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The Federal Communications Commission has decided to put off a vote on a controversial wireless spectrum auction that had been scheduled for June 12 The proposal -- which triggered a furious industry response when it was floated last year -- is to auction a 25MHz portion of spectrum in the 2155Mhz band, with a catch. ...
IT security provider Kaspersky Lab has issued a security alert following the detection of a particularly malicious piece of "ransomware." Kaspersky researchers were the first to detect and issue warnings that a new, stronger version of the Gpcode virus was on the loose Even though it doesn't appear to have spread widely -- to date at least -- the n...
E-books are still plugging along, not quite an afterthought in the publishing industry but not the hailed champion either. Like their newspaper cousins, book publishers are at a crossroads but completely stumped as to which way to turn, so they are largely sitting around just talking about it. At some level, they all know something digital this way comes and they are OK with that -- it's the silence of the cash registers they have a problem with...
Mukesh Chatter is no stranger to startups. In 1997, he founded Nexabit Networks, a high-speed switch and router maker he sold to Lucent Technologies. He later founded Axiowave Networks His latest, project, MoneyAisle.com, however, is different, in part because of the inspiration that got it started. After buying a new home, Chatter set out to buy n...
SAP is a company in transition The Walldorf, Germany-based enterprise software firm has been around since 1972, which makes it older than Microsoft. To hear observers and insiders tell it, the firm has been showing its age in recent years....
Last week was Computex but today everyone is focused on the likely launch of the iPhone. Given that some of the announcements at the show will have an impact on the future of devices like this, and that some of you will likely want to read something while standing in line, let's look at Computex vs. the iPhone, and as the details of the new iPhone become public you can compare the technology that was announced at Computex to what Apple is announcing with the iPhone...
For those of us old enough to remember life before the Internet, the term "virtual space travel" probably conjures memories of childhood visits to the local planetarium. Fast forward to today, and things are just a little different. In today's Internet-enabled world, ordinary citizens can explore the universe from the comfort of their own homes th...
The Federal Trade Commission has started a formal inquiry into the pricing practices of leading chipmaker Intel, a move that rival Advanced Micro Devices has long requested The FTC recently opened the formal investigation by issuing subpoenas to Intel and AMD, as well as other parties, including the personal computer makers who buy chips from the t...
AOL announced Friday it is setting up its Platform-A Internet advertising service in Europe. The expansion is part of the Time Warner unit's effort to extend the reach of its advertising business worldwide by the close of 2009 The move comes less than one year after Time Warner flipped its AOL script in the U.S., shifting roles from being Internet ...
Google is rolling out a new feature for Gmail users called "Gmail Labs." It promises to help Google take advantage of any esoteric Gmail idea that's hidden in the minds of Google's many engineers. Gmail Labs includes new settings in Gmail that let users select, use and effectively test the new features. At the same time, this shows Google which fe...
Microsoft plans to issue seven security updates -- three of which are rated "critical" -- in its monthly Patch Tuesday release next week Several of the patches deal with preventing remote code execution (RCE). Attackerscould potentially take advantage of vulnerabilities by remotely running malicious code and gaining access to an unsuspecting user's...
Take-Two Interactive's blockbuster second quarter -- powered by strong early sales of "Grand Theft Auto IV" -- may have implications for the ongoing efforts of Electronic Arts to acquire its main competitor "Grand Theft Auto IV" set records as the best-selling entertainment product ever, Take-Two said, with 6 million units, or US$500 million worth ...
Disney World and Google are teaming up to take tourism to a new dimension. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts worked with programmers at Google Earth to create a fully three-dimensional virtual viewing experience -- said to be the most advanced rendering Google has ever created....
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has a new day job: game developer. The former justice's latest pursuit came to light during her keynote address Wednesday at the Games for Change Conference held at Parsons The New School For Design in New York Designed for seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders, "Our Courts" will be an online interact...
The Investors' and Issuers' Summit on Alternative Capital Raising Strategies Conference recently took place at The Harvard Club in New York. Several companies representing the reverse merger sector attended the Financial Research Associates-sponsored conference, which was geared toward alternative ways for companies to go public Several notable spe...
India has historically been regarded as a favorable country to outsource skilled services such as manufacturing, IT, programming, research and development, distribution and call centers. The declining strength of the dollar, rising wages and bottlenecks in urban infrastructure no doubt will aggravate existing outsourcing arrangements. However, another factor is starting to cause U.S. technology companies to rethink their strategies for outsourcing skilled services to India: taxation...
As a company grows in size, various information sharing challenges appear that can stifle that growth. One such speed bump sets in a few years into the growth cycle, when the company expands and each department develops its own information needs. That problem is called "Islanditis."
Part 1 of this three-part series looked at assembling the best possible technical support team. Part 2 covers how to reorganize your company in order to take full advantage of your new and improved group How well does it normally work when you tell someone to do something? It depends upon your relationship to that person. A complete stranger will...
A team of scientists recently conducted a study of human travel patterns by secretly tracking the whereabouts of cell phone users Aiming to investigate the geographical patterns in which humans travel over time, the researchers studied the trajectory of 100,000 anonymized cell phone users -- randomly selected from more than 6 million users -- and t...
In a move aimed at keeping its customers connected -- and encouraging them to trade more often -- E*Trade on Thursday launched a mobile service customized for Research In Motion's BlackBerry device E*Trade Mobile Pro will offer the same user interface, security features and banking and trading services as the E*Trade Web site exclusively on BlackBe...
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