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IBM will sell its "intellectual capital" to Honeywell in a 10-year deal worth an estimated US$250 million. Analysts said the agreement is a sign of things to come as well as a sound proposition for both companies "It's a great deal for IBM. IBM spends $5 billion in R&D a year and has generated 22,000 patents in the last decade alone. They need to m...
Days after several financial analysts stated that Hewlett-Packard had outperformed expectations and gave it positive marks, the company said it expects to make job cuts in the first half of 2005 that will cost US$200 million, or 4 cents a share The cuts will come after the company hired 4,000 people in the quarter ending October 31....
Internet Explorer users who are not running Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 are vulnerable to an attack that infiltrates through the banner ads on some Web sites Hackers this weekend broke into a server used by Falk eSolution of Germany to deliver banner ads to Web sites. The hackers loaded exploit code that takes advantage of a known flaw in...
Forget about a spot on the grassy knoll: A new Internet video game offers players the opportunity to shoot President John F. Kennedy themselves, for a $9.99 download JFKReloaded, released today, the 41st anniversary of the president's death, is a first-person game in which the player sees the view through Lee Harvey Oswald's telescopic rifle sights...
Oracle today announced a quarterly schedule of security bulletins and patch releases for 2005 that is "a bit of a tradeoff," according to one analyst "I fully understand why Oracle would want to use a timed release-cycle, but I'm not sure what the reason is for their decision to move away from the monthly cycle that they had proposed a few months a...
Microsoft, which has been rolling out expanded storage for its Hotmail customers, announced today that it would also add European and Japanese domain names The move has two purposes, Peter Christy, co-founder and principal analyst of NetsEdge in Los Altos, Calif., told TechNewsWorld....
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off a mini-brouhaha today with a comment he made at the Asia Government Leaders Forum about a controversial Linux study The study, from Open Source Risk Management, which aims to sell insurance policies and "risk mitigation consulting" services to users of Linux, claimed that the open-source operating system infri...
Google today launched a site dedicated to results that it says will help scientists and other academics get up-to-date research that might not be available at libraries. Searches on scholar.google.com target academic, scientific and technical publications The company worked with some scholarly publications to unlock content that is normally hidden...
As companies clamp down on their IT systems to ensure they are safe from tampering and information leaks, one threat remains difficult to neutralize: hand-held devices. For the most part, employees who use PDAs, cell phones and their smartphone cousins have unfettered access to their office computers, and by extension the network to which they link...
IPass, which focuses on bundled services for remote workers, announced today it will offer enterprise customers monthly and annual flat rates for WiFi connectivity within the United States The company has partnered with T-Mobile to add more than 5,000 hot spots to its network....
SBC has jumped into the IP TV market, sealing a 10-year, US$400 million deal with Microsoft to provide television services using the software giant's TV Internet protocol television edition software platform Microsoft has been trying to crack the TV market for years, investing billions of dollars in companies and seeing little result....
IBM is using its influence in the IT arena to create the world's largest-ever grid computing system. The company envisions 10 million participants donating computing cycles to the World Community Grid, which is designed for use in scientific and environmental research projects The Human Proteome Folding Project will be the first to take advantage o...
The move to add tiny radio antennas on shipments of pharmaceuticals will not be enough to prevent counterfeiting and tampering, analysts said The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and several drug makers announced they would be putting RFID-tagged labels on medicine bottles beginning with the impotency drug Viagra, which is heavily counterfeited, ...
Dell announced today its next generation of blade server, two years after it first ventured into the market with an offering that did not take off The PowerEdge 1855 blades, based on dual Xeon processors, will fit into a new 7U chassis built by Dell to hold up to 10 dual-processor servers. Dell has taken its traditional approach with the blades, en...
Hewlett-Packard and JBoss announced a deal today in which HP will support JBoss' open-source application server and use its Services division to help clients migrate to JBoss' platform. With the arrangement, HP becomes the first big Linux vendor to certify JBoss "Most of the Linux firms are pretty much no-name vendors once you get past Novell [SuSE...
Dell CEO Kevin Rollins sent a clear signal to Intel, saying in an interview that the company is likely to begin using Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors in some of its products. Dell is the last holdout among PC and server makers not to use the Intel competitor's chips "They've been getting better and better. The technology is better. In some ...
Don't breath a sigh of relief yet. Although PeopleSoft's board announced today it unanimously rejected Oracle's "best and final" offer of $24 a share, it ain't over till it's over, and it ain't over The takeover bid is now in the hands of PeopleSoft's shareholders, who must decide by Nov. 19 whether to offer their shares to Oracle. PeopleSoft's bo...
Intel announced the latest versions of its Itanium 2 processors, six chips designed to add heft to the product line The manufacturer released three multi-processor chips, two dual-processor chips and a low-volt chip. At the high-end, the highlight of the announcements is a 1.60 GHz processor with 9 MB Level 3 (L3) cache. The chips will cost $4,226 ...
Microsoft announced today that it would extend its indemnification program to all end-users of its software products. According to analysts, however, the move is more a way to ease customers' fears than a real value-add The software giant's policy protects end users of software -- including Windows Server System, SQL Server and Exchange Server, Mi...
The Mozilla Foundation today officially released its open-source browser, Firefox 1.0, but the news won't come as a surprise to a great many computer users. Since it released its preview version in September, 8 million people have downloaded the super-fast browser, a direct descendant of Netscape The Firefox project began about 19 months ago, and t...
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