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Hitachi Data Systems hopes its new universal data storage platform (USP) and software, which allow management of more data than ever before, will lure customers from main competitors EMC and IBM, but the Hitachi approach might be hindered by apprehension over the company's massive, monolithic storag...
Nokia announced the Nokia 9300, a new version of the company's Communicator. On the outside, the Nokia 9300 looks like a slim mobile phone. When opened, the device reveals a full keyboard and color screen. The 9300 is designed to appeal to professionals who want powerful functionality from a data-en...
A federal appeals court in Boston has been asked to take a second look at a decision that some say could have a far-reaching effect on the privacy of Internet communications in the United States. The decision handed down by a panel of appeals court judges ruled that monitoring the content of people'...
The entertainment industry has been riding rough-shod over consumers ever since Napster -- the original, not the ghastly Napster II -- showed up online. Napster's appearance represented the first act in a commercial revolution that pits ordinary people against the corporate interests who've been in ...
Samsung Electronics unveiled what the company is calling the "first-ever mobile phone with an internal hard drive." The company's latest phone, the V5400, is currently being exhibited at the ITU Telecom Asia 2004 conference. The V5400 is equipped with a 1-inch, 1.5-GB hard drive designed to expand t...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Lexmark, today recalled nearly 40,000 laser printers. According to a company statement, these printers can short-circuit, posing an electrical shock hazard to consumers. This recall is being conducted to prevent the possibilities of in...
UK dialers will now be able to access a new set of Internet phone numbers designed to allow even greater growth of broadband voice communications. The move is likely to pump up competition with prominent providers there. U.S. growth of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has caught on with improveme...
The consumer electronics industry has been in the doldrums for some time and it wasn't until personal computer-based technology started to creep in that we began to see, quite literally, what we had been missing. This isn't to say that the PC industry had it right, either. Both industries have a ver...
One would not call them intimate at this stage, but certainly the mutual interest between wireless LANs and video applications is growing. Companies and consumers have deployed a growing number of WLANs to support a variety of data applications, such as electronic mail and Web browsing. Users are st...
HP has landed a US$55 million contract with 7-Eleven for deploying HP technology at 5,300 U.S. locations. The five-year rollout schedule comprises more than 5,000 technology packages and on-site installations. HP's customer-support organization will deploy the technology and will provide support ser...
IBM today unveiled an entry-level disk server priced under US$3,000. The new IBM TotalStorage DS300 is designed to give midsize customers the ability to transport data over standard Internet protocols. With the introduction of the DS300, IBM has become one of the first storage vendors to offer clien...
In a move that might be repeated by other game makers struggling with the same issues of limited markets and console-centric development, Acclaim Entertainment announced it is filing for bankruptcy. The announcement from Acclaim comes as little surprise because the company has warned of its financia...
IBM announced Thursday that it will recall 553,000 ThinkPad AC power adapters after receiving reports that some units overheated, causing melted adapter housings and charred circuit boards. The company also noted that the overheating could pose fire and electrical shock hazards. The announcement was...
In a bid to boost the credibility of the blade-server paradigm, which provide storage, networking and other functions in a small form factor, IBM and Intel jointly announced that the design specifications for the eServer BladeCenter platform would be made widely available to other vendors to encoura...
Sender authentication might work as a club to beat down phishing attacks on Web denizens, but it does little to fight spam. That's the finding of a study released this week by CipherTrust, a messaging security firm in Atlanta. On the basis of analyzing some two million messages received between May ...
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