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A leading Green researcher and environmental advocate who was among the first to warn of the effects of global warming has caused a stir with his idea that a faster, more troubling timetable of climate change requires an embrace of nuclear energy While warnings over global warming and an end to nuclear energy have been basic tenets of the Green env...
In conjunction with the introduction of its new Performance-Power Rating, AMD today announced a line of low-power, high-performance AMD Geode processors, the AMD Geode NX 1500@6W processor and the AMD Geode NX 1750@14W processor. In addition to introducing the AMD Geode NX processors, AMD is renaming the current AMD Geode GX2 processor to AMD Geode GX 533@1.1W processor. Also available is the AMD Geode GX 466@0.9W processor and the AMD Geode 500@1.0W processor. The new naming system is based on the Performance-Power Rating that emphasizes the importance of the balance between performance and power for the embedded x86 processor market...
On the heels of last week's revelation of a potential security breach in the form of a code leak, Cisco Systems on Tuesday is expected to unveil a new high-end router for large telecommunications carriers. Code-named HFR (Huge Fast Router), the product will be part of an event to mark the company's 20-year anniversary The new router will be given i...
Lucent Technologies said Monday that it will pay about US$295 million to acquire Telica, a provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gear, in the latest deal to underscore the emergence of the Internet as a tool for traditional telecommunications. Lucent will dish out 92.7 million stock shares and options to acquire the privately held firm, ...
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, today announced its support for enhancements to the Linux kernel submission process to improve the tracking of contributions to the kernel and ensure developers receive credit for their contributions. Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer Andrew Morton said they adopted the revised process after obtaining input and broad support from key kernel subsystem maintainers and others in the open source community...
I was chatting with a journalist a couple of days ago to help with background on a story on Microsoft designed to debunk one of the most common misconceptions surrounding the company. I started to realize there were a lot of them -- some I actually held myself -- that either were no longer true or never had been This came to a head the other day wh...
Symantec, one of the largest providers of information security technologies, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Brightmail, a maker of anti-spam technology, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $370 million. According to the company, Brightmail's anti-spam technology will be a key complement to Symantec's array of gateway security solutions...
The following is a transcript of the radio address of President Bush to the nation: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week brought further evidence that across America, more citizens are finding jobs. The Department of Labor reported state-by-state job results, and these figures show that America's jobs engine is running strong....
Companies have been reciting the same slogan for what seems like ages: "We value your business." Thanks to customer relationship management (CRM) systems, however, many enterprises now can figure out exactly how much they value each customer's business Like it or not, CRM systems allow companies to identify customer segments, or "tiers," and serve ...
Sun Microsystems is attaching itself to Linux's growth in the retail market with today's announcement that it has made inroads into five chain stores by teaming up with Tomax Corporation. There's a good reason Sun has been porting its Solaris server to the Linux operating system. Tomax predicts that "80 percent of the new installations of our retail product will be on Linux," Steve Klingler, vice president of outsourcing at Tomax, told LinuxInsider...
As part of its legal wrangling with The SCO Group, IBM has filed a motion for summary judgment in an attempt to remove copyright claims from the multibillion-dollar lawsuit In its request, Big Blue cited a lack of evidence from SCO that would prove wrongdoing on IBM's part. The copyright claims in question are considered a major component of SCO's ...
There's an article in Britain's prestigious Times Online today called "Q&A: Napster and the Music Industry," which seems -- at least on the surface -- to explain what Napster 2 will mean to Britons now that its owner, Roxio, has succeeded in snaking it into the United Kingdom "Easy, safe and legal" Napster relaunched, said the Financial Times yeste...
Online music service Napster -- a division of Roxio -- has launched a download service in the UK, offering a choice between individual song downloads or a monthly subscription Users with Windows 2000 or XP systems can download the Napster jukebox application and begin downloading songs to their PC. Users that sign up to the Napster UK service befor...
Renowned computer scientist Andrew "Andy" Tanenbaum said he doesn't believe the conclusions of a draft report on the origins and legality of open-source software, particularly the allegation that Linus Torvalds didn't write Linux, as is commonly believed, but copied much of it from Minix, a Unix-like operating system that Tanenbaum wrote Tanenbaum ...
National leaders reviewing the emergency response and communication during and after the devastating terrorist attacks of 9-11 are looking to the private sector to bolster readiness at the same time some local governments are considering 802.11 wireless technology, or WiFi, as the basis of their own emergency communications systems While previous a...
Corporations will replace 100 million personal computers this year and even more in 2005, helping to drive a year-over-year increase in PC sales of about 14 percent in 2004, according to a report from research firm Gartner. Gartner said the improving economy will lead to widespread replacement of desktop machines now in service, many of which date...
Cingular and AT&T Wireless recently announced plans to merge, resulting in a bigger, more reliable network for customers. Not long after, Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America filed a petition to block the merger. Once again, so-called consumer groups are opposing market developments that help consumers. The push comes in an area ...
Symantec, a global leader in information security, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Brightmail, a maker of anti-spam technology, in a cash transaction valued at approximately US$370 million. According to the company, Brightmail's anti-spam technology will be a key complement to Symantec's array of gateway security solutions The ...
Just a month after announcing it would introduce 23 vertical industry solutions, Siebel Systems shipped the first two this week. Overall, the company's vertical CRM product line is designed to improve functionality, business processes, integration and customer analytics while reducing corporate customers' total cost of ownership (TCO) The first two...
With two courtroom opponents offering different interpretations of a recent ruling, VeriSign's claims of antitrust and breach of contract against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the network's oversight body, came under the spotlight this week Earlier this week, A U.S. judge dismissed the antitrust claim from VeriSig...
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