Startup Orbital Data Corp. on Monday introduced a wide area network acceleration product line intended to allow for automatic optimization of data center infrastructures.

The Orbital 6000 series uses the company's Total Transport software to provide flow control, compression, service class policies, and Common Internet File System acceleration to allow increased WAN

Joining the ranks of security-appliance vendors this week is startup Identity Engines, which today is expected to launch a $15,000 box designed to quickly add centrally managed identity-based security to enterprise networks.

Called the Ignition Model 3000E, the first offering from the Mountain View, Calif.-based Identity Engines can support between 500 and

The European Commission hopes a meeting next week will come up with an agreement to allow governments more direct influence over the domain name system that guides traffic around the Internet.
 
A U.N. report has put forward a more multi-national approach to running the Internet which serves a billion users

Internet search giant Google introduces its first downloadable cellphone application on Monday, bringing its acclaimed map technology to phones.
 
With Google Local for mobile devices, users can get colorful, overhead views of a neighborhood and even check a hotel listing to see how close it is to the beach. Unlike most

Shoe company Lugz has issued a cease and desist letter to Apple Computer and the company’s longtime advertising agency TBWA/Chiat/Day, demanding that Apple’s latest iPod ad featuring Eminem be taken off the air. Lugz claims the ad is too similar to its own ad campaign, which was launched in 2002.
 
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The war over 3G mobile phone patents has escalated, as Qualcomm, which holds a robust intellectual property war chest, reported Monday that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Nokia in U.S. federal court in San Diego.

The suit, the latest in widening patents litigation involving Qualcomm, was filed as the

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Here you are, one of the millions of Americans who like to play casual games on the Internet, ready to log on for some fun.
 
So you go to a gaming Web site and try to ignore the ads on the page. Then you wait as

Yahoo and TiVo plan to announce a deal today that will connect Yahoo's online service to TiVo's set-top boxes, which, in addition to recording television programs, have a largely unused capability to connect to the Internet, the New York Times said on Monday.
 
The deal will allow TiVo, which has

Microsoft Corp. , the world's largest software maker, launched on Sunday its corporate database software program aimed at taking market share from Oracle Corp.

Microsoft's SQL Server 2005, delayed several times as engineers sought to make the software more reliable and secure, is a corporate database program designed to store and retrieve business

The turkey will reach the Internet table a week early this year as a companion to VH1 Classic's annual "A Very Classic Thanksgiving Special."
 
Clarence Clemons (The E Street Band), Patty Smyth (Scandal), Wonder Mike (Sugar Hill Gang) and Chris Barron (Spin Doctors) will join host Twisted Sister's Dee Snider