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Samsung Electronics on Sunday announced the first 70-inch LCD panel aimed at the consumer marketplace Until now, Sharp offered the largest LCD TV screen, at 65 inches. Samsung will demonstrate its 70-inch LCD HDTV at the International Meeting on Information Displays 2006, which will open in Daegu, Korea, on Wednesday....
Palm is aiming to make its next Treo handheld available in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season. It will unveil the new Treo based on the Windows Mobile operating system by year's end, the firm has vowed The company will first release the device for Vodafone customers in the U.K., Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Earlier this sum...
Infineon Technologies said Monday it had landed an order for millions of data storage chips from the U.S. government, which will be featured in a new generation of electronic passports The exact size of the contract was not disclosed, but Infineon said it received a "multimillion piece purchase order" for the chips, which are designed to help speed...
SanDisk on Monday unveiled the 8-gigabyte Sansa e280, which offers audio, photo viewing and video clip playback capabilities at a price tag of US$249.99 The e280 is the latest in SanDisk's lineup designed to compete with Apple's market-leading iPod....
E-tail industry leaders are crowned -- and laggards exposed -- in a new Web site study conducted byKeynote Systems, a San Mateo, Calif.-based Web performance and measurement firm A large consumer panel ranked sites in three verticals -- electronics, apparel, and books and music -- according to customer experience and technical quality. Electronical...
Accessing the Internet in India can be a major problem, discovered Akiba Stern, a partner with New York-based Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, on a recent visit to anoutsourcing service provider's facilities there. It wasn't that the firm's connectivity services were poor. Rather, itssecurity processes were so tight that there was only one room in the building that permitted access to the Internet -- and even that access was fairly constrained, the outsourcing specialist told CRM Buyer...
Last week had its share of crazy news in what has become a very interesting period for the PC business. You only have to go to the Web to see the warning signs of an apocalyptic event, like spoofing on Apple and Intel, Microsoft and Lawrence Lessig launching a new open copyright tool together, and an Apple user going public about Apple problems and living to tell about it...
The mass market for WiMax technology faces a number of challenges, but will probably reach its potential within five years "Now that the certification of WiMax equipment has started and coverage areas have begun to expand beyond basic trials, WiMax equipment suppliers and chip makers face a much less uncertain future," said Stephen Entwistle, vice ...
Sony will continue to rule the video game kingdom through 2011 with its Playstation 3 console, research firm Yankee Group forecast this week. However, it will be sharing more of the market with Microsoft and Nintendo as growth slows for unit shipments among consoles overall With 44 percent of the cumulative, third-generation console sales in North ...
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of Detroit has ruled that the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program -- uncovered by a media investigation some eight months ago -- is unconstitutional. Civil libertarians are hailing the decision as a major victory The suit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups...
Amid the chatter over fixes included in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release for this month, the software giant quietly announced that two patches in its Aug. 8 security bulletin also pertain to Windows Vista A posting on the Windows Vista Security blog confirmed that MS06-042 and MS06-051 are also intended for Vista Beta 2. Windows Vista is the first...
Microsoft on Friday said it added US$16.2 billion to its ongoing share buyback plan, nearly doubling its repurchase authorization to $36.2 billion through June 30, 2011 The software giant is sitting on a stockpile of cash. Microsoft had $34.16 billion in cash and short-term investments as of June 30, the end of its fiscal year. Last month, the comp...
As a company grows, so do its accounts receivable. Growing pains often involve a shortage of cash, creating inadequate cash flows So, wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to wait for your customers to pay you? Actually, that is what factoring does for you; it turns your invoices and your receivables into cash. It is a form of asset-based financin...
Persuading a company's brass to buy tools to analyze Web traffic is an easy sell these days, but that's not the case when it comes to hiring bodies to interpret the data produced by the tools Those were among the findings in a report released last week by Forrester Research....
Following last month's release of Lotus Notes collaboration software for Linux, IBM this week started supporting the open source platform on desktop and server computers with its enterprise instant messaging solution Lotus Sametime Big Blue said the collaboration messaging solution would support integration with Linux desktop PCs and servers, broad...
This week, the U.S. State Department began rolling out "e-passports," new high-tech documents that bolster border security through identity safeguards. In a dangerous world, upgrading passports is prudent policy that serves the interests of Americans at home and abroad, but not everyone is happy with them E-passports employ the use of radio frequen...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the agency that supervises Internet domain names, has renewed its contract with the United States Department of Commerce to continue to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority function The IANA function includes Internet Protocol address space allocation, protocol identifier assignmen...
AOL continued its string of acquisitions this week with its purchase of video game publisher GameDaily. The move prompted speculation on AOL's larger strategy, as well as confusion over how the technology and content pieces will fit together for the venerable Internet company The GameDaily deal, financial details of which were not disclosed, comes...
New developments are shaping the high definition DVD landscape. The latest news in the evolving Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format battle comes from Sony, which this week said Japan and the United States will share the same region code for Blu-ray disc players. The company also announced that it has started shipping 50 GB dual layer Blu-ray recordable, write-once media...
Hewlett-Packard, the world's third-largest PC maker, on Wednesday reported third quarter profit gains that beat analyst estimates. The firm also announced a plan to buy back US$6 billion worth of shares Net income for the world's largest printer maker rose to $1.38 billion, or 48 cents a share, from $73 million, or 3 cents, a year earlier. Sales ro...
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