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Computer industry firms are struggling to cope with the dearth of IT talent -- especially now that the economy is heating up again. Microsoft founder and chief software architect Bill Gates in July decried the decline in American college students who desire careers in computer science and said something needs to be done about it Last week, to solve...
Microsoft may not change how RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are referred to in a still-in-development version of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, but the software giant's consideration of a name change has sparked a Web-wide debate about what to call the content feeds and whether a new moniker would help expand consumer use The issue came...
Symbian yesterday reported that worldwide shipments of Symbian phones under the OS-standard tripled in the second quarter of 2005 compared to the year-ago period. The average royalty per unit was also higher than the same period a year ago The company shipped 7.8 million Symbian OS phones in the second quarter. Total shipments of Symbian OS phones ...
Chip giant Intel announced it was pumping up city-wide wireless efforts for 13 cities across the globe in a pilot project that will focus on development and deployment of the WiFi networks and applications intended to allow connectivity throughout municipalities Intel said Cleveland, Philadelphia, Taipei, Taiwan and Osaka, Japan were among the citi...
Hoping to raise awareness of its role as handler of much of the traffic that makes the World Wide Web possible, Akamai Technologies has unveiled a news usage index that shows when and where people are accessing online news sources The Akamai Net Usage Index will be updated every five minutes to give aggregate data on visits to more than 100 news po...
Microsoft announced packages and pricing for its latest Xbox 360 gaming console this week, delivering an expected price tag of about US$300, but also including a console package with hard drive and other accessories that will sell for another $100 While the timing of the Xbox 360 release is still aimed for sometime this fall -- "in time for this Ch...
Google surprised analysts yesterday by announcing that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of more than 14 million class A common shares of stock The Internet IPO darling has seen its shares triple since going public a year ago. The sale could yield an estimated US$4 billi...
When WorldCom, the telecommunications giant, failed and was put into bankruptcy, the U.S. witnessed one of the largest accounting frauds in history. Former CEO, Bernie Ebbers, 63, was convicted of orchestrating this US$11 billion accounting fraud and was sentenced to 25 years in prison on July 13, 2005 How could a loss of this magnitude have occure...
There's an undercurrent running through many conversations these days with professional colleagues: To blog or not to blog? That is the question Even deeper than that quandary is the fact that many business professionals, convinced they have valuable things to say, routinely get blog envy if they don't have blogs of their own. It's the tendency to ...
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom asked for public feedback this week on a plan to create a citywide, free wireless broadband network. The response should be a no-brainer, especially in a city dubbed the number-one wireless market in the United States Getting high-speed access in San Francisco is not a problem. According to the Federal Communication...
Microsoft announced packages and pricing for its latest Xbox 360 gaming console this week, delivering an expected price tag of about US$300, but also including a console package with hard drive and other accessories that will sell for another $100 While the timing of the Xbox 360 release is still aimed for sometime this fall -- "in time for this Ch...
Google surprised analysts today by announcing that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of more than 14 million class A common shares of stock. The Internet IPO darling has seen its shares triple since going public a year ago Google shares closed yesterday at US$285.10 on t...
In a move to bolster its software and enterprise platform strategies, Intel yesterday announced it has acquired privately held XML solutions provider Sarvega. Terms of the deal were not disclosed Intel said the acquisition combines its hardware capabilities with Sarvega's underlying XML software technology and engineering expertise....
Renting entertainment could be the wave of the future, and Microsoft isn't about to miss it The company that brought us "Janus," the digital rights management (DRM) scheme that allows subscription music services like Napster On The Go to exist, has announced a deal with Exent, of Bethesda, Md., a provider of "games on demand" technology....
When Rust-Oleum Consumer Brands Canada decided to deploy a business intelligence (BI) package, the company was only looking to get its monthly paper sales data in a weekly electronic format. A little more than a year later, they're using BI to gain a competitive advantage in such tangibles as shelf placement and the effectiveness of weekly promotions...
If you've ever owned an SLR camera, you can probably remember the first time you held it in your hands. I do Here, I thought, many years ago when I picked up my Minolta X7, is something of substance. Weighty, certainly, but also beautifully balanced -- an inanimate object capable of animating its beholder....
Toshiba announced a 1.8-inch, 40 gigabyte hard disk drive today, touting the technology -- the cutting edge of disk drives under development in different sizes from competitors Seagate and Hitachi -- as a "first" that would enable consumer electronics devices to store as many as 10,000 songs or 25,000 photos on a single 40GB platter Analysts indica...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will delay a final vote on whether to approve and activate the ".xxx" top-level domain after requests from the U.S. government and others to hold off on a decision, which was to come this week The domain has already received preliminary approval from ICANN, with mainly technical issues...
As of yesterday afternoon, users of computers running the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system were feeling serious affects of network worms, thanks to a Plug-and-Play vulnerability known as MS05-309. Media outlets including CNN, ABC, the Associated Press and The New York Times have suffered computer shutdowns, and analysts said we haven't seen the end of the drama yet...
Symantec yesterday announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire endpoint compliance solutions provider Sygate Technologies Endpoint compliance solutions help enterprise organizations enforce security by guaranteeing that all devices connected to a network -- desktops, laptops, servers, and mobile devices -- are running the appropriate secur...
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