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The Los Angeles Auto Show is painting the town green this week, with its emphasis on hybrid vehicles and the first showing by Honda and GM of hydrogen fuel cell cars A variety of fuel technologies are being showcased, including conventional high-mpg gas-powered vehicles; biofuels such as E85 ethanol; advanced gas-electric hybrids; fuel cells; and e...
GPS (Global Positioning System)-enabled device makers Garmin and TomTom have reached an agreement to settle a slew of intellectual property lawsuits between the companies The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agreement settles suits pending in the UK and the Netherlands -- where TomTom is based -- and U.S. cases in Texas and Wisconsin court...
Sony's pricing gambit has finally helped light a fire under sales of its PlayStation 3 model, with the electronics giant reportedly sellingtwice as many consoles in the U.S. last week as the prior week Sony recently launched a 40 GB version of the PS3 priced at US$400, more than $100 less than the reduced price tag on the 80 GB version, which still...
Touting its long history of supercomputing and grid computing expertise and citing the "extreme scale" potential of highly distributed processing, IBM is unveiling a series of cloud computing offerings based on open standards and open source software Called "Blue Cloud," a reference to IBM's "Big Blue" nickname, the initiative will help enterprises...
Sun Microsystems and Dell have put aside their longstanding rivalry and teamed up to offer business customers Sun's Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris operating systems preloaded on Dell's PowerEdge servers The joint announcement Wednesday at Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco follows a similar deal Sun inked with IBM back in August and a push ...
Imagine walking into your local supermarket as you normally would. You fill your shopping cart with groceries, and when you get to the checkout line, you see hundreds of abandoned carts loaded with items, strewn haphazardly about, but with no shoppers to be found. Was there a fire? Natural disaster? In a brick-and-mortar supermarket, only a cata...
When you're making a large investment in software, you want to be sure that you're buying from a reputable company that will be there to support you long-term Getting a short list of happy customers that your vendor has helped -- some references -- is a common part of most companies' buying processes, but there is a good way to check references and...
When it comes time to upgrade to a new version of proprietary software -- take the Windows OS, for example -- many users are less than thrilled. Upgrades can mean an added expense for anything more extensive than a bug fix or minor feature upgrades Even free minor version upgrades of a software product can cost a considerable chunk of time backing ...
Incompetent and rogue employees at small and medium businesses take note: AT&T has released a new remote video monitoring solution packed with big-business features for a small-business price The company's new AT&T Remote Monitor Service includes video cameras and a range of environmental sensor options that let business owners remotely monitor the...
In a move designed to bolster its offerings in the mobile market, Qualcomm will acquire mobile banking provider Firethorn Holdings for US$210 million The acquisition is intended to help financial institutions promote consumer adoption of mobile banking services, Qualcomm said, such as the ability to view account balances and history, pay bills and ...
OpenSpan, a Microsoft partner, rolled out an application integration platform that allows users of Microsoft's Customer Care Framework (CCF) 2008 -- which was also introduced Wednesday -- to link older applications and custom-built systems with the front-end agent desktop Built on the Microsoft .Net platform, the OpenSpan Platform for CCF 2008's in...
A group of researchers have successfully cloned primate embryos for the first time and used them to create stem cells, opening up the possibility that the same could be done with humans Using a technique called "somatic cell nuclear transfer," the researchers produced rhesus macaque monkey embryos from adult monkey skin cells and isolated two embry...
Microsoft's monthly security update contains only two advisories -- not a bad number for the vendor, which in the past has rolled out fixes for a dozen or more flaws at one time Still, the relative scarcity of vulnerabilities this month should not discount how significant these potential exploits can be to end users and system administrators, say s...
The European Commission will open an in-depth investigation into Google's proposed purchase of interactive ad giant DoubleClick, dashing the search company's hopes for a swift end to the ongoing regulatory review The commission now has until April 2, 2008, to render a final ruling on the proposed US$3.1 billion merger, which is also still under rev...
In an attempt to focus its "strategic direction" on providing Internet infrastructure services, VeriSign is divesting itself of a number of companies it acquired over the years The divestiture plan, announced at the company's 2007 Analyst Day in New York, is part of a plan to return to basics after finding that expansion through acquisition of dive...
Microsoft will mark the fifth anniversary of its Xbox Live online gaming site Thursday, and to celebrate, it's offering members of the Xbox Live community a chance to download a free Xbox Live Arcade game. The console maker will also debut a new category of downloadable games, giving Xbox 360 owners a chance to travel back in time and experience some of the games that helped the original Xbox become a success...
Video has been a perk packed with digital point-and-shoot still camerasfor some time, but judging by the quality present in many offerings, it's aperk that has been treated as an afterthought by many digicam makers.Not so by Kodak The chief of film stock -- now remaking itself as a dean of digital imaging --has steadily improved the video features ...
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a technology that simplifies integration. SOA has received a lot of attention in technology circles over the last few years with both avid supporters and skeptics illuminating the pros and cons of implementing SOA. In many cases, the skeptics pointed out the lack of specific business cases for implementation. While that assertion is arguably true in many cases, payment integration represents an excellent business case...
IBM's Blue Gene/L System once again ranks as the fastest computer in the world, coming in at first place on the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites, an organization that ranks the world's most powerful systems. The results were announced Monday at the SC07 Conference, held in Reno, Nev Located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a Department of E...
Marvel Comics is opening its archives to the public with the launch of the online subscription serviceMarvel Digital Comics Unlimited, the company announced Tuesday Curated by Marvel editors, the company's Super Hero adventures collection is now available in one digital location, giving fans access to thousands of titles from Marvel's historic comi...
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