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Moving closer to the long-expected smackdown between the Blu-ray and HD-DVD high definition product standards, Sony has announced several new product releases designed to support the Blu-ray camp The company plans to ship its new Bravia flat-panel televisions with full high-definition capabilities in the second half of 2006. The TVs will complement...
Microsoft inked a deal with Epic Records that will give Xbox Live users a year's worth of free access to downloadable music and high-definition on-demand video from Epic artists Xbox Live is the online, interactive portion of the Xbox 360 gaming platform that debuted last year as the first of what is expected to be a wave of next-generation console...
High-speed chip interface designer Rambus on Friday said it has signed a technology licensing agreement with IBM. The agreement allows IBM to building Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) processors and companion chips using Rambus' technology Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Microsoft has launched a US$500 million marketing campaign aimed at using its new products, including Windows Vista and Office 2007, to wrest enterprise customers away from rival IBM Microsoft said Vista and the new version of Office will enable desktop computers to become control stations for hard-working enterprise applications that manage everyt...
Blogging software and services provider Six Apart on Thursday said it received US$12 million in third round financing The round was led by Focus Ventures. Intel Capital and prior round lead August Capital also participated in the funding....
It's interesting to observe, over time, the changing business fortunes of various countries. If we look back a couple of hundred years, we see that the dominant country worldwide, politically and economically, was Great Britain. In fact, it maintained its dominance until shortly after World War I Some time after World War I, as Great Britain's econ...
They are everywhere -- value propositions that claim much and deliver little. The fact that so many value propositions these days are of the "boil the ocean" variety makes some thoughtful people wonder if their view of the world is overly simplistic or if they are missing something. Sure, a listing of all the features of a new software application presented as differentiators is educational. Yet it is often irrelevant to how companies actually buy software...
About a month ago, a bi-partisan group of senators released a statement supporting cable franchise reform. Now key members of the House of Representatives appear to agree. At this rate, consumers might actually see national reform that will slash cable bills and make video service more innovative and interesting For years, consumers have yearned ...
Lawson Software has bundled IBM's tech stack in the latest version of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite, Release 9, for the first time since the firm announced a partnership with Big Blue last year Lawson also announced that it expects next month to close its acquisition of the Swedish software vendor, Intentia, which focuses on applicat...
Microsoft has begun testing display advertising across its Web Services network, which includes Microsoft Office Live, Windows Live Mail and MSN Spaces. The initial ad purchases by Coca-Cola Brazil, JCPenney and Monster Worldwide are sure to touch off a heated battle between Google and, to a lesser extent, Yahoo ...
PChardware upgrades ushered in withMicrosoft's forthcoming Vista operating system should deliver a bump in year-end shipments and revenue for vendors, according toSamsung The electronics giant stressed the advantage for users of making a US$100 to $250 upgrade of flash memory and other hardware versus incurring the expense of a new computer. A tota...
Continuing its aggressive campaign to cut down on piracy of its products,Microsoft has filed eight lawsuits againsteBay sellers, accusing them of distributing counterfeit versions of the software giant's programs The suits were filed against individuals in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York and Washington. They...
Microsoft is introducing an entertainment franchise including games and television programming featuring characters that appeal to young consumers The software giant on Wednesday revealed plans for "Viva Pinata." More than just a video game title, Microsoft plans to bring living pinata animals to Saturday morning television. The new series will be ...
In one of the first major efforts to bring an ad-supported broadband television experience to Internet users, America Online formally launched its In2TV service, with four major advertisers already signed up to have their commercials interspersed with the full-length programs and short video clips AOL said Intel, Kia Motors, Kraft Foods and Hershey...
SophosLabs is warning computer users about Troj/Zippo-A, also known as Cryzip, this week, and offering the secret code to crack the scam. The Trojan horse encrypts computer data and attempts to extort a US$300 ransom Zippo-A searches for files, such as Word documents, databases and spreadsheets, and moves them into password-encrypted ZIP files on ...
Three computer researchers created a stir Wednesday when they released a paper at a conference in Pisa, Italy, describing how to infect Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags with a computer virus, but the likelihood of a digital disease rampaging through the world's supply chains is slim, at least for now "The likelihood of something like this...
For more than a decade, marketers have promised that the Internet was going to be a key way that consumers would experience their brands -- someday Someday has finally arrived. The potential of Internet advertising is truly starting to be realized....
A new chip material -- silicon-on-sapphire -- is starting to make an impact on the way mobile phone handsets are produced, helping to fuel a technological "arms race" in the mobile industry, recent research suggests A report by the Boston-based research consultancy Strategy Analytics examined whether silicon-on-sapphire technology was a stop-gap me...
After weeks of speculation and to no surprise, Sony confirmed this week its next-generation Playstation 3 console will not ship this spring, but instead it will be delayed until the end of the year The announcement means added pressure for the electronics giant, since the postponement lengthens Microsoft's lead time with its Xbox 360 console releas...
Microsoft on Tuesday issued a series of security patches to fix multiple problems in its Windows operating system and Microsoft Office productivity suite This is one of the more significant "patch Tuesdays" in terms of number and severity of included fixes, according to Ed Moyle, a manager in CTG's Information Security Services Practice. The number...
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