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AMD on Thursday announced plans to publish its Opteron socket specification under its Torrenza licensing initiative. The chipmaker is hoping the move will spur other chip makers to design application-specific co-processors that can be integrated alongside Opteron AMD's Torrenza Innovation Socket represents a new and different approach to server des...
In what could be a major shift in the social networking landscape, Yahoo reportedly has held talks to purchase Facebook, which trails rival MySpace.com in terms of total users, but has found traction among the college-age demographic with a more restrictive membership approach Yahoo could pay as much as US$1 billion for Facebook, according to a Wal...
If you are running serious business applications on the Web, downtime or Web site slowness equals lost dollars. This is true either directly, by missed sales if you are running an e-commerce store, or indirectly, through lost customer trust if you are providing a Web-based solution to clients When a Web site becomes an important business tool, com...
As the online space expands and becomes ever more complex, Web marketers are finding that they have to cherry-pick among the many possible technology marketing channels available to be exploited ...
The drumbeat of support for WiMax products has begun to sound a bit more loudly. In August, Sprint Nextel became the largest domestic carrier to throw its weight behind the next-generation wireless option "The Sprint endorsement was a bit of a surprise because the company had other options for adding high-speed features to its cellular network," sa...
Much in the way that open source software projects are known to produce forks, or spinoffs, based on different objectives and personalities, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is creating an offshoot of his popular communal Internet encyclopedia Citizendium is intended for named, expert contributors, Sanger said in an essay on the effort. "The work...
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has announced plans for a music download service that will kick off by showcasing new and up-and-coming artists, and will initially work with its Walkman line of cellular handsets Aimed at the teen market, M-Buzz is being offered in conjunction with Sony/ATV Music Publishing and an enhanced version of its PlayNow se...
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed reports of a vulnerability in the Windows implementation of Vector Markup Language (VML), code used to create vector graphics It's the latest in a string of zero-day exploits, which are security flaws that software vendors either do not yet know about or are aware of and are working frantically to fix. The SANS Insti...
While the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps battle for format dominance, Warner Bros. is looking for a middle ground with a three-layer optical disc that could play HD DVD, Blu-ray or standard DVDs Technology analysts have been hedging bets on which of the two new high-definition formats will ultimately win the war. Blu-ray maker Sony is going head to head ...
ATG has announced that it will acquiree-commerce best-of-breed vendor eStara in a US$48.3 million cash-and-stock transaction that will increase ATG's market share and bring new niche functionality under its umbrella eStara specializes in click-to-call technology -- an online e-commerce tool that lets a customer care rep contact a buyer online to se...
Oracle released its 2007 first quarter fiscal results late Tuesday showing soaring corporate profits that reflect considerable market share gains in the business management software field, according to the company President and CFO Safra Catz said Oracle was in excellent fiscal shape and has exceeded all forecasts. "We delivered strong revenue gro...
A proposed treaty that would expand the rights of broadcasters over what they deliver to consumers cleared a significant hurdle last week at a meeting of an international copyright panel The panel -- the Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights (SCCR) of theWorld Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) -- approved the calling of a dipl...
As technology becomes a large part of many consumers' everyday lives, the risk of overexposure to new advances grows for people of all ages. Some in fact, become addicted to new technologies, such as cell phones, video games, PDAs and the Internet. This three part-series examines the potential risks too much tech can pose to individuals, as well as the warning signs that may point to serious problems...
Hewlett-Packard aims to tap into the growing need among small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) for high-capacity, networked storage with its new StorageWorks All-in-One (AiO) Storage Systems unveiled this week The company's two new AiO Storage Systems align with Microsoft's storage products and servers and are aimed at SMBs with little or no stor...
Internet stocks dropped Tuesday afterYahoo said its third-quarter financial results would lean toward the low end of its earlier guidance, sparking concerns that the Web advertising boom may be cooling and that theportal is seeing the first signs of an economic slowdown Relatively slow ad sales in certain sectors will cause Yahoo to fall short of t...
A week after Microsoft unveiled its so-called "iPod killer," Zune, the software giant has turned its attention to another potential competitor, YouTube Microsoft on Tuesday announced the beta release of Soapbox on MSN Video, a user-uploaded video service that lets video enthusiasts upload and share home movies within an online community. Microsoft ...
In a bid to extend its reach further into the enterprise marketplace, Motorola has agreed to buy Symbol Technologies in a deal worth around US$3.9 billion Symbol's products include a range of mobile solutions for businesses, including radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies such as bar-code readers, as well as remote payment systems and ...
Both large and small companies plan to expand their average budgets for enterprise portal initiatives by 35 percent to 40 percent in the coming year, according to a new report from the Aberdeen Group Drivers behind this demand include initiatives toextend business applications across the enterprise andpossibly into partner systems, along with plan...
RealNetworks on Monday announced a partnership with SanDisk to deliver a portable music player poised to compete with Apple's market-leading iPod Real, a developer of software that plays music and videos on the Internet, and SanDisk, a flash memory maker, are planning a tag-team approach that the companies said will deliver competitive features in ...
Intel and security vendor Check Point Software Technologies are launching a jointly developed solution they say maximizes Intel chips to produce faster data security products and eliminates bottlenecks that occur when massive amounts of data are filtered through slower processors The companies said the new combinations of software and chipsets are ...
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