Technology Industry Archive

There’s an intriguing rumor floating about. SDTimes.com is reporting that according to multiple sources, “including one at Cisco,” Google is working on developing its own router. When I contacted Google, the answer was the now-standard “It’s our policy not to comment on rumor or speculation,” which, if memory serves, is the same answer that used to be in play...

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At its last MacWorld, Apple announced new lower pricing on some music in its iTunes store – and an end to digital rights management (DRM) on all tracks. Forget about the state of Steve Jobs or who gave the keynote address. This is real news, as it is yet another bit of information suggesting that perhaps the recording industry has finally come to grips with the new market realities. This...

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Expert says that Microsoft has made $1.5 billion from Vista Capable — As part of the Vista Capable class action suit, Keith Leffler, an economist at the University of Washington that the plaintiffs hired, estimated that Microsoft has made $1.5 billion from licensing Windows XP on machines labeled as Vista Capable but not Vista Premium Ready. The question remains whether people even cared...

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For some time, China has been pushing to create its own telecommunications standards, for a number of reasonably obvious reasons. But now the country has decided to award a number of 3G mobile licenses, based not only on the Beijing-created TD-SCDMA standard, but on CDMA and WCDMA as well. From a purely practical consideration, this is a story so big that it will be hard to find something of...

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