Preparing for the upcoming 3GSM 2006 trade show in Barcelona, companies backing the European GSM cell phone standard have reported successful completion of demonstrations that have reached speeds of 3.6Mbps.

Motorola reported Wednesday that with co-developer NTT DoCoMo it has successfully created a high-speed downlink High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) prototype

SAN JOSE, Calif. - In its latest move to broaden its iPod and iTunes franchises, Apple Computer Inc. has introduced "iTunes U," a nationwide expansion of a service that makes course lectures and other educational materials accessible via Apple's iTunes software.
 
The company behind the iPod portable players, the iTunes

AOL, the online division of Time Warner Inc., on Thursday said it has landed a deal with cable operator Charter Communications Inc. to offer low-cost, high-speed Internet service.
 
It is the fourth new deal since last week, when it struck similar agreements with phone companies BellSouth Corp., AT&T Inc. and

Sun Microsystems and Imation reported Wednesday that they will extend their existing strategic partnership in storage technologies to work together to develop and launch an extension of the Sun StorageTek T9840 tape drive platform and to investigate alternative storage technologies.
 
In recent months, both firms have been acquiring their respective ways

Bill Gates says that governments trying to censor information on the Internet are wasting their time.

"You may be able to take a very visible website and say that something shouldn't be there, but if there's a desire by the population to know something … it's going to get out very broadly"

Stung by bad publicity over their respective efforts to do business in China, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo on Wednesday asked the government to take a stand against censorship.

In a statement prepared for a meeting held Wednesday by the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, Andrew McLaughlin, Google's senior policy counsel, asked the U.S

Symantec is anticipating increased competition from Microsoft in 2006, but plans to maintain the company's market position by staying one step ahead of the software giant, said chairman and CEO John Thompson.

"We expect Microsoft to enter the security markets certainly this year," Thompson said. "As such we plan to increase our

Blogs. 99-cent music downloads. Podcasts. Phoning home via the Internet. Online social networking. It's the golden age of the Internet.
 
But you wouldn't know it if you've just been watching Internet stocks. Outside of Google and a few other choice names, it's hard to find an Internet company that gets

As more companies realize the cost benefits of using open source software, mixed Linux and Windows environments are inevitable. Managing those environments, however, can be difficult for traditional IT shops, especially when it comes to getting Linux-based file, print, and Web servers to work well in a Windows network.
 
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Microsoft Corp. on Thursday confirmed that it's considering plans to build its own portable music player to rival Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod, which has captured the lion share of the market at the expense of competitors offering devices with Microsoft's music player.
 
BusinessWeek reported Thursday that the Redmond, Wash., software