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An industry consortium that includes IBM, Chartered Semiconductor, Infineon and Samsung said this week they plan to make available the first silicon-functional circuits and design kits for 45-nanometer low-power process chip technology. The 45nm manufacturing process shrinks the gap between transist...
Amazon.com has begun peddling Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system on its Web site. The Internet giant is displaying the Vista logo and has priced the software at US$100 to $399. Pricing is similar to what Microsoft currently charges for most versions of Windows XP. The software is not yet cu...
Google has added a new feature to its Book Search program that allows users download and print classic novels and obscure books from the public domain -- for free. The program launched Wednesday to give readers the ability to view, browse and read the full texts of books that are in the public domai...
It's always been a rule in the technology world that the smaller/lighter/thinner something is, the more you're going to pay for it. That's especially true when it comes to "ultra"-portable notebook computers -- mighty machines packed with power and weighing in at around three pounds. With its latest...
Microsoft is preparing a patch for a vulnerability in its digital rights management application that is currently being exploited by a program circulating the Web. The program, called FairUse4WM, disables the DRM protections in Windows Media Player 10 and 11 files and has been used to access music p...
Intel unveiled its newest chips this week in announcing its new "Tulsa" server processors, the latest dual-core, 64-bit Xeon chips from the company. The firm also announced that its "Merom" mobile processors are now shipping to notebook manufacturers including Dell for its recently acquired Alienwar...
The WiFi Alliance on Tuesday announced plans to certify interoperability of WiFi products that include baseline features from the developing IEEE 802.11n standard in the first half of 2007. This is the first phase in a certification program of the next generation of WiFi products. A second phase bri...
StopBadware.org on Monday put AOL's version 9.0 on its "Badware Watch List." The anti-spyware group cites, among other factors, the inclusion of bundled software applications and nondisclosure of additional installed components as reasons for its concern. The report is one in a recent series release...
Across the U.S. -- and in fact throughout the world -- municipalities are adding broadband WiFi to their list of services. Improving their own communication infrastructure, bridging the digital divide, making the community more attractive to business and bringing a few extra dollars into city coffer...
Massachusetts officials said the state remains committed to the open document format plan laid out last year as a way of ensuring accessibility to state documents, but now there may be room for Microsoft's Office suite of products after all. State technology officials have said that previous plans t...
Microsoft has signed up Toshiba to provide the hardware for its pending iPod challenger, known as Zune. In a certification submission to the Federal Communications Commission, Toshiba, maker of the industry-praised GigaBeat player, indicated the new Zune device would pack 30 gigabytes of music, pho...
Taking another step into Microsoft territory, Google on Monday launched Google Apps for Your Domain, a set of free hosted applications targeting small- to mid-sized businesses. The software allows users to send e-mail through Google's Web-based Gmail service that displays the company's domain name. ...
This summer has been amazing, and there isn't any letup. I was convinced last week that I'd be able to focus on some of the longer-term issues rather than big new news this week. Clearly that wasn't the case, and I had more to choose from than I have room to discuss. I'm picking two of the most int...
The automotive electronics market in China and other Asian countries is booming, as consumers there demand everything from vehicle entertainment to on-board navigation systems. In China alone, the domestic market for vehicle entertainment and navigation systems will be worth at least US$4 billion by...
PC peripheral player Logitech has motorized the computer mouse scroll wheel with two new models that ease scanning and scrolling through large computer documents, spreadsheets, pictures, lists and other data. The Fremont, Calif.-based company said its new mice -- the MX Revolution for desktop PCs an...
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