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A multifunction Toshiba TV that emitted an aircraft emergency signal triggered a transcontinental chase earlier this month to an apartment in the college town of Corvallis, Oregon. When a rescue team knocked on his door, student Chris van Rossman was watching his 20-inch Toshiba flat-screen TV. The ...
As servers with dual-core processors come closer to hitting the market, Microsoft announced today it will not base its per-processor software licensing charges on the number of cores in a chip, sticking to the traditional price per processor, regardless of its number of cores. The issue has risen in...
Cell phone users may have more to worry about than poor reception or using too many minutes, according to a recently released study from Sweden's Institute of Environmental Medicine. The three-year study included 750 participants, 150 of whom suffered from acoustic neuroma, a normally benign tumor t...
AMD and Intel have shifted focus away from processor clock speed toward such issues such as power and heat. But the gigahertz are still climbing in one market segment: the ultra high-end, where gaming enthusiasts want the fastest silicon available. It is not a large market, but it is a loyal one. Bo...
Microsoft and Cisco Systems today announced they would share security and network health technologies in an effort to better stop, isolate and eliminate viruses and other malicious codes on Windows-based networks. The agreement calls for Cisco and Microsoft to share key information about their respe...
The personal computer market got a much needed shot in the arm last week when Microsoft launched the latest version of its media center offering, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. We are rolling into the 4th quarter, which is critical to the PC industry, and the market is in the doldrums. But ...
Telecommunications carriers clearly see the future: Voice over IP (VoIP) services. This technology enables them to roll out high-speed multimedia services to consumers and businesses faster and at a lower cost than traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) services. While those features a...
Will the caffeine and music combo make consumers want to dance in the aisles at Starbucks? Or will spills of sweet, creamy drinks stick the coffee powerhouse with a crashing failure? These questions remain to be answered as Starbucks expands its "Hear Music" franchise with 45 locations in its homet...
Dell pushed further into the home-entertainment market Thursday, floating a raft of products to entice holiday shoppers with lower prices on top-shelf items such as plasma TVs. Dell has dubbed the concept behind its products "the digital living room." The company announced new photo printers and dig...
Have you ever felt a burning desire while taking your dog for a walk to know how much money your neighbors have contributed to the Democratic and Republican parties? Well, now you can whip your cell phone out and find out. A New Jersey software tinkerer has written a Java-based program he's distribu...
The hot topic at this week's massive Telecom '04 conference in Las Vegas was voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), otherwise known as Internet telephony. VoIP revolutionizes telecommunications, but as attendees discovered, an obsolete pro-regulatory mindset threatens its growth. VoIP is disrupting t...
IBM and Cisco announced software security updates designed to further protect networks from worms and viruses. The updates to IBM's Tivoli software will enable it to work more closely with Cisco's Network Admission Control technologies. IBM's Tivoli Security Compliance Manager scans devices that plu...
Apparently Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison isn't getting the satisfaction he needs churning turf in his bid for software maker PeopleSoft. The Los Angeles Times reported today that Ellison has been talking to the National Football League about acquiring a whole team to churn the turf in L.A. Th...
A version of the popular "Halo 2" video game for Microsoft's Xbox platform has appeared online in an act of digital piracy. While games figure as the least pirated digital entertainment medium, falling far below music and movies, "there was going to be piracy, no matter what," Yankee Group senior an...
You're sitting at a restaurant waiting for a friend who is 10 minutes late. The maitre de tells you that if your friend does not arrive in the next 5 minutes, your table will be given to another group. You try to remember your friend's mobile phone number but can't, so your only option is to sit and...
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