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The market for gallium-arsenide technology -- spurred by the mobile phone industry and the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- could ascend to US$3 billion this year. Research by the Boston-based consultancy, Strategy Analytics, forecasts that GaAs device revenues will gr...
Lawmakers are ratcheting up their attempts to provide some level of protection to minors who might be victimized by online predators. Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., has introduced a bill that would prohibit anyone under 18 from using school or library computers to access online communities such...
Microsoft this week made available its first ever software patch for another vendor's product, plugging a critical Windows hole that endangered users of Adobe's Flash Player. Microsoft signaled the third-party patch may be the first of more to come, which has broad implications for security and othe...
Skype's tagline is "The whole world can talk for free." Now, eBay's Voice over Internet Protocol subsidiary plans to bridge the language gap to boot -- but at a price. Skype on Thursday announced a deal involving language services provider Language Line and Voxeo, a provider of standards-based Inter...
Google aims to keep its search engine crown, and on Thursday introduced four new products with that goal in mind. Google Co-op, Google Desktop 4 and Google Notebook are designed to help its users find and share more relevant information. Specifically, the products feature new capabilities that lever...
Getting cheaper and better cable services to consumers has been difficult because the laws governing the sector have proved tough to change. This week, officials in two states announced key decisions that may significantly change the terms of the debate. Both announcements involve cable franchise re...
Opera Software on Wednesday announced plans to bring a Web revolution to the living room. The Norway-based browser developer intends to do this through a partnership with Nintendo. Specifically, Opera is putting its browser on Nintendo's much-anticipated new generation Wii console. Wii users can bro...
Microsoft took sides with console competitor Nintendo at the E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles this week, highlighting the significantly lower price tags on both Nintendo's Wii and the Microsoft Xbox 360 compared to gaming powerhouse Sony's Playstation 3. The renewed fight for gamers' attention is...
Google aims to keep its search engine crown, and on Thursday introduced four new products with that goal in mind. Google Co-op, Google Desktop 4 and Google Notebook are designed to help its users find and share more relevant information. Specifically, the products feature new capabilities that lever...
Microsoft is highlighting its latest advances in collaboration technologies at its Center for Information Work -- a four-year-old, 3,500-square-foot technology laboratory. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant uses the facility to develop futuristic technologies and demonstrate to its customers, p...
Web conferencing has become a popular communications medium in corporations for its ability to curb costs and improve productivity. Rather than bring a group of engineers together from various locations for a face-to-face meeting, Web conferencing enables them to meet virtually, which eliminates tra...
You'd never know the latest gaming notebooks from Alienware, featuring new wireless and multi-core processor technology, were actually coming from the world's largest PC maker, Dell, and that is just the way Dell wants it. The computer giant does not want to drain down the boutique factor of Alienwa...
The battle for market supremacy between Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 has entered the next phase, one where high definition features will play a key role in determining the winner. "Console and software vendors are working to take advantage of the new capabilities that high-definitio...
"Strange Bed Partners" sounds like a viable name for a good movie. It also characterizes the new business alliance formed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and its erstwhile enemy BitTorrent -- a peer-to-peer network that has become synonymous with online trading of pirated movies. The movie studio is a...
Sony is flexing its muscles at this week's E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles, showing off a motion-sensory controller and announcing pricing details for its much-anticipated Playstation 3 console. Sony Computer Entertainment President Phil Harrison announced the details of the next-generation PS3 ...
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