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Last week, a select group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs traveled to Tokyo to learn about Japan's tech sector and new opportunities. What they found was a country in transition, a few surprises, and a group of Japanese entrepreneurs itching to plunge headfirst into the international marketplace. T...
Video game publisher Electronic Arts announced Thursday that it will add to the growing number of fitness games for the Wii with its own entrant, "Sports Active," set for release in Spring 2009. Developed in collaboration with Bob Greene, fitness expert and personal trainer for Oprah Winfrey, the fi...
Microsoft has upgraded Windows Live, its group of Web 2.0-style online services, with a new set of social networking apps. Many of these new applications are upgraded versions of the services that Windows Live has been extolling since its inception, including photo sharing, e-mail and instant messa...
AMD on Thursday began shipping its latest quad-core Opteron processor, codenamed "Shanghai." Shipping earlier than previously planned, the chips arrive on the market shortly before the expected arrival of new Nehalem processors, competing hardware made by rival Intel. The new offering, according to ...
Google arguably is the granddaddy of cloud computing, at least in its current incarnation. So, whenever the Googleplex develops a new feature or capability -- or service offering -- the rest of the industry takes notice. That was the case last month when Google rolled out a service level agreement t...
Google has announced the debut of Google Flu Trends, a tool designed to identify flu-outbreak patterns through an analysis of search data. An early version of the technology deployed during the 2007-2008 flu season accurately estimated flu levels across nine regions in the U.S. as much as two weeks ...
Google is ratcheting up the sophistication of its messaging and collaboration applications by adding voice and video chat to Gmail. The enhancement is in part a tactical play -- Google would like to scoop up more video users among its enterprise customer base, according to Rajen Sheth, Google senior...
IBM announced a partnership with International Broadband Electric Communications Tuesday that will see the two companies begin deploying Broadband over Power Line networks at electric cooperatives throughout the eastern U.S. The two companies are working to resolve an issue that has plagued U.S. res...
A study conducted by the Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks company, determined that Best-in-Class organizations were able to leverage their investments in mobility to drive significant improvements in customer satisfaction, workforce productivity, and employee retention. The employee retention benefits ...
Cisco Systems' new ASR-9000 edge router promises faster delivery of all that rich Internet media destined for personal computers and mobile devices. The $80,000 question for potential customers: Will it prove to be too rich during challenging economic times? The company's new piece of telecommunicat...
Just like anyone else who saw the original "Star Wars" when it was released back in the late '70s, I've always wanted to enter the galactic fray and emerge triumphant in a lightsaber duel, to cross swords with a Dark Side opponent and hear the vwhoom-vwhoom as my saber slices through the air and spa...
After some back-and-forth in the medical community, it has generally been decided that iPods and MP3 players do not seriously interfere with pacemaker functions. However, a study points to an entirely new concept of the risk involved with these devices. It is not the music player itself that can cau...
VMware, a provider of virtualization solutions for PCs and servers, wants to get into mobile phones, carve up their software and create virtual operating units -- much like the company's products already do with servers in enterprise data centers. The company announced its intentions Monday regardin...
Search and databases often have troubled relationships. Web-based search utilities have become essential business tools. The database is the lifeblood of many a business' record-keeping system. Both are vital -- just don't try to put the two together or integrate spreadsheets and other documents wit...
I am breathing a long sigh of relief this week now that the election is over and it appears, for once, the most qualified candidate actually got the job. This seems to rarely happen, and my only remaining hope is Apple gets a clue from McCain's loss and switches off the negative advertising and inst...
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