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Japanese, Chinese and South Korean firms have jointly developed an Asian version of the Linux operating system, and are preparing to unveil the Chinese and Korean versions in Beijing on Thursday The new software, Asianux 2.0, was developed by Miracle Linux Corp., which is partly owned by Oracle Japan and NEC; Red Flag Software, a software developer...
Korean telecommunications provider KT Corp. announced yesterday it has selected Siemens Communications and Sycamore Networks to deliver an optical switching solution. Analysts said this is a major win for the duo as the world watches broadband development in Korea KT will deploy the intelligent optical switching solution to increase the performance...
Looking to fend off Internet access competition from cable companies and entice those still using dial-up onto higher speed connections, Verizon Communications and Yahoo said they would work together to offer a co-branded DSL service at a discounted price Verizon Yahoo for DSL will be available in 28 states and Washington, D.C. and will start at US...
After nearly two weeks of market speculation, Intel this week began detailing its switch from existing NetBurst chip architecture to a new processor platform that borrows heavily from its Pentium M mobile chip, a move that rival AMD is paralleling in order to adjust to the market preference for notebooks and other mobile devices Analysts said users...
There's a new controversy surrounding Linux, but this time it has nothing to do with Microsoft supporters. Linux founder Linus Torvalds recently began defending the trademark for his namesake software, and, as a result, he has found himself having to defend his own reputation in the open-source community ...
Marking perhaps its most ambitious departure to date from its core search business, Google reportedly plans to unveil its own instant messaging platform this week, one that includes a voice chat options Some analysts say the service could become a prelude to an even bigger leap in which Google becomes a provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoI...
In what could be a preview of an expanded product menu featuring more items delivered digitally, Amazon.com has begun selling short stories and novel excerpts from well-known authors Amazon Shorts sell through their own storefront on Amazon for 49 cents each and will feature content from top authors that is not available in printed form. The servic...
Search giant Google has updated its desktop search software, announcing some new features in its Google Desktop 2.0, while also addressing privacy and security issues that caused criticism of the earlier version of the desktop computer search application Google said the software was available in beta, and represents its latest effort to make search...
Personal computer shipments this year and next will grow by double digits, but that won't translate into the big revenue gains for PC makers, according to a preliminary forecast released yesterday by Gartner, of Stamford, Conn Compared on a year-to-year basis, Gartner predicted worldwide PC shipments would increase 12.7 percent in 2005, to 206.6 mi...
Ah, e-mail, the lifeblood for millions of businesses across the globe. What would we do without it? In last week's article, I discussed What to Do If Your E-Mail Is Blocked. Just as there are precautions that you can take to retain access to e-mail privileges, there are methods which you can use to regain e-mail access....
Approximately 10 years old, the affiliate marketing industry is one of the newest in performance marketing. Legalities, best practices and associations are in their infancy stages. That said, affiliate fraud is rampant Every morning I tackle the previous night's Filinet affiliate signups to run through our anti-fraud checklist. Out of 50 applica...
Retailer Ritz Camera Centers is deploying Linux at stores across the country, joining a burgeoning list of retailers that have opted to run their in-store point-of-sale (POS) applications on the open-source operating system Novell announced that the retail chain selected its Linux Desktop at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo earlier this month....
Enterprises are constantly looking for ways to reduce their IT expenses, and hardware purchases represent a significant portion of those costs. "Companies want to avoid buying faster systems year after year and grid computing has that potential," said John F. Andrews, chief operating officer at market research firm Evans Data Corp Grid computing i...
Search giant Google has updated its desktop search software, announcing some new features in its Google Desktop 2.0, while also addressing privacy and security issues that caused criticism of the earlier version of the desktop computer search application Google said the software was available in beta, and represents its latest effort to make search...
Sun Microsystems has unveiled an open-source community project to develop a royalty-free digital rights management (DRM) standard Dubbed Open Media Commons, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz presented the initiative during his keynote speech to leading policymakers, media, telecommunications and technology executives at the Progress and Freed...
WSO2, a company started by key leaders of the Apache Web Services Project, today announced the creation of a new project tasked with creating a Web service mediation framework. The project proposal has been submitted to the Apache Software Foundation incubator under the Web Services project Dubbed Synapse, the new initiative is an open-source imple...
In what could be a preview of an expanded product menu featuring more items delivered digitally, Amazon.com has begun selling short stories and novel excerpts from well-known authors Amazon Shorts sell through their own storefront on Amazon for 49 cents each and will feature content from top authors that is not available in printed form. The servic...
OK, businesses now have proof of their suspicions: Employees are wasting the boss's time -- billions of dollars of company time, according to a July AOL/Salary.com survey So, what's a boss to do? Well, contrary to what many guilty employees would like to think, they are not simply sitting back and taking it. Almost 80 percent of employers monitor e...
Today's organizations increasingly experience the creep from the general tracking of customer contacts and responses by CRM to the general tracking of marketing activities and their returns by the CFO Marketers have to look at the bigger picture, at their contribution to the entire enterprise, rather than just at the campaigns and messages they con...
This month we are looking at the future -- and last week we spoke of the changes that are going on in desktop computers. I pointed out that one of the big problems with every single one of the available desktop concepts is the lack of a mobile solution With the Zotob virus allegedly being spread by improperly patched notebook computers and bringing...
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