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IBM announced today that it will work with one of the leading human intelligence researchers in the world to map how the brain works, a project that Big Blue said emphasizes the continued importance of supercomputers and could produce advances in both medicine and technology. IBM said it will give a...
Computex in Taiwan is the showcase for technology coming out of, and into, this country. Much like Comdex, it, and CeBIT in Europe, are the shows that have defined high technology throughout the world. The vendor battles here are no less dramatic than the vendor battles were at Comdex, and, strang...
President Bush let it be known on April 14 of this year that he does not send e-mail -- not even to his twin daughters -- because he fears his "personal stuff" may be made public. His remarks were made during a discussion of whether his administration is being responsive to requests made under the F...
Virgin Mobile and BT Livetime announced a partnership yesterday to pilot live digital mobile TV. The duo will work with Microsoft, Sky, Argiva and GCap Media to do a four-month trial run over the DAB digital radio network. The television service offers Virgin Mobile's customers access to live digita...
Broadband experts gathered in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss the future of high-speed Internet access. Much of the talk centered on Texas, where a major battle recently took place between telecom companies and cable firms. The focus of the war was a Texas bill that would have allowed telecom ...
In a deal analysts say should make some stockholders happy, Sun Microsystems announced today that it would buy StorageTek for US$37 a share, or $4.1 billion, in cash. Both boards of directors have approved the move. Sun also agreed to assume StorageTek employees' stock options. Buying the data stora...
Microsoft claims its Xbox 360 promises an all new gaming experience, but the company has ensured that the sound will remain the same by re-upping its deal with Fonix Speech for voice recognition technology. Fonix already provides the voice recognition for Xbox games such as the Tom Clancy series inc...
An international standards group has approved a new DSL standard that it says will increase the technology's upstream and downstream speeds to as much as 100 megabits per second -- 10 times faster than the fastest DSL now offered by carriers. The Geneva, Switzerland-based International Telecommunica...
President Bush let it be known on April 14 of this year that he does not send e-mail -- not even to his twin daughters -- because he fears his "personal stuff" may be made public. His remarks were made during a discussion of whether his administration is being responsive to requests made under the F...
Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced that it has been testing a digital rights management (DRM) system called "sterile burning" and has already released 10 CD titles -- about 1 million discs -- with the copy protection. It did not say which ones they were. "Sterile burning" limits the number of co...
Samsung Electronics yesterday announced it has begun mass producing high-density NAND flash devices. Analysts predict a fall in memory card prices is not too far off. NAND flash memory is the chip technology used to store data and applications inside cell phones, MP3 players, and industrial equipmen...
For several years a number of us have been anticipating the emergence of a Software Labor Union. The argument has not been whether it will emerge but what form it will take. The conditions for forming technology unions have never been better. In many companies there exists a huge difference in com...
Security risks from instant messaging networks and spam-clogged e-mail inboxes are forcing corporations to finds ways to either limit employee access or clamp down with improved security. Financial firms have an added burden. They must treat instant messages the same as e-mail communication and ensu...
As Sony and Toshiba jockey for position in the next-generation DVD battle, storage company Iomega looks farther into the future. Sony, backer of the Blu-ray high-definition DVD format, and Toshiba, backer of rival HD-DVD, have been going head-to-head for three years over which format should prevail,...
At one time, AT&T and MCI were the telecommunications industry's most influential service providers. As part of a recent period rife with dramatic market changes, the former is in the process of being acquired by SBC Communications and the latter by Verizon Communications. "Revenue and profit ma...
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