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According to reports today, Samsung has announced it will bridge the gap between two rival next-generation DVD formats by building a machine that is compatible with both. Sony, the leading backer of the Blu-ray high-definition DVD format, and Toshiba, the leading backer of rival HD-DVD, have been go...
File-sharing network Kazaa must alter its software to try to stop illegal music sharing, a federal judge in Australia ruled Monday, but one analyst said the ruling won't change peer-to-peer file-swapping at all. "In the end it's about as relevant as anything else these industries have done. Trying t...
Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP), which the electronics and entertainment company hopes can rescue it from financial doldrums, staged a record-breaking launch in the United Kingdom, shattering existing sales records as gamers scooped up the console and compatible games as soon as they became availa...
Borland Software yesterday announced the release of JBuilder 2006, the latest upgrade to its Java integrated development environment (IDE) designed to speed up industrial Java application development. JBuilder 2006 includes new capabilities aimed at helping software teams more effectively collaborat...
In a move to grab market share in the world's largest population base, Skype this week announced a joint venture with Tom Online, China's leading wireless Internet provider. The joint venture seeks to push Skype's Voice over Internet Protocol software and services to Tom Online's more than 70 millio...
Let's be honest: Backup is an unloved necessity. It costs money and takes time. Restores are time-consuming and frustrating. But the fact is you cannot live without them -- data must be backed up, it must be protected. Continuous Data Protection (CDP) offers a way to backup and restore data faster -...
In a move to grab market share in the world's largest population base, Skype yesterday announced a joint venture with Tom Online, China's leading wireless Internet provider. The joint venture seeks to push Skype's Voice over Internet Protocol software and services to Tom Online's more than 70 millio...
Except for those of us who build our own desktop computers, laptops have become the product that increasingly defines our personalities and which one we choose says more and more about who we are. Until recently our choices were defined by vendors: Apple if you favored high design, IBM if you liked...
You have a right to privacy at home, and can e-mail anyone, or visit any Internet site you choose. But do you have the same legal protections at the office? Probably not, experts tell TechNewsWorld, as, increasingly, employers monitor not only e-mail, but Internet usage, and, in some cases, phone ca...
A number of new music file-sharing projects are in the offing here and overseas, enabling pop music fans to swap songs for a fee. This month, Sony BMG will begin offering a legal, peer-to-peer music file sharing service with UK-based Internet service provider (ISP) Playlouder. Customers can share fi...
Once perhaps the most prominent seller of desktop PCs to consumers, Gateway has announced a new small business server aimed at diversifying its product line, increasing its margins, and leaving behind its more recent marketplace struggles. Gateway announced its new E9220T server as a "low-cost, entr...
Intel and Philips are working together to build and market home entertainment centers that will run on Intel processors, the chipmaker said at IFA, the International Consumer Electronics Fair, in Berlin. Both personal computer makers and consumer electronics manufacturers have been touting centraliz...
Nikon this week announced two WiFi-enabled digital cameras, the Coolpix P1 and P2. The models allow consumers to immediately transmit images wirelessly directly to a computer or printer adapted for wireless printing. Analysts said the Coolpix eight-megapixel P1 and the five-megapixel P2 are indeed ...
Toshiba, the main backer of a next-generation DVD disc format known as HD-DVD, has signaled it will not ship its players based on the technology before the end of the year, leading some analysts to doubt the format's ability to compete with the Sony-backed Blu-ray format. Analysts observed that it a...
A new threat to national security surfaced this week and if federal agencies fail to address it, they could hamstring important tools to catch terrorists. The General Accounting Office (GAO) reported this week that federal agencies are breaking privacy and security laws while conducting data-mining ...
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