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Wireless operators across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region announced this week a series of roaming agreements in which crossing borders does not translate into loss of service or fear of fees. The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) -- which includes BT, Maxis, NTT, T-Mobile, Telstra and StarHub -- ...
Rio Rancho, N.M., may not provide its citizens with all of the services available in larger cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia, but the small city six miles north of Albuquerque is leading the technological race to provide a citywide WiFi network. The rollout of wireless Internet access is a...
Microsoft yesterday released a patch aimed at protecting its ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000), an enterprise-level firewall and Web cache server, and Proxy Server 2.0, which serves as an Internet gateway for networked computers. The affected software includes Microsoft Proxy Serv...
Intel announced the latest versions of its Itanium 2 processors, six chips designed to add heft to the product line. The manufacturer released three multi-processor chips, two dual-processor chips and a low-volt chip. At the high-end, the highlight of the announcements is a 1.60 GHz processor with 9...
As of November 15, the Big Four record label cartel's 'Man in Canada' will be Graham Henderson, senior VP of business affairs and e-commerce for Universal Music Canada, who manages Universal's e-commerce strategy and helped launch the Puretracks plastic music site. He'll soon be running the CRIA, sh...
Gearing up to supply a growing demand, AMD has secured a microprocessor sourcing and manufacturing deal with Chartered Semiconductor, which will add capacity for production of AMD's Athlon64 and Opteron chips. AMD said it will have its Dresden, Germany, facility cranking out its latest processors, b...
Computer Associates yesterday announced the launch of its eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware r5. The new product integrates CA's eTrust Security Management software portfolio with a revised version of the PestPatrol anti-spyware application CA acquired in an earlier buyout. The software, with a retail p...
IBM has taken an experiment -- Blue Gene/L, the world's fastest supercomputer -- and turned it into a commercial, albeit expensive, off-the-shelf product. The Blue Gene project began five years ago with the goal of creating a family of supercomputers that could have more commercial applications beca...
Bluetooth just got faster and its lobbyists are claiming the technology is moving full speed ahead with a new three-year road map. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today announced the adoption of Bluetooth Core Specification Version 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR), which is designed to impr...
Tesco, the UK retail giant that sells everything from groceries to insurance, has opened its own online music market. The download site contains about half a million song files in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. IPods, which have captured more than 50 percent of the UK market, do not play WMA ...
In the latest supercomputer news arriving before the release of the Top500 list this week, IBM has announced collaboration with the Spanish government on a super system made with blade servers. IBM said the "MareNostrum" system, built with 3,564 Power processors in eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade se...
Last week I wrote about three companies that had either followed an Apple-like strategy (Gateway), utilized ex-Apple employees (OQO), or executed on a founding Apple principle (AMD/Microsoft). This week we'll examine three more companies that owe a lot of what they are to Apple, as part of my not-so...
An industrywide survey shows that corporate networks are being bombarded with spyware infiltration in record numbers, but relatively few corporations are deploying adequate solutions to combat the threat. The survey, conducted by Equation Research for Internet security firm Webroot Software, canvass...
Another entertainment industry group has decided to try to staunch the flow of file-sharing by suing those who participate. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced Thursday that it will go the route of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which since September 200...
Verizon Wireless said it has reached an agreement to buy all the spectrum licenses held by NextWave Telecom for US$3 billion in cash, just the latest instance of consolidation in the wireless industry and one that ends a years-old legal dispute with regulators. Verizon, the second-largest wireless c...
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