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Openwave
launches messaging software
Wireless technology firm Openwave Systems has announced that
it was launching its multimedia messaging software, which
will allow operators to offer consumers the ability to send
messages with text, pictures, music and graphics, thus bringing
the long-promised ability to send multimedia messages, such
as photos of family and friends or maps and directions, over
cell phones is a step closer to reality.
Openwave said its new software is based on industry standards
and compatible with any wireless technology standard. The
company said Genie, British mobile phone group mmO2’s
mobile Internet business, is its first trial customer.
IBM introduces low-power server with RAID
IBM introduced low-power computer servers with an advanced
disk management system, the latest salvo in the company’s
battle with Sun Microsystems and other computer makers. The
line of servers, IBM’s p610 series, is intended to be
used for such business applications as customer or sales force
management. IBM said the servers will now incorporate a system
known as RAID, for redundant array of independent disks.
RAID-based computers treat an array of disk drives as if they
were a single storage device, yielding improved data recovery
in the event of a single disk drive failure and the potential
for higher speed. The company also introduced a low-end model
to the p610 line at the price of $6000, 20 percent lower than
the previously least expensive p610-model server.
States request Microsoft Windows Code
The state attorneys general still pursuing the anti-trust
case against Microsoft have asked a federal judge to force
the company to show them the inner workings of the Windows
operating system. “Microsoft cannot base its defence
on the design of its source code and simultaneously deny the
litigating states the opportunity to test those arguments
by interrogating the code,” the states said in their
filing.
As part of their proposed sanctions against Microsoft, the
states have told US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
that she should order the company to offer a stripped-down
version of Windows, without any additional features such as
its Internet Explorer browser.
TiVo
sues SONICblue over TV recording patent
TiVo has announced that it filed a patent infringement suit
against SONICblue, the latest salvo fired between the rival
makers of television recording technology. In a filing with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, San Jose, California-based
TiVo said it filed a suit on January 22 in the US District
Court for the Northern District of California against SONICblue,
alleging that SONICblue’s ReplayTV recording technology
infringed on TiVo’s patent.
TiVo requested the court halt SONICblue from further alleged
infringement of the patent, and asked for damages.
In December, SONICblue, based in Santa Clara, California,
sued TiVo, also claiming patent infringement.
Comcast
will stop tracking users
Comcast promised amid criticism to stop immediately recording
the Web browsing activities of its 1 million high-speed Internet
subscribers. The president of Comcast’s cable communications
division, Stephen Burke, said the company will stop storing
the information ‘to completely reassure our customers
that the privacy of their information is secure’.
Comcast also said it will hire a chief privacy officer and
‘will not let this situation rest until we are convinced
that we have done everything that needs to be done to ensure
that our customers are reassured’.
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