Articles by Tim Gray

LG Electronics and Google are teaming up to offer the search giant's services on some of LG's mobile phones The Korean electronics maker announced that it will ship select handsets preinstalled with Google products and services -- including Google Maps, Blogger Mobile and Gmail -- during the second quarter of this year....

Seattle-based start up ZenZui, which is funded by Microsoft's technology research arm IP Ventures, has licensed a new "zoomable user interface" aimed at improving Web access via mobile devices When running on a mobile phone screen, ZenZui displays Web content as several onscreen "tiles," which initially show only the logos of sites that are interes...

A new security vulnerability in Windows could allow cybercriminals to hijack a user's machine and divert Web traffic through a malicious proxy server, Microsoft announced on Monday Hackers can send e-mail messages linked to a malicious payload hosted on a remote Internet server, which could trick recipients into clicking on the link and deliver a b...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is set to release open source interoperability testing and development tools to help vendors build solutions for DASH, or Desktop and Mobile Architecture for System Hardware, a new Web service-based desktop and mobile PC management standard The DASH initiative is geared toward enabling IT managers to remotely diagnose a...

Nokia has started shipping its first phone with built-in GPS (global positioning system) capabilities and a host of other applications The Finnish company said the N95 mobile phone, now available in Europe and Asia, is a slider-type device with a 5 megapixel camera for shooting photos and 30 frames-per-second video....

A 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornography on the Web was overturned this week by a federal court, setting up a possible showdown between free speech advocates and the U.S government Judge Lowell Reed of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia sided with the American Civil Liberties Union, which challenged the law claiming provi...

Telecommunications giant AT&T is betting US$4.6 billion that there is a big future in selling video services over the Internet The San Antonio-based company will offer its own version of cable television and high-speed Internet services under its "U-verse" brand, which is expected to be made available to 19 million households across the United Stat...

Google announced Tuesday that it plans to enhance its successful online advertising service by offering clients an alternate business model -- if an ad does not get results, advertisers do not have to pay for it Now, instead of paying per click, advertisers will be able to experiment with paying each time a user takes an action on their Web site, s...

Bill Gates is not used to finishing in second place but the Microsoft chairman did just that this week, losing a virtual soccer match on penalty kicks to star Mexican player Rafael Marquez 2-1 Commemorating Microsoft's 20th anniversary in Mexico, Gates dropped the match to the international soccer champ after letting in the deciding goal, as hundre...

Sun Microsystems on Monday named Ian Murdock -- the founder of the Debian version of Linux -- its new chief operating platforms officer in charge of working with Linux and the newly open source Solaris, according to a company blog Murdock, who has held various posts involving the open source operating system, said he'll be advocating "that Solaris ...

Several radio broadcasters and online media companies are challenging a ruling this week that sets a higher royalty fee structure for music played over the Internet After nearly two years of hearing arguments from some of the country's biggest radio companies, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), a body created by Congress to settle royalty disputes ...

Fujitsu Computer Systems unveiled two new models in its notebook line that come with something special -- solid-state hard drives that make the computers more durable for work in the field, according to the company The two machines, the LifeBook P1610 and the LifeBook B6210 touchscreen, ultra-portable models are now available with either 16 GB or 3...

A pair of hackers has threatened to engage in a self-described "attention-seeking ploy" next month by exposing security holes in social networking Web site MySpace The duo, who call themselves "Mondo Armando" and "Mustachio," say they will launch attacks against the popular Web site each day in the month of April and then publish a list of the disc...

CBS on Thursday announced a deal with YouTube to form a new Web channel featuring clips and highlights from the annual NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) basketball tournament known as "March Madness." The deal comes just days after CBS' former sister company, Viacom, filed suit against YouTube -- and its owner, Google -- seeking more ...

The evolution of video gaming took another quantum leap forward this week with the announcement that researchers are now enlisting Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) in the fight against diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and several forms of cancer The Tokyo-based Sony said owners of Internet-connected PS3s will now be able to partici...

While MySpace continues to hold a dominate position in the social networking arena, a new survey shows smaller alternative sites are now growing in popularity MySpace commands 80 percent of social networking market share, but newcomers such as Buzznet and iMeen continue to gain more ground each week, according to online intelligence service Hitwise...

Nintendo Wii owners will be able to do battle against each other online for the first time beginning in June, after partnering with a company that specializes in multiplayer gaming technology Nintendo says it has partnered with GameSpy, a division of Fox Interactive Media, to provide Wii gamers online play functions....

NBC Universal on Wednesday said that it will sell episodes of "The Office," "Heroes," "ER" and other prime-time television shows on-demand over cell phone networks throughout the U.S The New York-based company struck a deal with MobiTV, a mobile and broadband TV outfit that since 2003 has worked with NBC on developing a mobile TV network....

As the video game market has matured over the past few years, so, apparently, has its fan base No longer are video games the exclusive domain of young kids and teens; the age of gamers is on the rise, according to a new study....

MTV's parent company Viacom is seeking more than US$1 billion in damages from YouTube and its owner Google for thousands of alleged copyright infringements A complaint filed by the media giant in U.S. District Court in New York contends that almost 160,000 clips of Viacom's programming have been made available on YouTube without authorization, and ...