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Earlier today, at a developer's forum in Taipei, Taiwan, chipmaker Intel disclosed that it has developed two new, low-priced Itanium processors targeted toward the server market. Servers employing the new processors will be about 28 percent lower in price and up to 25 percent faster than earlier Itanium 2-based servers, the company said A 1.4-GHz v...
Iomega, one of the largest storage peripherals providers in the United States, began shipping a new drive today designed to go head-to-head against tape backup systems. The new REV drive, which comes in 35-GB and 90-GB capacities, consists of a drive housing plus the new REV removable media that is said to offer performance equivalent to standard hard drives.
How far Sun Microsystems and Microsoft take their newfound cooperation remains to be seen, but analysts agree both companies are being forced to embrace one another to fight off the successful interoperability and multiplatform approach of others, such as IBM, HP, Dell and Novell The recent announcement of collaboration between the two technology g...
Google's Web mail service, Gmail, has drawn fire from privacy advocates sinceits launch April 1st. The latest to speak out is California state senator Liz Figueroa,who is drafting legislation to block the free e-mail service. Figueroa, a Democrat, notedthat she is moving to block Gmail because she believes its e-mail content scanning reduces users' privacy...
Continuing to refine its business in a changing marketplace, IBM has announced it will sell rights to its PowerPC microprocessors to San Diego, California-based Applied Micro Circuits for US$227 million. The all-cash deal includes intellectual-property licenses as well as the rights to the IBM PowerPC 400 product line. Separately, the company announced an acquisition in the services sector.
Think that viruses and worms sent by e-mail are an IT security nightmare? Wait until you experience the next assault hackers are unleashing -- the browser-based attack. The second annual survey on IT security and the workforce conducted by CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association -- a copy of which was obtained by TechNewsWorld -- re...
While the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mulls over what to do about services for making phone calls on the Internet, two legislators have decided that the U.S. Congress should get into the act Sen. John Sununu (R-New Hampshire) and Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Mississippi) have filed bills in their respective legislative branches to place regul...
Intel has unveiled a new family of chips based on its XScale technology, which is geared toward balancing low power consumption with high-performance processing. The new PXA27x processors reportedly can handle multiple wireless broadband standards, such as 3G, WiFi and WiMAX, while also sporting enough power to provide mobile phones with full-motion videoconferencing capabilities and provide PDAs with DVD-quality video playback...
Software can kill you. Don't think so? Talk to the family members of 21 deceased patients treated at the National Cancer Institute in Panama in November 2000. The cancer patients died after being overdosed by a Cobalt-60 radiotherapy machine. The technicians who entered patient and medication data into the software that guided that machine will stand trial starting May 18th in Panama City on charges of second-degree murder...
It may be a one-time fluke or a sign of the broader economic recovery, but domestic music sales in the first quarter of this year increased dramatically for U.S. record labels. Fueled by sales from artists like Norah Jones and Usher, both of whom accomplished the now-unusual feat of selling 1 million copies of their albums in a one-week period, ov...
AMD has announced the settlement of patent claims with Intergraph in an agreementthat calls for AMD to pay Intergraph US$10 million, plus 2 percent of profits from its microprocessor sales for three years. The maximum payment from AMD is to be capped at $25 million In return, Intergraph will grant AMD a license for its "Clipper" microprocessor pate...
Public comments are due today at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding a policy proposal instigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to bolster government surveillance of the Internet Last month, the FBI, along with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), filed a petition with ...
Intel CEO Craig Barrett is urging China to use information technology to transform and advance the region's competitiveness in an expanding global digital economy In a speech before business, government and education leaders in Shenyang, Barrett said deploying and maintaining a modern IT infrastructure will improve efficiency and employee productiv...
Now that it has more firmly projected 2006 as the year it will deliver the next-generation Windows operating system, known as Longhorn, Microsoft is cutting overly ambitious parts of the software to avoid delays and ensure quality. The industry, which has been promised much by Microsoft with its talk of a revolutionary new file system and tighter ...
Thirteen years of open collaboration. Thousands of the best minds in software engineering working together worldwide. A unifying conviction that the best ideas emerge from cooperation and peer review. Put it all together, and you have today's Linux operating system, which is growing at a rapid pace As one of the industry's most robust and stable pl...
Microsoft has settled a long-simmering patent-infringement complaint with InterTrust Technology, agreeing to pay US$440 million to license all of the firm's digital rights management (DRM) technology. Settlement of the patent claims, which were first filed in 2001, is just the latest move by Microsoft to eliminate the phalanx of lawsuits pending a...
The topic of IT scams, both those done to IT folks and those done by IT folks, has come up several times in conversations over the last month. Since internal audit organizations are receiving massive increases in funding, staffing and provisioning, I thought it would be good to review some of the more interesting IT scams so that you too will know some of the things that likely will be found in a large number of firms.
The Internet, by design, is an open network that allows anyone to contact anyone else. While this openness makes communication between individuals and devices a breeze, it also creates pressing security concerns. As CIOs and IT managers around the world work to lock down their companies' networks and data, the design of the Internet is proving to be a tricky stumbling block...
Listening to some Linux critics, you might think that the open-source operating system is more of a threat to U.S. national security than a gaggle of Islamic jihadis lugging rocket-propelled grenade launchers around Fallujah, or mad Pakistani nuclear scientists selling secrets to rogue states At yesterday's Net-Centric Operations Industry Forum in ...
As more U.S. firms contemplate whether to send work overseas, a new twist is developing that could make the outsourcing debate even more animated. India-based software firm Infosys Technologies has announced that it will be opening a business-consulting practice in the United States The company expects to hire approximately 75 people within the nex...
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