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Samsung yesterday announced three new technologies targeted at the expanding, multi-faceted mobile application industry. At a press conference held in Seoul, Dr. Chang-Gyu Hwang, Samsung's semiconductor business president and CEO, introduced a 16 Gb NAND flash memory, a 7.2 Megapixel CMOS image sens...

Tomorrow will not be "Patch Tuesday" after all, Microsoft announced late Friday, just a day after it said it would release just one patch, but a critical one. "Late in the testing process, Microsoft encountered a quality issue that necessitated the update to go through additional testing and develop...

Sun Shines With New Server Trio

Sun today announced a new family of enterprise-class x64 multi-core available servers powered by AMD Opteron processors and running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Sun said the new servers are about one-third the power, one-and-a-half times the performance, and cost half as much as comparably ...

Google Wins Another Mind Game

With its hiring of Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, Google proved again that it has the cachet to lure great minds. Google anointed Cerf "chief Internet evangelist," but announced no specific duties to go with the title, saying only that he would "help Google build network infrastructure, architectures, ...

As we watch the disaster relief effort play out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina we seem to be falling into the same old pattern of focusing on finding the right scapegoat rather than trying to make sure we can deal with similar future problems. Even after 9-11, the tsunami, and a variety of o...

Companies investing in VoIP across Latin America and South America are anticipating that they will generate revenue in several ways. There will be call handling, both inbound and outbound communications. There will be monthly subscriptions, with bundled minutes for national and international calling...

In a move to compete against rival Google, Microsoft yesterday said it plans to release new tools to help developers build software applications that work with its MSN online search and instant messaging products. Microsoft will publish Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to several of its public ...

Wireless technology giant Intel is deploying a next-generation, broadband wireless technology to provide survivors of Hurricane Katrina and relief workers a link to loved ones and assistance via the Internet. While some tech industry officials have opined that the devastated region is ripe for such ...

Chief information officers (CIOs) anticipate steady growth in the hiring of information technology (IT) professionals, according to the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report released this week. Sixteen percent of executives polled plan to hire full-time IT staff in the fourth quar...

Technology writer Robert X. Cringely and PBS TV on Tuesday began offering a Web-exclusive hour of tech talk, appropriately titled NerdTV. Although it may seem like a giant step toward TV on the computer, analysts don't see a significant trend toward Internet protocol TV, or IPTV, among mainstream co...

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Texas Leads the Way for IPTV

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is set to grow tenfold by 2010, but according to industry reports the leader won't be the United States. Instead, countries such as China, France, and Italy are forecast to lead. It's possible, however, that recent changes in Texas and at the Federal Communicatio...

Enterprises are driving the adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) security solutions, according to new research from the In-Stat group. The report, "Trends and Spending Plans for Security Appliances: Are We Ready for VoIP?," covers the impact of VoIP in the security appliance market, and c...

The U.S. government is again excluding non-Microsoft Internet browsers, as Hurricane Katrina victims seeking to file claims with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) may only do so with Internet Explorer 6.0 or above. Previously, the U.S. Copyright Office came under fire last month when it...

Microsoft is moving to make its software more attractive to smaller and medium-sized businesses, providing better pricing, easier licensing and resources to help partners focus on the smaller market that currently represents the biggest growth. Analysts indicated that Microsoft, fighting older versi...

Because of the Internet's widespread acceptance, search has become one of computer users' most commonly used functions. Individuals of all ages have become quite comfortable with sitting down, entering a few keywords and finding needed information. However, performing those functions at work for bus...


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