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Intel may still be "inside" but the chipmaker is taking a leap ahead in the New Year with a new branding strategy. That is, Intel is adding to its ubiquitous brand "Intel Inside" with a new tagline: "Leap ahead." Intel is expected to formally announce the changes on Tuesday as part of a move to mark...
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has reached a tentative settlement with consumers who filed a class action lawsuit over the music giant's digital rights management (DRM) software on CDs, according to documents filed in New York federal court on Wednesday. The settlement will likely be considered in a h...
You've come a long way, baby, at least according to a study released yesterday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The report, "How Women and Men Use the Internet," reveals women are catching up to men in overall Internet use and framing their online experience with a greater emphasis o...
Adding another page to the growing list of TV shows debuting in new formats, Yahoo announced yesterday that it is teaming up with CBS Television to air free episodes of two of its popular prime-time comedies. Yahoo TV began presenting the network sitcoms, "Two And A Half Men" and "How I Met Your Mo...
Pioneer Electronics yesterday announced one of the industry's first Blu-ray Disc computer drives will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2006. The company expects the drive to revolutionize digital and high-definition media storage. The new Pioneer BDR-101A uses shorter wavelength blue lasers in...
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has subpoenaed three major music labels as yet another controversy in the digital-music industry unfolds. The subpoenas are in connection with an ongoing antitrust investigation into the pricing of digital-music downloads. Werner Music Group on Friday confirme...
With a spate of headlines that demonstrate the importance of the Internet as a lever for political and social issues, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian birthplace of Graz is making a name for itself in a new way: political critic. It started when Schwarzenegger asked that his name be removed from a s...
A Christian evangelical group is suing Google for allegedly infringing on its trademark. Jews for Jesus, which publishes several evangelistic Web sites in its mission to reach Jews, is claiming that a Web log hosted through the search giant's Blogspot service is harming its reputation. Google's Blo...
Google is teaming up with digital media technology provider Lexar Media to offer USB flash drives with popular Web applications. Lexar said yesterday it would bring Google applications, including Picasa, Google Toolbar and Google Desktop Search applications on its USB flash drives. The company said ...
Cyber-attackers are delivering an early Christmas gift this holiday season, albeit one more unwanted than the proverbial bag of coal. This Christmas-themed worm attack is not leaving anyone out. It's delivering its rootkit payload to instant messaging (IM) users of AOL, MSN, Windows Messenger, ICQ a...
HP is playing both sides of the DVD format standard battle. The company on Friday announced its support for the HD-DVD high-definition DVD format, in addition to the Blu-ray Disc format, in an effort to "provide consumers with the best possible high-definition experience." HP also said it would join...
Sony BMG is seeing a revolution of sorts, but perhaps not the kind it was hoping for this holiday season. U.S. band My Morning Jacket is up in arms over its record label's controversial copy-protection software. The uproar started when the band's fans discovered they could not transfer the album "Z"...
Some of the world's largest electronics and media companies yesterday joined together to work on high-definition television and audio standards for home entertainment networks. Charter Communications, JVC, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, NBC Universal, Samsung and Sun Microsystems formed HAN...
What do you get when you mix information science with Hollywood's film industry? Computer-based predictions of the next blockbuster hit. Professor Ramesh Sharda, an information systems specialist at Oklahoma State University, has developed a computer program to help Hollywood predict the potential s...
Is the United States government doing enough to secure the country against cyber-attacks? Not according to the Cyber-Security Industry Alliance (CSIA). The security trade organization issued a report yesterday calling on the federal government to assert greater leadership in the protection of the co...
Chief Executive Mark Hurd yesterday revealed HP's three-part strategy for the future. The company plans to focus on high-growth markets, including enterprise virtualization, data center consolidation, data storage, and high-end printing and mobility. On the data front, Hurd's thinking is simple: Com...
HP this week announced a partnership with DreamWorks Animation to introduce a collaboration studio for simulating face-to-face business meetings across long distances. The HP Halo Collaboration Studio enables people in different locations to communicate in a face-to-face environment in real time. HP...
IBM last night announced it is launching a new licensing program with the venture capital community to help startup companies accelerate the development of innovative solutions in the marketplace. The new IBM Ventures in Collaboration program is designed to give VC firms in IBM's partner network and...
If another sequel to "Mission Impossible" makes its way to the big screen, Tom Cruise may receive his assignment via a text message. That's because a new text messaging service promises the digital communication will self-destruct in 40 seconds. Staellium UK is playing off the 1960s television hit -...
Worldwide semiconductor revenue will total US$235 billion in 2005, a 6.9 percent increase from 2004, according to the latest Gartner Group data. This will be the first time that the semiconductor industry has surpassed the previous record-setting year in 2000 when revenue reached $223 billion. "Stro...
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