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New product introductions, portfolio refreshes, and exciting new form factors helped spur growth in the worldwide mobile phone market during the third quarter of 2005, according to IDC, with Nokia continuing to dominate the market IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker reports worldwide mobile phone shipments rose 19.1 percent year over yea...
OpenOffice.org 2.0, the first release of the open-source productivity suite in two years, made its debut today, complete with major renovations The OpenOffice.org Project, an international community of volunteers and sponsors banded together to support and promote OpenOffice.org, is behind the software....
Bringing video to the Apple iPod opens up a wealth of ideas for attracting, selling to, serving and generating solid relationships with customers. While not primarily designed for this purpose I've been thinking about how many new opportunities Apple's latest iPod opens up for serving customers and having a platform to constantly bring value to them...
The next time you print a summary of your favorite James Bond film, you should consider that there might be more than one spy on the page. That's because printer manufacturers and the U.S. Secret Service have been quietly collaborating to track documents -- a worrisome revelation An announcement by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) that thei...
OpenOffice.org 2.0, the first release of the open-source productivity suite in two years, made its debut today, complete with major renovations The OpenOffice.org Project, an international community of volunteers and sponsors banded together to support and promote OpenOffice.org, is behind the software....
IBM said it had created a computerized approach to help the National Football League organize, store and retrieve a massive catalog of game footage, a project Big Blue hopes can become a model for others with similar expanses of data to store The company said the solution, known as Digital Foundation, would make it easier and faster for the NFL to ...
AOL confirmed this week the layoff of about 700 employees, most of whom were working in customer call centers across the United States. The once-dominant Internet service company blamed the job cuts on its dwindling dial-up customer base, but industry watchers also viewed the layoffs as a ploy to please potential buyers or investors of the Time Warner unit, which are rumored to include Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others...
Just days after Nortel Networks said it hired a former top-ranking executive at Motorola as its new CEO, hoping new blood at the top will help complete a lengthy turnaround, Motorola has sued to block the hiring and protect potential company secrets Nortel announced Monday that CEO Bill Owens, who has held that post since April of 2004, would be ...
Microsoft is streamlining its Shared Source Initiative, cutting seven of its 10 templates in an effort to simplify its licenses governing source code releases The software giant said the Microsoft Permissive License, Microsoft Community License, and Microsoft Reference License are short and easy to understand, effective and modern, efficient and ec...
Pressure to make more consumer friendly a standard for the next generation of DVDs continued to mount yesterday Boston-based Forrester Research predicted a victory for that standard, Blu-ray, over its rival, HD-DVD, but only a Pyrrhic one if the tough digital rights management (DRM) scheme incorporated into the technology isn't relaxed....
We spend a considerable amount of time flying around the country for various service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based projects, and we've had the opportunity to learn about not only the recurring client pain points and value propositions around SOA, but also a tiny bit about flying. Pilots are given landing patterns when they approach an airport; air-traffic control gives them these directions, approaches, and coordinates in order to accommodate the complexity of moment-to-moment changes in events that are occurring around the airport: other planes, wind direction, air pressure, and a host of other factors...
Although Web logs, or blogs, have attracted a lot of ink and electrons, the keys totheir creation and upkeep remain a mystery to many Net surfers. That's not to say that there aren't minds at work in the electronic plasma ruminating on ways to encourage even the meekest Websters to try their hand at blogging For instance, the folks at Blogger.com, ...
Hewlett-Packard and Cingular are touting their collaboration on the new iPaq 6500 series, heralding the Pocket PC handhelds as the first in the U.S. capable of connecting via Cingular's high-speed EDGE wireless network The companies said they would cram digital wireless voice and data capability, global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver, camera,...
On the heels of the release of its new lineup of advanced LCD monitor displays tailored to the Pro A/V and corporate communities, Samsung Electronics today said it aims to double its annual sales of LCD panels to US$20 billion by 2010 The Korean electronics giant predicts the worldwide market for flat-panel displays will grow by 75 percent to $115 ...
Google has begun to digitize books in eight European countries, pushing forward on a global scale with a project that has been the subject of fierce criticism and now faces a second lawsuit from publishing interests in the U.S Google said that the scanning of books was under way in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, a...
IBM announced yesterday that it has bought DataPower, a private maker of devices that speed the processing of XML (extensible markup language). The move is a good one for IBM, because "it's one of those acquisitions that stretches across the breadth of the company," Frank Dzubeck, president, Communication Network Architects, told TechNewsWorld Data...
Clandestine codes used to track the output of some color laser printers have been cracked by a research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) According to the organization, the codes are part of a deal cut by the U.S. Secret Service with some printer makers to help curb the counterfeiting of currency....
There's a new word in the Web vocabulary: splogs. Internet users may as well get used to it because, just like spam and spim, splogging is making its way into Web-based communication Splogs are the equivalent of Web log spam, unsolicited posts to a blog that have nothing to do with the subject matter at hand but rather try to peddle vitamins, Viagr...
Current economic conditions, particularly high oil and gas prices and looming inflation, would anticipate a slowdown in major markets including personal computers, but this week IDC reported that the worldwide PC market continued to expand recently, posting 17 percent growth in the third quarter of this year The growth, typically tied to U.S. gains...
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun are some of what you'd expect from a trip to McDonald's. Now, fast food diners can also expect to play some of their favorite video games at the leading burger chain's restaurants Nintendo has signed an agreement with WiFi provider Wayport to install high-spe...
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