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IBM has won a key ally in its quest to turn around the fortunes of its PowerPC processor, which suffered last year when Apple announced it would use Intel chips instead in its machines. Freescale Semiconductor, which helped develop and proliferate the Power platform, has become the latest company to...
A maker of software to manage music CD copying has agreed to make its protection scheme less vulnerable to computer crackers. After the Electronic Frontier Foundation released an open letter raising security concerns about the MediaMax application, its developer, SunnComm Technologies, announced it ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration seem like unlikely partners, yet the two have worked together to solve a number of crimes in recent years. NASA researchers developed sophisticated software called Video Image Stabilization and Registration, or...
Sony Ericsson has taken direct aim at the handheld business solutions market -- which BlackBerry once owned -- with the release Monday of its new M600 phone and messaging device, the second Symbian OS 9.1 and UIQ 3.0 enabled phone in the Sony Ericsson product line. Features designed to entice corpor...
IBM has introduced a chipset technology that will take close-in wireless connectivity to the next stage, it claims, by leveraging higher-frequency radio spectrum to digitally transmit and receive 10 times faster than today's WiFi. The new silicon germanium technology allows the chipset to send and r...
Tech heavyweight Google and Skype, a subsidiary of eBay, have invested in a Europe-based startup that hopes to revolutionize the WiFi business, though it has yet to roll out a key part of its technology. Google and Skype joined venture investors in pouring some US$21.6 million into Fon, a startup th...
A few years ago the music player device space was incredibly boring. The Sony Walkman CD player was the last big thing in music players, and it had long since become irrelevant. Products from RIO, which was going through a bankruptcy, and Creative Labs were anything but exciting. Then, from left fi...
IT employees are starting to gain back some of the clout they had during the 1990s, as hiring in the technology field has accelerated during the last six quarters. "A key component of the technology economy is IT employment, and it's going through a major transition," Joel Dibble, a spokesman for M...
Microsoft is calling "Shotgun!" as the software giant teams with automaker Fiat to feature its telematics applications designed for information and entertainment aboard new vehicles. The companies' "Blue&Me" plans, to be detailed at the 2006 Geneva Motorshow later this month, provide drivers of ...
Consumer and corporate Windows users had the chance to reminisce about the good old days of computer malware as the latest worm, dubbed Kama Sutra, made its expected appearance on Feb. 3. The worm, which at least one computer security expert believes is the creation of a teenager bent on creating ha...
After a year of heading in the right direction, the California Public Utilities Commission veered off course last week when Commissioner Dian Grueneich initiated a dangerous move towards old command-and-control regulation. Grueneich claimed to be staking out a middle ground in her alternate plan to ...
Several major broadcast networks have turned to technology and Internet companies in recent months to put their programming on the Web, but now, CBS has announced that it will cut out the middle man with its new strategy. The Viacom-owned television network plans to make available downloadable episo...
Cambridge, Mass., is moving to become the latest U.S. metropolitan area entirely covered by WiFi wireless Internet access. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the major universities that call it home, said it would work with the city to bring Web access to all, including those living i...
President Bush urged spending more federal funds to improve math and science programs in U.S. schools during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, a call to action that won approval from private sector execs in the tech industry as well as science professors at universities. Bush endorsed a ...
After a slight hiatus during the holidays, malware writers returned with vigor to their malicious ways in January, creating thousands of new software nasties. According to Sophos, an international malware-fighting firm, 2,312 pernicious programs were introduced last month. Anti-virus software maker ...
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