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Report: PDA Popularity Picks Up After Slump

Amid an apparent struggling market over the last two and a half years, personal digital assistants (PDAs) are growing in popularity and moving the handheld segment market positively toward a record year in 2005, research firm Gartner said this week ...

IE7 Is Better, But Won’t Pass ‘Acid2’ Standards Test

Microsoft has signaled while its next version of the Internet Explorer Web browser, IE7, will be improved, it will not pass the browser standards test known as Acid2, and will not address all of the issues that hold up Explorer developers, including Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation and support ...

Microsoft’s ‘Advantage’ Has Its Drawbacks

Microsoft's latest effort to validate the legitimacy of Windows copies and thwart software piracy has been hit by a hack published online that illustrates easy bypass of the new software scheme, known as Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) ...

Latest Online Scam Prompts Warning

An Internet scam that lures would-be foreign investors into fraudulent schemes by posing as U.S. government regulators and Internet sites has prompted a warning from the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), which warns investors are losing billions every year ...

Hollywood Comes Together on Digital Cinema Specs

Major Hollywood movie studios announced this week that they, along with movie theater and technology industry players, have reached agreement on the specification for next-generation, digital film distribution and projection. The news comes amid sliding box office sales and heavy competition from home video, which has greatly improved in terms of quality in recent years...

IBM Offers Mainframe Makeover

IBM is looking to make more of the mainframe, by adding more performance, reliability, and security and selling the z9 system as a collaborative computing hub that is accessible to more users, including those on Intel and RISC platforms ...

List Stresses Software Insecurities

Security institute SANS released its latest 20 most critical vulnerabilities list, warning of new attacks that are focused on applications, including backup and media software, and of hackers' increasing ability to embed attacks in sites to snare users simply visiting them ...

HP Propels Printer Speed

Taking competition in the printer market beyond cost, Hewlett-Packard is differentiating its latest printing products by speeding text and photo printing while also leveraging its innovation to supposedly save ink and paper ...

T-Mobile Promises High-Speed Web Access for Mobile Phones

Wireless provider T-Mobile announced it will deliver High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HDSPA) connectivity to mobile phone users in Germany, delivering the DSL-type speed and bandwidth required for content including video television on mobile phones ...

Wi-Mesh Moves Toward IEEE Standard

Nortel Networks and the Wi-Mesh Alliance this week announced their continuing effort to standardize so-called mesh, extended 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLAN) worldwide to promote interoperability, which now includes standardization with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ...

Teleste Touting Future of Superfast Broadband

Finnish broadband technology provider Teleste is hailing anticipated speeds of its high-speed Internet service over cable television lines, which the company reportedly claims will hit the 100 megabit-per-second mark as early as next year ...

Cable Broadband Looking for Leapfrog

Finnish broadband technology provider Teleste is hailing anticipated speeds of its high-speed Internet service over cable television lines, which the company reportedly claims will hit the 100 megabit-per-second mark as early as next year ...

Intel Beefs Up Front-Side Bus for Itanium 2 Chipset

By boosting the bandwidth of its front side bus (FSB), chip giant Intel is gradually improving performance of its Itanium 2 chips, laying the groundwork for the dual-core version of the microprocessor to come later down the road ...

Sophos Goes After Zombies With New Service

The growing number of compromised computers known as "zombies," as well as the growing danger these hijacked systems and networks can bring, have prompted anti-virus company Sophos to provide a service that finds the often quiet, malicious code ...

Process Monitoring: Looking at Threats or Low Priority?

A number of software and service offerings allow computer users to conduct process monitoring to find out what malicious or hidden programs may be running on their machines, but security experts said the lower-level, PC-specific scanning is too detailed to be useful to most enterprise IT departments ...

Sophos Launches Zombie-Seeking Service

The growing number of compromised computers known as "zombies," as well as the growing danger these hijacked systems and networks can bring, have prompted anti-virus company Sophos to provide a service that finds the often quiet, malicious code ...

Floridian Faces Wireless Trespassing Charges

A Florida man faces stiff penalties for allegedly accessing someone's residential WiFi Internet connection while parked outside the supposed victim's home in April ...

Rambus Quintuples Graphics Memory With Microthreading

Rambus touted its ramped-up computer chip memory interface known as XDR2 this week, heralding the high-speed interface as a tool for "unprecedented graphics capabilities" enabled through the new technology ...

Fuel Cells for Phones Pursued, Questioned

Japanese electronics and handset giants Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo proudly proclaimed joint development of a high-capacity micro fuel cell with recharger for mobile handsets this week, but analysts said that batteries continue to push the envelope ahead of such technologies, which have long been promised by industry ...

New Wireless Broadband Technology Touted

Backers of a narrow-band wireless technology that uses low frequencies alongside existing activity on the wireless transmission spectrum claim better reach than next-generation WiMax wireless, with a lower cost because of the sub-gigahertz spectrum and low power required for the solution ...

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