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Intel released its new lineup of Quad-Core Xeon 7300 series processors Wednesday, throwing a punch at rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which plans to release its own quad-core processor line, dubbed "Barcelona," early next week The new 7300 series from Intel can deliver more than twice the performance and more than three times the performance pe...
Advocates of net neutrality suffered a blow to their cause Thursday, when the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division issued a filing cautioning against regulations that could hamper development of the Internet Prohibiting broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) from charging content providers directly for faster or more reliable servic...
A survey by the investment banking and securities firm UBS found that fewer CIOs will deploy Linux than in the past, but the results are being met with shrugs in the Linux community According to UBS, more than 90 percent of CIOs who are not Linux users said they would not deploy Linux in the calendar year, up from 60 percent in 2006. Expect Linux s...
A federal judge on Thursday struck down a component of the USA Patriot Act, saying the post-9/11 law violates constitutional principles by attempting to force third parties such as Internet service providers (ISPs) who receive demands for information without search warrants to keep silent about those inquiries U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marre...
Salesforce.com has signed a contract to supply 40,000 Web-delivered software subscriptions to Japan Post, bringing the total number of deployments to the company to 45,000. The contract is now the largest seat deployment for the iconic on-demand vendor to date Japan Post, which is set to be privatized in October, functions as more than just a posta...
Just in time for the start of the holiday shopping season, HP has introduced a slew of new products, including a PC specially designed for gaming Called the HP Blackbird 002, it is the first HP personal computer bearing VoodooPC's distinctive stamp after HP purchased the high-end gaming PC maker last year....
Vudu, a California company that will sell or rent movies to customers with high-speed Internet access, began selling its US$399 units Thursday and expects the downloads will begin in about three weeks The company has agreements with major and independent film distributors and can offer its customers instant access to 5,000 movies at about the same ...
Network Appliance is suing Sun Microsystems, claiming the fellow technology maker is infringing on seven of its patents relating to data storage, claims that Sun said have no merit The suit grew out of an internal review of Network Appliance's patent holdings, the company said, which began after Sun claimed that the rival was using three of its pat...
When it comes to online target markets, males between the ages of 18 and 34 are a juicy lot for advertisers. However, getting those males in the cross hairs of their messages these days is becoming increasing problematic for marketers "The expanding but elusive segment of U.S. men age 18 to 34 accounted for nearly 27 percent of the total male Inter...
The IT industry appears to be in the thick of a number of interesting trends happening not only in technology, but in society at large. Cultural assumptions are changing about the nature of media and production, and consumers are being empowered as producers The Web at large has embraced this shift for several years, but businesses are just startin...
Look closely next time you stop at a traffic light -- it could contain an access point for a wireless mesh network Multiple applications are being developed for wireless mesh networks to enable users in the vicinity to bounce video, audio, text and other signals among their devices. Public utilities, police and fire departments, and airports are ju...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that its cross-browser plug-in, Silverlight will eventually appear on Linux Silverlight, a challenge to Adobe's Flash, means Microsoft will have to convince Web users they can really "light up the Web," with Silverlight, as the ad copy states, and view high-quality video....
Social network site Facebook began informing its members Wednesday that it will open users' basic profiles to non-members searching the site. In addition, over the next few weeks, the site will begin allowing search engines access to the public profiles in its database The social networking site had previously blocked access to member's profiles by...
Last week Apple publicly announced the breakup between its iTunes music and video store and NBC Universal, noting NBC's desire to dally with modified retail pricing plans and potentially force Apple to sell episodes at US$4.99 each. Holding fast to its insistence on selling online TV shows at exactly $1.99 an episode, the company in Cupertino, Calif., booted NBC's fall season content altogether after the network informed Apple it did not wish to renew its contract, which expires in December...
As the iPod world held its breath Tuesday in anticipation of Apple's mysterious press event scheduled for Wednesday, a Microsoft executive indicated that the competing Zune platform could soon include a phone Speaking at a Citigroup global technology conference, Mindy Mount, chief financial officer of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division,...
Palm has decided to cancel the current iteration of its Foleo product, an ultralight, Linux-based "mobile companion" device that had analysts scratching their heads when it was first announced In a post on the Palm blog, CEO Ed Colligan told readers that he has decided to cancel Foleo mobile "in its current configuration."
In its first major move since cofounder Jerry Yang returned to the CEO's chair, Yahoo will buy online ad network BlueLithium, a firm that uses online behavioral tracking to help advertisers reach specific consumers at defined times The Web portal said it would pay US$300 million in cash for the San Jose, Calif., firm, which it says is one of the fa...
A group of New York City taxicab drivers kept their cars parked Wednesday to protest the forced installation in their vehicles of devices that use global positioning system (GPS) technology and allow credit card payments The 48-hour strike, urged by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, began at 5 a.m. Reports varied about the number of cabbies who p...
One might argue that China and the Internet are both like high-speed trains. Both are growing at an extremely rapid pace, and both are apparently unstoppable global economic forces that are reshaping the economic landscape. Unfortunately, one might also argue that they are on a collision course "While the Chinese government has embraced the Interne...
Dave Duffield, most famously the founder of PeopleSoft and now Workday, was giving a keynote presentation at the RightNow user conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., when it hit me. Duffield is about to become a kingmaker in the on-demand market Please forgive the apparent hyperbole and continue....
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