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Two upcoming e-readers demonstrated Wednesday could force changes in the market. They are Plastic Logic's reader and British firm Interead's Cool-er. Plastic Logic's reader, which has a much larger screen than the Amazon Kindle, targets business readers. The Cool-er has the same 6-inch screen size as the Amazon Kindle 2, but it's priced at almost ...
In today's Internet-driven world of business, customer data -- traditionally the lifeblood of any enterprise -- takes on a new and frightening importance On the one hand, businesses have to provide partners, staff and contractors access to data; on the other, they have to ensure that data does not get lost by accident -- or stolen....
Dogged by rumors in the blogosphere about its Zune portable media player, Microsoft threw in the towel on Wednesday, divulging a few details about the upcoming Zune and confirming that the next generation of the device will be available in the U.S. this fall The Zune HD will target the same market as the iPod touch, which has proved hugely successf...
Palm will unveil its long-awaited Pre smartphone June 6, and Apple's next-generation iPhone is expected to hit the market shortly thereafter. So where are the smartphones based on Google's Android platform, which is considered a potentially serious threat to the iPhone? Rumors have it that AT&T will unveil an Android smartphone from HTC in August; ...
Google on Thursday revealed Chrome 2.0, a purportedly faster and more feature-filled version of the search giant's Web browser. The extra speed comes from an update to its V8 JavaScript engine and from a new version of the open source WebKit rendering engine.
Mozilla's call to developers to participate in its Jetpack project on Wednesday is the latest onslaught in the ongoing war of the Web browsers. Jetpack is an open source application programming interface (API) that will let users create add-ons for Mozilla's Firefox browser using the Web technologies they already know....
In about two weeks, Microsoft is expected to launch Kumo, its sort of old, sort of new search engine. Microsoft regards Kumo as its Google killer, according to analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group, and the software company is banking heavily on it despite deep internal divisions over the project.
Smartphone sales worldwide grew 12.7 percent in the first quarter of 2009, according to recent figures from research firm Gartner Growth was led by Apple's iPhone, which doubled its market share, and by Research In Motion's BlackBerry phones, sales of which grew by almost 50 percent. While Nokia again topped smartphone unit sales, its share of the ...
As the frequent news reports of data breaches attest, maintaining data security is a tough row to hoe -- even for large enterprises. It's even harder for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which don't have the money or IT resources their larger counterparts have The plethora of threats is daunting, and new forms of attack have made the situa...
Device maker Palm and wireless carrier Sprint announced on Tuesday that the new Palm Pre handset will be made available on June 6 for US$199 after a $100 mail-in rebate Much has been expected from the Pre ever since it first surfaced in January. Both Palm and Sprint are in need of a hit -- the former's sales have experienced significant slowdowns i...
Mozilla on Monday announced the first alpha release of its Fennec mobile browser for the Windows Mobile 6 operating system (OS) This alpha is available only on the HTC Touch Pro from Sprint. Versions for other smartphones will be unveiled later.
Figures from consumer and retail market research firm NPD Group show April game industry sales declined year over year in all categories -- hardware, software, games and game accessories Nintendo continues to dominate the market, with Wii sales totaling about double that of every other contending console. Sales of the portable Nintendo DS system to...
As the pace of business increases, business intelligence technologies have been forced to speed up so they can crunch more data and do it faster. On Thursday, IBM unveiled InfoSphere Streams, a high-performance computing system designed to, in essence, provide business intelligence capabilities on steroids Based on IBM's System S stream computing t...
Twitter messages hinting at the possible emergence of a Zune phone -- posted by a user who appeared to be a Microsoft insider -- drew a considerable amount of attention recently, especially considering their timing. They came to light at around the same time Microsoft launched a new ad touting the benefits of its Zune Pass music service over its rival, Apple's iTunes...
About 160,000 people may have had their personal data stolen during a computer security breach at the University of California at Berkeley Affected groups include current and former UC Berkeley students and family members, as well as about 3,400 students of Mills College who received, or were eligible to receive healthcare at UC Berkeley....
Microsoft's limited distribution of the Windows 7 release candidate (RC) on April 30 -- followed by its more widespread release a week later -- has triggered a firestorm of opinions, comments, critiques and compliments. As usual, the commenters can be generally divided into two camps: Windows haters and Windows fans. On the whole, though, the RC h...
Amazon's announcement of the Kindle DX on Wednesday -- hot on the heels of the Kindle 2's emergence earlier this year -- appears to have injected new life into the e-reader industry, which has been languishing for about 10 years ...
Amazon on Wednesday unveiled the new Kindle DX, a larger version of its Kindle e-reader, during a press conference at Pace University. Amazon heads were accompanied at the event by executives from the device's two major target markets -- the newspaper and publishing industries. ...
Six days after unveiling a Windows 7 release candidate (RC) to techies on the MSDN Network and TechNet, Microsoft has released the operating system to the general public However, this version is perhaps best left to serious techies and professionals rather than everyday users hoping to snag a next-generation OS for free -- Microsoft will not provid...
Rumor has it that Amazon is poised to announce a larger version of its Kindle e-reader this week. On Sunday, The New York Times published an article citing sources who said the e-commerce giant was ready to launch a larger-screen version of its e-book reader. Amazon, for its part, has sent out invitations to a press conference scheduled for Wednes...
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