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Oracle and Sun Microsystems have announced, amid much fanfare and mutual gushing, that they are still committed to their partnership. "It was basically a renewal of their vows," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT Research told TechNewsWord, "with a few interesting wrinkles." For instance, ...
Forty-nine mouse clicks and 81 minutes. That's how long it takes to properly set up and secure that new PC you got for Christmas, according to security vendor Symantec. Why should the recipient of a brand new, shiny, fast PC care? Because the "bad guys" find new PC users on the Internet in 20 minute...
New wireless video processing chipsets that let consumers capture, store and transfer video between various display devices in the home -- TVs or PCs -- debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The chips were developed by ViXS Systems, a Toronto-based developer of video proce...
After Intel announced its new "Leap Ahead" branding effort to go along with its Viiv technology, it was inevitable that chip contender AMD would soon parade its own digital entertainment initiative. AMD did so at this week's Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, touting its "Live" offering, which a...
Falling prices, the limping economy, natural disasters -- nothing has been able to put a crimp in the double-digit growth of the personal computer market over the last three years. Analysts expect a significant slowdown in 2006, but that is not to say that the worldwide growth rate for the market wo...
The most pronounced vendor battle we saw this past year was the battle between Microsoft and the open-source community. This one was particularly strange to watch because it seemed that both sides were doing more to help, rather than hurt, the other. Almost every time a large number of open-source ...
Some of the world's largest electronics and media companies yesterday joined together to work on high-definition television and audio standards for home entertainment networks. Charter Communications, JVC, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, NBC Universal, Samsung and Sun Microsystems formed HAN...
Worldwide semiconductor revenue will total US$235 billion in 2005, a 6.9 percent increase from 2004, according to the latest Gartner Group data. This will be the first time that the semiconductor industry has surpassed the previous record-setting year in 2000 when revenue reached $223 billion. "Stro...
Looking to maintain its competitive advantage for years to come, Intel yesterday said it has developed a new, ultra-fast, yet very low power prototype transistor. The transistor uses new materials that could form the basis of Intel's microprocessors and other logic products beginning in the second h...
Listen. Do you hear that yowling? No. That's not your neighbor's cat in heat. It's mainstream computer makers taking a gander at the latest margin figures on PCs. With the average price of a computer hovering around US$675 and the probability that $250 "system specials" will be needed to boost holid...
Sun plans to roll out its first servers based on the new multicore UltraSPARC T1 today. The company has its sights set on gaining market share in sectors dominated by x86 machines. Formerly code-named Niagara, Sun has been playing up the new eight-core processor for more than a year and officially i...
Samsung Electronics today said it has developed the world's largest transmissive TFT LCD (thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display), with high enough resolution to display digital television content. The new display is double the size of Samsung's flexible LCD display prototype announced in Janu...
In a bid for mobile business customers, RealNetworks this week unveiled its next generation Helix Server. The Helix Server Unlimited is Real's enterprise solution for delivering streaming experience to wired, and now, wireless devices. The new version supports 3GPP technology. That allows enterprise...
Sun Microsystems unveiled its updated UltraSPARC T1 processor this week, touting multi-threading technology that cuts power use for ecological and economic benefit. The new chip, formerly code-named "Niagara," will power Sun's new line of Sun Fire servers, to be released by the end of the year. The ...
AMD reportedly scored a market top of Intel last month, earning the title of leading supplier of processors for the U.S. retail PC market in October, according to Current Analysis. The research firm declared that AMD processors powered 49.8 percent of desktop and notebook computers sold in the U.S.
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