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Broadband networks for the home are fueling the growth of sales of wireless devices, and will continue to do so for the next five years Research from the Boston-based IT consultancy, Strategy Analytics, indicates that homeowners worldwide are going to purchase nearly 950 million wireless home devices, including game consoles, wireless MP3 players a...
Dolby Laboratories has teamed withInfitec, a German provider of virtual reality technologies, to bring a new 3-D system to the digital cinema The new technology could arrive in theaters by spring of 2007, in time to meet the schedules of 3-D films slated for release within the next two years, Tim Partridge, senior vice president and general manager...
Microsoft is going to start charging users who download its Office 2007 Beta 2 version US$1.50, starting August 2. The application, which has been downloaded by some 3 million people over the last two months, has been available for free Microsoft said it was surprised by the interest in beta 2 and decided to implement the fee to recover costs. Howe...
AOL on Friday will launch the beta version of a free portal designed to let customers view and share videos across the Web AOL Video includes roughly 45 new video-on-demand content channels, organized and accessible through video search, browse or an interactive programming guide; free streaming content; the ability to purchase and download full-le...
It didn't take long for Novell to remark on how well its newest Linux operating system, Suse Linux Enterprise 10 (SLE 10), is doing in the marketplace. The company on Monday touted interest in the new platform as well as positive reviews of it, just two weeks after its release Suse Linux Enterprise 10 includes both enterprise server and desktop ope...
Flash memory market leader and music device maker SanDisk said Sunday it would buy rival Msystems in an all-stock deal worth US$1.5 billion The acquisition is aimed at beefing up SanDisk's share of the market for flash memory products for mobile phones, especially smartphones that double as music players. While SanDisk's specialty is removable flas...
In an apparent move to challenge Apple's iPod music player, Verizon Wireless on Monday announced that its V Cast Music service will offer individually priced downloads The competitive announcement that voids the US$15 monthly fee for Verizon's music service comes in conjunction with the wireless provider's launch of Chocolate by LG, the latest mobi...
Companies are seeing e-mail usage grow at exponential rates. While the rise in e-mail use can improve employee productivity, it also presents challenges to IT staff, many of whom are struggling to keep pace with the rapid increases as related management, security and storage tasks increase. Some are looking at e-mail outsourcing options as possible solutions...
Assemble Connect may be a small company -- but because it is a distributor of custom-manufactured products, its operations are complex enough to rival the largest of manufacturers That means just about every aspect of its business must be customized -- down to the software that manages the operations, says company president Eric Wendt. Finding such...
Last week was one to write home about, particularly between AMD and Intel. The AMD folks effectively created a distraction during Intel's biggest launch since the original Pentium 13 years ago -- and Intel actually helped them do it. In addition, Microsoft met with a broad cross section of analysts and signaled that it is preparing for war, with Apple's iPod and Research in Motion's (Nasdaq: RIMM) BlackBerry as targets...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week approved a new framework to regulate the disposal of old computer monitors with cathode ray tubes (CRTs) and aged TVs loaded with mercury, a move that is being applauded by the computer industry "CEA agrees with the EPA's statement that a CRT not recycled is an opportunity lost," said Parker Brugg...
A Singapore biotech company announced Thursday that it has produced and stored four new clinically compliant human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines, and that another four lines should be stored within the next four to five weeks ES Cell International (ESI) believes it is the first in the world to create these cell lines under the strict cGMP, or cu...
The Free Software Foundation and Software Freedom Law Center released a second working draft for the next iteration of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3, which updates digital rights management, patent and other provisions included in the most popular free and open source software license The release on Friday coincided with a keynote...
Motorola on Friday signed an exclusive agreement with Chinese online gaming giant Shanda Interactive. The duo's goal is to improve the mobile gaming experience in the growing Asian marketplace According to the agreement, Motorola will launch exclusive mobile versions of Shanda's popular "World of Legend" and "Magical Land" online role playing games...
Microsoft believes it will be on target for the release of its long-awaited Vista operating system, but the company wants to ensure quality before sending it to the masses "We will ship Windows Vista when the product is ready," Kevin Johnson, co-president of Microsoft's Platforms & Services Division, said during an analyst meeting Thursday. "At thi...
Marking another step in the evolution of cellular phone service, Nokia launched its first public Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) pilot over Wireless LAN in Oulu, Finland last week Converged technologies like UMA greatly expand the options for connecting via mobile devices. Specifically, UMA allows wireless users to roam and hand over calls between G...
Microsoft demonstrated this week a new handheld device running its Windows CE mobile operating system that could in the future serve as a basic PC for users in developing nations The software giant did not say whether it would actually bring the prototype product, dubbed FonePlus, to market, but Microsoft is no doubt making moves to ensure it has a...
Saying it may have some scratch for the open source software itch, search giant Google chose the O'Reilly Open Source Developers Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., this week to unveil a free service hosting open source software projects The service, Project Hosting, will give open source software developers a place on the Internet to track issue...
Microsoft traditionally has focused on building industry-generic productivity, communications and collaborative software Now, though, the company appears to be heading down a path well trodden -- for better or worse -- by such companies as Siebel, SAP and a host of best-of-breed vendors: the software verticals....
Consumer electronics manufacturers looking to expand their reach with their own brick-and-mortar outlets should weigh the risks of such moves carefully, warns a report released on Wednesday The report, "CE OEMs Launch Disruptive Retail Strategy: Their Own Storefronts," published by ABI Research, cites several temptations for electronics firms like ...
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