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Consumer devices, such as entertainment systems and home security products, are gaining intelligence and becoming more PC-like. As this occurs, users want to connect them to home local area networks and automate processes, such as moving music files from PCs to stereos or turning lights on and off. Because standard network protocols are needed to deliver such functionality, home security system suppliers formed the ZigBee Alliance, basing its core technology on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which is a low-cost, low-bandwidth technique for transmitting information...
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch and other parties with a stake in the peer-to-peer (P2P) warsshould meet with commercial P2P industry companies to talk about the so-calledINDUCE Act This is the point of view expressed by StreamCast Networks CEO Mike Weiss, one of several industry leaders who oppose the act as overreaching. He questions why no one from the in...
Telecom and cable giants are moving quickly to keep up with innovations and opportunities surrounding Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), one of the latest technology trends to draw aggressive strategies from companies such as AT&T and Verizon. As the larger, more traditional telecom and cable companies try to keep up with VoIP developments pushe...
An online security firm warned Saturday that the latest Internet virus was using claims about the death of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden to trick people into infecting their own computers British-based computer security group Sophos.com revealed that statements have also been posted on thousands of Internet message boards offering a link to info...
Computer virus companies spent yesterday scampering to develop defensesfor the newest strain of the MyDoom virus, dubbed MyDoom.O. By midmorning yesterday, thousands of e-mail inboxes were filling up withMyDoom.O subject lines -- and even specifically forged e-mail header information-- designed to encourage opening This latest MyDoom worm variant o...
Sun Microsystems is carrying out its promise to provide Opteron-powered products for volume markets. The Santa Clara, California-based company said its expanded Solaris x86 combined with AMD's Opteron processor would be offered in new Sun workstations and Sun Fire V20z servers, which are priced to move, according to Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner.
Apple and Motorola announced Monday that they will allow iTunes music store customers to transfer songs onto MP3-enabled phones The phones will be part of Motorola's next generation of phones due early next year. Users will be able to download music through USB or Bluetooth wireless connections.
Symbol Technologies, an enterprise mobility company, has reached an agreement to acquire Matrics, a company that designs and manufactures radio frequency identification (RFID) systems that are compliant with electronic product code (EPC) systems Privately held Matrics is based in Rockville, Maryland. The purchase price is $230 million in cash....
BMC Software today announced financial results for its fiscal 2005 first quarter ended June 30, 2004 BMC Software's net earnings excluding special items for the first quarter of fiscal 2005 were $32.1 million, or $0.14 per diluted common share, which compares to $0.03 a year ago and the company's revised guidance range of $0.11 to $0.14 provided ea...
Looking to keep its hold on the top rung among supercomputer makers, IBM landed a contract to build what will likely be one of the five most powerful computers in the world for the U.S. Navy Known as Kraken, the machine will have a theoretical peak performance of 20 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), making it the fastest computer under ...
After a growth surge that contributed to the decline in market share ofMicrosoft Internet Explorer (IE) for the first time in six years, usageof the Mozilla browser flattened out during much of this month "The general trend over the last two weeks, at least, seems to havemostly flattened out," Geoff Johnston, an analyst with WebSideStory, aSan Dieg...
College students across the U.S. are majoring in a new technology: wireless connectivity. It is a subject they are learning hands-on and using everywhere they go on campus Of course, wireless connectivity is not a credit-bearing subject on a long list of prerequisites to earn their degrees. Instead, it is a way to keep students plugged into researc...
Two recent "failures" of offshoring projects have been publicized as if offshoring does not work. The most highlighted instance is Dell's return of some support activities to the U.S. The second is Conseco insurance company's 2001-2002 foray into owning its call center in India. These two instances of standalone offshoring efforts by U.S. firms ha...
There is a line Jack Kerouac used to describe the independent,nonconformist nature of the Beat movement during the 1950s. He said,"Imagine explaining to 10,000 raving Tokyo snake dancers in thestreet that you are looking for peace but you won't join the parade." That may not be exactly the explanation that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmergot when he per...
Computer virus companies spent yesterday scampering to develop defensesfor the newest strain of the MyDoom virus, dubbed MyDoom.O. By midmorning yesterday, thousands of e-mail inboxes were filling up withsubject lines -- and even specifically forged e-mail header information-- designed to encourage opening This latest worm variant of the MyDoom fam...
Boston Scientific today announced financial results showing net sales roared up 71 percent to $1.46 billion in the second quarter over the same time last year, and net income skyrocketed by 200 percent, to $377 million "We experienced impressive growth across all our businesses and regions,and we are reporting new records in both sales and earnings...
Seagate Technology today announced it has introduced a five-year warranty, effective immediately, on every Seagate internal PC, notebook and enterprise hard drive shipped through its distribution and retail channels throughout the world Together with the company's introduction last month of 12 new products for every hard drive application, Seagate ...
MessageLabs, Sophos and Keynote Systems have released alerts about the new W32.MyDoom.O worm variant that has been circulating the Internet today and causing traffic slowdowns This latest variant in the MyDoom virus family was first identified by MessageLabs at 4:40 ET July 26th 2004....
A new jacket from Rosner GmbH, a German clothing firm, combines a 128 MB MP3 player that is controlled through cloth buttons on the left sleeve. Headphones are built into the collar.
MessageLabs, Sophos and Keynote Systems have released alerts about the new W32.MyDoom.O worm variant that has been circulating the Internet today and causing traffic slowdowns This latest variant in the MyDoom virus family was first identified by MessageLabs at 4:40 ET July 26th 2004....
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