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The scattered and raging wildfires in southern California are consuming homes at a wicked pace, having burned more than a 1,500 buildings, with tens of thousands more downwind and in danger. A half-million people have evacuated, President Bush has declared a state of emergency and through it all, ev...
Dell on Tuesday announced the XPS 420, "a premium multimedia PC" designed to let users go semi-pro in editing their pictures and videos and posting them online with the pre-configured system. "Our goal is to help people turn their digital lifestyle dreams into reality, whether its viewing family mom...
A new FiOS from Verizon features upload and download speeds of up to 20 megabits per second, the company announced Tuesday. Using a 20Mb/s upstream broadband connection, the symmetrical service could enable a consumer to upload a 250 MB file of 200 photos in about 90 seconds, Verizon said, compared ...
IBM has announced improved storage virtualization offerings for disk and tape, including a new product and enhancements to its Virtualization Engine TS7520 tape solution. The goal in making the changes is to increase the efficiency of its storage virtualization products and bring cost savings to its...
One by one, major technology vendors are rolling out programs meant to offer small businesses the chance to source all of their tech needs, from desktop and mobile PCs to printers, servers and software to support it all. The trend is unmistakable and, in recent months, everyone from Dell to IBM to r...
Maintaining a solid lead among hardcore gamers in its competition with Sony, Microsoft has seemingly decided to train its sights on Nintendo and the threat posed by the Wii. On Monday Microsoft announced the immediate availability of the Xbox 360 Arcade, a bare-bones system that includes the Xbox 36...
Spyware was originally designed to observe users' Internet patterns and deliver pop-up ads based on their individual browsing and shopping preferences. Now, although pop-up ads continue to be a nuisance, hackers are far more focused on spyware as crimeware: computer programs designed expressly to fa...
MySpacers who want a little more drama in their lives will be able to get their fill from a new Web series launched on MySpace TV Monday. Sponsored by Ford Motor, "Roommates," an original scripted series, will roll out over the next nine weeks with daily weekday updates on the world's most popular s...
IBM and MediaTek have announced a joint effort to develop ultra-fast chipsets that will be able to blast a full-length high-definition movie faster than most people can read this sentence. For example, IBM says, a consumer could upload a 10 gigabyte file in five seconds with the new technology versu...
SanDisk has renamed and launched its USBTV flash memory-based gadget, introduced in January, and says the Sansa TakeTV video player is an easy way for people to watch on the televisions video content downloaded on their computers. Described by the company as a "smart, simple and seamless way to easi...
Citrix Systems, a provider of application delivery products, unveiled on Monday its expanded virtualization technology strategy, which it said will extend its reach from data center to desktop. The company's new virtualization strategy allows it to offer an application delivery infrastructure that l...
We are on final countdown to the launch of Mac OS X Leopard. You'll see lots of feature head-to-head pieces start to ramp up, but the real difference is that Vista is from an engineering-driven company while Leopard is from a marketing-driven company -- and that is worth exploring this week. Last we...
Sony continued its seemingly weekly shuffle of models and pricing Thursday, this time shifting focus to stateside and announcing the imminent arrival of the 40 GB PlayStation 3 as well as lower pricing for the 80 GB model. The news comes after similar changes were made first in Europe and then in Ja...
Virtual private networks are common in enterprise settings as a way to connect remote users and branch offices securely to the corporate network. VPNs extend a corporation's reach to support worldwide locations. The same usefulness is gaining the attention of small and medium-sized businesses. Small...
A teenager from Washington state was arrested last week on charges of hacking into an Orange County, Calif., 911 system and tricking the Orange County Sheriff's Department into sending a SWAT team to an innocent couple's home in Lake Forest. The accused perp, 19-year-old Randall Ellis, of Mulkiteo, ...
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