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Reflecting its commitment to one of the fastest growing Linux markets, Novell has joined the China Linux Standards Group, launched this spring by the Chinese government to promote Linux in China. Representatives from Novell China will work with the Standard Group's officials and other members to contribute to the group's Linux standardization initiatives and education efforts, providing a push toward further Linux adoption in China...
Intel today disclosed key technical details of its upcoming wireless broadband chip for WiMax products, which will enable long-distance, high-speed wireless Internet access for homes and businesses The upcoming wireless component, code named "Rosedale," is expected to be the first "system-on-a-chip" design for equipment that supports IEEE 802.16. T...
Samsung Electronics unveiled what the company is calling the "first-ever mobile phone with an internal hard drive." The company's latest phone, the V5400, is currently being exhibited at the ITU Telecom Asia 2004 conference The V5400 is equipped with a 1-inch, 1.5-GB hard drive designed to expand the memory capacity of mobile phones from the conven...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Lexmark, today recalled nearly 40,000 laser printers According to a company statement, these printers can short-circuit, posing an electrical shock hazard to consumers. This recall is being conducted to prevent the possibilities of incidents or injury....
UK dialers will now be able to access a new set of Internet phone numbers designed to allow even greater growth of broadband voice communications. The move is likely to pump up competition with prominent providers there U.S. growth of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has caught on with improvements in both technology and strategy, but the develo...
Eyeing a million-dollar prize, a mathematician claims to have made progress in solving a 150-year-old riddle. The solution to the problem could render secure payments and other sensitive Internet transactions vulnerable A Purdue University professor has begun to publish what he claims is a proof of the Riemann hypothesis. The hypothesis, which date...
Unisys and Red Hat have announced plans to offer an integrated Linux platform to enterprise customers. According to the companies, the partnership spans an array of initiatives, including joint marketing, customer support, the continued development of open-source roadmaps and training This announcement reinforces Red Hat's strategy to work with par...
Following the lead of the Apache Software Foundation, the Debian Linux group has announced it will not deploy the Sender ID antispam standard due to licensing concerns The Debian project issued a statement on Saturday, noting that the group abides by a social contract to its users that specified all software included in the operating system will be...
Customers today come in increasingly unique and differentiated segments. They want to be seen and approached as individuals with specific needs and to feel that offers address them personally. Satisfying these self-segmented customers requires a careful balance of science and art While creative ideas and good marketing instinct will always be impor...
With a flair for the dramatic even Shakespeare might appreciate, commentator Larry Seltzer recently predicted that Sender ID -- a spam-filter technology some call the "king of the e-mail security mountain" -- would soon be history. "It's a tragedy," Seltzer wrote. "Microsoft's uncompromising licensing attitudes show a blindness worthy of King Lear."
The consumer electronics industry has been in the doldrums for some time and it wasn't until personal computer-based technology started to creep in that we began to see, quite literally, what we had been missing This isn't to say that the PC industry had it right, either. Both industries have a very strange view of the skills a typical buyer has or...
One would not call them intimate at this stage, but certainly the mutual interest between wireless local area networks (WLANs) and video applications is growing Companies and consumers already have deployed almost countless WLANs to support several kinds of data applications, such as electronic mail and Web browsing. But users are starting to dabbl...
HP has landed a US$55 million contract with 7-Eleven for deploying HP technology at 5,300 U.S. 7-Eleven locations. The five-year rollout schedule comprises more than 5,000 technology packages and on-site installations. HP's customer-support organization will deploy the technology and will provide support services for the products, including servers, storage, networks and printing devices...
IBM today unveiled an entry-level disk server priced under US$3,000. The new IBM TotalStorage DS300 is designed to give midsize customers the ability to transport data over standard Internet protocols. With the introduction of the DS300, IBM has become one of the first storage vendors to offer clients a storage system based on the iSCSI storage protocol. Using iSCSI, clients can create a storage area network (SAN) with existing Gigabit Ethernet networks...
In a move that might be repeated by other game makers struggling with the same issues of limited markets and console-centric development, Acclaim Entertainment announced it is filing for bankruptcy The announcement from Acclaim comes as little surprise because the company has warned of its financial troubles and suffered both from licensee lawsuits...
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), creator of the open-source Apache Web server, noted that it will not support the proposed antispam standard, called Sender ID, because Microsoft's licensing terms are antithetical to the spirit of open source Sender ID is designed to identify whether an e-mail's source address is actually the originator of the ...
General Motors and Ford suffered declining U.S. sales in August. Each announced Wednesday that it will cut production in the fourth quarter, risking profitability for the calendar year Chrysler, on the other hand, beat the bum month experienced by its competitors with its fifth straight month of sales increases. Since Chrysler managed to bump sales...
IBM announced Thursday that it will recall 553,000 ThinkPad AC power adapters after receiving reports that some units overheated, causing melted adapter housings and charred circuit boards The company also noted that the overheating could pose fire and electrical shock hazards....
Worldwide mobile phone sales surpassed 156.4 million units in the second quarter of 2004, a 35 percent increase from the second quarter of 2003, according to Gartner Gartner analysts said all regions experienced healthy sales of mobile phones in the second quarter....
Software developer Quark has made moves recently to improve its customer relations and to increase its focus on the European market "From the inside out, we're reassessing the way we do business and the quality and effectiveness of the solutions we develop to help our customers," Quark CEO Kamar Aulakh said....
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