- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
Sun Microsystems recently reported decreased revenues for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, but you wouldn't know anything was amiss by the other actions of the company Sun is planning massive investments overseas -- primarily in India -- and has reached deals to develop new thin client technologies. All of these important developments seem to...
Intel is reportedly set to divulge more details of its switch from its current microprocessor architecture to a fuller use of the chip giant's Pentium M mobile platform, which affords Intel the energy efficiency and lack of heat its previous transistor-heavy processor platform did not The company will detail the next generation of Intel chips at th...
In a move to generate additional gaming revenues, Microsoft is implementing a new royalty program tied to the new Xbox console scheduled for releasethis holiday season. Analysts said the move could help Xbox get into the black The software giant is also placing restrictions on which vendors can sell joysticks, gamepads, steering wheels and other pe...
In a four-year-old case closely monitored by civil liberties groups nationwide, a federal appeals court in Boston yesterday said a businessman charged with intercepting and reading his customers' e-mails can be tried under a federal wiretapping law The wiretapping law was passed in 1968 and amended in 1986 to address emerging computer technologies....
Amazon.com has agreed to pay US$40 million to settle a year-old patent infringement lawsuit just days before the case was set to go to trial Amazon will make the one-time payment to Soverain Software of Chicago. In exchange, Soverain agreed to drop all claims that Amazon violated five of its "core e-commerce technology" patents covering things such...
Two new phishing scams, one targeting PayPal and one eBay, are making the rounds on the Internet today, the anti-malware company Sophos said In the first, scammers are using a new twist: Instead of trying to get PayPal customers to input personal information on a bogus Web site, the e-mail sends them to a site hosted in Poland....
Memory chip maker Samsung Electronics yesterday claimed that it is leading the industry shift from Double Data Rate 1 (DDR1) to second-generation DDR2 main memory. Analysts said Samsung has a six- to nine-month lead against its competition DDR2 provides faster speeds, better signal integrity, improved thermal characteristics and reduced power consu...
The Web has been one of the fastest growing sales channels for multi-channel retailers and thus is often regarded with some trepidation and less esteem than traditional retail channels. However, the Web might be starting to show signs of maturity Meanwhile, according to recent reports from Forrester Research, online sales will continue to grow, but...
Extroverted, loud and direct, your sales force is a living case study about whether CRM drives sales excellence or not. The highest achieving sales people -- I like to think of them as sales warriors because the really do fight to win business every day -- are the lifeblood of any company. They bring the voice of the customer into any company Con...
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made an important ruling in favor of competition in broadband services. This change points the country towards greater broadband deployment, investment, and innovation The Supreme Court's Brand X decision in late June made it clear that cable companies were not required to share lines with com...
The open-source license covering the Linux operating system is scheduled to be released for public comments early next year, according to the Free Software Foundation The public debate over General Public License version 3.0 is expected to include comments from 150,000 people around the world. The GPL should end with a revamped and ready version 3....
Broadband Internet service and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) companies must build technology that allows "tapping" for interception by U.S. law enforcement officials to comply with a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission last week that critics complain unnecessarily and unilaterally expands federal rules on eavesdropping Civil liber...
Memory chip maker Samsung Electronics today claimed that it is leading the industry shift from Double Data Rate 1 (DDR1) to second-generation DDR2 main memory. Analysts said Samsung has a six- to nine-month lead against its competition DDR2 provides faster speeds, better signal integrity, improved thermal characteristics and reduced power consumpti...
Yahoo has said it will invest US$1 billion in China-based e-commerce company Alibaba.com, targeting a market exploding with growth and ripe with new opportunities The terms of the deal, which Yahoo billed as a long-term strategic partnership, call for Alibaba to take over Yahoo China and for Yahoo to invest another $1 billion in cash. In exchange, ...
Online sales approached US$39 billion in the quarter ending in June, according to a report from Boston-based Forrester Research That's a 25 percent increase over a comparable period last year and a slight increase over the quarter ending in April when sales were US$38 billion....
A new bill introduced by a Democratic Senator from Arkansas aimed at taxing online porn sites -- at a 25 percent rate -- is raising Constitutional concerns among legal scholars. The bill is called the Internet Safety and Child Protection Act of 2005 (S 1507), and has been referred to the Senate Finance Committee "Many Internet service providers ha...
Intel is in talks with Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) to use its chipsets for entry-level motherboards, according to a report circulating on Chinese news wires this morning The Chinese publication Commercial Times is reporting that the unit of United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) has secured an order from Intel for low-end chipsets, but cites no s...
The two different camps behind two different next-generation DVD formats are at it again, this time feuding after the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced anti-piracy technology that mirrors the competing HD-DVD format's content control, and adds some unique measures as well While the BDA did not mention superiority over the HD-DVD format, the ...
PalmSource and MontaVista Software said today that they will work together to speed the development of next generation Linux-based mobile phones, a move that furthers PalmSource's decision to move its Palm OS onto the Linux kernel The companies have joined each other's partner programs....
Microsoft yesterday issued its monthly round of patches, including a fix for a security flaw that could allow an attacker to gain control of a computer The software giant released six security bulletins this month, compared to 12 bulletins in the last round of patches in July. Three of the flaws were classified as critical, two were "moderate" and ...
Loading ...
