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Computex in Taiwan is the showcase for technology coming out of, and into, this country. Much like Comdex, it, and CeBIT in Europe, are the shows that have defined high technology throughout the world. The vendor battles here are no less dramatic than the vendor battles were at Comdex, and, strang...
President Bush let it be known on April 14 of this year that he does not send e-mail -- not even to his twin daughters -- because he fears his "personal stuff" may be made public. His remarks were made during a discussion of whether his administration is being responsive to requests made under the F...
Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) connections to the Internet provide business and personal users with near limitless computing convenience. However, unprotected wireless connections can be more damaging to corporate network security and user privacy than always-on cable connections without firewalls. Securi...
Intel wound up a week of multi-core processor madness at Computex in Taiwan, fittingly, outlining its newest mobile chip technology: the dual-core "Yonah" processor and accompanying chipset and wireless module. In addition to the dual-core technology, which has put Computex in the spotlight this wee...
Virgin Mobile and BT Livetime announced a partnership yesterday to pilot live digital mobile TV. The duo will work with Microsoft, Sky, Argiva and GCap Media to do a four-month trial run over the DAB digital radio network. The television service offers Virgin Mobile's customers access to live digita...
Nokia has announced a service to allow prepaid subscribers to keep track of their balance and call expenses. The Nokia Prepaid Tracker automatically displays details about the subscribers' account balance after each call or transaction. Nokia said the feature is designed to offer convenience to this...
Broadband experts gathered in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss the future of high-speed Internet access. Much of the talk centered on Texas, where a major battle recently took place between telecom companies and cable firms. The focus of the war was a Texas bill that would have allowed telecom ...
Samsung and Airgo, a company that plans to take 802.11n or WiFi wireless to another level with its multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna technology, announced this week they will ship new notebook computers that incorporate the extended reach and higher data rate wireless solution. The comp...
Microsoft yesterday announced that it is adopting industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology for the default file formats in the next version of Microsoft Office editions, currently code-named "Office 12." The new file formats, called Microsoft Office Open XML Formats, will become...
In a deal analysts say should make some stockholders happy, Sun Microsystems announced today that it would buy StorageTek for US$37 a share, or $4.1 billion, in cash. Both boards of directors have approved the move. Sun also agreed to assume StorageTek employees' stock options. Buying the data stora...
If you're looking for a laptop, you couldn't have picked a better time. New models seem to be appearing on a weekly basis, each with its own mix of features to entice buyers. Gateway, for instance, has introduced its M680 series, which packs power into a thin, yet full-sized package. Sharp, with its...
Amid skepticism from some industry observers who have been wary of Intel's Itanium processors, HP has continued along the road to a server switch to Itanium, touting its higher-end Integrity NonStop server as the latest to leave behind reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processing technology f...
A beta tool launched by Yahoo Research Labs this week gives searchers control over the way results are sorted with the slide of a bar. At one end of the spectrum is commercial sites and at the other, informational sites. Yahoo ranked sites from most commercial (-2 points) to most informational (+2),...
Antivirus experts report the new Sober-N worm is the most widespread virus in the wild. Sophos detected the Sober-N worm, which poses as tickets for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, in May. SophosLabs' May 2005 report indicates that the bilingual Sober-N worm has rapidly spread across 40 countries -- ...
Gateway introduced three new server and storage products for the education, government and business markets yesterday, in a move analysts perceive as the niche player's attempt to take advantage of low Network Attached Storage price points. The Gateway 9715 Server is a 4-way server platform for ente...
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