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Intel and Proxim today announced a collaboration to develop WiMAX technologies for portable broadband wireless access. The agreement includes the development of base station and subscriber unit access points that deliver wireless access for data, voice and video services. WiMAX, known also as IEEE 802.16, is an emerging wireless protocol that allo...
Munich, Germany and Norway's second largest city, Bergen, have announced that they will be switching from Microsoft in favor of Linux The Munich city council voted 50 to 29 for the change, but has not given specific details of what will be involved in the migration. However, it was noted that the Linux operating system and other open-source applica...
U.S. lawmakers considering a bill that would let Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication services expand with minimal government regulation were told the technology could become an underground network for terrorists and other criminals to communicate without detection In a hearing on a bill filed by Sen. John Sununu (R-New Hampshire), mem...
To quell the turmoil created Monday when it announced that its CFO had resigned "to pursue other opportunities," Red Hat has given financial analysts a glimpse of its end-of-quarter results, which it reports today after the markets close Kevin Thompson, Red Hat's CFO for approximately the last four years, issued a statement saying that he planned t...
Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry mobile e-mail device, has gained access to the world's largest handset maker with a licensing deal between Nokia and RIM-rival NTP, which is facing off with the BlackBerry maker in court over a patent dispute The matter has become even more complex as the death of an NTP shareholder has fueled specu...
File-sharing appears to boost music CD buying, according to survey results released by Warez.com, a maker of file-sharing software The online survey, which reportedly has been taken by some 150,000 people, shows that the purchasing of music increases slightly for some consumers after they discover peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. Light buyers of...
Suggesting that the federal Can-Spam Act of 2003 doesn't pack a big enough punch to curtail electronic mail spam, state lawmakers around the country are creating their own regionalized antispam laws. The New Jersey legislature is the most recent to join the movement to toughen antispam regulations The two-tiered legislature in New Jersey has bills ...
Three years ago, IBM, Sony and Toshiba announced a partnership aimed at developing a new processor for use in digital entertainment devices like the PlayStation. Since then, the product has seen a billion dollars in development work. Two fabs, one in Tokyo and one in Fishkills, New York, have been custom-built to make the new processor in large volumes. On May 12th, IBM announced that the first commercial workstations based on this processor would become available to game-industry developers late this year...
The first virus designed to infect mobile phones was detected Tuesday, as reported by security firm F-Secure in Helsinki, Finland. Nicknamed Cabir, the worm uses Bluetooth technology running in Symbian mobile phones that support Nokia's Series 60 smartphone platform. Several mobile phone makers use Symbian, including Nokia According to the security...
The SCO Group on Wednesday unveiled an array of new Unix products, as well as channel support and training programs. The announcement comes less than a week after the company reported disappointing financial results that included a quarterly drop from US$21.4 million to $10.1 million....
Oracle said increased license revenues from existing customers and a steadily improving economy helped drive a 15 percent increase in profit in the company's fourth quarter Oracle rang up a profit of US$990 million for the quarter, up from $858 million in the same quarter last year, narrowly beating Wall Street expectations and marking its sixth st...
After the market closed Tuesday, Redwood Shores, California-based Oracle disclosed that it earned US$990 million, or 19 cents per share, for its fourth fiscal quarter ending May 31st. The company's total revenue rose 9 percent to $3.1 billion during the quarter with its software revenue up 12 percent to $2.5 billion, and services revenue down 4 percent to $558 million. The fourth quarter's operating margin reached an all-time high of 46 percent.
Akamai Technologies confirmed Wednesday that its distributed network and servers -- which help serve major Web sites including those of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and others -- came under attack Tuesday, calling the denial of service (DoS) "a sophisticated, large-scale attack." Akamai -- which also said the attack was targeted at specific customer si...
What's so great about the 70 million or so downloads Apple says iTunes managed in more than a year, compared to the one billion (at a conservative estimate) that happen on the peer-to-peer networks every month? The "one billion" figure, which comes from industry observer Big Champagne, helps make the point that downloads from iTunes and the other plastic online music stores supplied by the Big Five record labels don't amount to a hill of beans.
Not content to accuse open-sourcers of stealing code and working on Linux programming on company time, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute now implies that the open-source community rips off The Wall Street Journal. So far, though, ADTI has not suggested that its mothers wear Army boots In a recent posting on LinuxToday titled "Open Source Tip of t...
Looking to quell fears of delay and signaling it is in the final stages of its newest upgrade to Windows XP, Microsoft released a new beta version of its Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, a long-awaited security and reliability effort that will probably be released within the next two to three months, according to analysts While there have been the us...
Since emerging from the fringe "Free Network Movement" early in the new millennium, WiFi wireless networking technology, also known as 802.11, has moved rapidly into the mainstream. The technology has gathered many adherents involved in one aspect or another of e-commerce, from network equipment suppliers and e-payment service providers to traditional online merchants...
File-sharing applications are among the most popular uses of the Internet today. According to the market research firm Big Champagne, an average of 9.5 million Internet users are simultaneously logged on to use file-sharing applications at any given time of the day to share music, videos, applications and other digital media -- a fact that does not please the Recording Industry Association of America...
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan calmed nerves frayed by inflation and rate-hike worries Tuesday by saying that inflation is "not likely to be a serious concern" in the near future Speaking to a congressional committee holding a hearing on his nomination to a fifth term, Greenspan said huge spikes in oil costs have not impeded the growth of ...
Today AMD announced what the company is calling a "technology milestone" -- the completed design of its AMD64 dual-core processors. AMD plans to deliver dual-core products to the x86 server market in mid-2005 and introduce dual-core solutions for high-end client PCs in the second half of 2005 AMD has been developing its multicore processors for sev...
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