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There's probably no field of applied scientific research with applications as diverse and implications as profound as nanotechnology. Advances are coming fast and the research environment is heady as billions of dollars each year go into nanotech research and development "When the nanotech wave comes to shore, it will bring rapid, monumental, inesc...
Taking aim at Google, Microsoft is making its Internet-hosted software application services available to businesses of all sizes Microsoft Online Services, a hosted-application program that started last year for businesses with more than 5,000 employees, launched its new all-inclusive service as a beta test for U.S.-based companies on Monday. The f...
Continuing its departure from a largely hardware-focused history, Siemens Communications on Monday announced a new software-only unified communications server The OpenScape Unified Communications (UC) Server can operate in virtually any existing IT or telephony environment, Siemens said, and is designed to remove the barriers that have traditionall...
In the latest sign the music distribution business continues to be roiled by change, Nine Inch Nails has released its new album in a variety of formats, including giving part of it away on file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent The musical act fronted by Trent Reznor has released part of its latest recording, a two-hour collection of instrume...
A spammer is going to prison, thanks to a ruling by a divided Virginia Supreme Court. The state's high court on Friday upheld the first felony conviction for illegal spamming in the U.S. when it ruled 4-3 that Virginia's antispamming law did not violate the free speech rights of Jeremy Jaynes "This is a historic victory in the fight against online ...
Drupal, the wildly popular open source social publishing system which has been downloaded more than 2 million times since it was released in 2001, will soon be available as a commercial distribution The news was announced at DrupalCon Boston 2008, a convention of Drupal users, being held in Boston March 3-6....
Intel has settled on a new brand name for its family of low-power processors, which formerly were referred to by the code names "Silverthorne" and "Diamondville." Now dubbed "Atom," the new processors will find their way into low-power mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and ultra low-cost computers....
Online brokerage E*Trade has named Donald H. Layton as its new chief executive officer, giving the financial services industry veteran the task of stemming a stock price drop and finding profitable growth opportunities Layton had served as chairman of E*Trade's board since last November, when he came on board in connection with a US$2.5 billion cas...
Ever since Microsoft made an unsolicited takeover bid for Yahoo -- a US$44.6 billion proposition -- Yahoo has been beset with distractions, which the company readily acknowledged in making its annual report The loss of key employees and the exodus of advertisers from its platform have been among the top distractions at Sunnyvale. Now, there's one m...
My sympathies to those out there who used last month's announcements from T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon as an excuse to quickly jump ship from Sprint Nextel and sign a contract with someone else for an all-you-can-eat talk plan at US$100 a month. Sprint was the only major U.S. wireless carrier that day to not offer a similar deal Turns out it was bidi...
With data security threats becoming more ubiquitous, the market for products that simplify the process of managing that information appears to be growing New York-based GridApp Systems is hoping to take a step in that direction with Clarity 4.5 database automation software that it is launching Monday....
During the last few years, so-called virtual worlds have evolved. Second Life is a prominent example -- with a registered user base targeting the 10 million mark. Avatars (virtual personalities) build virtual houses, purchase virtual goods and engage in electronic transactions Conducting business in these virtual worlds is only possible by implemen...
I've been talking about heroes for several weeks now, most recently the folks at HP who are overcoming the company's internal bureaucracy to turn what had been a problem unit -- its PC unit -- into the most powerful PC entity in the world But inside HP another group of unsung heroes are those that are transforming their aging IT shop into a cutting...
Even in a post CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act) world, where legal protections and technological advances give consumers more control than ever over their inboxes, e-mail remains a key component of many interactive marketing strategies Commercial e-mail remains a cost-effective way to reach consumers...
Wikileaks.org won a reprieve Friday from a judge's order that had shut down its U.S. site for more than a week. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White lifted the injunction he had previously imposed to keep the site from spreading possible trade secrets. He issued the new ruling after he heard a fresh round of arguments Friday The clerk's office o...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for not responding in a timely manner to a request it made six months ago under the Freedom of Information Act. The organization had asked for any communications between former DoJ attorney Jane Horvath and Google Horvath was named the DoJ's first chief pr...
Employees who regularly use company computers to surf the Web, sign on to business accounts for personal e-mail, make calls from company phones or use the corporate car to run errands run the risk of losing their jobs, according to a new survey released by The ePolicy Institute and the American Management Association (AMA) More than 58 percent of t...
eBay has reached a settlement with MercExchange in a case that had bounced around several courts and prompted a landmark Supreme Court decision The San Jose, Calif.-based online auctioneer will purchase three patents, including technology central to its vaunted "Buy It Now" feature, from Great Falls, Va.-based MercExchange for an undisclosed sum....
Google is working with homeless shelters in San Francisco to let them offer free phone numbers and voicemail boxes to their clients for life The aim is to let shelters provide these facilities directly to their clients instead of requiring the homeless to register individually for a free phone number and voicemail box as they do now....
A new free Web-based product, SyncWizard, aims to change the way people store and access their own personal data and files. SyncWizard scans PCs or Macs for the most valuable data and uploads it to a variety of Web-based storage sites, then makes it accessible via live, customized Web page Users can access their data and files via any of the popula...
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