Municipal Wi-Fi sustains fatal blow with likely loss of MetroFi
After scrapping its citywide Wi-Fi deployment project for Portland, Oregon, municipal wireless company MetroFi is planning to liquidate its network assets or close down entirely.
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Sprint eyes 2008 for WiMAX launch, ahead of AT&T and Verizon LTE
Sprint this week unveiled plans for a commercial launch of its WiMAX 4G network by the end of 2008 in the Baltimore and Washington, DC area, capping about a year of testing with Samsung and other…
Beta of an Outlook synchronization gadget for Google Apps
A great many Microsoft Outlook users don’t have the benefit of an Exchange server, so their e-mail and calendar are bound to one PC. Now, a gadget just entering beta could help by extending the reach…
Yahoo's SearchScan irks some Web site owners
False positives and errors have some developers seeing red over Yahoo’s new security feature.
Report: Alltel's choice of LTE a big loss for WiMAX, UMB
With the smallest subscriber base of the top five wireless carriers in the US but one of the biggest networks, ABI Research thinks Alltel has picked a winner by aligning its future development with…
Yet another cross-site scripting vulnerability affects IE7 on XP
A private security researcher well known for turning up cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Web browsers has discovered another one, and is trumpeting the find as another milestone in Web…
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Study: BitTorrent blocking common on Comcast, Cox, StarHub
Blocking of BitTorrent traffic is widespread among some ISPs in the US and Singapore, but not in Canada or any other country on the globe, says a new study released this week from German researchers.
Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 available on Mozilla servers
Moving right along according to plan, the first release candidate of Firefox 3.0 appeared this morning among Mozilla’s beta and candidate downloads. BetaNews has obtained the link, and RC1 is…
Ex-Microsoft Employee Takes Lead on XP SP3 Reboot Problem, Offers Free Fix
“That is why you end up in the endless rebooting scenario.”
May 15, 2008 A former Microsoft employee appears to be coming to the rescue of those suffering from the XP SP3 endless reboot cycle…
OLPC hopes Windows is its sales savior
Representing a major alignment shift, the One Laptop Per Child project announced Thursday it had come to an agreement with Microsoft to put Windows XP on its XO Laptop.
Yahoo chairman's response to Icahn leaves possibilities open
Roy Bostock had every opportunity to simply just say no to Carl Icahn, whose open letter yesterday launched his hostile takeover strategy. But instead the Yahoo chairman wrote a candid, curiously…
iPhone's reach expands further into Middle East, Africa
Cellular operator Orange announced Friday that it will sell the iPhone in most of the markets it serves sometime later of this year.
Vista Vulnerability Study Puts Microsoft on Defensive
“I think [the study] is a very dangerous delusion. First of all, the difference between 639 and 586 is not big and can be easily explained.”
Microsoft and some independent security researchers…
Microsoft, OLPC officially team up
“For us to launch the laptop, we had no choice but to use open source”
So, I guess this makes it Two Operating Systems Per Child. The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft announced Thursday…