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RealNetworks, Envivio team on mobile MPEG-4

RealNetworks Inc. and MPEG-4 specialist Envivio Inc. will together develop and sell a media encoder aimed at the mobile phone industry, the companies said Monday.

Get ready for Windows .Net Server

Windows .Net Server, scheduled to ship in the second half of this year, was code-named Whistler and went by the working titles Windows 2002 and Windows XP Server, until Microsoft Corp. decided to add the .Net label to most of its products as part of ...

Trusting .NET Code

Developing code with .NET is hard enough without worrying about security. This means that most developers take the easy way out and assume that their code will execute in a fully trusted environment.

Turning trash into treasure

If you're like a lot of people, you have a garage full of things you've been meaning to get rid of for years. And the strange truth is that someone would probably give anything - or at least a few bucks - to own your Charles and Diana wedding commemo...

Napster used all nine lives

Here lieth Napster Inc.: Net renegade, consumer advocate, corporate ire inducer and theft enabler.

Food fight

How many times have you found yourself pushing a trolley down supermarket aisle after aisle and thought "there must be a better way!"? For most people, the weekly shop is a chore they'd like to avoid. When e-commerce started to boom a few years ago, ...

I'll be with you in an instant

IM is the little app that we can't do without. Teenagers think it's a way to chat after school without parents listening in; office workers use it to avoid voicemail hell; and millions of other people use it to simply catch up, gossip, or check that...

It's an ad ad ad ad world

Guess how many ad impressions - ads loaded into Web browsers - are generated in just one week? How does over 24 billion sound? If you feel that a disproportionate percentage of those ads are hitting you square in the face, you're not alone.

Fiscal Fitness

What's your million-dollar dream? Early retirement to a house by the sea? An open-ended world tour? The kids' education? You could trust your dreams to good fortune, but most of us prefer to take our financial fate into our own hands. That's where th...