she spotted Blue the dog from TV's "Blue's Clues."

Posted by : Anonymous on Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - 06:44 AM

U.S. Internet telephone service may be hampered until users can make 9-1-1 calls that automatically indicate their location.Voice Over Internet Protocol, or VoIP as Internet telephone service is known, is a still-developing technology that essentially e-mails spoken words via the Internet rather than through public phone lines, the Portland Oregonian reported Tuesday.

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 01:58 AM

Online music service Napster has launched a download service in the UK, offering a choice between individual song downloads or a monthly subscription.
Users with Windows 2000 or XP systems can download the Napster jukebox application and begin downloading songs to their PC. Users that sign up to the service before 27 May 2004 will also receive a free seven-day trial subscription.

Posted by : Anonymous on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 02:18 PM

Shopping cart software developer Actinic Software has announced the upcoming release of new versions of its e-commerce software.
An upgraded version of the company's Actinic Catalog, Actinic Business and Actinic Developer will be made available in late May. Each of the products has been enhanced with a number of improvements as well as new functionality and better customer service. Online retailers can also deploy several different types of promotional offers.

Posted by : trraju on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 10:02 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) - An international effort to dismantle major Internet piracy groups has identified more than 100 people in the United States and abroad involved in the theft of more than $50 million in music, movies, games and computer software, U.S. authorities said.Synchronized searches by the FBI in 27 states and by other authorities in 10 countries beginning Wednesday resulted in the seizure of more than 200 computers, including 30 servers used as storage and distribution hubs for the material, Attorney General John Ashcroft said. One server contained over 65,000 titles.

Posted by : trraju on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 09:56 AM

NEW YORK (AP) - America Online subscribers can now check their e-mail using most third-party software, yet another sign of holes opening up in the Internet dial-up leader's walled garden. That means Internet users accustomed to Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and other programs needn't use AOL's proprietary software or use Web-based interface to check their AOL electronic mail.

Posted by : trraju on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 09:53 AM

Forward-thinking companies are embracing e-learning to become more productive, innovative and efficient, while creating a generation of employees who are motivated, life-long learners.
While large corporations across North America are increasing their connectivity through e-learning, owners of small- and medium- sized businesses may be hesitant to allow their employees time during the workday to take a course online when they could be making sales calls.

Posted by : trraju on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 09:20 AM

ELECTRONIC learning is viewed as an opportunity to learn at one's own pace from home, or other remote locations using the Internet. For working individuals who did not have the opportunity to pursue tertiary education when they left school, e-learning is like a second chance to obtain higher qualifications at their own convenience.

Posted by : trraju on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 06:46 AM

Trung Dung went from pauper to prince when he created the technology behind OnDisplay Inc., which was sold at the height of the dot-com boom for $1.8 billion. His story, an updated rags-to-riches tale of an immigrant who fled war-torn Vietnam, studied computer programming while working multiple jobs in Boston to support himself and his family, moved west to pursue new opportunities and turned an innovative high-tech idea into a business worth billions, could have ended there. But it doesn't.

Posted by : trraju on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 06:45 AM

VeriSign, which runs the master directories for ".com" and ".net" addresses, is locked in a legal battle with the group that oversees the Internet addressing system. It's a court fight that could bring changes to how a core part of the Internet is regulated, legal experts said. VeriSign sued the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in federal court in Los Angeles in February, claiming ICANN has overstepped its authority in trying to regulate the Mountain View company's attempts to roll out new services. This week, ICANN filed a motion to have the suit thrown out.