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Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Triton PCS today said that they have signed an agreement -- contingent on the closing of Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless -- that will give Cingular expanded wireless service in Virginia and Triton PCS added coverage in North Carolina and entry into the Puerto Rico MTA A nonbinding letter of intent regard...
A very serious fight between Apple Computer and Apple Records of The Beatles is now headed for the ninth round On this side of the ring is Sir Paul McCartney, with the title of a legendary musical artist and boyish looks with a cute smile. On the other side, yet another youthful boy wonder, Steve Jobs, with his intellect and a legendary title for b...
Bill Xia, CEO of Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT), a company which runs services aimed at allowing Chinese people to access unfiltered news, says Google is helping Chinese authorities to maintain an online "matrix" that keeps people from finding out what's happening outside the country's borders DIT was founded in 2001 to provide low-cost, reliabl...
Open-source firm JBoss made two high-profile announcements today, unveiling the release of Application Server 4.0 and detailing an alliance with the Eclipse Foundation Both announcements indicate that the company is expanding its open-source presence, as well as becoming more of a contributor to the open-source community....
U.S.-based TruSecure is merging with Betrusted to create a security company with global reach. The new company, to be called Cybertrust, hopes to respond to the expanded risks in IT of not only vulnerabilities and viruses, but also compliance with government regulations on the handling of information The merger agreement, which has yet to beapprove...
Samsung Electronics says semiconductor sales growth will fall sharply next year, making it the latest company to suggest that the highly cyclical industry has seen the current upturn hit its peak already Samsung said it expects sales growth for the overall chip industry of less than 10 percent next year, compared to nearly 20 percent growth for 200...
The Oracle-PeopleSoft controversy has caused a ripple -- or perhaps a wave -- that has not yet reached the shore of software development, but it carries implications for both the largest and the smallest software firms Although Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft is by no means a done deal, the very possibility signals a shake up in the industr...
The best guarantee of success in outsourcing call center programs offshore is to match the work to be outsourced to the appropriate stage of a facility's lifecycle. Herein is a description of management and technical issues involved in running programs at offshore call centers that have gone beyond the awkward first stage of their facility lifecycle...
Connoisseurs of 1960s TV might be familiar with Paladin, a Western that featured a San Francisco character with a business card that read "Have Gun, Will Travel." He was a dapper cross between a private detective and a bounty hunter who roamed through the West tracking down bad guys. He was mainly a nonviolent sort, but, dead or alive, Paladin generally got his man and won the reward...
In the financial workplace, e-mail and instant messaging (IM) are becoming essential enterprise tools. Once the province of teens chatting with their friends, instant messaging is now relied on by brokerage firms and other financial companies to maintain contact with clients. An ever-increasing number of government regulations and industry-specific rules make compliance with secure-messaging criteria mandatory...
UK officials announced this week the arrest of a 20-year-old there suspected of stealing Cisco source code last May in a case of software theft involving integral Internet components, such as routers and switches, that rely on Cisco's Internet Operating System (IOS) While the Cisco source code -- posted to a Russian Web site and other Internet sour...
Roche, Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals today announced positive results from a phase III study of investigational drug Tarceva (erlotinib) in locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer patients The study met its primary endpoint of improving overall survival....
First Chicago (now Bank One) initiated the trend of charging for face time with a teller in order to encourage the more cost-efficient use of ATMs. Competitors hastily followed suit In December 2002, however, the bank dropped this controversial practice, concerned that self-service banking channels would weaken their relationships with retail banki...
Internet-based hacker attacks are being developed more quickly, becoming more sophisticated and are increasingly focusing on two high-profile targets -- e-commerce and Microsoft's Windows operating system -- according to a report from leading antivirus firm Symantec In its "Internet Security Threat Report" for the first six months of 2004, Symantec...
Consumers have steadily embraced the Web for their retail shopping needs over the last 10 years. Online spending in 2003 was almost US$55 billion and is expected to top $60 billion for 2004, according to reports from eMarketer Although some shoppers still have concerns about credit card security or the inability to touch and feel the merchandise, t...
The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation has issued areportproviding strong guidance on how to assess exposure for personal technology, with a heavy focus on personal computers The report is titled "PC Management Best Practices: A Study of the Total Cost of Ownership, Risk, Security, and Audit."
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is continuing to wage its war against peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks. On August 25, the RIAA filed new copyright infringement lawsuits against 744 individuals on a variety of peer-to-peer platforms, including eDonkey, Limewire, Grokster and Kazaa Meanwhile, the U.S. Court of Appeals in ...
In a lukewarm endorsement of a bounty system for spammers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said offering US$100,000 to $250,000 to whistleblowers inside the spamming community would help catch the online criminals In a report assessing the feasibility of a system that rewards members of the public for tracking down spammers, the FTC cited the dif...
In a lukewarm endorsement of a bounty system for spammers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said offering US$100,000 to $250,000 to whistleblowers inside the spamming community would help catch the online criminals In a report assessing the feasibility of a system that rewards members of the public for tracking down spammers, the FTC cited the dif...
ATI Technologies, the three-dimensional graphics chipmaker, today announced HyperMemory, a technology that allows a PC to use system memory for graphics processing HyperMemory uses the high-speed bidirectional data transfer capabilities of PCI Express to store and access graphics data in system memory, which could lead to less dependence on dedicat...
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