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Adding value to the original Zire handheld while still keeping its US$99 price steady, Palm has introduced the Palm Zire 21, which has more software and a faster processor than the first version of the PDA With four times more memory than the original Zire, the Zire 21 handheld's 8 MB of RAM adds room for storing many years of appointments and thou...
Reinforcing the message that can be easily inferred from recent virus and worm outbreaks, security giant Symantec has reported that attacks on company computers -- up 19 percent to an average of 38 attacks per business per week -- increasingly are using a potent combination of disclosed security vulnerabilities and complex computer worms to hit systems...
Hoping to light a fire under sales of home PCs, Microsoft has unveiled the newest version of its Windows XP Media Center, which is designed to make it easier to download media and burn CDs and DVDs. The company also has debuted several content partnerships designed to emphasize the range of entertainment uses of the personal computer According to M...
The conspiracy theorists didn't have to exercise a boatload of imagination to picture the invisible hand of Microsoft wielding the axe that cut short Daniel Geer's tenure at @stake. After all, Geer had written and presented a paper suggesting the computing world was rendering itself genetically weak by creating the technological equivalent of a mo...
In the ever-expanding arena of large-display technology, is plasma here to stay? "Plasma displays, I think, are a very awkward technology," James Jaskie, chief scientist at Motorola's Microelectronics and Physical Sciences Laboratory, told TechNewsWorld Plasma display panels (PDPs) use emissive technology in which the display is created by electrod...
In Part 1 of this story, "Apple's New Bid for Insane Greatness," we looked at the iTunes Music Store's (iTMS) potential in the digital music marketplace. The Mac Observer publisher Bryan Chaffin told the E-Commerce Times that Apple's coveted iPod will play a critical role in determining the degree of iTMS' success In fact, Chaffin said Apple's posi...
In an attempt to gain some legitimacy for its industry, a group of peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet companies has announced a "code of conduct." The companies -- collectively called P2P United -- offer services that, among other things, allow people to exchange music files over the Web, a practice that has ignited a massive litigation campaign by the Re...
Sun Microsystems has surprised observers by warning it is mired in what it called a "particularly difficult quarter" that will result in a massive financial loss. The disclosure raises questions in some industry watchers' minds about the state of the overall technology recovery. Sun said it expects to post an operating loss of as much as 10 U.S. c...
Jeff Schwartz recently received an inquiry from a senior executive at a major wireless telephone carrier, asking if he could provide some product information about the software his company produces "So I e-mailed it," Schwartz told TechNewsWorld. But it never arrived. "I sent it two more times," he said. Still, the message didn't make it through.
Before the year is out, Apple Computer plans to launch a Windows version of its well-received iTunes Music Store (iTMS). The store's success thus far -- Apple has sold 10 million songs through the Mac-only version -- has renewed enthusiasm about the ability of legitimate digital music sellers to make inroads against the Kazaa juggernaut, especially in light of the RIAA's lawsuit campaign against users of the free file-sharing service...
The list of legitimate alternatives to the music-trading networks that were used by nearly 60 million people last year grew larger this week with a new service from San Diego-based MusicMatch Similar to Apple's successful iTunes, which claimed 10 million downloads earlier this month, MusicMatch will let users download songs for 99 cents each withou...
Recently, a letter from the Linux community to SCO supposedly addressed the concerns SCO has created in the industry about open-source software However, the letter fails to accomplish its apparent goals and, in my opinion, actually increases SCO's short-term chances of successfully getting funding from large corporate Linux users. In fact, in readi...
State and federal law enforcement authorities have announced a second arrest related to a variant of the Blaster computer worm. Meanwhile, security experts are watching and waiting for another virus variant to take advantage of a similar security hole in Microsoft Windows systems Blaster took advantage of a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) vulnerability...
IBM has expanded its countersuit against The SCO Group, saying SCO has harmed Big Blue's Linux business with its claims that IBM incorporated SCO's proprietary Unix code into AIX and Linux products. In addition, the high-tech giant has turned the tables by arguing that SCO actually stole some of IBM's own software code. However, IBM's sales force ...
When Brocade was founded in 1995, it had lofty goals and a simple premise. The company believed storage should be networked, and it envisioned allowing CIOs to cut storage costs and increase efficiency Since then, the company has evolved to provide networking foundations for storage area networks (SANs) for vendors in the systems, applications and ...
Internet security experts are divided on the source and purpose of computer viruses and worms like Blaster and SoBig. But some government agencies are investigating a possible connection between the increasing spread of infected computers and organized crime Recent trends are leading many experts to worry that malicious code buried in infected comp...
The chief technology officer of @stake, an IT security company with close ties to Microsoft, was reportedly sacked by his company just after he released a report critical of the Redmond, Washington-based software vendor Daniel Geer, also one of the founders of the company, is principal author of the paper "Cyberinsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly," wh...
In the face of increasingly tougher state and federal law that includes fines as heavy as US$1 million and potential jail time, spammers are hitting back by attacking antispam Web sites known for assisting administrators in the fight against unwanted commercial e-mail The latest activity -- both from lawmakers anxious to crack down on the mass-mail...
Apparently recognizing the same market opportunity as the major search players, Amazon.com has moved to establish a wholly owned subsidiary that will work on ways to use search to drive shoppers to its site. According to the company, Udi Manber, a former Yahoo executive hired last year, will oversee the venture known as A9. The company will be bas...
Windows is often the whipping boy when it comes to server platforms. But many in the industry now admit that Windows Server 2003 offers some significant breakthroughs over earlier versions of Microsoft's server software -- a change that could help Microsoft compete more effectively against Unix and Linux servers Windows Server 2003 is engineered wi...
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