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Hitachi Data Systems hopes its new universal data storage platform (USP) and software, which allow management of more data than ever before, will lure customers from main competitors EMC and IBM, but the Hitachi approach might be hindered by apprehension over the company's massive, monolithic storag...
Nokia announced the Nokia 9300, a new version of the company's Communicator. On the outside, the Nokia 9300 looks like a slim mobile phone. When opened, the device reveals a full keyboard and color screen. The 9300 is designed to appeal to professionals who want powerful functionality from a data-en...
The entertainment industry has been riding rough-shod over consumers ever since Napster -- the original, not the ghastly Napster II -- showed up online. Napster's appearance represented the first act in a commercial revolution that pits ordinary people against the corporate interests who've been in ...
The consumer electronics industry has been in the doldrums for some time and it wasn't until personal computer-based technology started to creep in that we began to see, quite literally, what we had been missing. This isn't to say that the PC industry had it right, either. Both industries have a ver...
One would not call them intimate at this stage, but certainly the mutual interest between wireless LANs and video applications is growing. Companies and consumers have deployed a growing number of WLANs to support a variety of data applications, such as electronic mail and Web browsing. Users are st...
IBM announced Thursday that it will recall 553,000 ThinkPad AC power adapters after receiving reports that some units overheated, causing melted adapter housings and charred circuit boards. The company also noted that the overheating could pose fire and electrical shock hazards. The announcement was...
In a bid to boost the credibility of the blade-server paradigm, which provide storage, networking and other functions in a small form factor, IBM and Intel jointly announced that the design specifications for the eServer BladeCenter platform would be made widely available to other vendors to encoura...
Sender authentication might work as a club to beat down phishing attacks on Web denizens, but it does little to fight spam. That's the finding of a study released this week by CipherTrust, a messaging security firm in Atlanta. On the basis of analyzing some two million messages received between May ...
The words "copy protection" make Adam Gervin wince. Gervin is senior marketing director for the entertainment technologies group at Macrovision, in Santa Clara, California, a company best known for cooking up ways to thwart the copying of movies and music from tapes and discs. He's also point man in...
A new study by Canadian researchers indicates a woman's chance of breast cancer returning after surgery is significantly reduced by following up with radiation therapy and tamoxifen. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, was attempting to determine if women with low-risk breas...
A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system: two worlds that represent a new category of extra-solar planets. Each of newly discovered planets is roughly comparable to the planet Neptune in our own solar system, says Geoffrey...
Nokia announced that it has shipped its one millionth game deck globally since the sales of the N-Gage platform started eleven months ago. According to Nokia, the sale of one million N-Gage and N-Gage QD game decks marks a significant milestone in the world of portable gaming. "We're proud to have r...
A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system: two worlds that represent a new category of extra-solar planets. Each of newly discovered planets is roughly comparable to the planet Neptune in our own solar system, says Geoffrey...
It's the dripping tap principal. Eventually, you can't hear anything else. Repeat something continually and people -- including the mainstream print and electronic media -- will start to believe it, particularly if what you're saying comes nicely wrapped in a study. "The paid-for music downloading m...
Skype Technologies today launched the beta version of Skype for Mac OS X. The software can be downloaded for free and is available immediately. "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennstrom, Skype...
