Cable network Starz Entertainment Group LLC said it plans to launch an Internet movie download service on Tuesday, backed by partnerships with Microsoft and Sony, amid a race to offer more videos over high-speed Internet connections.
 
The service, called Vongo, follows the debut of Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes video service,

SAN FRANCISCO — EDA market leader Cadence Design Systems Inc. was expecting an extraordinary cash dividend of about $500 million from a wholly owned Irish subsidiary in late December, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month.

According to an 8-K filed with the U,S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Dec. 21,

Fraudsters stayed a step ahead of gullible Internet users in 2005 by fine-tuning their tactics and turning to more sophisticated strategies, a U.K.-based Web monitoring firm said Friday.

Open redirects were one of favorite tactics of phishers in 2005, said Web tracking and anti-phishing company Netcraft, and a good example of fraudsters'

AskMeNow, a company that delivers text-message answers to questions on any topic Thursday will officially launch an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology into its service as a step closer to integrating voice recognitioncapabilities early in 2006.

The IVR system will allow customers to register for the AskMeNow service from their cell phone

Fully patched systems running     Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are open to attack from malicious hackers, various security firms warned last week. And what’s the Windows vulnerability this time? A newly discovered flaw in the way those two Windows versions handle .WMF (Windows Metafile) graphic files.
 
Security firms describe

ED Digital said Friday that its collaboration with Microsoft has developed Digitrex high-definition network LCD televisions, which offer native support of Microsoft's Windows Media Connect solution.

Users of the TVs will be able to listen to and view digital content stored on Windows XP machines, according to ED Digital. The content will

GlobeTel Communications Corp. said Friday its wireless subsidiary has been contracted to install WiMAX communications networks in 30 cities throughout the Russian Federation.

The Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company said the agreement calls for it to provide broadband, VoIP and DECT technologies with LLC Internfta, a Moscow-based company. GlobeTel said the Russian company

Investors may remember 2005 as the year technology stocks heated up again as shares of Google Inc. and Apple Computer Inc. soared. But those stocks may mask a maturing of an industry once notorious for boom-and-bust cycles, analysts said.
 
Google's 118 percent surge in 2005 and Apple's 122 percent leap

SAN JOSE, Calif. — IdaTech LLC has rolled out its latest fuel cell product for power backup applications.
The ElectraGen 3 system is a hydrogen-based proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell solution capable of producing from 1.5-to-3 kilowatts of backup power.

By offering improved system reliability and more predictable performance

The top tech ideas of 2005 covered a wide terrain. They shared two important traits, both of them fitting in this cautious, post-bubble market.
 
Each idea gave more power to the user, and so carried on technology's classic democratizing effect.

And each of them extended an old idea, improved