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Gaming industry analysts were not surprised at the Xbox 360 pricing, which had been rumored for months, but highlighted Microsoft's strategy to leverage its head start on competitor Sony, which will lag the Xbox release with its next-generation PlayStation 3. As widely speculated, Microsoft made its...
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom asked for public feedback this week on a plan to create a citywide, free wireless broadband network. The response should be a no-brainer, especially in a city dubbed the number-one wireless market in the United States. Getting high-speed access in San Francisco is no...
Gaming industry analysts were not surprised at the Xbox 360 pricing, which had been rumored for months, but highlighted Microsoft's strategy to leverage its head start on competitor Sony, which will lag the Xbox release with its next-generation PlayStation 3. As widely speculated, Microsoft made its...
If you've ever owned an SLR camera, you can probably remember the first time you held it in your hands. I do. Here, I thought, many years ago when I picked up my Minolta X7, is something of substance. Weighty, certainly, but also beautifully balanced -- an inanimate object capable of animating its b...
Toshiba announced a 1.8-inch, 40 gigabyte hard disk drive today, hailing the device -- the cutting edge of disk drives under development in different sizes among competitors such as Seagate and Hitachi -- as a "first" that would enable consumer electronics devices to store as many as 10,000 songs or...
As of yesterday afternoon, users of computers running the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system were feeling serious affects of network worms, thanks to a Plug-and-Play vulnerability known as MS05-309. Media outlets including CNN, ABC, the Associated Press and The New York Times have suffered comp...
Reports of Apple's inability to patent the interface software in its popular iPod music player and Microsoft's efforts to stake its claim to such technology through its own patent application have sparked wide speculation that Microsoft might make royalties off the Apple devices, which sold to the t...
The once thick walls that have traditionally been separating IT departments from its business leaders at companies both large and small are beginning to thin and crack. In fact, all signs indicate that these walls will soon crumble completely to create a new environment in which business leaders an...
Music being burned onto CDs is becoming a bigger threat than P2P file-sharing to both the music industry and record stores. The news comes from Recording Industry Association of America chief Mitch Bainwol, speaking for his bosses and the RIAA's owners, the members of the Big Four record label carte...
This week, let's look ahead at changes coming in hardware over the next few years and the players driving those changes. It is certainly time for a change. In 1984 we had two PCs in the business space, Apple enjoyed 40 percent market share and had two innovative designs (the Apple II and the Mac) -...
In a move to generate additional gaming revenues, Microsoft is implementing a new royalty program tied to the new Xbox console scheduled for release this holiday season. Analysts said the move could help Xbox get into the black. The software giant is also placing restrictions on which vendors can se...
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made an important ruling in favor of competition in broadband services. This change points the country towards greater broadband deployment, investment, and innovation. The Supreme Court's Brand X decision in late June made it clear that cable ...
In announcing its new anti-piracy protections, the Blu-ray Disc Association indicated it had adopted the same content management system used in the HD-DVD format, known as Advanced Access Content System. Blu-ray backers said they had also included a "Blu-ray specific" enhancement for content protect...
Virtual infrastructure software vendor VMware yesterday made competitive moves against rivals Microsoft and the open-source Xen project with new partnerships and shared source code announcements. The company expects standard interfaces for hypervisors to enable interoperability for customers with he...
Last week I focused on Windows Vista and how things didn't look particularly good for that product, at least not right now. I also mentioned that neither Apple nor Linux was likely to be able to take advantage of a Microsoft stumble. However, I didn't explain why, in addition, I was focused on the ...
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