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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...
Microsoft claims its Xbox 360 promises an all new gaming experience, but the company has ensured that the sound will remain the same by re-upping its deal with Fonix Speech for voice recognition technology. Fonix already provides the voice recognition for Xbox games such as the Tom Clancy series inc...
An international standards group has approved a new DSL standard that it says will increase the technology's upstream and downstream speeds to as much as 100 megabits per second -- 10 times faster than the fastest DSL now offered by carriers. The Geneva, Switzerland-based International Telecommunica...
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...
Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced that it has been testing a digital rights management (DRM) system called "sterile burning" and has already released 10 CD titles -- about 1 million discs -- with the copy protection. It did not say which ones they were. "Sterile burning" limits the number of co...
Only one holiday weekend behind its rival Intel released its dual-core Pentium D chipset, AMD this week announced the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor that, much like Intel's offering, is aimed at rolling the new chip technology into the wider marketplace of desktop and notebook PCs, in addition to ...
Samsung Electronics yesterday announced it has begun mass producing high-density NAND flash devices. Analysts predict a fall in memory card prices is not too far off. NAND flash memory is the chip technology used to store data and applications inside cell phones, MP3 players, and industrial equipmen...
Ask any box office expert to name the holy trinity of movie attendance and they'll tell you: big screen, big sound and immediacy -- getting to see a movie when it's released. With improving home entertainment systems rapidly undermining the first two tenets of attendance, how long will it be before ...
For several years a number of us have been anticipating the emergence of a Software Labor Union. The argument has not been whether it will emerge but what form it will take. The conditions for forming technology unions have never been better. In many companies there exists a huge difference in com...
Security risks from instant messaging networks and spam-clogged e-mail inboxes are forcing corporations to finds ways to either limit employee access or clamp down with improved security. Financial firms have an added burden. They must treat instant messages the same as e-mail communication and ensu...
As Sony and Toshiba jockey for position in the next-generation DVD battle, storage company Iomega looks farther into the future. Sony, backer of the Blu-ray high-definition DVD format, and Toshiba, backer of rival HD-DVD, have been going head-to-head for three years over which format should prevail,...
Delivering its first dual-core processor intended for mainstream, consumer and small-business PCs, chip giant Intel launched the Pentium D and 945 chipset this week, touting better support for multiple computing tasks, which increasingly include high-end graphics, audio, video and security. Intel sa...
Sunday's Indianapolis 500 will mark the first time a racing team will utilize wireless and Voice over IP (VoIP) technology at the world's biggest car racing event. Cisco Systems and Red Bull Cheever Racing today announced that they have joined forces and will use the technology at the 89th annual r...
At one time, AT&T and MCI were the telecommunications industry's most influential service providers. As part of a recent period rife with dramatic market changes, the former is in the process of being acquired by SBC Communications and the latter by Verizon Communications. "Revenue and profit ma...
Computer networking giant Cisco continued its effort to compete beyond routers and switches and grab a foothold in the data center, where it has had weakness in the past. The company's presence in this area has been strengthened by acquisitions recently, including the latest: FineGround Networks, a ...