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The upcoming presidential election, a job-challenged economic recovery and an unstoppable trend toward outsourcing have forced a debate on the offshore hiring of IT services workers. Tech industry leaders are arguing that foreign employment is necessary to compete in the world market Presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) has propos...
Reviving one of the pioneering brands of the Internet boom in an effort to stop cost-conscious customers from jumping to discount ISPs, America Online has unveiled a cut-rate Internet access option bearing the Netscape brand. AOL said its Netscape access service will feature unlimited dial-up access for US$9.95 per month and will serve as a stripp...
Linux is irritating Microsoft, and the software giant isn't going to take it anymore On Monday, the maker of the Windows operating system launched what it says will be a prolonged advertising campaign to "get the facts" before the IT community about the cost benefits of its OS over its open-source competitor....
Judging by its strategy, firewall vendor NetScreen is committed to a holistic view of enterprise security, leading the charge to integrate and deepen the firewall beyond its original parameters. The company's recently released Deep Inspection Firewall, for example, is designed to prevent application-level attacks, respond proactively to other security concerns, and integrate well with other enterprise security applications. Moreover, NetScreen's recent acquisition of Neoteris, a leader in SSL VPN (virtual private network) solutions, adds another weapon to its broad security arsenal...
This week Microsoft announced its intention to deliver Office 2004 and Virtual PC for users of Apple Mac computers during the first half of 2004, hoping to hold on to the small, profitable Mac market. To entice Mac users, Microsoft is offering an upgrade to the new Office 2004 for free to users who buy the current version anytime from now until 30 days after the new product's release...
Before discussing the results of our experience with the new ATI Radeon 9800 XT graphics card, it is important to mention a few points up front. There has been a significant amount of controversy in recent months concerning the validity of established benchmarking techniques for graphics cards. This controversy stems from a growing perception that graphics vendors have been optimizing their chipsets and drivers specifically to get higher benchmark results...
Taking a stab at simplicity in the incompatible world of online music and portable players, RealNetworks has released a major update to its flagship media software, now called RealPlayer 10. The release is the company's first new player in two years that is capable of playing media in the formats sold in the online music stores of competitors, including Microsoft and Apple...
Underscoring the potential it sees in positioning computers as entertainment devices, Intel has announced it will establish a venture capital fund to back startups that develop home entertainment hardware and software. The chipmaker said its venture wing, Intel Capital, will oversee the Digital Home Fund, which will have a US$200 million bankroll....
Apple is angling to reinvent the PC world 20 years after the arrival of the first Macintosh. Toward that goal, company CEO Steve Jobs has announced GarageBand, the latest addition to the iLife product family, and a 4-GB mini iPod that sports sherbet colors. However, price may be an issue: At a relatively steep US$249, the mini iPod costs just $50 less than Apple's 15-GB iPod...
A European consumer group is suing major record labels Sony, EMI, BMG and Universal over a CD copy-protection technology that reportedly blocks playback of the labels' releases on some devices. Claiming it has received some 200 complaints from European users, Belgium's Test-Achats announced the suit on behalf of consumers and is asking the record labels to stop producing the reportedly problematic CDs...
Kicking off the new year by trying to leverage last year's biggest PC trend -- burgeoning sales of cheaper notebook computers -- Intel and AMD released new mobile processors for the value and 64-bit markets this week Intel is aiming the Celeron M at the value market to compete with AMD in the value space and to create differentiation from the compa...
Yahoo is poised to end its long-time relationship with search-results provider Google, setting the stage for the two leaders in paid and traditional search to begin competing more fiercely for market dominance The breakup has been expected for a while, as Google has become more of an all-around threat to Yahoo by offering paid search listings and n...
Lawyers for the makers of "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" (GTA/VC) are proposing to move a lawsuit against the controversial video game from state to federal district court in Florida "Big, powerful corporations usually try to make it as difficult as possible to litigate against them, so they move cases into the arena that is most costly for the plai...
More than three-fourths of all Web users access applications such as instant messaging, media players and file-sharing applications -- not just browsers -- in connecting to the Internet, according to a new study by Internet researcher Nielsen//NetRatings Out of a total audience of 106 million people using Internet applications in November 2003 -- u...
By suing individual computer users, the Recording Industry Association of America has succeeded in curbing the online trading of unlicensed music files and herding peer-to-peer network users to licensed-music sites such as iTunes and Napster, according to a recent survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project The Internet research organization...
As the market starts ramping up for what is likely to be a resurgence in IT spending and a mass attack on the consumer by every technology company on the planet, there will be a few key battles to watch this year. Some will go a long way toward defining the rest of the decade For starters, technology vendors apparently see consumers as easy picking...
As Microsoft's long-planned strategy to transform the PC from a work device into an entertainment hub takes shape, the company intends to use this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to ratchet up its efforts to capture more of the billions of dollars spent on home entertainment According to published reports, Microsoft plans to unveil a ...
Last week, the U.S. Congress passed the sweeping "CAN-SPAM" bill, creating the first federal law regulating spam. Advocates of the bill say it is a major step forward in the fight against the deluge of e-mail ads for pornography, cheap prescription medicine and scads of other something-for-nothing schemes On the other hand, critics contend the law ...
Microsoft officials are promising computer users more help in solving security threats that have plagued users of the company's best-known products. But Microsoft will rely on third-party vendors to provide at least some of the solutions. Microsoft announced its new strategies for securing its products in a series of low-key media advisories and keynote addresses earlier this month...
A new worm that quickly infects its victims via MSN Messenger is not terribly rampant and was mitigated by poor timing on the part of its author, but the Jitux.A worm does illustrate how use of new avenues of attack is likely to grow in the coming year It used to be that viruses and worms almost always traveled and spread through e-mail attachments...
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