The Wi-Fi Alliance trade group this week launched a program to decrease Wi-Fi power requirements in an attempt to encourage use of the technology in cell phones and other mobile devices.

The company said it will certify an extension to its existing Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) program called WMM Power Save. WMM was

Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN cable sports network is looking into distributing some of its television programs on Apple's iTunes music and video service, possibly joining its corporate cousin in a landmark deal, ESPN and ABC Sports president George Bodenheimer said on Monday.
 
Although ESPN has not held talks with Apple

Open-source technology provider XenSource has introduced virtualization software designed to help enterprises manage the growing number of virtual server deployments in their data centers.
 
The XenOptimizer infrastructure-management technology includes the next-generation Xen 3.0 open-source software, which provides virtualization capabilities for Linux-based enterprise systems.

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Virtualization is

The theme of the year for media companies has been "on demand." From the video iPod to selling episodes of hit TV programs through video-on-demand services to the explosion of broadband programming, video is increasingly available when consumers want it. Now, advertisers are mulling whether their TV marketing messages can follow suit, and what

Consumers whose financial and personal information is stolen are more likely to be victimized if the data breach is small, a study of four data disclosures reported Thursday.

ID Analytics, a San Diego-based identity risk management company, analyzed four data breaches that revealed approximately half a million identities, comparing the IDs against

The crowded VoIP sector is getting another major player. Yahoo Inc., which is entering the field with a service that in many ways is cheaper than Web phoning pacesetter Skype, and putting another nail in the coffin of traditional landline telephoning.

The Yahoo offering, to be available in 180 countries, will link

Curbing the use of illegally copied software would yield vast economic benefits globally -- including in countries like China and Russia, where piracy rates are high, an industry study concluded.
 
The study covering 70 countries released by the Business Software Alliance that cutting the global rate of software piracy --

LONDON — The WiMedia Alliance has by-passed the IEEE standardization process for ultrawideband networking and its physical and Media Access Control layers have been approved as the basis of a global UWB standard by the European based industry association and standardization body Ecma International.

The Alliance will also propose at the next

TOKYO — Hitachi Ltd. and its subsidiary Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Ltd. (FHP) have developed a 42-inch plasma display panel with full high-definition resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels.

According to Hitachi, the 42-inch panel is the first of its size with full HD resolution. The company expects that plasma panels with full

Microsoft is changing Internet Explorer 7's security zones in a bid to create a more attack-resistant browser, according to public blog entry written by three developers at the software giant.

Like its predecessors, IE 7 enforces security policies by clumping sites into four security categories, or zones, dubbed Internet, Intranet, Trusted Sites, and