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Newsflash: Apple is the market leader in digital music downloading, with more than 6 million song tracks sold in less than four months through its iTunes Music Store. That's good news for the computer company, which usually has to resort to the cold comfort of knowing that while people think its products rock, they don't buy them in nearly the numbers they do competitors' inferior machines.
Part 1 of this article discussed the relative advantages and disadvantages of IBM's DB2 and Oracle's 9i software. However, IBM and Oracle, with their combined 70 percent market share, are not the only RDBMS vendors in the database race. Microsoft, the number three vendor, has seen tremendous growth in the last few years for its Windows-only SQL Server. In fact, a recent Gartner Dataquest survey reported that SQL Server captured 18 percent of new worldwide RDBMS software license revenue in 2002 -- nearly 17 percent more than in 2001...
Flash animation -- once widely derided as a bells-and-whistles annoyance -- is quickly becoming ubiquitous, thanks to the prevalence of broadband connections and a freely distributed plug-in for nearly every major computing platform. In fact, Flash technology, developed by Macromedia, has become so widespread that many companies are starting to think of it as a platform unto itself...
A group of companies in the mobile technologies and devices industry has established a new standards body for mobile processor interfaces Called the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance, the new nonprofit entity seeks to define and endorse open-standard specifications for the application processor interfaces (APIs) used in mobile dev...
The perceived impact of the Linux licensing claims by Unix software maker SCO on enterprise use of the open-source OS, much like the recommended response to SCO, is split, according to industry analysts The legal posturing in the dispute, which began when SCO filed suit in March against IBM, claiming Unix source code from SCO was unlawfully incorpo...
IBM has become the latest computer services giant to score a billion-dollar outsourcing deal, signing a 10-year, US$1.1 billion agreement to handle the computer infrastructure needs of Switzerland-based power-services company ABB. In the race to ink high-profile services deals, this is just the latest in a string of victories for IBM's Global Services division...
In the film "The Recruit," Colin Farrell portrays a CIA agent who escapes a double agent by removing a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag placed on him and surreptitiously placing it on the collar of a dog he stops to pet on the street Alhough most of its uses are not as dramatic as those shown in "The Recruit," RFID tags are being used toda...
Although databases have been a fundamental component of the enterprise IT stable for decades, they now seem to be multiplying faster than ever before, both in number and importance Many enterprises now rely on hundreds or thousands of databases, and administering them has become a major challenge, Noel Yuhanna, senior industry analyst at Forrester ...
Enhancements to the OpenGL graphics application programming interface (API) will mean faster rendering and more realistic graphics in conjunction with the latest graphics hardware, according to SGI, which unveiled the OpenGL 1.5 specification Monday SGI and the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB) said the update includes the new OpenGL Shading L...
Nine days after Microsoft warned of a widespread Windows flaw, a program to exploit it has been published online by a group based in China, representing one of the shortest times between warning and worm. The exploit code, published by a group known as Xfocus, is not technically a worm itself, but it could be used to create a malicious program tha...
Saying their combined assets can drive down the cost of deploying real-time collaboration software, Sun Microsystems and Oracle have announced plans to work together to spread the word about the benefits of their alternatives to Microsoft's dominant Office suite Oracle said the push will include joint sales training and telemarketing campaigns on t...
Under an interdisciplinary project collectively known as the Semantic Web, computer scientists around the world are working on ways to revolutionize the Internet. The researchers -- from Europe, Asia and the United States -- are developing standards, protocols and technologies that will advance the development of a more meaning-oriented Web "The ai...
Recently, a new value-added tax (VAT) law was enacted to level the playing field between Europe-based and U.S.-based companies in the European e-commerce market. Previously, U.S. e-commerce companies doing business in Europe had not been required to charge value-added tax, putting their European counterparts at a disadvantage For example, Giga vice...
Garmin International today released its iQue 3600 PDA -- the first PDA on the market to integrate global positioning system (GPS) technology off the shelf. The device will be available through electronics retailers and traditional Garmin dealers within the United States at a suggested retail price of US$589 "By using the PDA acronym rather than the...
Despite SCO's claims that IBM is using SCO source code in its Linux products, Big Blue is offering Linux for free to customers who are using its pSeries servers The giveaway of a free license for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, limited to one per customer, might just be a marketing ploy, but it might also represent a show of confidence in the face ...
Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly US$7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States, as it pushes toward what it sees as a bright future for software despite the tech downturn. "We believe that we're just at the beginning of what we can do wit...
Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly US$7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States, as it pushes toward what it sees as a bright future for software despite the tech downturn. "We believe that we're just at the beginning of what we can do wit...
Microsoft says it plans to spend nearly US$7 billion on research and development in the current fiscal year and will add as many as 5,000 jobs, including at least 3,000 in the United States, as it pushes toward what it sees as a bright future for software despite the tech downturn. "We believe that we're just at the beginning of what we can do wit...
For many businesses, the allure of no-name PCs, called "white boxes" in industry parlance, can seem almost irresistible. Today's typical white boxes are equipped with industry-standard Intel motherboards and processors, avoid the software incompatibility that used to plague even makers of name-brand PCs, and are usually cheaper than their branded counterparts...
Microsoft has released a security bulletin warning that a flaw in the DirectX graphic interface in a majority of Windows computers leaves users vulnerable to buffer overruns The vulnerability allows hackers to execute code on a user's PC at the user's security level, according to Microsoft. It affects PCs running Windows 98 and higher on the client...
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