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Sony today announced new tools to allow software companies to develop games for its PlayStation 3 video game console. The electronics maker said this morning that it will acquire Britain's SN Systems and has formed alliances with U.S.-based Ageia Technologies, Havok and Epic Games to make more tools available Sony is preparing to reinforce its domi...
Continuing to use its deep pockets to beef up its security posture through targeted acquisitions, Microsoft has said it would buy enterprise e-mail security firm FrontBridge and take a stake in antivirus firm Finjan that will give it the right to purchase patented technology from that company Microsoft did not reveal the terms of either deal, but s...
IBM, in a move to bolster its presence in the electronic forms market, is expected to close a deal tomorrow to acquire developer PureEdge Solutions. Terms of the acquisition have not been made public PureEdge, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a developer of electronic forms using open-source technology called XForms, which is based on XM...
The world is getting a little thinner, according to Samsung Electronics. Company executives told International Meeting on Information Display and Exhibition (IMID) 2005 Business Forum attendees that the global flat panel display market would double in size within the next two to three years "The global LCD market is expected to grow from US$48 bill...
Mozilla on Tuesday released the latest version of its popular Firefox open-source Web browser and its e-mail client. The release marks the second time in eight days the company has issued fixes Firefox 1.0.6 is a stability update that restores API compatibility for extensions and Web applications that did not work in Firefox 1.0.5. Firefox 1.0.5 is...
A recent survey in the United States has highlighted the growing trend of employers to electronically monitor employees in the workplace According to the 2005 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey conducted by the American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute, employers have been increasing their efforts to implement electro...
Finnish broadband technology provider Teleste is hailing anticipated speeds of its high-speed Internet service over cable television lines, which the company reportedly claims will hit the 100 megabit-per-second mark as early as next year Teleste, a maker of cable broadband components, said its technology would rely on existing TV networks and woul...
If bad data is put into a data warehouse, companies risk what Tony Fisher, president and general manager at DataFlux, described as "code, load and explode." "If the data from a source system doesn't meet the expected qualities for that data, the loading process may fail, causing the company to stop the load process and try again," Fisher said, whic...
Long after Napster, mainstream software giants like Microsoft are beginning to get into the online music fray with file-sharing applications, and Internet giants like Yahoo are moving to subscription models for digital downloads While we've not quite seen a digital revolution yet, file-sharing pundits say we're inching closer to what was promised s...
Finnish broadband technology provider Teleste is hailing anticipated speeds of its high-speed Internet service over cable television lines, which the company reportedly claims will hit the 100 megabit-per-second mark as early as next year Teleste, a maker of cable broadband components, said its technology would rely on existing TV networks and woul...
IBM has announced it will separate its services businesses, creating two divisions to focus on the different types of consulting and outsourcing that now make up half of Big Blue's total revenue stream The move, announced yesterday when IBM reported strong earnings for the second quarter, comes after Hewlett-Packard announced its own sweeping restr...
The world is getting a little thinner, according to Samsung Electronics. Company executives told International Meeting on Information Display and Exhibition (IMID) 2005 Business Forum attendees that the global flat panel display market would double in size within the next two to three years "The global LCD market is expected to grow from US$48 bill...
This fight over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is all about a golden key, as without it, the Internet is completely useless. That golden key is a name on the Net called a URL. It's all about the master design of a sophisticated key management system so that billions of single domain name identities can offer access to billions of sites without any problem. After all, without this access, the Internet has no value...
Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, is a convenient way to funnel news to your desktop -- if you have an "always on" connection With RSS, not only can you receive up-to-the-minute feeds from heavyweight news sources, but you can plug into the blogosphere without blog-hopping on the Net....
In a pair of deals that could catapult mobile gaming to new heights, Electronic Arts said it will make some of its titles available on the networks of Verizon and Sprint, two of the top three wireless carriers in the United States EA will make a range of games available within coming weeks via direct download to various phones and over the networks...
By boosting the bandwidth of its front side bus (FSB), chip giant Intel is gradually improving performance of its Itanium 2 chips, laying the groundwork for the dual-core version of the microprocessor to come later down the road Intel said its latest Itanium 2 processors will have a 667 megahertz (MHz) front side bus -- a silicon component that con...
Microsoft is admitting a security flaw in its operating system could allow an attacker to remotely crash computers Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack that exploits a vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services, according to an advisory the software giant issued on Saturday....
Venture capital investment for the Internet could be poised to return to a healthy volume not seen since the late 1990s and earlier this decade In a sign of renewed confidence in the prospects of the consumer Internet, the founders of PayPal, based in San Francisco, and a number of other successful Internet start-ups, last week launched a new inve...
Search upstart Blinkx today introduced a new service designed to allow Internet users to receive personalized audio and video content via Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds SmartFeed draws from news and entertainment sources to offer automatic rich media updates. Blinkx founder Suranga Chandratillake said the company's automatic transcription tech...
Hewlett-Packard revealed its long-anticipated restructuring plan today, saying it would cut 14,500 jobs, freeze pensions and revamp its structure as it seeks to remake itself into a leaner enterprise better able to compete with the likes of Dell and to regain market share lost in recent years HP said the restructuring and staff cut of about 10 perc...
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