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After delivering the industry's first 2.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drive in January 2004, Fujitsu Computer Products this week set out to close the performance and capacity gap between desktop and laptop computers when it announced its latest hard disk drive. The MHV2160BT is a 4200 RPM, 160 GB 2.5-...
Korean telecommunications provider KT Corp. announced yesterday it has selected Siemens Communications and Sycamore Networks to deliver an optical switching solution. Analysts said this is a major win for the duo as the world watches broadband development in Korea. KT will deploy the intelligent opt...
Sun Microsystems has unveiled an open-source community project to develop a royalty-free digital rights management (DRM) standard. Dubbed Open Media Commons, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz presented the initiative during his keynote speech to leading policymakers, media, telecommunications ...
Symbian yesterday reported that worldwide shipments of Symbian phones under the OS-standard tripled in the second quarter of 2005 compared to the year-ago period. The average royalty per unit was also higher than the same period a year ago. The company shipped 7.8 million Symbian OS phones in the se...
In a move to bolster its software and enterprise platform strategies, Intel yesterday announced it has acquired privately held XML solutions provider Sarvega. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Intel said the acquisition combines its hardware capabilities with Sarvega's underlying XML software te...
As of yesterday afternoon, users of computers running the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system were feeling serious affects of network worms, thanks to a Plug-and-Play vulnerability known as MS05-309. Media outlets including CNN, ABC, the Associated Press and The New York Times have suffered comp...
Symantec yesterday announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire endpoint compliance solutions provider Sygate Technologies. Endpoint compliance solutions help enterprise organizations enforce security by guaranteeing that all devices connected to a network -- desktops, laptops, servers, and ...
Y2K may be a distant memory, but there are plenty of other threats against corporate IT systems. In fact, today's list of disaster threats includes more than just hurricanes and blackouts -- chemical attacks and terrorist bombings have become a stark reality. Although fires, floods and earthquakes a...
In a move to generate additional gaming revenues, Microsoft is implementing a new royalty program tied to the new Xbox console scheduled for release this holiday season. Analysts said the move could help Xbox get into the black. The software giant is also placing restrictions on which vendors can se...
In a four-year-old case closely monitored by civil liberties groups nationwide, a federal appeals court in Boston yesterday said a businessman charged with intercepting and reading his customers' e-mails can be tried under a federal wiretapping law. The wiretapping law was passed in 1968 and amended...
Memory chip maker Samsung Electronics yesterday claimed that it is leading the industry shift from Double Data Rate 1 (DDR1) to second generation DDR2 main memory. Analysts said Samsung has a six- to nine-month lead against its competition. DDR2 provides faster speeds, better signal integrity, impro...
Memory chip maker Samsung Electronics today claimed that it is leading the industry shift from Double Data Rate 1 (DDR1) to second generation DDR2 main memory. Analysts said Samsung has a six- to nine-month lead against its competition. DDR2 provides faster speeds, better signal integrity, improved ...
Intel may be in talks with Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) to use its chipsets for entry-level motherboards, according to a report circulating on Chinese news wires today. SIS, a unit of United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), has secured an order from Intel for low-end chipsets, said the report, whic...
Microsoft yesterday issued its monthly round of patches, including a fix for a security flaw that could allow an attacker to gain control of a computer. The software giant released six security bulletins this month, compared to 12 bulletins in the last round of patches in July. Three of the flaws we...
What do you do if you need to prove your software is virtually hack-proof? Well, you could always hire a renowned former hacker to attempt to foil the system and mount a successful phishing attack. That's just what 41st Parameter did. The company's patented anti-fraud technology, dubbed TimeDiff Lin...
Virtual infrastructure software vendor VMware yesterday made competitive moves against rivals Microsoft and the open-source Xen project with new partnerships and shared source code announcements. The company expects standard interfaces for hypervisors to enable interoperability for customers with he...
Web services provider Affinity Internet launched a service today that allows small businesses to target online advertising to Web searchers in specific geographic areas. As its name suggests, Value Traffic Local localizes online advertising efforts to ensure businesses that primarily serve local cus...
It's a good time to be in the storage business. There seems to be plenty of revenue for the top players in the face of growing demand for data protection. Likewise, there are a slew of reputable vendors giving IT managers market options galore. A quick storage industry snapshot shows the worldwide m...
Three years after tablet PCs made their way to market, shipments are markedly increasing and the next few years will show multibillion-dollar growth, according to research firm In-Stat. Referring to PCs that run Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, tablet PC shipments have yet ...
London Transport has issued a warning about misleading spam e-mail. The widely circulated messages claim that by dialing 112 you can get through to London's emergency 999 service even without having an available signal on your mobile phone. London Transport said this is completely untrue. "This e-ma...
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