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For heavy duty imaging work on a PC, there are some very powerful programs on the market. My application of choice is Corel Paint Shop Pro, primarily because I've been using it for years and have become comfortable with its interface That's not to say its competitors -- like Ulead PhotoImpact and Adobe Photoshop Elements -- aren't excellent program...
Microsoft has expanded its Genuine Software Initiative (GSI), a pilot program to notify users of non-genuine Windows operating systems (OSes) that their copies of the software are illegal The software giant is using the "Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications" tool -- a virtual equivalent of the exploding dye that banks use to mark stolen cu...
Seagate has unveiled a monster hard drive in its Barracuda line that packs in 750 gigabytes (GB) of photos, video, music and other digital data using perpendicular recording technology The California storage giant said the new Barracuda 7200.10 drive family would reach, for the first time, above the current top capacity of 500 GB while maintaining ...
Major international music artists based in Canada have banded together to form a group aimed, among other things, at protesting the recording industry's practice of targeting fans with lawsuits With Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan as members, the Canadian Music Creators Coalition stated in a White Paper Wednesday:...
In what will likely be its last quarterly earnings report before spinning off its local phone unit,Sprint Nextel said growth in key areas, especially broadband Internet access, helped drive revenue higher Revenue for the first quarter was US$8.5 billion, up 13 percent from the same time last year, the company said, driven largely by demand for DSL ...
Linspire on Monday announced plans to offer a no-cost version of the firm's operating system called Freespire. Kevin Carmony, Linspire's President and CEO, unveiled the Freespire project in his keynote address at the 4th Annual Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego In his remarks, Carmony explained how Freespire is a community driven and developed proj...
The New York Department of Education took Toquir Choudhri to the City's Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, which presides over disciplinary cases from almost every city agency Choudhri, an employee for 14 years, had disobeyed a supervisor's order to stop surfing on the Internet, and Administrative Law Judge John Spooner ruled that the su...
You don't need to go far to see how different the 00s are from the 90s, just take a look at selling Ahh, the 90s, lots of people in sales tell me you didn't make sales calls in the 90s, it was more like making appointments to take orders. Gurus of selling like Jim Dickie of CSO Insights, reported that, for a while, the percentage of sales represen...
An inability to reach a compromise in forging an industry standard has delayed delivery of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) products and may make it possible for alternative technologies to usurp its role in supporting Personal Area Networks (PANs) A rift between the different factions had been ongoing for a few years and eventually led some vendors to abando...
Oracle has given Siebel customers an idea of what measures need to be taken for their existing applications to work with Oracle Fusion Middleware On Tuesday, it rolled out its road map to certify Siebel's business applications and analytics products on the Oracle middleware platform. Oracle has previously announced similar certification roadmaps fo...
Amazon has developed an elegant solution -- albeit a temporary one -- to a problem that has been nagging electronics goods retailers: what to do until the high-definition DVD format struggle reaches its conclusion For retailers, the unresolved war between Blu-ray and HD DVD formats means they will have to keep two sets of otherwise identical produc...
In perhaps its most direct competitive thrust at e-tail giant Amazon.com yet, eBay has launched an "express" marketplace aimed to highlight fixed price sales for consumers who are not interested in its core auction listings eBay Express will be a standalone Web site within the eBay marketplace that will focus on the convenience of making instant pu...
Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology will continue to be widely used for PCs and other electronics, and, with the help of wireless USB (WUSB), is poised to double in shipments from 1.4 billion in 2005 to 2.8 billion in 2010, research firm In-Stat reported this week The market forecast indicates USB will continue to connect PCs and peripherals, and...
At least so far, the aggressive acquisition strategy that created the new AT&T is bearing fruit. The telecommunications giant reported a 37 percent jump in earnings in the first quarter, highlighted by additional profit from Cingular Wireless,in which AT&T has a 60 percent stake, and growth in broadband Internet service The increase came despite ...
At least so far, the aggressive acquisition strategy that created the new AT&T is bearing fruit. The telecommunications giant reported a 37 percent jump in earnings in the first quarter, highlighted by additional profit from Cingular Wireless,in which AT&T has a 60 percent stake, and growth in broadband Internet service The increase came despite ...
At least so far, the aggressive acquisition strategy that created the new AT&T is bearing fruit. The telecommunications giant reported a 37 percent jump in earnings in the first quarter, highlighted by additional profit from Cingular Wireless,in which AT&T has a 60 percent stake, and growth in broadband Internet service The increase came despite ...
At the National Association of Broadcasters 2006 convention in Las Vegas on Monday, Microsoft and Universal Pictures announced a collaboration on the release of next-generation HD DVD discs The discs use VC-1, the video compression standard recently approved by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and one of the mandatory codecs i...
Intel is making its first platform pitch to the enterprise with its new vPro package, promising desktop security and manageability, energy savings and support from a long list of technology partners, including Symantec, Cisco, Lenovo, Microsoft, Novell and others While Intel indicates the effort will resemble its wireless platform push with Centrin...
The human tongue could lead to the creation of the super soldier of the future Scientists at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition have found a way to use the tongue to give soldiers extrasensory abilities. A device known as "Brain Port" provides users with owl-like 360-degree vision at night. It gives Navy SEALs whale-like sonar ca...
In the wake of yet another poor earnings report, Sun Microsystems on Monday announced that Scott McNealy is stepping down as the company's CEO Effective immediately, Sun President Jonathan Schwartz will succeed him as CEO and will also retain the title of president. McNealy will continue serving as chairman of the board....
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