Virginian-Pilot Interactive Media, a division of The Virginian-Pilot newspaper, began a video-only Web site Thursday.
 
Called HamptonRoads.tv, the site includes video of local entertainment, news, sports, traffic, local life, music and movie previews. Users can choose videos by content category, with selections from HamptonRoads.tv videographers as well as those from

Skype is upgrading its popular Internet telephone service to add video calling and a toolbar for Microsoft Outlook to find and dial contacts with a click.

The long-promised ``2.0'' edition was launched Thursday by Skype, which was acquired last month by Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. for an eye-popping $2.6 billion.
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Microsoft has opened the beta of OneCare to the general public, inviting Windows users everywhere to test the new all-in-one security suite that provides integrated antivirus, antispyware, and firewall capabilities. Redmond had originally restricted the trial to a select number of testers.
 
In May of this year, Microsoft had announced

Motorola Inc. and PIPS Technology are releasing an innovative license plate reader technology to public safety organizations nationwide.

Called Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR), the technology installed in police cars "reads" vehicle plates as they enter the view of a vehicle-mounted or roadside infrared camera, and checks them against a database for nearly

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is offering the public a free test version of its new service for protecting consumers from viruses and other Internet threats.
 
The company plans to eventually charge for Windows OneCare Live, though it has yet to announce subscription fees.

In the test version, OneCare will

It now appears that most of the “bring-your-own-access” VOIP providers have fallen well short of meeting the FCC’s tough new E911 requirements, the deadline for which was Monday.

Around 180 VOIP providers filed “compliance letters” to the commission Monday, and many of them have asked for extensions on the deadline.
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Apple on Tuesday released Security Update 2005-009, which addresses issues with both Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. Among the components affected in this release are apache_mod_ssl; CoreFoundation; CoreTypes; curl; iodbcadmin; OpenSSL; Safari;sudo; and syslog.
 
The biggest changes for Mac OS X users are with the company’s Web

The KDE Project on Tuesday released the newest version of the popular KDE graphical desktop for Linux, KDE 3.5, with improvements to the bundled Konqueror browser and a new-found ability to handle widget-style applications.
 
Konqueror now passes the Acid2 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) test, the second browser to do so.

IDG World Expo on Tuesday announced the schedule for the Users Conference and the Hands-On MacLabs at January’s Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Calif. The event happens January 9 - 13, 2006 at the Moscone Center.
 
The Users Conference comprises almost 30 sessions over two days. Developed for

Skype Technologies today updated its Internet telephony software, with version 2 adding free integrated video calling to the company's popular Voice over Internet Protocol service.
 
Skype Video allows you to see the people you are calling and lets them see you, if you wish. The company says that Skype Video is