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IBM said grid computing is moving beyond the early adopter phase and announced today a series of "Think Grid" workshops to help its business partners learn more about creating, selling and using enterprise grids. The three-day workshops will be held in IBM Innovation Centers in the UK, California an...
Google's quest to aggregate all content on the Web has expanded to encompass whole libraries. The search engine company announced it would be scanning all or parts of the collections of the New York Public Library, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and the University of Michigan, which will then be searchab...
With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, video game publishers are seeing brisk sales and offering only a few surprises. Since December accounts for a major percentage of the industry's annual revenues, most video game publishers are playing it safe by promoting sequels to already succes...
AMD and IBM announced a collaborative breakthrough in processor technology today, marking the first use of two new techniques that advance speed and performance without requiring more power. Chip giant Intel has already produced processors with so-called strained silicon technology that offsets powe...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a $42.6 million grant to the Institute for OneWorld Health to create a cure for malaria. OneWorld, America's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, will work with the University of California, Berkeley, and Amyris Biotechnologies, according to a st...
2005 will see the next big battle for the home. The concept of the digital hub is slowly becoming reality, and both TiVo and Microsoft are making a run for the gold. ReplayTV is all but gone. Apple seems to have taken a pass on the entire concept. Sony is a player but has never been able to gain t...
As attention focuses on the increasing spyware threats to enterprise networks, vendors are beginning to view the enterprise landscape as fertile ground for anti-spyware protection. Webroot Software, a developer of Internet privacy and protection software, recently completed the first audit of spywar...
With Yahoo's announcement of a free desktop search tool to be available early next year, and other search engine and software companies such as AOL, Ask Jeeves, Microsoft and others delivering similar technology, the feature is becoming a standard part of search. All of the companies lag behind Goog...
Adding weight to the notion that two high-definition DVD formats may co-exist, leading manufacturer Thomson today announced that it would manufacture HD DVD-compatible discs as well as Blu-ray versions in its Technicolor division. The company, however, took a step closer to NEC and Toshiba's HD DVD ...
The holiday season has arrived, and with it will come higher mortality rates. For a number of reasons, including stress and cold weather, more people die around this time of year. While many accept death as a natural certainty, there is a growing movement that aims to do away with it. In The Scien...
Men who have been balancing laptops on their knees as they work during rush hour on the train or wait in the airport for flights may be at risk of more than aches and pains from hunching over that little keyboard. They could also be prone to another major side effect: infertility. Dr. Yefim R. Sheyn...
Siemens Communications claimed a historic wireless speed record this week, touting that its Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology allowed it to reach a wireless data transfer rate of 1 gigabit per second, which is 20 times the speed of today's wireless local area network (WLAN...
Disney and its Buena Vista Home Entertainment Division have thrown their considerable weight behind the Blu-ray standard for next-generation DVDs, escalating the battle between this format and HD DVDs. Sony, Samsung, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are among the other companies that are promoting Blu-ray. ...
Nearly four years ago I predicted that IBM would leave the PC business, and it took IBM two years to convince me that I was wrong. Imagine how surprised I was this week when IBM actually sold its PC business. Lenovo, formerly Legend, is a Chinese company partially owned by the Chinese government. ...
U.S. wireless carrier Sprint announced it was pumping US$3 billion into high-speed wireless network partnerships with Motorola, Lucent and Nortel, hoping that more bandwidth and speed will let it generate more revenue from users. The deal was a must for Motorola, which won extension of its agreement...
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