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On the very day that "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" officially topped video game rental charts, other headlines point to research into the impact of such violent games on user behavior. Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine researchers have already determined in previous studies that exposure ...
IBM is using its influence in the IT arena to create the world's largest-ever grid computing system. The company envisions 10 million participants donating computing cycles to the World Community Grid, which is designed for use in scientific and environmental research projects. The Human Proteome Fo...
Corporations often need more wide area network (WAN) bandwidth but are deterred by its high cost and slow speed. Pricing for these lines runs from hundreds to thousands of dollars per month, and typically the links deliver 1.5 Mbps of throughput. Now a small but growing number of firms are opting to...
Dell and Microsoft have struck a partnership aimed at making it easier and faster for enterprises to update their server software with security patches and new releases. The companies said they will work to merge Dell's OpenManage 4 systems management software and Microsoft's Systems Management Serv...
Yahoo announced enhancements to its e-mail service, adding search, more storage and its DomainKeys sender authentication technology -- which is also being deployed by Internet service provider EarthLink in a test roll-out. While the news of the DomainKeys deployment was welcomed by most, there were ...
The two major initiatives in the consumer market this year have to do with digital media, and they are from Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft's is the broad Media Center Edition that encompasses the home and provides your music on a variety of products, while Apple's is more targeted at just PCs (both...
I'll never forget playing on a losing football team growing up and having my friends --my friends! -- yell from the sideline, "You guys stink!" Thankfully, I discovered a passion for baseball, played for years, and even won a city championship. Having your friends note your inability to compete alw...
Someday, someone might write a book called "Everything I Needed To Know About Economics, I Learned in My 'Second Life.'" That's because the multiplayer online gaming space "Second Life" provides, along with fun, valuable lessons about economics and human behavior. Created by the San Francisco-based...
Rio Rancho, N.M., may not provide its citizens with all of the services available in larger cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia, but the small city six miles north of Albuquerque is leading the technological race to provide a citywide WiFi network. The rollout of wireless Internet access is a...
As of November 15, the Big Four record label cartel's 'Man in Canada' will be Graham Henderson, senior VP of business affairs and e-commerce for Universal Music Canada, who manages Universal's e-commerce strategy and helped launch the Puretracks plastic music site. He'll soon be running the CRIA, sh...
IBM has taken an experiment -- Blue Gene/L, the world's fastest supercomputer -- and turned it into a commercial, albeit expensive, off-the-shelf product. The Blue Gene project began five years ago with the goal of creating a family of supercomputers that could have more commercial applications beca...
Tesco, the UK retail giant that sells everything from groceries to insurance, has opened its own online music market. The download site contains about half a million song files in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. IPods, which have captured more than 50 percent of the UK market, do not play WMA ...
In the latest supercomputer news arriving before the release of the Top500 list this week, IBM has announced collaboration with the Spanish government on a super system made with blade servers. IBM said the "MareNostrum" system, built with 3,564 Power processors in eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade se...
Last week I wrote about three companies that had either followed an Apple-like strategy (Gateway), utilized ex-Apple employees (OQO), or executed on a founding Apple principle (AMD/Microsoft). This week we'll examine three more companies that owe a lot of what they are to Apple, as part of my not-so...
Another entertainment industry group has decided to try to staunch the flow of file-sharing by suing those who participate. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced Thursday that it will go the route of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which since September 200...
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