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Drawing on the expanded partnership they announced last year, Microsoft and SAP have created the Portal Development Kit (PDK) for Microsoft's .Net platform on SAP's NetWeaver, promising the benefits of integration and interoperability. The two software heavies said that with the development tools fo...
With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, video game publishers are seeing brisk sales and offering only a few surprises. Since December accounts for a major percentage of the industry's annual revenues, most video game publishers are playing it safe by promoting sequels to already succes...
Adding weight to the notion that two high-definition DVD formats may co-exist, leading manufacturer Thomson today announced that it would manufacture HD DVD-compatible discs as well as Blu-ray versions in its Technicolor division. The company, however, took a step closer to NEC and Toshiba's HD DVD ...
Working in the video-game industry is a dream job for those raised on "Super Mario" and "The Sims." Thousands of programmers and artists have flocked to companies such as Electronic Arts for the chance to create popular games like "James Bond" or "Madden NFL 2005." Living the Silicon Valley stereoty...
Video game distributors are under fire from two groups today that claim children can still buy games with violent and sexual themes despite a rating system designed to prevent just that. In separate events, The National Institute on Media and the Family and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Respons...
Muscling into territory previously controlled by rising competitor AMD, Intel has struck a broad cross-licensing agreement with graphics chip maker nVidia. The result of the multi-year deal will be that nVidia can design its graphics chipsets to work with Intel processors. NVidia has seen its market...
Bluetooth just got faster and its lobbyists are claiming the technology is moving full speed ahead with a new three-year road map. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today announced the adoption of Bluetooth Core Specification Version 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR), which is designed to impr...
Biometric technology has been around for more than a decade with little fanfare. However, interest is heating up for biometric security devices in communications. Iris scanners, voice recognition modules and fingerprint readers promise to raise the bar on locking down access to computers, networks, ...
Aiming to keep all-important software developers eager to work on its platform and to stay ahead of Java-based rivals, Microsoft is laying the foundation for what it sees becoming "software factories" where specific applications can be quickly customized from a base of existing code. The software gi...
Intel plans to use novel materials and manufacturing processes in order to continue to develop smaller and faster computer chips once current technologies no longer do the trick. The leading chipmaker, which has been stung recently by some near-term product retreats and operational hiccups, laid out...
Telecommunications carriers clearly see the future: Voice over IP (VoIP) services. This technology enables them to roll out high-speed multimedia services to consumers and businesses faster and at a lower cost than traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) services. While those features a...
Biometric security, at least in theory, has been around for a decade. But the use of biometrics for computer security and user authentication has failed to attract much practical interest to date because the clunky devices were costly, inconvenient and intrusive. All that could change this week when...
One year ago, the prospects for developing biometrics as a reliable security device for computers were viewed by many industry watchers as a nice idea with little applicable potential. After all, biometric security devices have been available in one form or another for 30 years. But the use of biome...
ATI Technologies, the three-dimensional graphics pioneer, today announced HyperMemory, a technology that allows a PC to use system memory for graphics processing. HyperMemory uses the high-speed bi-directional data transfer capabilities of PCI Express to store and access graphics data in system memo...
For companies burdened with legacy systems they can't seem to get rid of, this could be the jackpot they've been waiting for. A Los Gatos, California, startup maintains it has perfected a program that allows software applications compiled for one processor and operating system to run on another proc...
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