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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today shared his vision of how the software industry can contribute to accelerating scientific research and engineering innovation during his keynote speech at Supercomputing 2005. Of course, part of his vision includes the software giant's Windows Compute Cluster Serve...
Amid much public debate and reports that it could leave consumers wide open for malicious attacks, Sony has decided to halt the insertion of anti-piracy software into its CDs. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) system limits the number of times a CD can be copied. The software installs itself on Wi...
Juniper Networks today made three announcements about new product enhancements and the companies that have deployed them. But behind the product hype, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based hardware maker has quietly stepped into the midst of one of last summer's hottest technology controversies. Technology ne...
Network security was a big issue a decade ago. Now, ten years of technology later, it continues to be a top priority and it appears that it will be so ten years from now as well. That's because as IT security firms learn more about the tactics of hackers, crackers and malicious code writers, the lat...
Some unlikely candidates have been launching record labels lately. Last week, online social networking player MySpace.com debuted its new record label. Now video game maker Electronic Arts is planning to launch a recording label of its own. EA today announced it is teaming up with Nettwerk Music Gro...
In a move to replicate the success of its mobile search engine technology, Google today launched Local for mobile. The application attempts to take mapping to the cellular level. Google bills Local for mobile as "a free download that lets you find local hangouts and businesses across town or across ...
On the heels of an initiative to offer complimentary access to Nintendo WiFi Connection in thousands of McDonald's restaurants in the United States, the video game giant announced today it will also offer its new wireless gaming service for DS handheld game console users in Europe and Asia. Gamers w...
Nokia yesterday launched three multimedia smartphones and a new version of its open-source browser in effort to build on its position as top mobile phone maker. The new phones allow users to watch TV, play music, and trade files with other electronic devices. "We are seeing increased interest in adv...
In a move to market the PlayStation Portable as a multimedia device, Sony is enhancing its handheld gaming hardware with new software that lets players transfer various file types between the PSP and their PCs. Sony Media Software released the PSP Media Manager on Monday. Sony said the software allo...
Trend Micro is picking up on one of the latest security trends with its new home office solution -- spyware protection. PC-cillin Internet Security 2006 is designed to combat unpredictable malicious threats like phishing, spyware, spam, hackers, viruses, and other threats. The company said its solut...
When crises like the recent earthquake in Asia, the London terror bombings and devastating hurricanes such as Katrina strike, more people than ever turn to the Web for news and real-time updates on these history-making events. This is not a new phenomenon, but it continues to be a growing one. Rewi...
America Online may have preferred a sweet treat this Halloween, but what it got instead was a nasty trick as a potentially destructive worm began targeting users of its AIM instant messaging service. Dubbed W32/Sdbot-ADD by Facetime Security Labs, the worm installs a rootkit-like backdoor on any com...
The worldwide market for handheld devices experienced its seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year decline in the third quarter of 2005, according to IDC's Worldwide Handheld QView. IDC reports device shipments decreased 16.9 percent year over year and fell 8.8 percent sequentially in third qua...
The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) yesterday announced several breakthroughs in the fight against its nemesis. The alliance of technology companies and public interest groups has decided on a definition for the unwanted and often dangerous spyware infesting computers, and has created a risk modeling d...
Zi Corporation yesterday said it has signed a licensing agreement with Nintendo to provide the video game giant's developers the ability to employ its handwriting recognition technology. Zi Corp., a Canadian intelligent interface software provider, said Nintendo plans to use its Decuma technology to...
New product introductions, portfolio refreshes, and exciting new form factors helped spur growth in the worldwide mobile phone market during the third quarter of 2005, according to IDC, with Nokia continuing to dominate the market. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker reports worldwide mob...
OpenOffice.org 2.0, the first release of the open-source productivity suite in two years, made its debut today, complete with major renovations. The OpenOffice.org Project, an international community of volunteers and sponsors banded together to support and promote OpenOffice.org, is behind the soft...
Microsoft is streamlining its Shared Source Initiative, cutting seven of its 10 templates in an effort to simplify its licenses governing source code releases. The software giant said the Microsoft Permissive License, Microsoft Community License, and Microsoft Reference License are short and easy to...
On the heels of the release of its new lineup of advanced LCD monitor displays tailored to the Pro A/V and corporate communities, Samsung Electronics today said it aims to double its annual sales of LCD panels to US$20 billion by 2010. The Korean electronics giant predicts the worldwide market for f...
There's a new word in the Web vocabulary: splogs. Internet users may as well get used to it because, just like spam and spim, splogging is making its way into Web-based communication. Splogs are the equivalent of Web log spam, unsolicited posts to a blog that have nothing to do with the subject matt...
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