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In its first release since it was acquired by eBay earlier this month, VoIP provider Skype today introduced a new version for Windows platform. The new Skype for Windows 1.4 includes more mobility options, new ways for callers to personalize Skype with ringtones, sounds and pictures. Skype recently ...
These days, a sure way to get attention to something is to associate it to Apple Computer's hot line of iPod digital music players -- even if that association is a dubious one. That seems to be the case with Pod Slurping. A little over a year ago, Gartner Research in Stamford, Conn., cautioned corpo...
When Google recently released its re-vamped desktop search engine, a central element of the new offering was a sidebar. This clever device gives keyboard jocks quick access to a bundle of useful features. You can read e-mail as soon as it arrives without opening your e-mail program, for instance, or...
Looking to leverage the latest trend toward continuous, disk-based backup, Microsoft unveiled this week its Data Protection Manager and said its solution was available in storage servers and appliances from Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu and others. Microsoft touted a lower-cost backup and recovery capabi...
Just months after its US$250 million acquisition of Topspin, Cisco Systems today announced the first fruit of the merger's labors: technology that will help customers power their on-demand computing systems. Cisco said the latest elements of its Data Center Networking Architecture portfolio, InfiniB...
Sanyo today unveiled the Sanyo MVP, a multimedia phone built exclusively for ESPN Mobile. Targeted to avid sports fans, the Sanyo MVP is designed to work on a high-speed "EVDO" (Evolution Data Optimized) wireless network, enabling it to deliver the ESPN programming at ultra-fast speeds, as well as f...
Recently, I've made several trips to Geneva, Switzerland, the home of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). I've seen firsthand how this once-sleepy organization of patent attorneys and intellectual property technicians has become ground zero for an assault on the economies of the ind...
To mark its seventh anniversary, Google touted a Web search index three times that of any competitor, but despite former claims of billions and billions of Web documents indexed, the company left out a figure this time, eliminating the number from its front page. The move comes after rival Yahoo rec...
Formerly bitter rivals Palm and Microsoft announced an alliance this week in hopes of strengthening both companies in smartphone technology, devices that combine mobile phone functionality and Internet connectivity. And what makes two enemies that have fought fiercely over the mobile handset space c...
Microsoft and Intel yesterday lined up behind Toshiba and its next-generation DVD technology, called HD DVD, in a move that seems significant because of the combined influence of the two industry giants, but which in fact, one analyst said, will likely have a negligible effect. "The announcement wil...
Dell yesterday said it has added multi-core technology from Intel to its portfolio of dual-socket servers and workstations. Meanwhile, AMD also said yesterday that IBM, HP, and Sun are using its new dual-core Opteron. The announcements undoubtedly heighten the competition between AMD and rival Intel...
Take-Two Interactive, the U.S. company that lied about secret animated sex scenes stashed in one of its brutally sadistic "Grand Theft Auto" Rockstar video games, is counting on Bill and the Boyz, a.k.a., Microsoft, for a little extra lift. Next month, Take-Two plans to set an all-in-one, M for Matu...
Technology intended to untie the American worker is actually taking a tremendous toll, according to new research from IT analysis firm Basex. The report indicates that technology tools, including e-mail and instant messaging, are the main culprits when it comes to unnecessary interruptions that cost...
Formerly bitter rivals Palm and Microsoft announced an alliance this week in hopes of strengthening both companies in smartphone technology, devices that combine mobile phone functionality and Internet connectivity. And what makes two enemies that have fought fiercely over the mobile handset space c...
Dell today said it has added multi-core technology from Intel to its portfolio of dual-socket servers and workstations. Meanwhile, AMD also said today that IBM, HP, and Sun are using its new dual-core Opteron. The announcements undoubtedly heighten the competition between AMD and rival Intel. Analys...
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