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Microsoft's moving on to a new phase of its Windows ad campaign, and Jerry Seinfeld won't be joining the adventure. A new series of ads premiering Thursday shifts to a more direct brand and product focus -- a sharp change from the eccentric, image-oriented spots Seinfeld had helped orchestrate In contrast to rumors circulating around the Web, thoug...
When it comes to maintaining the security of enterprises' mobile devices, many things keep corporate security officers and CIOs up at night -- but rogue code probably isn't one of them. Maybe it should be After all, there are management tools to disable lost phones and passwords to protect in-use devices, but too few enterprise security execs have ...
Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project, speaks at great lengths about preserving the ideological purity of free software, and in his vision of the future, computer software development is modeled after mathematics and science research, where all research and development is open. So far as Stallman is concerned, proprietary software production is unethical and should be avoided. As he detailed extensively in The GNU Manifesto, traditional closed source capitalism should be rejected in software development and replaced with a post-scarcity economy...
Physicists tell us that only a small percentage of the universe can be seen directly. In fact, the vast majority of the universe is what they call "dark" -- composed of matter and energy that we know is there but that we can't observe, identify or analyze directly. The concept of "dark matter," first described in 1933 by physicist Fritz Zwicky, h...
IBM is applying a common research model, collaboration between academia and the private sector, to the social media tech space. The IBM Center for Social Software is the first instance of a tech company establishing a center around these very popular emerging -- but still consumer-focused -- technologies, according to Big Blue. The Center's missio...
Rumors began bubbling up Tuesday that Google plans to acquire game maker Valve, developer of the "Half-Life" series and the Steam content distribution platform. The speculation began with a report in British technology publication The Inquirer, citing "well-placed sources" claiming Google would very soon purchase Valve The Internet search giant cou...
Supercomputer maker has introduced the CX1, a small and low-cost supercomputer running Microsoft's new HPC Server 2008. The system is scheduled for official release Sept. 22 Aimed at users across a range of markets, including financial services, aerospace, automotive, petroleum, life sciences, government, academia and digital media, the systems are...
Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung has launched a US$5.85 billion hostile takeover bid of flash memory chipmaker SanDisk News of the all-cash offer for SanDisk caused shares of the Milpitas, Calif.-based company to skyrocket more than 40 percent in early morning trading....
After years of development, Google's first Android-powered phone is finally here -- well, almost. T-Mobile is expected to unveil the HTC Dream at a closed media event Sept. 23, with the device rumored to hit store shelves by mid-October. The question, then, is whether the Dream -- and the Android concept on the whole -- can actually deliver. It's ...
Finding a quality television stand on the Internet should be pretty easy in this day and age of Google and Amazon.com, but back in late 2003, it wasn't Especially if one lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, like e-commerce entrepreneur Arash Fasihi did....
"Peak oil" is a term that resonates very little with about 95 percent of the population. I discovered this by asking a lot of people and getting blank stares. A few hardy souls ventured a guess, and those guesses were not far from reality. If you take those words to a search engine you will be surprised by the number of hits you get. I got nearly 5 million hits the first time I searched on the term. ...
When you buy a PC, chances are darn good that the service package will be neither very convenient nor inexpensive. Most in-home or in-office service plans amount to little more than a local repair shop guy traipsing through your front door on afirst-available basis. Even carting the computer to an in-store service center does not guarantee fast or efficient service. So when PlumChoice Online PC Services offered me an opportunity to try our their remote repair program, I sheepishly accepted...
Peak oil: When planet Earth reaches the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. Some say it has already happened, some believe it will within the next 50 years, and some deny the possibility all together By any measure, though, it is a scary concept around which consultants, scientist...
The din of protest against the proposed Google and Yahoo ad partnership, announced earlier this summer, is getting louder every day. The World Association of Newspapers, a Paris-based organization that represents about 18,000 newspapers and 77 newspaper associations around the world, is asking the Antitrust Division of the United States Department...
Intel launched its latest series of chips in the Xeon branded line of server processors Monday. The Xeon Processor 7400 series includes seven 45 nanometer (nm) chips sporting up to six processing cores per chip and 16 MB of shared cache memory The new six-core Xeons, aimed at mid-sized to large businesses, are optimized to run applications built fo...
A site known for its information on entertainment is now offering up thousands of movies and TV shows for free streaming. The Internet Movie Database, or IMDb, launched a massive streaming service this week. The Amazon-owned operation has 6,000 full-length programs already available with plans for more titles in the future The service interacts wit...
Silicon Valley computing giant HP has announced it will cut 24,600 jobs, or about 7.5 percent of its global workforce, over the next three years. Nearly half of those cuts will take place in the U.S The move is part of HP's integration of Plano, Texas-based Electronic Data Systems, which HP acquired for US$13.9 billion earlier this year.
There is a near-universal desire among firms to link all aspects of their supply chain -- including the customer front end -- on one platform. However, there are relatively few applications on the market today that address that demand ModusLink hopes to fill that void with its newly launched e-business suite.
HP on Tuesday launched HP Adaptive Infrastructure in a Box for Midsize Businesses, a suite of products and services designed to enable businesses with anywhere from 100 to 999 employees to more efficiently and cost-effectively manage their evolving network and IT needs Aiming to optimize systems performance, adaptability and business continuity whi...
Citrix rolled out the fifth edition of its XenServer virtualization software Monday. The platform features more than 130 new features focused on ease of use, performance and security Among the improvements to this latest iteration of XenServer are storage virtualization and integration with Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft, as well as persistent ...
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