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Sprint (NYSE: PCS) has unveiled a Windows Mobile-based PCS phone -- developed by Hitachi -- that touts the familiarity of the Microsoft Windows computing environment and the ability to communicate and connect to the Internet in a single, converged device The Hitachi G1000 combines the Pocket PC Phone Edition operating system with Sprint's nationwid...
Hewlett-Packard has purchased a Swedish software firm that specializes in interactive voice solutions, saying it will roll the smaller company's VoiceXML-based products into its own OpenCall offerings, which are geared toward the telecom industry. HP did not disclose what it paid for PipeBeach AB, a privately held firm with headquarters in Stockho...
Pity the people with summer birthdays or anniversaries. Their milestones often go overlooked amid the rush to beat traffic to the beach or get the barbecue fired up. July is also the month in which Intel was born, and while it may have been easy to overlook this milestone in the past, the chip giant turned 35 in 2003. It's not exactly 50 or 100, b...
Macromedia Flash technology garnered a somewhat shaky reputation at the height of dot-com mania in the 1990s, when it was often associated with Web site splash pages that effectively served as brick walls barring users from accessing a site's useful content But Flash has grown up -- or, more precisely, those who use this now-ubiquitous technology h...
Last year, the growth of the Internet backbone slowed dramatically as network providers around the globe, including KPNQwest, Carrier1 and Energis, reduced bandwidth capacity and, in some cases, brought down certain data pipelines altogether Washington, D.C.-based research firm TeleGeography noted that since the birth of the Web browser, internatio...
And so we come to the end of an era. When EMC announced on July 8th that it would buy software firm Legato Systems for $1.3 billion, it was the most potent sign to date that hardware innovation and systems engineering no longer define the warp and woof of corporate computing. Software has taken over. From the earliest days of magnetic disk technol...
Offering a reminder of just how quickly things can change in the world of business, AOL Time Warner booked a US$1 billion profit for the second quarter -- just six months after posting the largest-ever one-year loss by a U.S. firm. The company said asset sales, its $750 million settlement with Microsoft and some blockbuster movies helped it post t...
Software agents are beginning to emerge from their initial status as a computing and communications curiosity, and are providing customer service on the Net for major companies like Microsoft and Symantec. Beyond consumer applications, agents are even routing and scheduling warplanes on aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean While the popular concep...
While enterprises face all kinds of security risks, including vulnerabilities that must be patched and viruses that bombard corporate firewalls, the threats that strike the most fear into the hearts of chief security officers and their employees are the ones nobody has thought of yet. After all, any known threat can be at least minimized, but a ne...
Sprint (NYSE: PCS) on Monday announced plans to offer PCS WiFi Access, a broad-based service that will let customers connect wirelessly to the Internet via either WiFi hot spots or its own Nationwide PCS Network Sprint PCS spokesperson Suzanne Lammers told the E-Commerce Times that the new service is expected to launch before September 30th, which ...
Despite skepticism from several Linux supporters, Unix software maker SCO has reiterated its claims that the Linux kernel -- versions 2.4.x and later -- incorporates the company's own proprietary source code. SCO has called on Linux users to purchase licenses to avoid copyright infringement Lindon, Utah-based SCO has been in a legal battle with IBM...
Lindows.com has launched what the company is calling a "new class" of computer, insisting it is not a mere thin client or Internet appliance. The new Lindows WebStation is an Internet-ready, full-fledged computer designed specifically to be a family's second PC, a business terminal or a public-access kiosk Unlike many single-purpose thin clients --...
A new legal music download service for PCs has been unveiled, boasting the largest legitimate online catalog of songs to date, but BuyMusic.com still might be hampered because it lacks the freedom offered by free file-sharing networks, experts said. Aliso Viejo, California-based BuyMusic.com will sell tracks from its growing list of 300,000 songs ...
Chipmaker Intel has forged an alliance with Linksys, the home and small office networking provider recently acquired by Cisco as part of that company's push into emerging markets. The partnership calls for Intel and Linksys to share technology and combine their efforts to sell products to the small- and home-office market. The effort will focus on...
Responding to recent judicial and legislative efforts to sue and prosecute users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, opponents of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) are calling for protests The RIAA recently moved forward on its threat to sue individual users of popular P2P networks by issuing subpoenas to Internet servic...
Korean electronics giant Samsung has announced a new mobile processor with a clock speed of 533 MHz. The company called the new processor the "world's fastest mobile CPU" and promised it will offer new functions and services for mobile phones and PDAs Samsung said the new mobile processor, designed for improved handheld performance and power effici...
Microsoft plans to announce that the two largest cable television providers in the United States, Time Warner Cable and Comcast, will test its interactive program guide (IPG) software in their set-top boxes in limited markets. The test marks a milestone in the software giant's push into the home entertainment arena....
A truck gets a flat tire on Route 65, somewhere in Indiana, and the driver doesn't know his exact location. He phones the dispatcher, who looks up the trucker's locale with a vehicle location system that relies on global positioning system (GPS) technology Overcoming its beginnings as a niche application for high-end automobiles, telematics technol...
When it comes to the Internet, China is no longer undiscovered country.Three Chinese portals are trouncing their U.S. rivals in the region, andinvestors are taking notice However, although Sina Corp., Sohu.com and NetEase.com are beating U.S. rivals Yahoo, AOL Time Warner and Microsoft now, they were not always on top. Earlier this year, in fact, t...
Transmeta has announced it is on track to release its newest processor, the TM8000, this fall. The company is aiming the new processor, codenamed "Astro," at mainstream notebook computers and a wide range of portable power- and heat-sensitive form factors. The new chip represents a dramatic change in architecture for the Santa Clara, California-ba...
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