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Worries over the imminent death of Moore's Law have apparently been greatly exaggerated. At least that is the word following announcements on Saturday from both IBM and Intel that each has developed a new energy-saving microchip design. According to the two chip makers, the advance is the biggest breakthrough in chip technology in 40 years "Until n...
Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced it will strengthen its existing relationship with software vendor SAP, and plans to offer a range of server and storage hardware, support and services for enterprises that embrace SAP's service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to information technology HP is looking to lay down a foundation on which customers...
Adobe Systems is moving to have its Portable Document Format (PDF) Version 1.7 specification certified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) global standards-setting body In the first step in what typically is a time consuming process, Adobe will release the PDF specs to the AIIM (Association for Information and Image Manageme...
Microsoft is set to begin consumer sales of its new Vista operating system at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, and the software giant is putting considerable marketing muscle behind the long-awaited launch Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer are expected to kick off U.S. sales of the Windows OS just after midnight on the East Coast, and retailers Comp USA...
Despite a 38 percent drop in quarterly profits when compared to its 2005 fourth-quarter results, Verizon Communications' performance exceeded Wall Street estimates for the second consecutive quarter largely due to its strength in the cell phone sector Verizon said it earned US$1 billion in the final quarter of 2006, or 35 cents per share. While tha...
In a move that could have repercussions for all forms of social networking, especially online user-generated video, YouTube intends to begin sharing its advertising revenue with users who contribute videos YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley disclosed the plans during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Hurley indicated that how the system w...
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has earned a reputation as a leader and successful innovator in the field of exchange-based energy and commodities trading Having launched a string of new exchange and OTC (over-the-counter) traded energy derivatives contracts this past year, the ICE's total 2006 futures trading volume surpassed 2005's previous r...
In the not-so-distant future, the mundane will become borderline miraculous. The home washing machine will order its own repairs and the sprinkler system will call you on your cell phone to say the lawn service has broken one of its water spouts and it is now wasting water The car will tell you to pull over -- its left rear tire is low on air -- an...
Browser usage numbers for 2006 are beginning to appear on the Web, and for the first time in many moons the market share of Microsoft's dominant offering, Internet Explorer, has dipped below 80 percent While Internet Explorer's star was sinking, its chief competitor's, Mozilla Firefox, was ascending. Its market share climbed from 9.50 percent in Ja...
As Vista launches, I'm in New York thinking back to 1995 when I was attending the Windows 95 launch and imagining what could have been Given the size of this launch, this week I'm just going to focus on Vista and think through the impact it will have as it rolls into the market over the next few years....
Autonomy has introduced a new contact center application, the Intelligent Contact Center, which provides a range of higher-end capabilities, including the ability to detect anger or emotion in a call, multichannel analysis at the point of interaction and real-time agent support The rollout, Autonomy's major release during the next three quarters, a...
At the request of the Software Freedom Law Center, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Thursday that it will re-examine a patent held by e-learning software company Blackboard The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), an open source software group, made its request in November on behalf of three open source educational software programs. I...
High-tech employment made a strong showing in 2006. Average salaries were on the rise and demand for IT professionals was robust, according to a salary survey released Wednesday by Dice.com, a Web site for high-tech employment opportunities "2006 has been our first full year of strong demand," John Estes, vice president of Robert Half Technology in...
Researchers say they've created the world's densest memory circuit, about 100 times denser than today's standard memory unit and as small as a human white blood cell Although mass production could still be a decade away and the chip contains only a modest capacity of 160,000 bits of information, the achievement points to the possible exponential gr...
Despite losing an antitrust case in the European Union (EU) nearly three years ago, Microsoft is releasing its new Vista operating system in Europe with features similar to those found illegal by the European Commission (EC) in 2004, charged a coalition of Microsoft rivals Microsoft, of course, is still appealing the ruling by the EC, which imposed...
Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed Google's YouTube, demanding that the video service release the identities of users who recently uploaded pirated videos of the "24" and "The Simpsons" TV series With the subpoena, which was issued January 18, Fox may be taking a page from the legal playbook of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)...
IBM has donated code to Eclipse's Higgins Trust Framework Project that it could potentially develop into a tool that allow users to hide or make anonymous their personal information as they conduct business on the Web Although a product release is about a year or more away, its potential is intriguing, especially as there are no other comparable pr...
A month after a miffed hacker told the world he had figured out how to copy a supposedly copy-protected high-definition movie disc, the consortium backing the encryption system admitted all was not well in its world The Advanced Access Content System Licensing Authority (AACS LA) on its Web site stated that it "confirmed that AACS Title Keys have a...
Internet search kingpin Google is the most important brand in the universe, according to a new survey. The search giant edged out Apple for the honor of "most significant brand" for the second consecutive year Researchers asked 3,625 industry professionals and students to name the brands that had the biggest impact on their lives in 2006 for survey...
President Bush, trying to squeeze some political fuel from his State of the Union address, hit the road Thursday to campaign for an energy plan aimed at reducing Americans' energy consumption habits After signing an executive order Wednesday to cut down on the federal government's use of gasoline and increase its use of alternative fuels, Bush took...
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