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They may be still waiting for the first signs of the much advertised recession in the Bay Area. Everything I see here, especially this week, points to growth and all that goes with it. Multiple people have come up to me, phoned or e-mailed seeking introductions or support as they confess to having itchy feet or the promise of some capital to start a business. Some -- a few lucky ones -- also have some cash from their last initial public offering (IPO), and having tasted victory, they are eager to do it all again...
Microsoft is renaming its existing embedded Windows operating systems and supplementing them with additional offerings in key device categories, the company announced Tuesday Windows XP Embedded will become Windows Embedded Standard, while Windows Embedded CE will be renamed Windows Embedded Compact. Windows Embedded for Point of Service, meanwhile...
Think having a credit or debit card with your photo on it is cool? Well, how about a card the same size and thickness as a credit card, with a window that shows a passcode, and with a public key infrastructure (PKI) chip on it?...
Taken aback by the intense outcry that arose over reports that it blocked or slowed down traffic to peer-to-peer file-sharing Web sites, Comcast has graciously offered to police itself The company will begin testing technology fromPando Networks that's designed to smooth the journey of BitTorrent data through its pipes....
Another company is making a play at online video. Launched Wednesday, PluggedIn is the new kid on the block in a market of heavy hitters that includes MySpace Music, Yahoo Music, AOL Music, MTV.com and of course YouTube PluggedIn, however, offers at least one thing those other sites do not have -- initial access to 10,000 free streaming high-defini...
A new software application allows users to publish information from their Facebook social networking account directly to their personal blogs ...
eBay is killing off the part of its site that allows users to place bids on items up for sale at live auctions. The company will no longer offer eBay Live Auctions after Dec. 31 "This announcement will represent a significant change for the small number of partners, buyers and sellers involved with Live Auctions, which is why we're giving eight mon...
Intel posted first-quarter results Tuesday that met or slightly beat expectations -- the chipmaker lowered its own targets last month -- and posted record revenue for the seasonally slow time of year The company's results were a win for the tech sector, with investors driving Intel shares up about 6 percent in afternoon trading Wednesday to $22.12....
The privacy requirements of Internet users can vary widely. Some divulge the most personal details of their lives on blogs and social networking sites; others want to remain as anonymous as possible Users know they have control over what they push onto the Web -- but what about data that portals and other online giants retain on the back end? Onlin...
On-demand applications and cloud computing often mean different things to different people. For developers, Software as a Service (SaaS) is quickly evolving not only as a means to deliver applications -- but as the means to develop them, too Taking the notion of "development as a service" to its full potential is the logic behind Platform as a Serv...
OpenLogic, a provider of open source packages, kicked off the data-gathering second phase of a global project aiming to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software. The company on Wednesday announced an initial list of 10 survey sponsors and launched a census designed to survey the land of open source Companies and indivi...
Passwords are not the best of security solutions, as enterprises and individual users have found over the years. They can be cracked or stolen, and not necessarily by high-tech means either Often, passwords created by end users in corporations are simple, being based on numbers significant to them: their birth dates, wedding anniversaries, birth da...
Gawker Media, one of the most recognized blog networks, announced the sale of three properties -- including political blog Wonkette -- as Publisher Nick Denton tries to bolster the company in preparation for an online advertising slowdown Throughout the past several years, Gawker Media has made waves with its aggressive move into niche publishing a...
A handful of Google engineers has redesigned a set of video and image analysis tools to help find missing children and combat child pornography and abuse. Their effort is now being tested by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and it stems from anti-piracy software Google developed for the company's YouTube division The ...
The clock is ticking for Microsoft to roll out the third and likely final service pack for its seven-year-old Windows XP operating system (OS). Microsoft announced at the end of 2007 that the long-awaited service pack (SP) would be released sometime during the first half of 2008; however, thus far the company has remained mum about the official date and details of the release...
Ten years after the Internal Revenue Service first flipped the switch on electronic tax filing, key lawmakers said Monday the time has come to make e-filing free for all taxpayers -- a move that could cost software makers millions in annual revenues Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, and Sen. Daniel Akaka, a Democrat from Hawaii, plan to in...
In a bid to avoid the bitter battles that have raged around third-generation (3G) wireless technology, owners of the patents on which the fourth-generation LTE (long-term evolution) wireless technology is built have agreed to charge each other "reasonable" license fees The Magnificent Seven are Nokia, the world's largest handset maker by volume sol...
Hard drive maker Seagate Technology is taking solid state drive manufacturer STEC to court over patent infringement In a suit filed Monday in Northern California's U.S. District Court, Seagate claims STEC has violated four patents that Seagate had registered between 2002 and 2006....
As corporations implement compliance with various regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, they find that they end up with different zones within their network that can't talk to each other This makes it difficult to implement an enterprise security solution. Adding virtualization to the mix complicates things further....
Mid-market companies often have few choices when it comes to ensuring compliance with federal regulatory edicts for customer identity and financial records. Big companies use business process management (BPM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to track everything their employees do. Mid-size companies have to spend a small fortune or manage with manual spreadsheets and homegrown solutions...
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