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HP has expanded its BladeSystem product line -- popular among enterprise customers -- with a carrier-grade version. The platform is "optimized" for the heavy-duty requirements of telecom service providers and network equipment vendors, the company said. The BladeSystem Carrier-Grade Platform is inte...
Nielsen and Digimarc have unveiled a new service designed to let media companies, social networks, peer-to-peer services and user-generated content sites monitor and manage the distribution of media content. The Nielsen Digital Media Manager will use digital watermarking and fingerprinting to provid...
Intel is working on a new low-power microprocessor apparently designed to run basic laptops in to be sold in developing areas of the world. However, the company is talking very little about it. "We are not discussing the timing or the specifications of the Diamondville product yet," Connie Brown, a ...
Users of Windows Vista caught running afoul of Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage software verification program will retain use of the operating system following the release of Vista's first service pack early in 2008, Microsoft announced Tuesday. Rather than disabling Vista's features, Microsoft...
Growing concerns over migrating to Vista may push companies to adopt alternative operating systems. A study released in late November revealed that 90 percent of the Windows users polled reported concerns about migrating to Microsoft's newest operating system. Forty-four percent of those polled said...
Facebook has modified its Beacon ad program by making its off-site broadcasting capabilities more obvious to users and easier to opt out of -- at least, in some cases. However, that adjustment hasn't quelled privacy concerns on the part of users and at least one security vendor. Facebook has been tr...
Yahoo revealed its top searches of 2007 on Monday, but rather than presenting another year dominated by Britney Spears, it focused instead on topic categories, taking the spotlight off overall leaders. Britney still leads the list of celebrity searches, to be sure, but Yahoo sliced and diced the dat...
NASA launch crews were making final preparations Monday for this week's launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, which will install the European Columbus science laboratory on the international space station. Mission STS-122 is slated to lift off at 4:31 p.m. EST this Thursday from Launch Pad 39A at NA...
I've been looking at the early numbers from the Black Friday sales and -- as expected -- flat screen TVs are flying off the shelves and you can't find a Wii at anywhere close to retail price if you can find it at all. Products that sold through were the Amazon Kindle, the low-end Toshiba HD-DVD play...
A New Zealand cybercrime police force nabbed an 18-year-old this week who goes by the cyber ID "AKILL," officials said. While the New Zealand officials haven't arrested the man, he is being interviewed in conjunction with a wider botnet crackdown involving the FBI and Dutch authorities. The FBI said...
Organized criminal activity will continue to be a big risk on the Internet next year, but the growing tumors of cyber espionage and cyber warfare could metastasize, suggests security firm McAfee. In fact, it predicts that the rise in international cyber spying will pose the single biggest security t...
Many telecom observers were stunned this week when Verizon announced it would open up its network to "wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company." This change in policy is good for consumers and worth closer examination, especially on the business side. Verizon's "walled...
Verizon, the No. 2 mobile phone carrier in the U.S., announced Thursday that it and joint owner Vodafone plan to develop and deploy technology based upon Long Term Evolution as its fourth generation mobile broadband network. The shift away from its current standard, CDMA, would essentially open the ...
Micron Technology has entered the solid state drive market by announcing plans to deliver 32 GB and 64 GB SSDs in early 2008. The Boise, Idaho-based semiconductor company already produces a wide variety of DRAM, NAND flash memory, CMOS image sensors and other semiconductor components. Its subsidiary...
Despite improvements in system and network security, wily cybercriminals remain a significant threat, adjusting their methods to take advantage of unwary Internet users, the SANS Institute says in its report on the top 20 Internet security risks of 2007, released Tuesday. Hackers and cyberspies have...
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