Software developers can begin developing applications for the next generation of smart phones based on Microsoft operating software. The company has posted a software development kit (SDK) for Windows Mobile 2003-based Smartphones on its developer w...
RoboHelp, the help file authoring tool developed by eHelp, now includes support for Macromedia's Flash multimedia format, allowing help authors to include explanatory diagrams and animations in their documents, and to use Flash to quickly customize t...
Macromedia will begin shipping a new version of Contribute, its desktop application for Web content maintenance, in Australia in August.
Macromedia will breathe fresh life into its Breeze online presentation and training tool in September, with the addition of a new module, Breeze Live, which turns the system into an online conferencing system, the San Francisco company announced Thur...
San Francisco technology licensing company Friskit filed suit against RealNetworks and Listen.com in a Chicago, Illinois, court on Friday, charging that the companies had infringed on its patents relating to search engines for creating nonstop play l...
Vodafone Group PLC will use software from RealNetworks Inc. to distribute audio and video content to users of its Vodafone Live wireless data service, RealNetworks said in a statement Monday.
Intel and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are joining a consortium which aims to build a platform on which to develop "disruptive" Internet technologies, they announced Tuesday. These technologies are needed because the Internet is becoming "ossified," accordin...
Web site Puretunes.com has joined the ranks of Web sites taking advantage of the willingness of Spanish authors' and performers' rights societies to sign deals allowing unlimited downloads of digital music.
Jon Lech Johansen will be returning to court to contest for a second time charges related to his development and distribution of DeCSS, a program that can be used to break the digital copy-protection mechanism of DVDs, his attorney said Tuesday.
Dell Computer Corp. will announce its first own-brand printers in March, aiming them at home office users and large workgroups, Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell said Tuesday.
After investing hundreds of millions of dollars in multimedia messaging infrastructure, the mobile phone industry is still looking for the "killer app," the overwhelmingly useful application that will drive usage of it, according to Don Listwin, chie...
The Neo Project, a group of distributed computing enthusiasts, has abandoned its attempt to crack an encryption key used to digitally sign software for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game console, after just four days.
In closing arguments Monday, prosecutors called for Jon Lech Johansen, the 19-year-old Norwegian charged with using and distributing DeCSS, a program that can be used to break the digital copy-protection mechanism of DVDs, to be given a three-month s...
Search engine company Google Inc. is testing an online shopping price comparison service, Froogle, and has introduced beta versions of two other search tools, Google Webquotes and Google Viewer.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, goes the old adage: a piece of folk wisdom that Microsoft Corp.'s chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, hopes the company can apply to software development.
