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A group of leading technology vendors is reporting significant progress in the standardization of service-oriented architecture, or SOA, standards The Open Service Oriented Architecture collaboration represents an informal alliance of 17 companies that have worked together to create and agree upon Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Da...
The latest customer survey comparing Linux and Windows servers crowns the open source operating system the winner, but tips some ease-of-administration advantages to Microsoft Results of the Research and Markets survey, which did not specify any particular Linux distribution or Windows server version used among its 137 respondents, indicated that L...
Last month, the U.S. Treasury Department announced the end of the ancient federal excise tax (FET) on long-distance telephone bills. Consumers should be wary of this seemingly positive development, as cash-strapped bureaucrats now press forward with plans for new technology taxes, threatening innovation One of the most ambitious schemes is the Stre...
Kazaa, an Australia-based peer-to-peer Web site that managed to elude the legal reach of the music recording industry for many years, has agreed to an out-of-court settlement of US$100 million Owner Sharman Networks also agreed to prohibit illegal file sharing on the Kazaa network going forward....
Warner Music Group (WMG) and EMI have shelved discussion of a potential merger of the two music labels in the wake of a court ruling on an earlier wave of music industry consolidation The companies announced they had ceased talks on Thursday, citing a July 13th ruling by the European Court of First Instance. That decision essentially set aside regu...
While Nigeria welcomed the One Laptop Per Child initiative, ordering 1 million of the US$100 laptops earlier this week, India is apparently snubbing the concept On the heels of the OLPC's first actual order for its Linux-powered notebook computers aimed at making modern technology available to children in developing countries, the organization has ...
Time Warner will unveil a new business strategy forAOL on Aug. 2, hoping to put an end to rampant speculation by outlining how the company plans to take its online services into the future, the company said Wednesday AOL is expected to announce that it will give away its e-mail and Web services for free in an effort to win back customers who switch...
Intel unveiled its Core 2 Duo computer processors Thursday, marking what some consider the chip giant's biggest new product release in years. The new Intel Core 2 Duos, a family of 10 new processors that includes desktop and mobile versions of the chips, more closely connect the two processor cores on each chip, which results in increased performance along with more efficient power use...
Regulators from the European Union are examining the licensing strategies behind the two competing next-generation DVD formats in an attempt to determine whether antitrust issues need to be addressed The European Commission (EC) reportedly has requested information from manufacturers of players that support the new HD DVD and Blu-ray formats. The p...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced its intent to distribute Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) as a "high-priority" update through Automatic Updates (AU) for Windows XP. The software giant's goal is to help its customers browse the Web in more secure environments "To ensure users are prepared to upgrade, AU will notify users when IE7 is ready to install and s...
The high level of mergers and acquisitions in the CRM market will continue through 2008, research firm Gartner predicts, with one in three CRM software vendors involved in such a transaction each year There has already been a series of very high profile M&As in the space, of course, including Oracle's acquisitions of PeopleSoft and Siebel. These tr...
Back in the early days of the Web when bandwidth was at a premium and surfing was considered something you did on your own time, the idea that the Internet would one day transform an entire media industry, challenge established economic models and -- gasp! -- bring people closer together, may have seemed farfetched to the average user As we quickly...
Mark Wesker, president and CEO of Artifact Network, has been involved in the software industry for nearly 15 years. The co-founder, president and COO of Sequoia Software in 1992, he stayed on after Citrix Systems acquired the company in 2001. With a year as vice president of Internet strategy under his belt, Wesker left Citrix to co-found Artifact in Baltimore...
Be it with ethanol, unused or recycled vegetable oil, biodiesel or carbon fixing, substantial efforts and progress are being made toward developing a biofuels-based energy infrastructure in the U.S. within the next decade or so. Parts one and two of this four-part article included discussions of the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative fuel source. Here, in Part 3, we'll examine one communications medium that will be playing an increasingly central role in this ongoing debate: the Internet...
IM Flash Technologies, a NAND flash memory venture established by Intel and Micron, leaped ahead of rival Samsung this week by sampling a 50-nanometer manufacturing process that more efficiently delivers high density flash memory chips Last week Samsung announced it had achieved manufacturing of its NAND flash memory chips with a 60-nanometer proce...
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday announced it is producing a 4 gigabyte flash memory device designed to enhance Windows Vista performance The new solid state disk is compatible with Windows ReadyBoost, a new Windows Vista feature that uses flash memory to improve system responsiveness. It is meant to help users avoid all the multi-second delays the...
Thin is in when it comes to the latest trend in mobile phones. Motorola revealed its trimmest phone to date on Tuesday, at approximately 9mm. The company expects the Motofone to be available in the second half of 2006 in both GSM (global system for mobile communications) and CDMA (code division multiple access) models The new narrow phone was intro...
Amazon.com shares dipped to a three-year low Wednesday, hit with backlash from the firm's second quarter results announcement Tuesday The online retailing giant's earnings for the quarter ended June 30, 2006, fell nearly 58 percent, followed by a 17 percent decline in shares on the Nasdaq. Shares fell to their lowest level since 2003, closing down ...
In its biggest acquisition since the controversial takeover of Compaq nearly five years ago, Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it would buy Mercury Interactive for US$4.5 billion HP said the cash deal would let it sell complete data center solutions that include servers, storage and other hardware, as well as the software to manage and tie together the ...
In the wake of drastic Athlon 64 price reductions and the US$5.4 billion merger with ATI, AMD is making another competitive move against rival Intel, demonstrating its 4x4 platform aimed at dethroning Intel's quad-core The demonstration was a preemptive strike against Intel's dual-core chip releases due on Thursday. Intel, which, like AMD, has slas...
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