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Hackers have penetrated an upper layer of data at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a multiprogram science and technology lab managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by UT-Battelle Scientists and engineers at ORNL work to increase the availability of clean and abundant energy, restore and protect the environment, and contribute to nationa...
Predicting the deal will "revolutionize" home entertainment, Macrovision has agreed to acquire Gemstar-TV Guide for about US$2.8 billion Macrovision, based in Santa Clara, Calif., creates technology designed to thwart people from watching and copying digital material without proper authorization. Gemstar-TV Guide's mainstay is the iconic TV Guide t...
Passengers on JetBlue will soon be able to use e-mail and instant messaging, thanks to a new onboard wireless network the airline will begin testing next week Details won't be officially announced until Tuesday, but JetBlue has outfitted one of its Airbus A320 planes -- now dubbed "BetaBlue" -- with an air-to-ground system featuring wireless hotspo...
Looking back over the course of 2007, it's clear the technology industry's landscape has shifted since the year began. Not only have market forces lifted some companies up while pushing others down, but a series of mergers and acquisitions have reshaped competitors' territories "We've certainly seen a lot of M&A activity this year, as well as the c...
Looking back over the course of 2007, it's clear the technology industry's landscape has shifted since the year began. Not only have market forces lifted some companies up while pushing others down, but a series of mergers and acquisitions have reshaped competitors' territories "We've certainly seen a lot of M&A activity this year, as well as the c...
Looking back over the course of 2007, it's clear the technology industry's landscape has shifted since the year began. Not only have market forces lifted some companies up while pushing others down, but a series of mergers and acquisitions have reshaped competitors' territories "We've certainly seen a lot of M&A activity this year, as well as the c...
As technology collides with forces of globalization, contact centers and the executives who run them find themselves in the midst of five megatrends These trends present unique opportunities for these executives to add strategic value to their business, reposition themselves within their organization, gain visibility and turbocharge their careers.
The Linux OS is free, but that doesn't mean it won't cost you more than pocket change to keep it working in your office Depending on which of the many consumer or enterprise flavors you select, the price tag for support can range from your own invested hours scouring community help forums to spending thousands of dollars per month in IT salaries or...
Two-year-oldMeebo uses widgets to allow its users to send instant messages from any computer and chat with buddies on any IM system -- includingAOL Instant Messenger,Yahoo Messenger,MSN Web Messenger,Google Talk,ICQ andJabber -- without downloading or installing software. The site also lets users create an embeddable IM window, or widget, that they can add to personal Web pages. Meebo opened its platform to third-party developers in October...
Researchers at IBM announced Thursday the development of a technological breakthrough known as a "silicon Mach-Zehnder elctro-optic modulator." The device would replace the copper wires normally used to transmit information between the multiple cores in a microprocessor. IBM's optical modulator would convert the electrical signals and send that information using pulses of light through silicon instead of electrical signals on wire...
Microsoft plans to put a version of its Windows XP operating system on One Laptop Per Child's (OLPC) platform, XO The rudimentary computer is directed at nations that do not have a widespread user base. The low power requirements -- bright screen, and hand crank which can augment available power -- are all key to the device....
Microsoft is previewing a new experimental developer toolset that will help developers distribute application code between the client and server in Web and Rich Internet Applications without manual coding between the distributed client-server tiers. Called "Volta," Microsoft's Live Labs team plans to work with customers to develop the technology and process...
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday rushed through a bill that puts increased responsibility on the shoulders of Internet service providers (ISPs) to police the Web for child pornography H.R. 3791, the Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act, requires that anyone providing Internet access -- apparently including coffee shops, h...
Dell added another big gun to its fast-growing retail arsenal Thursday, saying it would begin selling some of its personal computers at hundreds of Best Buy stores across the U.S The partnership may come too late to give Dell an immediate boost during the holiday season, however, with the Round Rock, Texas, company saying that its machines would be...
An investigation into the latest version of "gpicode.ai" -- a Trojan horse carrier of malware that encrypts recipients' data -- put security researchers on to a trail of clues that provides new insights into the ongoing evolution of spam-driven malware and its use by botnet operators based in Russia Prompted by outbreaks of virus incidents -- inclu...
Though opinions are mixed, industry experts and economists expect a reasonably good holiday retail sales season this year despite an economy struggling with higher oil and import prices, decreasing home values and the after-effects of mortgage market problems. Online holiday sales, in particular, should do pretty well, though the outlook is more clouded for sales of high-end consumer electronics products, as Part 1 of this series discusses...
For a small business that serves a local area -- a restaurant or gardening service, for example -- word of mouth can quickly make or break a reputation. When the conversation happens online in organized and professionally managed forums like Citysearch and YellowPages.com, reputations can be made and broken even faster At the Interactive Local Medi...
Salesforce.com has rolled out a service for its customers that allows them to share data, sources and leads in a social network. The Salesforce to Salesforce service, which the company is not making available commercially, is a cross between a partner relationship management portal -- which Salesforce.com offers commercially -- and the consumer-to-consumer social networking sites such as Facebook...
Organizations are being pressured to extend the delivery of actionable information to all people when, where and how they need it. This requires that companies have the ability to combine, aggregate and integrate information to ensure that it reaches its intended audience in the most timely and effective manner possible. Unfortunately, the business intelligence (BI) skill sets required to meet this demand are in limited supply, resulting in projects that are delayed, over budget, and often lacking the data and information necessary to meet business goals...
Czech Republic-based IT security vendor Grisoft is buying Exploit Prevention Labs, an Atlanta company formed two years ago by security veterans Bob Bales and Roger Thompson The deal, expected to close Dec. 31, will give users of its software better protection from Web 2.0-savvy cybercriminals than they'd get with products sold by larger companies, ...
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