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Targeting a fast-growing company that addresses a growing business concern, IBM today said it had reached an agreement to buy data integration company Ascential Software in a deal worth about US$1.1 billion Big Blue's first major deal since selling off its personal computer division gives it access to a market leader in the data integration field, ...
With a new and improved Microsoft Internet Explorer looming, the Mozilla Foundation said late last week that it is shifting its focus completely to its popular Web browser and e-mail applications In a letter posted on Thursday on its Web site, Mozilla announced its intent to pull the development plug on the integrated Mozilla Application Suite, a.k
When Matt Chasen's mother called him in tears because she couldn't afford to pay US$800 to ship an heirloom dresser across the country, he set out to solve the problem. His solution was the genesis of an innovative online company called uShip The light bulb moment came when Chasen was driving from Seattle to Texas to enter the McCombs MBA program a...
I mentioned last week that I was expecting the other shoe to drop this week at the Game Developers Conference 2005. That shoe was the next generation of the Xbox game machine, and it dropped like an atomic bomb. The collateral damage from the resulting explosion could be extensive. It may even take out Apple, forcing the company to exit the PC business...
The way Finjan Software founder and CEO Shlomo Touboul sees it, the end justifies the means. Virus and spyware writers have become so sophisticated in their scams and attack strategies that it is time to up the ante in protection services Security risks have gotten so prevalent in the last two years that the attacks have drastically impaired applic...
Nintendo is looking to revisit its GameBoy days, when the Japanese company was practically the only player in the mobile hand-held market, by including WiFi wireless capabilities in both its next-generation Revolution console and its DS, a dual-screen handheld gaming device Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced the forthcoming wireless function...
Yahoo apparently has its sights set on the fast-growing legions of small Web sites and blogs as potential advertising venues and is planning a network similar to the one Google uses to populate such sites with advertising Google has long served small text-only ads to small publishers' sites and even to some self-published blogs....
Google's news site, perpetually in beta, got an upgrade this week with the addition of a customization feature. The news aggregator site is programmed with an algorithm that sorts through more than 4,500 English news sites and calculates which are the most relevant....
A court has boosted the chances that Japanese Internet company Livedoor will be able to take over one of the country's largest radio broadcasters in a deal that would also give it a stake in a large television network Livedoor has positioned the move as a way to leverage its Web users and the listeners of the Nippon Broadcasting System. However, be...
IBM today announced the availability of its world renowned Blue Gene supercomputing system at its newest Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center in Rochester, Minn The new Center will allow customers and partners, for the first time ever, to remotely access the Blue Gene system through a virtual private network and pay only for the amount of capac...
Novell announced yesterday the availability of its latest offering targeting experienced Linux home computing users. SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 boasts a complete Linux operating system, over 3,000 open-source packages and hundreds of open-source applications, productivity software, and home networking capabilities "SuSE Linux Professional has alwa...
The search engine industry is constantly evolving. It seems like every other week there is news of a new announcement -- the latest innovation in search that is sure to be copied within months, or a legal issue that threatens to change the landscape Search has transitioned from a simplistic entry point to King Content to a more interactive arena th...
Blogging is quickly becoming part of the online lexicon of marketing, sales and support organizations as companies look for better ways to connect with customers The Pew Internet and American Life Project published a report in January based on two blog surveys. The report is free and can be downloaded from their site, and it makes for interesting ...
Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the REAL ID Act of 2005. Privacy advocates decry the act as a move towards a national identification card while others back it as a key national security measure. Both sides miss important points, including the fact that Americans already have a national ID card It's called a driver's license. T...
Microsoft has acquired another small software company, the latest in a series of buys that have added to its portfolio in security, services and, in the case of its most recent deal, collaboration. With the acquisition of Groove Networks, Microsoft gets not only a company but also a big name in technology -- Groove's Ray Ozzie, who will now be working for Microsoft...
Software developer SAP and chip designer Intel said today at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, that they would collaborate on technology to allow companies to integrate data collected from RFID chips "The announcement provides additional evidence that RFID is real and is moving from being an interesting technology to a key enabler of the n...
Eager to expand its reach by honing in on opportunities around the world that its auction platform has missed, eBay has said it will launch a worldwide network of local classified sites In a move being billed as the auction giant's largest expansion outside its core business, eBay said it had opened sites in some 50 cities, all in overseas locales ...
In its latest move to compete with rival Intel, AMD today introduced Turion 64 mobile technology, the latest in a succession of chips based on AMD64 architecture Turion is designed for thinner and lighter notebook PCs with longer battery life, enhanced security and compatibility with the latest graphics and wireless solutions. AMD said Turion will ...
Five months after a preview version of CherryOS was released to cries that it was merely a copy of the open-source PearPC, software distributor Maui X-Stream has done it again. The Hawaii-based company re-released a final version of CherryOS on Tuesday to a similar reception PearPC, a PowerPC architecture emulator, is released under the General Pub...
Mobile phone makers and carriers are capturing the lion's share of the buzz at the annual CeBIT trade show this week, with vendors rolling out new products aimed at accommodating the next generation of wireless services and the rise of mobile commerce A slew of new and upgraded technology has been unveiled at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, fr...
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