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Mobile computer users have always accepted that their devices were only mobile in the sense that they could be taken from one wireless access point to another. Accessing the Web at any point in between -- in other words, over most of the globe -- was problematic at best However, with the release of the Vaio T350 notebook in May, Sony began a bid to...
I just had one of the most surreal experiences in my life. I attended, as AMD's guest, the F1 Race in Indianapolis where 14 out of the 20 cars racing, including the Intel car, left the race after the parade lap Sharing the experience with me was a group of AMD's closest friends, mostly actual IT practitioners who favor AMD for mission-critical tas...
The adoption earlier this month of a new e-mail security technology by e-commerce merchant Amazon.com, Internet service provider RoadRunner and Internet security firm IronPort Systems signals what industry watchers say might be the start of a trend that will harden e-mail from phishing and spamming attacks Amazon and RoadRunner are the first major ...
MCI has launched a test of a consumer-focused voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, in a move that has puzzled some analysts because of the company's pending merger with Verizon MCI,which Verizon is in the process of buying for US$8.6 billion, has launched a test with about 5,000 customers of a service called Neighborhood Broadband calling....
Microsoft announced today that it would extend the intellectual property protection program it gives channel partners and PC manufacturers. The software giant said it would foot the bill for legal costs associated with any lawsuits related to Microsoft trade secrets, patents, copyrights or trademarks It will also pay damages awarded and settlement ...
Samsung's president and CEO of semiconductors Hwang Chang-gyu has reportedly signaled the price decline in Flash and DRAM chips is likely to subside and the cost of the memory technology -- popular in portable music players, digital cameras and mobile phones -- should stabilize Analysts, however, indicated that the continued oversupply of memory ch...
The SCO Group on Wednesday officially began shipping its OpenServer 6, the fruit of a multi-year, multi-million dollar development effort that the company is calling a "significant upgrade" to its flagship Unix operating system SCO said OpenServer 6 was designed to provide customers with increased productivity, greater security and more agility thr...
In the latest sign that it has designs on extending its e-commerce brand well beyond its core auctions business by catering to the legion of small merchants seeking to sell online, eBay has launched a storefront feature that will enable sellers to create a standalone Web retail presence The ProStores service is being aimed at both eBay sellers and ...
In what has become a closely-watched event in the world of high-performance computing, IBM's BlueGene/L System this week was named the fastest computer in the world on the Top 500 supercomputer rankings BlueGene/L is a joint development of IBM and the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration. It is installed at DOE's La...
EMC and Sun Microsystems yesterday announced agreements on several hardware, software and support initiatives designed to help customers more easily deploy their technologies together The companies will work to ensure compatibility between the EMC family of networked storage platforms and Sun's Solaris 10 operating system. EMC also intends to port ...
Many Americans, me included, have been oblivious of the economic powerhouse forming in Europe. The European Union (EU) has been slowly and steadily gaining strength and momentum and has today become a major financial challenger to the U.S This article will look at the EU from its origins to its present-day status....
When it comes to measuring their customers' satisfaction, too many companies have settled into a comfortable rut of changing their approaches to get the results they want. It's like buying a treadmill with the mile counter sped up; if we all could perform at such accelerated levels, we'd all be Olympic-class sprinters and milers. Ironically the more critical renewal business is in a company, the greater the emphasis on inflating customer satisfaction metrics, and the greater the tendency to design research programs that deliver results expected. This doesn't happen overnight; it is a gradual slide into the bad habit of designing research to get the results you want...
This month the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide MGM vs. Grokster, the case that could determine whether or not a peer-to-peer (P2P) company can be held liable for illegal activity on its network. The decision is key, but the future is also being shaped by the marketplace The digitization of content and the ability to share it quickly and e...
Yahoo has shut down dozens of Internet chat rooms after questions were raised about whether the sites were being used by adults to lure minors into sexual encounters The portal also removed a feature that lets users create their own chat rooms in Yahoo's popular chat community area, but Yahoo-sponsored and monitored sites remain up and running....
Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the popular BlackBerry mobile messaging device, won another round in its intellectual property fight with U.S.-based NTP as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office continued its re-examination of patents that are the basis of NTP's case Shares of RIM rose nearly 3 percent on news that the USPTO rejected ...
HP yesterday announced it has teamed with AMD to address the fast-growing small and mid-size business (SMB) mobile market. The computer maker introduced the 2.4-pound HP Compaq nx6125 Notebook PC, which incorporates AMD Turion 64 mobile technology and includes biometric security features IDC vice president Roger Kay told TechNewsWorld that HP has l...
SAP announced today it would buy Lighthammer Software Development, which makes applications that help manufacturers monitor and manage their plants "Lighthammer was already a good partner of SAP's, and was primarily sold as a value-add layer over solutions like SAP manufacturing, so it makes utter sense for SAP to wrap Lighthammer into the SAP offe...
Putting its own anti-spam technology to work -- and possibly hoping to highlight its effectiveness -- Microsoft has begun to use Sender ID to divert questionable messages away from the e-mail inboxes of Hotmail account holders Microsoft has begun verifying e-mail origins with its Sender ID framework, a technology the company developed and hopes to ...
In what has become a closely-watched event in the world of high-performance computing, IBM's BlueGene/L System yesterday was named the fastest computer in the world on the Top 500 supercomputer rankings BlueGene/L is a joint development of IBM and the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration. It is installed at DOE's La...
Microsoft continued its efforts to make more third-party security software of its own this week, completing its acquisition of enterprise messaging protection provider Sybari The deal, announced last February and finalized this week, will result in the availability of Sybari's Antigen software for messaging, gateway, spam and other security on the ...
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