The U.S. digital satellite radio market is expected to grow from 12 million installed units this year to 55 million units in 2010, according to a new report.

Jupiter Research announced the 35 percent compound annual growth rate Tuesday. While 23 percent of online consumers surveyed reported an interest in satellite radio,

Hollywood's efforts to combat the illegal online distribution of protected video content got a shot in the arm with this week's decision by file-sharing software provider BitTorrent to cooperate on antipiracy efforts.
 
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said BitTorrent has agreed to remove certain links in its popular

TiVo Inc. has filed a patent application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office earlier this month that suggests company inventors believe radio frequency identification (RFID) technology will become inserted into clothing, jewelry, key chains, and even under the skin in the body.

Whether TiVo actually decides to build in the feature,

Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes has become the first online music store to break into the top 10 list of music retailers, a market research firm said.
 
The Apple service made its debut in the third quarter as number seven, The NPD Group Inc. said this week. ITunes was number 14

Internet phone service provider Skype has hooked up with retailer RadioShack in a deal that will put Skype hardware and software in thousands of RadioShack stores and boost the profile of an emerging VoIP market.

Among the equipment to be offered at some 3,500 RadioShack outlets is an Internet calling kit consisting

Microsoft is extending the popular RSS 2.0 Web syndication format to make it "multidirectional," allowing it to be used for synchronizing information such as contacts and calendar entries across different applications, the company says.

RSS 2.0 is best known as a way to let Internet users subscribe to content from Web sites

Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that it has sued a Florida company for sending almost 100,000 unsolicited text messages.

The company said it filed the suit in federal court against Passport Holidays of Ormond Beach, Florida. The messages supposedly told Verizon's customers they had won a cruise and that they should call a

Juniper Networks opened a new technical center here Wednesday (Nov. 23) built at a cost of $8.5 million.
The opening comes two years after it started an R&D center that includes a laboratory that supports product development by testing systems for Juniper’s solutions.

"Ten percent of the overall engineering workforce

China's IPTV market is on fire, with mainland carriers lining up further service trials as Hong Kong's PCCW Ltd. reaches a customer milestone and plans its next generation of services.

Joining UTStarcom Inc. in serving up IPTV to China Telecommunications Corp.'s Shanghai branch, ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen: 000063 - message board; Hong Kong: 0763)

Instead of targeting weaknesses in operating systems, those who write viruses and worms are increasingly targeting security applications themselves.
 
According to the annual Top 20 Vulnerabilities report issued by the SANS Institute, hackers have shifted their focus toward exploiting popular security products as a way to infect the PCs of