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When HD-DVD maker Toshiba conceded the high-definition DVD format war in February, Blu-ray's backers may have hoped that sales of the Sony-championed format would see a big boost. However, while Blu-ray may have triumphed over HD-DVD, sales for the device have not exactly skyrocketed An April 30 report from The NPD Group, a U.S. sales tracking firm...
Cisco on Wednesday unveiled a new hardware platform and four applications it said will help enterprise IT departments effectively manage their mobility services across a broad spectrum of mobile networks The core component of Cisco Motion is the Cisco 3300 Series Mobility Services Engine (MSE), a single appliance-based platform with an open applica...
The patchwork system of digital commerce laws adopted in recent years is showing signs of wear as Viacom's US$1 billion suit against Google moves forward Last year, Viacom filed its complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that Google owed it damages for purloined content -- nearly 160,000 unauthorized co...
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer revealed on Tuesday a few details on the software company's next operating system, Windows 7, at the D: All Things Digital conference in San Diego. The company has maintained a disciplined silence about the upcoming OS -- a marked contrast to the constantly changing plethora of information releas...
Sony Electronics and the six largest U.S. cable companies have signed an agreement that paves the way toward allowing consumers to view interactive digital and high-definition video services on "two-way" devices without a set-top box, the companies announced Tuesday The agreement lays the groundwork for a competitive retail market for two-way digit...
Enterprise application integration (EAI) services will emerge as the biggest opportunity in the Asia-Pacific IT marketplace, excluding Japan, between now and 2011, according to a forecast by Springboard Research Defined as "the integration (typically across varied platforms and applications) of an enterprise's applications, such as finance and acco...
A group of Belgian newspapers that won a court ruling against Google last year over its practice of linking to their content is now asking a court to award up to US$77 million in damages Copiepresse, which handles copyright issues and protection for newspapers in Belgium, asked a Brussels court to force Google to pay between $51.5 million and $77 m...
Chipmaker Via Technologies took the wrapper of its OpenBook Mini-Note reference design Tuesday, making the blueprint for its latest ultra mobile PC (UMPC) available to anyone who wants to manufacture low-cost computers based on Via's line of low-power processors The open source, computer-assisted design (CAD) files are available for free here under...
Intel and Grameen Trust are joining forces in an effort to bridge the financial and digital divides separating many of the world's most wanting from basic services and economic opportunities. Joined via video link by Grameen Trust founder and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett announced that Intel Capital an...
The current and unavoidable recession that is impacting the United States, slowly affecting Canada and Mexico and spreading its wings toward the farthest corners of the world, is nothing to be either afraid of or surprised by It is just one of those cycles that appears every decade or so. Some will land soft, some will land hard, yet still there ar...
Part 1 of this two-part series introduced the potential perils of selecting an enterprise software vendor. Part 2 looks at the choices businesses make as they go through the selection process The going is tough and the competition fierce, but opportunities are out there for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) looking to build businesses more g...
After a long build-up, I think we're finally at the real beginning of a new era in computing. The previous (nearly) 10 years have laid an important foundation, by which I mean on-demand computing, but if you thought that was it, I think the next few years could blow you away Take a look at the driving forces in computing today -- they at least incl...
Technology moves at a lightning-fast pace. A brand new desktop computer has an average lifespan of two to five years, after which both its hardware and its software have become obsolete. For businesses and other organizations, this poses a significant challenge as they attempt to keep their IT purchasing budgets down while simultaneously trying to keep their infrastructures up to date...
Steve Sams, IBM vice president for site and facilities services worldwide, is waging a war against energy-hogging data centers worldwide. He will carry his assault to the Computer Measurement Group's (CMG) international conference later this year CMG is a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of IT professionals. Its members share information and ...
"Quit while you're ahead" is one nugget of conventional wisdom that few CEOs appear to heed, at least judging by the number of executives who have left companies at the behest of shareholders -- or, worse, regulators Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, however, appears to be an exception. Sarin, who has been at the helm of the British telecom for five years n...
Microsoft believes it can grow the market for its Windows Mobile operating system by at least 50 percent in each of the next two years as the market for smartphones explodes globally The software giant could sell as many as 20 million copies of Windows Mobile during the soon-to-end fiscal year, almost double the 11 million it shipped last year, Edd...
Adobe's next generation of Creative Suite (CS) graphic design, Web development and video editing applications are edging closer to official release. The company's Adobe Labs site has posted publicly available betas of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth Dreamweaver is Adobe's application for Web design and development. Fireworks is for prototypin...
Samsung unveiled a new, high-capacity solid state drive (SSD) Monday at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei. The 2.5-inch, 256 gigabyte (GB), multi-level cell (MLC)-based SSD uses a SATA II interface, and it's the world's fastest SSD, according to the company.
Borders officially cut its ties with Amazon.com on Tuesday, with the rollout of its long-planned solo e-commerce site. The book retailer announced last March that it would go it alone online after teaming with Amazon for six years. Borders is now striving to differentiate itself from its online competitors -- namely, Amazon and Barnes & Noble -- w...
Facebook has come up with a new plan to fight off its competitors: open sourcing its application platform Citing multiple sources, TechCrunch reports that Facebook is planning to form an open source community around its application programming interface, which it launched just a year ago....
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