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This week at the annual Telecosm conference at Lake Tahoe, Steve Forbes argued that many regulations, which mainly expand the power of government officials, are like a cancer that eats away at the benefits of capitalism. He's right, and that's exactly why the Telecom Act of 1996 needs to be revised Competition among capitalists results in innovati...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has made courting Linux users and those considering the open-source option a top priority and said the sheer volume of innovation that Longhorn development efforts are producing will make the next version of Windows worth the wait Ballmer commented on a range of topics during a Gartner-sponsored trade show for informatio...
Just days after dropping prices on its line of Centrino mobile processors for notebook PCs, Intel has added an incrementally speedier chip: the Pentium M 765. Analysts said the new chip is no big deal ...
NEC has upped the high-performance computer ante, launching today what it called the world's most powerful vector supercomputer. The company said the SX-8 has a peak processing performance of 65 teraflops. That speed, however, which would require 512 nodes running together, has not yet been tested IBM's Blue Gene scalar supercomputer reached speeds...
"Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" has become the second computer game to be a victim of Internet pirates in less than a week. Illegal copies of Rockstar Games' much-anticipated title, its manual and its cover are popping up all over the Web just days before its official release This follows online pirates theft of "Doom 3" and "Half-Life 2" in August...
Qwest Communications announced today that it has agreed to a $US250 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission The deal concludes a two-and-a-half year investigation of the company for alleged fraudulent accounting practices by former executives that resulted in the improper booking of nearly $4 billion in revenue....
Security experts are warning of a newly discovered security flaw in several alternative Web browsers, some of which recently have begun to chip away at the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer as users seek more secure alternatives IT security services firm Secunia issued a warning that the so-called tabbed browsing function in a host of alte...
The hack into a UC Berkeley computer that compromised the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people may not be uncommon, according to analysts. The amount of information compromised, however, is huge "University computers in general are notoriously open to attack," Steve Hunt, vice president and research director for Forrester Researc...
Samsung has introduced a new product to the South Korea market: a 5 megapixel camera phone with video-recording and MP3-playing capability, a 24-bit color LCD display and shutter speeds as fast as 1/1000 of a second For U.S. camera phone users, who by and large own sub-1 megapixel handsets, buying a Samsung SCH-S250 would be like going 0 to 100 in ...
In a world that just keeps getting smaller, Microsoft and Swatch have teamed up to introduce a new line of watches that that uses wireless technology to offer personalized news, sports and weather from MSN Direct If that's not enough to sell the futuristic timepiece, the Swiss watchmaker is also attempting to woo consumers with exclusive entertainm...
Less than a handful of zombie network operators are responsible for all thephishing attacks in the world, according to CipherTrust, an Atlanta-basedmessage security firm In an analysis of its global customers' e-mail traffic patterns during thefirst two weeks of this month, CipherTrust researchers found that less thanone percent of all e-mail conta...
As regular readers of this column know, I'm a big fan of the Apple Macintosh, but I'm much less of a fan of Apple Canada in general and their dealers in the Toronto area in particular This morning (Tuesday, October 19) I needed an external power adapter for a 17-inch titanium -- since it doesn't have a SPARC CPU, having to call it "sparky" every ti...
Cable companies are branching out, moving from their traditional video services to new markets, such as Internet access and voice communications As they transition into these new areas, they need to determine what type of hardware they should deploy to support their offerings. Because of their video heritage, cable companies have recently begun to ...
The music choices available to you via your cell phone may expand dramatically if a new offering by EMI Music UK proves successful. The company will join with Carphone Warehouse to offer Robbie Williams' new "Greatest Hits" album on a preloaded memory card that can be played by many newer cellular phones. The release marks the first time a major company or artist has sold music in this format...
Despite a surging software industry revolution in favor of subscription-style pricing arrangements, most enterprise software buyers prefer the traditional approach of buying a one-time license, according to a newly released report A survey of 500 enterprise software makers and their customers sponsored by two software industry groups found what mig...
U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael Powell is calling for a hands-off approach to Voice over IP (VoIP) and has vowed to attempt to take regulatory control back from the states after the presidential election "It is very likely that treatment of VoIP will have some of the farthest reaching consequences of anything the Commi...
Unisys has joined forces with the SAS Institute to make Linux enterprise-ready for business intelligence in a move that demonstrates the server maker's commitment to meeting customer interest in open-source software and services The effort is aimed at helping organizations migrate from the proprietary Unix/RISC-based systems to industry-standard 32...
Unisys has been receiving a lot of attention lately, including accolades from IDC and Frost & Sullivan and a spot in the most recent edition of the book CRM at the Speed of Light But there's been bad news as well. The company posted lower-than-expected third-quarter profits. Nearly a week ago, the company announced earnings down more than 50 percen...
It's time again for a medical check. As we approach 2005, it's best to know if your corporate identity image is healthy, slightly injured or on a life-support system. You have to know this, as only healthy images are fit to run the race, and potentially win. Injured corporate identities can surely stay in the race, but it would cost a lot more to keep them running as they lag behind...
When you ask business folk if they've considered hiring an IT consultant to move their company to an open-source platform, some think of a penguin logo and sleep-deprived, pony-tail-sporting developers. Others conjure up an image of an unkempt young techie with his feet up on the desk and Cheetos crumbs on his keyboard These perceptions may be unfa...
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