- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
Dell chose Macy's flagship Herald Square store in New York as the location to introduce its new line of laptops Tuesday. Models strutted down the catwalk sporting the line's eight different colors, including what the company calls "flamingo pink," "sunshine yellow," "alpine white," "ruby red," "jet black," "midnight blue," "spring green" and "espresso brown."
A team of Israeli researchers have created a new map of the Internet that reveals the worldwide network in more detail than ever before "The Internet evolves in a distributed manner, and therefore its structure is unknown," Shai Carmi, a physicist at Bar-Ilan University who participated in the research, told TechNewsWorld. "The goal of this project...
T-Mobile on Wednesday launched its converged cellular and WiFi service HotSpot @Home that lets cell phone users switch seamlessly between T-Mobile hotspots and their own wireless routers Cellular phones often don't work as well inside as they do outside, which is frustrating for many given that an average of 41 percent of wireless minutes are used ...
Google has been ratcheting up its campaign to compel Microsoft to further open its Vista operating system to third-party search engines Its latest tactic entailed petitioning the judge overseeing Microsoft's antitrust agreement with federal and state governments to extend it past November, when most of the terms are set to expire....
Continuing to expand its portfolio of services under the Windows Live roof, Microsoft's newest beta offerings allow users to store and share photos and files online The Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft said, is an upgrade of the Windows Photo Gallery that comes with the Windows Vista operating system. However, people still using Windows XP wil...
For four years now, IBM's Blue Gene/L has remained king of the hill as far as supercomputers are concerned, according to listings from TOP500 Supercomputer Sites, an organization that ranks the world's most powerful systems. On Wednesday, Blue Gene/L again appeared at the top of the TOP500 list IBM, however, has another Blue Gene in the works that ...
Oracle extended a run of strong financial performance with a blockbuster fourth quarter, outpacing estimates for growth and profit as CEO Larry Ellison's strategy of aggressively buying up applications vendors continues to pay off Oracle earned US$1.6 billion in the quarter that ended on May 31, compared to $1.3 billion in the year-ago period. It b...
If there's one prospect that sends shivers down the spines of shutterbugs everywhere, it's the expectation that some day, some way, all their photos will disappear in a computer mishap There are several ways to guard against such disasters, but a neat, mobile way to do it is with the Polaroid Media Backup Photo Edition (US$119 to $149)....
Search advertising is like an onion -- simple on the outside but increasingly complex inside. Online advertising is discussed today the way bandwidth was discussed during the 1990s. Everybody is talking about it, nobody can get enough of it and much of people say about it is either nonsense or wishful boasting At a recent seminar on online advertis...
The Internet has emerged as a great place to shop for someone looking for a good deal. Price comparison sites ensure that consumers pay as little as possible, so they often end up with tremendous bargains However, the adage "If a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is" applies to some of these transactions. Shysters have established bogus ...
Since they hit the Web in the mid-1990s, Web logs, more commonly known as "blogs," have matured from simple journal entries cataloging the day-to-day goings-on in the lives of Net dwellers to, in some cases, serious enterprises. Today, corporations, political parties and their partisans, the media and everyday citizens use blogs as means to send out the word on their favorite causes...
Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook may seem fairly similar from the outside, but the two sites are increasingly splitting along class lines, according to a new report In a nutshell, MySpace tends to be populated by teens who are younger and from lower-income families with less education, while Facebook is often the choice for the college ...
Google launched a new program Tuesday that's designed to help nonprofit organizations around the world illustrate and share the work they do. Called "Google Earth Outreach," the program helps organizations get the resources, software and training they need to create compelling stories through Google Earth layers Google Earth is a free mapping and s...
Hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer Seagate unveiled Monday two 1 terabyte storage hard drives aimed at both enterprise and consumers users. The "first second-generation desktop and enterprise" Barracuda ES.2 and Barracuda 7200.11 1 HDDs will be available in the third quarter of 2007, the company said "The explosive growth of digital content in the ...
Internet radio listeners looking forward to another day of their favorite music Tuesday found only silence on many stations, as webcasters and broadcasters nationwide observed a day of silence to call attention to the crisis currently facing Internet radio Tens of thousands of U.S. webcasters participated in the event, including Yahoo Launchcast, L...
International business travelers will be able to access the Internet for a flat monthly fee through more than 100,000 wireless hotspots around the world under a new service announced Monday by Boingo Wireless Boingo, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based aggregator of WiFi networks, said its new service will cost 29 euros, or US$39, per month for unlimited ...
Viral marketing may be relatively new on the Internet, having emerged roughly a decade ago in its high-tech form. However, it's by no means a novel promotional technique, and it certainly doesn't depend on technology "Viral marketing is about generating buzz," Orvel Ray Wilson, coauthor of the legendary Guerrilla Marketing series of books, told the...
Untangle launched Tuesday an open source network gateway platform to stop spam, spyware and virus attacks for small and medium-sized businesses The Untangle Gateway Platform is based on technology that virtualizes the network stream. It is built around more than 30 best-of-breed, open source projects -- including SpamAssasin, ClamAV and Snort -- to...
With the emergence of wireless networking, ultra slim notebooks, PDAs (personal digital assistants) and smartphones, mobile communications have quickly become an integral part of doing business. Mobile capabilities are set to take another leap forward with the introduction of new standards for wireless broadband wide- and local-area networking Wit...
Sony's latest firmware update for its PlayStation Portable (PSP) gaming device unleashes the full power of the machine's processor, accelerating its CPU (central processing unit) speed from 266 MHz to 333 MHz Although the increased speed does not affect games currently being sold, those under development could afford players an improved gaming expe...
Loading ...
