Articles by Jay Lyman

Yahoo unveiled details of a plan to update both its platform and tools for Web search advertising, in an effort to contemporize the lucrative business model that is driving dollars and competition among the Internet company and its chief rivals Google and Microsoft In announcing a revamped search advertising platform and new application program int...

Nokia mobile phones will get the additional hardware they need to boost their ability to play music, mobile games and video, thanks to a new partnership with graphics-and-sound silicon providerATI, the companies announced this week Their long-term alliance will focus on increasing multimedia capabilities in mobile phones while reducing complexity f...

Mobile gaming playerNintendo has refreshed its handheld DS device by slimming it down, brightening its two screens, and dropping the price to US$129 The Japanese giant has been selling the DS Lite in Japan since March, enjoying overwhelming demand there. Its U.S. release, slated for next month, will be accompanied by the latest entry in the Mario B...

Many business and IT leaders view headlines regarding worries of a bird flu or other outbreak as just that: headlines However, despite their wide-open opportunity to actually become prepared for such an outbreak or pandemic which, if it were to happen, could significantly stifle workers and productivity, technology companies are likely to be vastly...

Electronic Arts is teaming with "Doom" creator id Software for a new, made-for-mobile role-playing game dubbed "Orcs & Elves," announced this week in anticipation of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles next week The new game was created "exclusively for mobile phones" by id Software and Fountainhead Entertainment, and will reporte...

Old school business meets new school technology in the partnership of corporate speakerphone giant Polycom and Voice over Internet Protocol provider Skype, which has produced a portable speakerphone featuring high-quality voice communication and audio functionality The Polycom Communicator will complement eBay -owned Skype's latest business VoIP so...

Cisco-owned Linksys has announced new wireless networking gear based on the 802.11n specification, a technology that boosts range, bandwidth and throughput, but one that is still surrounded by interoperability questions A wireless area network (WAN) based on 802.11n has the potential to carry high-definition video and other high-density data at hig...

Chip giant Intel this week signaled a cost-cutting reorganization amid slower sales of its microprocessors and related silicon and software products. Chief Executive Paul Otellini reported the company would seek to save as much as US$1 billion this year The leading chip company in the world, Intel does not typically make moves to pare down its oper...

Seagate has unveiled a monster hard drive in its Barracuda line that packs in 750 gigabytes (GB) of photos, video, music and other digital data using perpendicular recording technology The California storage giant said the new Barracuda 7200.10 drive family would reach, for the first time, above the current top capacity of 500 GB while maintaining ...

Seagate has unveiled a monster hard drive in its Barracuda line that packs in 750 gigabytes (GB) of photos, video, music and other digital data using perpendicular recording technology The California storage giant said the new Barracuda 7200.10 drive family would reach, for the first time, above the current top capacity of 500 GB while maintaining ...

Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology will continue to be widely used for PCs and other electronics, and, with the help of wireless USB (WUSB), is poised to double in shipments from 1.4 billion in 2005 to 2.8 billion in 2010, research firm In-Stat reported this week The market forecast indicates USB will continue to connect PCs and peripherals, and...

Intel is making its first platform pitch to the enterprise with its new vPro package, promising desktop security and manageability, energy savings and support from a long list of technology partners, including Symantec, Cisco, Lenovo, Microsoft, Novell and others While Intel indicates the effort will resemble its wireless platform push with Centrin...

Intel is making its first platform pitch to the enterprise with its new vPro package, promising desktop security and manageability, energy savings and support from a long list of technology partners, including Symantec, Cisco, Lenovo, Microsoft, Novell and others While Intel indicates the effort will resemble its wireless platform push with Centrin...

Sony lowered the price of itsPlayStation 2 game console by US$20 to $129 as gamers wait for the next generation of the machine, PlayStation 3, expected in November The Japanese electronics giant is advertising the price cut with an Internet and print media blitz in the hope of driving sales before the PS2 is eclipsed....

The American Electronics Association is reporting that the tech job market is getting hot again, with a net gain of 61,000 new good-paying technology gigs added to last year's pool of 5.6 million Although some U.S. states lost technology jobs while others gained, the overall increase marks an end to a long tech job skid....

Fresh off its stunning acquisition of high-end gaming computer competitor Alienware, Dell has unveiled a pair of high-power, high-price notebooks for gamers Described by the computer giant as "Dell's fastest consumer notebook," the new XPS M1710 will be packaged in a magnesium-alloy chassis in stylish black or red models. Priced at US$2,600, the ne...

The arrival of new high-definition DVD players in the U.S. market this week means the fight between HD-DVD and the competing Blu-ray format is officially underway Both look to improve image quality with high-definition video and broaden the capacity of DVDs for the next generation of movie and video game discs....

High-profile equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) has unveiled a deal for an affiliate to acquire Indian software company Flextronics for US$900 million Flextronics will retain a 15 percent equity stake in the software business with the deal, which represents KKR's first such stake in India....

South Korean electronics and semiconductor giant Samsung claimed a three-dimensional, stacked memory chip breakthrough this week with new technology that shrinks the space needed for stacked chip layers used in mobile phones and other devices Samsung said by stacking eight 2 gigabit NAND flash memory chips, it could deliver a smaller-footprint wafe...

Google may be planning to allow users to search theInternet or computer files simply by asking out loud, based on a U.S. patent on a voice-activatedsearch engine technology the search giant was awarded recently Google gained on buzz and speculation with the publication of the patent, however the company downplayed any connection to a pending produc...