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In a battle to establish a de facto standard, is it better to deliver technology first or to have the greater number of supporters? The emergence of ultrawideband (UWB) products, which allow a wide variety of PC and consumer electronics devices to exchange information over high-speed wireless networ...
Search engine leader Google has been forced to respond to a security vulnerability in its Google Desktop Search software, which reportedly made it possible for computer intruders to view desktop search results via the Web. The hole was discovered by security researchers at Rice University and report...
The end of this year marks the halfway point in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the tech industry has already gone through a number of dramatic changes. Compaq has ceased to exist as a company, having been fully integrated into HP, while IBM has gone the other way, divesting itself...
Microsoft beefed up its security offerings, buying the anti-spyware company Giant and announcing it would make available for free a beta version of the software for Windows 2000 and later. The test version will be available within a month, Microsoft said. Microsoft will use Giant's intellectual prop...
IBM said today that its bet on blade server technology is paying off, announcing that more than 100 companies had acquired its eServer BladeCenter specification since the blade server base technology was made available last September. IBM, which opened its BladeCenter design specification with Intel...
This week, federal regulators unleashed yet another telecommunications decision that will slow down progress, costing American jobs and economic growth. Technology's mantra of "faster, better, smaller and cheaper" is constantly running up against a bureaucratic mantra of "slower, mediocre, fumbling ...
Ending a disappointing chapter in its history, Hewlett-Packard today announced that Intel would hire its Itanium chip team, severing a 12-year development partnership between the companies. HP, however, said it was still planning to spend $3 billion over three years on the 64-bit technology. "It sur...
Faced with antiquated technical issues and political pressure, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week contemplated lifting the ban on cellular telephone use on aircraft. The Commission proposed relaxing the current ban on wireless phone use during flights that was intended to avoid in...
IT managers tend to look at wireless local area networks, or WLANs, much like adults view groups of loud teenagers -- with at least a little bit of trepidation and sometimes some fear as well. That's because while the wireless technology potentially offers companies the ability to enhance productivi...
The Motion Picture Association of America continued its assault on file sharing, joining with police in Europe and the United States to try to stop defendants that John Malcolm, the MPAA's director of worldwide antipiracy operations, called "parasites, leeching off the creativity of others." Monday,...
They've become another symbol of the holiday season -- the menorah, the Christmas tree, the colors of Kwanzaa, and now the holiday worms that hide in online greetings, e-mails and Web sites. This year's malicious software, or malware, arrived yesterday in the form of a new Zafi worm variant, Zafi.D,...
Gaming console giants Nintendo and Sony are enabling music and video playback on their popular gaming devices in an effort to dominate the lucrative market, expected to account for sales of $2 billion in the United States this year. Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) went on sale in Japan this week a...
Big Music's claim that its sue 'em all campaign is driving people away from sharing files over the P2P networks has once again been seriously questioned. The latest figures from P2P network research specialists Big Champagne show strong increases in use of popular file sharing nets in the U.S. and g...
The New York Stock Exchange and IBM announced in a conference call today that TradeWorks, a new processing system complete with custom hand-held devices -- all designed and built by IBM -- was up and running on the trade floor. "The key point is that the NYSE represents the largest application in th...
Two of the world's largest electronics makers, Samsung and Sony, announced today a broad cross-licensing agreement that will allow each company to take advantage of the other's technology. The companies, which reported negotiating the deal for about a year, said they would both benefit from one anot...
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