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Although celebrities such as Jackie Chan, rapper Ludacris and baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. will make appearances, the real stars at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week will be the cutting-edge gadgets. Now considered to be the biggest IT show in North America after...
Renewed interest in biometric security is heating up the cell phone industry in Asia. Industry watchers report that advanced security devices using biometrics are already popular in technology hungry countries in Asia and Europe. However, new biometric products already available to businesses and co...
The end of this year marks the halfway point in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the tech industry has already gone through a number of dramatic changes. Compaq has ceased to exist as a company, having been fully integrated into HP, while IBM has gone the other way, divesting itself...
IBM said today that its bet on blade server technology is paying off, announcing that more than 100 companies had acquired its eServer BladeCenter specification since the blade server base technology was made available last September. IBM, which opened its BladeCenter design specification with Intel...
Ending a disappointing chapter in its history, Hewlett-Packard today announced that Intel would hire its Itanium chip team, severing a 12-year development partnership between the companies. HP, however, said it was still planning to spend $3 billion over three years on the 64-bit technology. "It sur...
The New York Stock Exchange and IBM announced in a conference call today that TradeWorks, a new processing system complete with custom hand-held devices -- all designed and built by IBM -- was up and running on the trade floor. "The key point is that the NYSE represents the largest application in th...
Two of the world's largest electronics makers, Samsung and Sony, announced today a broad cross-licensing agreement that will allow each company to take advantage of the other's technology. The companies, which reported negotiating the deal for about a year, said they would both benefit from one anot...
IBM said grid computing is moving beyond the early adopter phase and announced today a series of "Think Grid" workshops to help its business partners learn more about creating, selling and using enterprise grids. The three-day workshops will be held in IBM Innovation Centers in the UK, California an...
AMD and IBM announced a collaborative breakthrough in processor technology today, marking the first use of two new techniques that advance speed and performance without requiring more power. Chip giant Intel has already produced processors with so-called strained silicon technology that offsets powe...
Men who have been balancing laptops on their knees as they work during rush hour on the train or wait in the airport for flights may be at risk of more than aches and pains from hunching over that little keyboard. They could also be prone to another major side effect: infertility. Dr. Yefim R. Sheyn...
Disney and its Buena Vista Home Entertainment Division have thrown their considerable weight behind the Blu-ray standard for next-generation DVDs, escalating the battle between this format and HD DVDs. Sony, Samsung, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are among the other companies that are promoting Blu-ray.
Cisco today outlined a strategy for its new Internet protocol (IP) networks and gained technical and Japanese market support by striking a deal with Fujitsu. The company announced that its "IP NGN" -- IP Next-Generation Networks -- architecture was pushing network convergence to provide various vo...
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is extending its PowerNow technology into the server and workstation realms, building it into Opteron processors, the company announced today. PowerNow, already available in laptops and desktop computers, helps keep chips cooler by cutting back on the power supplied to t...
The battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD to define the next generation DVD format shows no signs of cooling off. While electronics and computer companies such as Sony, Dell and HP back the Blu-ray specification, proponents of the rival high-definition HD DVD format, including NEC and Toshiba, can claim...
Although it is poised to bring some competition to the mobile gaming world with the PlayStation Portable (PSP), Sony seems more intensely focused on its PlayStation console and the silicon for the next-generation PlayStation3. With IBM and Toshiba, Sony announced a new electronics chip codenamed "Ce...
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