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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe confirmed Wednesday it will release an official "Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV)" bundle exclusively for the PlayStation 3 (PS3). Available the same day the game launches, April 29, the "GTA IV" package will include the 40 GB model PS3, a Sixaxis wireless controller and, of course, a copy of the highly anticipated installment in the "Grand Theft Auto" series...
AMD has announced the availability of three new triple-core x86 processors in its Phenom X3 lineup. New offerings include the 8750, the 8650 and the 8450, with power levels ranging from 2.4 to 2.1 gigahertz Appropriately enough, the triple-core X3 lineup seems to play well in the middle ground between dual-core and quad-core processors....
Microsoft may reconsider its decision to pull Windows XP off the shelves in June if it sees enough customer demand, CEO Steve Ballmer said -- despite a huge customer outcry over the decision Speaking at Louvain-La-Neuve University in Belgium, Ballmer also said it's a "statistical truth" that most people who buy PCs today buy them with Vista....
Amazon has posted Q1 earnings of US$143 million, or 34 cents a share, and revenue of $4.13 billion, handily beating analyst predictions of 32 cents a share on revenue of $4.08 billion. These figures reflect the e-commerce giant's continuing sharp upward trajectory, with earnings rising 37 percent compared with the same quarter a year ago There is l...
Mike Meehan at SearchSOA.com has done some homework on the use of Web Oriented Architecture (WOA), and the IT folks in the field are fed up. Enough with the labels, they seem to be saying And they raise excellent points. I for one am by no means wed to the "WOA" nomenclature. Several other industry analysts recently told me as much -- "WOA is not t...
Well, Blockbuster has finally done it. After years of simply copying the Netflix business practices (the movie rental via mail model and the Internet video model), it's definitely done something that Netflix is probably never going to do -- offer to buy Circuit City I find Blockbuster's actions to be confusing and inconsistent. In their last quarte...
Law firms stand to gain as much as anyone from the advances being made when it comes to CRM systems, and CRM software providers are keen to fill this potentially lucrative market niche LexisNexis, Microsoft and Salesforce.com are among the firms out there offering CRM systems specifically geared for professional services organizations, but are law ...
The former president of the One Laptop Per Child project stepped down from his position earlier this week as the non-profit continues restructuring and faces competition from the private sector Walter Bender directed the MIT Media Lab for six years before joining Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC project in 2006....
For enterprises, the primary reason for adopting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service is money. Long-distance phone calls placed over the Internet typically cost a mere fraction of those placed under the business rate plans offered by traditional telephone companies As a result, the business world is embracing VoIP phone systems for th...
Subscribers toMicrosoft's defunct MSN Music service will lose access to songs they purchased from the store in a few months Microsoft informed MSN Music's customers via e-mail Tuesday that it plans to turn off the store's license servers, and that Aug. 31 will be the last day to move purchased music to another computer. Customers won't lose the mus...
IBM on Wednesday unveiled a new category of server designed specifically for cloud computing and Web 2.0 applications The iDataPlex system builds upon IBM's blade server background and more than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single IBM rack. It also uses 40 percent less power while quintupling the amount of computing that can be d...
Comcast has lied about how and why it blocks peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet traffic, and may be lying in its promise to stop some of its practices by year end, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said during a hearing held by a Senate committee on the future of the Internet The FCC should heighten scrutiny of Comcast's practices, h...
Yahoo posted a healthy rise in profits for Q1, an increase fueled in large part by a US$401 million gain in the initial public offering of China's Alibaba.com. Net income rose to $542.2 million -- or 37 cents per diluted share -- from 2007 Q1's $142.4 million, or 10 cents per diluted share The company reported earnings of $150 million, or 11 cents ...
Microsoft unveiled a new service Tuesday that will take the software maker into the realm of cloud computing. Currently available as an invite-only beta, Live Mesh will initially enable users to share files and synchronize folders across multiple PCs. Support for Windows Mobile and Mac OS X is coming later in the year, the company said "Live Mesh e...
It's official. With the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Microsoft is now formally a player -- a big one -- in the online CRM space. Until now, the application was available only through the early access program Redmond launched in September 2007 More than 500 customers and 200 partners accessed Dynamics CRM Online through tha...
Forget the bricks and mortar for a minute, and just dream of owning a universal domain name identity in cyberspace, along the likes of priceline.com, food.com, creditcards.com or cheapflights.com, as such identities are valued in the tens of millions and continue to double in price every year. The entire domain name industry has advanced to a more mature level, which now fully recognizes the super value of having a generic globally recognizable domain identity as a true cyber-real-estate asset. But the name game in this current race must be played under the correct laws, as most of these assets sometimes simply evaporate into thin air...
The numbers are in, and user reviews of products have graduated from experiment to necessity. Consumers are relying on them to make buying decisions everywhere from consumer electronics to toys, and from food to beauty products. Moreover, shoppers aren't just checking the reviews to validate a purchase -- they're searching and browsing them to explore what to buy in the first place. As a result, reviews are evolving from window dressing on product detail pages into a central element in the online customer experience...
Salesforce's announcement that it would partner with Google to integrate and deliver Google Applications said more about the software industry today than it said about either company or even about the propensity of software makers to deliver Software as a Service The software industry, like many others before it, has always had a tendency toward bi...
Japanese Linux computer firm Plat'Home in March released a palm-sized, full-featured Linux-based server dubbed "OpenBlockS." This tiny marvel is no lightweight wanna-be replacement for a real Linux server. It can run most server applications that you would expect to run on a "normal" full-sized Linux box Despite their tiny size, OpenBlockS servers ...
Web application vulnerabilities put critical business applications and back-end databases at risk from attack, theft, and fraud. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS, or PCI), which recognizes the threat Web application vulnerabilities pose to credit card data, allows organizations to choose between two mitigation techniques Re...
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