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Intel introduced the latest member of its quad-core family of microprocessors Tuesday at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif. The Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5335 and E5345 are the first, the company said, to bring the Intel architecture-based quad-core performance to the embedded market. A...
In a move framed as an anniversary celebration, not a reaction to competition, Sony Computer Entertainment America is cutting the price of the PlayStation Portable game console by $30. Sony said the units will now sell for $169.99, "delivering a significant $30 savings to consumers." That's about th...
When Phil de Vellis, creator of the "Hillary 1984" mashup video, wrote that "the game has changed," he summed up in four words the virtually earth-shaking revolution that is now changing the nature of the political campaign. Candidates in the 2008 presidential election face a landscape unlike any ot...
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate automobile emissions, contrary to the Bush administration's position. While rooted in a technicality -- a state's challenge to a federal agency's interpretation of the law -- the decision in Massachuse...
The world's largest online social networking site, MySpace, is leaping into politics. The site plans to host a virtual primary Jan. 1 and 2, 2008, in advance of traditional bellwether political events such as the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. MySpace announced its intentions Tuesday, but ...
British UFO enthusiast Gary McKinnon, who hacked into U.S. military computers in 2001 and 2002, lost his extradition appeal Tuesday in London's High Court. McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 U.S. military and NASA computers in the hopes of finding secret data on UFOs. He was charged in the U.S. ...
Their mode of Cyberspace travel may be called a browser, but what they're doing at news sites on the Web is more than just browsing, according to findings released last week by the Poynter Institute. Readers of news on the Web spend more time with stories they choose to eyeball than their counterpar...
IBM is close to unveiling a new Internet browsing technology that will help the visually impaired enjoy streaming video and animation. Code named "A-browser," which stands for "Accessibility Browser," the application uses and augments some of the technology found in IBM's Easy Web Browser, the softw...
Today, most corporate CEOs come up through the ranks from either sales or operations. Fast forward a few years, though, and IT leadership may be a third route to the helm. A number of trends in recent years indicate that the role is evolving, said Martha Heller, managing director of the IT Leadershi...
The video game publisher that has made a financial killing off its most popular game title, "Grand Theft Auto," is in hot water just one week after restructuring its board of directors and promising to increase its "exceptional brands and creative resources." The latest version of Take-Two's popular...
After coming under fire last week for replacing aerial photos of Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans on Google Earth with earlier pictures of the city in its pre-hurricane splendor, Google on Sunday switched photos once again to reveal the city more accurately in its current state. Last week's med...
Microsoft announced the early release of a patch that will eliminate an increasingly dangerous Windows flaw from users' PCs -- a full week before the company's scheduled monthly "Patch Tuesday" cycle. The software giant's move to fix the vulnerability on Tuesday was provoked by an increasing number ...
Last week, there were three events worth talking about, but I'll mention one of them only in passing. The first was the entry of the Xbox Elite into the market, positioned against Sony. It is almost a great product -- and for new buyers, it may be good enough -- but Microsoft could have hit a home r...
For the third time, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- the overseer of the Internet's domain-name address system -- has rejected a proposal to create a top level .xxx domain, and opponents of the adult-themed suffix hope three times is the charm. "This decision was th...
It always pays to be suspicious when unsolicited e-mails arrive, and on Friday new evidence underscored the point: A malicious e-mail purportedly from Microsoft actually serves up a worm dubbed "Grum." The e-mail, which claims to come from [email protected] and reads "Internet Explorer 7 Downloads...
