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Silicon is the lifeblood of electronics today, but in the photonics world -- the world of lasers and fiber optic transport -- it has had to play second fiddle to more exotic substances like indium phosphide and gallium arsenide. Researchers, though, are working to change that orchestration and reap the enormous benefits silicon photonics would create for computers and computer networks...
AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can download a mobile banking application directly to their cel...
AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can download a mobile banking application directly to their cel...
AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can download a mobile banking application directly to their cel...
Seattle-based start up ZenZui, which is funded by Microsoft's technology research arm IP Ventures, has licensed a new "zoomable user interface" aimed at improving Web access via mobile devices When running on a mobile phone screen, ZenZui displays Web content as several onscreen "tiles," which initially show only the logos of sites that are interes...
Adobe launched its Creative Suite 3 line of products Tuesday. The six new integrated Web design and content creation software packages are the first to leverage tools and technologies the company gained with its US$3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia in 2005 With its six all-new suites and 13 standalone offerings -- as well as completely refurbis...
In the first month of its availability, Microsoft Vista sold more than 20 million licenses -- more than double the number of first-month sales of Windows XP. In January 2002, the company announced sales of Windows XP licenses had exceeded 17 million after two months on the market The 20 million figure includes licenses sold to PC manufacturers, upg...
Over-the-air music downloads just got less expensive, at least for Sprint customers As part of a number of moves to boost its music download business, Sprint announced it will charge 99 US cents for all songs purchased from its Sprint Music Store. The price cut, slated to begin early next month, will coincide with two "Power Vision" data plans focu...
Bidding to take a lead in the mobile search and advertising space, Yahoo on Tuesday said it would invite more publishers to take advantage of its mobile platform The company said it was launching new services aimed at helping publishers get their content onto the phones of consumers and to leverage Yahoo's existing technology for delivering ads alo...
A coalition of major technology users and vendors organized by the SANS Institute announced Monday what it called a first-of-its-kind testing and certification program for software programmers The new examinations are designed to enable reliable measurements of technical proficiency and expertise in identifying and correcting the common programming...
Just how is Web 2.0 affecting retailers? I recently spoke at the Electronic Retailing Association's annual mid-winter conference about Web 2.0. Based on the conversations I had there, a couple of trends were clear to me:...
Popular video games, such as Electronic Arts' "Madden NFL," traditionally have been viewed as enemies rather than allies in the educational process. After all, many educators have questioned: What good can come from students sitting and banging away at gaming consoles for hours in an often futile quest for higher scores? Quite a bit of good -- actu...
A new security vulnerability in Windows could allow cybercriminals to hijack a user's machine and divert Web traffic through a malicious proxy server, Microsoft announced on Monday Hackers can send e-mail messages linked to a malicious payload hosted on a remote Internet server, which could trick recipients into clicking on the link and deliver a b...
European Union antitrust regulators have given Microsoft more time to prove it is complying with a requirement to fairly license its server software communications protocols Microsoft now has until April 23 to respond to charges from the European Commission, which has said that Microsoft has yet to fully comply with a condition of its 2004 antitrus...
The stagnant telecom equipment market received a major boost with Verizon Wireless' award of a three-year, US$6 billion contract to its primary network infrastructure provider, Alcatel-Lucent Under the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will supply a range of equipment, software and services to support Verizon Wireless' transition to an all-IP (Internet prot...
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is set to release open source interoperability testing and development tools to help vendors build solutions for DASH, or Desktop and Mobile Architecture for System Hardware, a new Web service-based desktop and mobile PC management standard The DASH initiative is geared toward enabling IT managers to remotely diagnose a...
Researchers at St. Louis University in Missouri on Sunday announced the development of a fuel cell battery powered by liquid sugar at the American Chemistry Society's 233rd national meeting Using nearly anything from natural substances such as tree sap to man-made beverages including soda, the new technology could potentially operate three to four ...
Chipmaker Intel announced Monday it would build a US$2.5 billion wafer fabrication facility in northeast China, the company's latest and largest investment to date in the booming country The plant -- which will also be Intel's first fabrication plant, or fab, anywhere in Asia -- will be located in the coastal city of Dalian in Liaoning Province in ...
IBM researchers are touting a new, tiny optical transceiver chipset that can move data at speeds up to 160 GB per second, which is eight times faster than previous optical components The new chipset generates fast data transfer rates because it uses light pulses to move data instead of sending electrons over wires. If the infrastructure is in place...
Helio, the mobile communication joint venture of SK Telecom and Earthlink, has introduced a new device called "Ocean," asserting it is the world's first dual-slider with both a numeric keypad and a separate full QWERTY keyboard Expected to be available soon at a recommended price of US$295, the unit is being billed by Helio as "the ultimate social ...
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