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Offering perhaps the strongest evidence to date that Internet companies are poised to enjoy a strong revival, Yahoo beat the Street with third-quarter profits that more than doubled from a year ago. The latest results bolstered the company's dramatic turnaround story, marking its sixth straight profitable quarter. Yahoo cited a combination of a mo...
In part 1 of this story, "Inside the Hidden World of Motherboard Manufacturers," we examined the inner workings of the motherboard industry and noted that unlike in the semiconductor sector, there are many companies competing for market share, including a few strong players and a wealth of second-tier rivals Perhaps as a result, NVidia general mana...
New growth in scorched earth might be the best metaphor to describe the state of the high-end router market at present. A few years ago, when the Internet was booming, a bevy of startup suppliers rushed to build the top-of-the-line network devices called core routers. It was thought that products operating at gigabit speeds soon would be needed everywhere to shuttle the massive amounts of information pumped over the Net...
Oracle has released its enterprise database for small businesses, promising the same features of its larger database at an entry-level price and position Oracle said Standard Edition One, a single-processor version of Standard Edition Database, will be offered at US$5,995 for unlimited users or at a per-user price of $195 with a minimum of five use...
Sierra Wireless has announced a new line of phones that will use Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. The first of the Voq line of phones, which will include a flip-open computer-style thumbpad for text entry, is expected to become available in 2004, providing "compelling voice and data functionality in a single, pocketable device," Sierra Wireless said Wednesday...
Touting more than 150 new features -- including improved interoperability with Windows and Linux -- Apple has announced that its updated Mac OS X Panther operating system will be available on October 24th The Cupertino, California-based company said Mac OS X version 10.3 delivers new features that will not be available in a Windows operating system...
America Online has announced it will expand its relationship with Google and will use the search leader's technology as the foundation for enhancements to its own search offering. Under the agreement, AOL Search will feature both search results from Google's algorithmic engine and sponsored links from Google's booming paid-listing service. Google ...
Who owns this crazy Internet, anyway? That's a complicated question, but we may be closer than ever to an answer, thanks to typos. Yes, good old-fashioned mistakes. It seems that about 20 million of them are made every day when people try to go directly to a Web site, only to transpose a couple of letters in the domain name. Before September 15th,...
Today's PDAs are getting more and more powerful. But will superpowered PDAs eventually lead to the death of laptop computers? That's highly unlikely, at least according to many tech users who use both PDAs and laptops regularly. TechNewsWorld interviewed several people in the industry to get a feel for where the mobile computing marketplace is headed...
As chips are inserted into all manner of everyday appliances, from refrigerators to phones, the semiconductor industry is not the only one that will heat up. The market for motherboards, which link all the components of a computing device, including processors, chipsets, memory and peripheral cards, is likely to follow suit Also, unlike in the chip...
Infrastructure bad boy VeriSign defended itself today, asserting it could find no evidence that its controversial SiteFinder redirector service had compromised the stability, security or performance of the Internet "VeriSign conducted extensive evaluation and testing of the service both internally and externally and with the assistance of third-par...
Charter Communications is the latest major ISP to take legal measures to prevent the Recording Industry Association of America from using subpoenas to reveal the identity of its Web users In a suit filed in federal district court in St. Louis, Missouri, Charter is seeking to block the RIAA from obtaining the identities of its customers, including t...
The aliens of the forthcoming video game Half Life 2 have been upstaged by Grinch-like hackers who stole some of the game's code and posted it online, meaning release of the real game likely will be pushed back until after the holiday season. Valve Software, maker of the popular first-person shooter, confirmed that code posted online late last wee...
In response to its recent loss in a US$521 million patent case, Microsoft has announced it will make "modest" changes to Windows and Internet Explorer to address issues raised in the case. In August, a jury in Chicago found that the software giant had infringed on patents held by Eolas Technologies and the University of California and ordered the ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced in September that 27.3 million Americans have fallen victim to identity theft in the past five years. About half of those thefts took place last year. According to the FTC report, the thefts resulted from several outlets that include credit cards, ATM machines and the Internet. These thefts caused billions of dollars in losses for businesses and consumers...
While corporate employees have enjoyed the benefits of WiFi (802.11) high-speed wireless networks for several years, consumers finally are gaining more widespread access to this technology as vendors install WiFi capabilities in airports, hotels and restaurants across the United States The main challenge faced by these vendors is economic, rather t...
The rugged-computing industry -- which seeks to make computers compatible with environments that are at odds with delicate electronics -- is one of the fastest-growing segments of the mobile-computing marketplace. Surprisingly, research firm Venture Development estimates the rugged-computing market will reach US$6 billion in sales worldwide by 2005.
In a deal that could help reshape a growing segment of the network security space, NetScreen Technologies plans to buy SSL virtual private network (VPN) firm Neoteris for US$265 million in stock and cash. NetScreen said it will pay $245 million in stock and $20 million in cash to acquire privately held Neoteris, whose shareholders stand to receive...
Microsoft's recent deal with Phoenix Technologies is aimed at "radical simplification to the PC and digital service industry" through enhancements to the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) -- the software that connects operating systems with hardware Industry observers agreed that the next generation of BIOS, as well as the digital rights management ...
I spend a lot of time listening to lots of folks complain that they don't have a choice, that big, bad Microsoft has come in and made their lives a living hell and that someone should do something about it. If you are one of those folks, today is your lucky day. I'm going to start telling you how to fix this problem. In this week's column, I address the "other" platforms. Next week, my column will be about how to use Microsoft products successfully...
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