At least six million books, documents and "other cultural works" are to be put online and housed in the European Digital Library by 2010, the European Commission said.

The European Union's executive arm said it would help fund part of a network of digitation sites and study copyright issues that might arise.Read More...   Category: Internet

A new report issued by Websense Security Labs shows that hacker attacks have evolved from random endeavors designed to create havoc to increasingly well-organized assaults with financial and criminal motives.

The lab was set up in 2004 and has been releasing semiannual reports that recap the previous six months of hacker activity and

SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics said Thursday (March 2) it will join with Avaya Inc. in joint development and marketing of IP telephony products for the global market.
 
Under the agreement, the partners will collaborate on the delivery of enhanced IP convergence and mobility products. The solutions will combine Samsung’s

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Global shipments of large-area (10 in. and over) thin-film-transistor liquid crystal display modules increased 10 percent quarter-to-quarter and 69 percent year-over-year to 65.5 million units, according to market research firm DisplaySearch Inc.

DisplaySearch (Austin, Texas) reported fourth-quarter 2005 sales of $14 billion, up 13 percent quarter-to-quarter and 78 percent year-over-year.

Oracle has issued a patch to its E-Business Suite diagnostics software that included a number of security fixes the company advised its customers to implement as soon as possible. The patch, called “Diagnostics Support Pack February 2006 with Oracle Diagnostics 2.3 RUP A,” addresses a troubleshooting feature in E-Business Suite 11i that lets system

Is it a virtual hangout for millions of American teenagers, like a sprawling electronic shopping plaza, or a magnet for sexual predators and pornographers?

MySpace.com is a bit of both, say Rhode Island education officials who have banned the fast-growing teen social networking Web site from 80 percent of their schools out

AUSTIN, Texas — AMCC (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Intrinsity Inc. are codeveloping a multigigahertz PowerPC core for use in AMCC’s network infrastructure and storage products, the companies said Wednesday (March 1).

Intrinsity, based here, is a 55-person company that has spent the last decade developing design tools and circuit techniques aimed at high-performance

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Monday announced it had filed fraud charges against the owner of an Autosurf site who it accused of running a $50 million Ponzi scam and pocketing nearly $2 million herself.

Papers were filed last week in a Los Angeles federal court alleging that Charis Johnson, 33,

DUBLIN, Ireland — Mobile TV, still in its infancy, will grow in three years into a $3 billion market, heavily concentrated among young consumers who will forsake traditional broadcast for specially-tailored content on mobile phones and other devices, Michael Schueppert, president of Modeo, told the DVB World Forum on Wednesday (March 1). Among Schuppert’s

Rapidly-growing IP PBX revenue is on the way to eclipsing traditional circuit TDM switching, and even as VoIP is increasingly adopted, the enterprise telephony market will continue to grow to $11.6 billion in 2009, according to a new report.

Infonetics Research said worldwide TDM (time division multiplexing) used in traditional circuit switching