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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates this week stressed coming security advantages for users of Microsoft's Windows XP and forthcoming Vista operating systems, highlighting an identity management strategy that seeks to pare down on passwords Speaking to attendees at the RSA Security Conference in San Jose, Calif., Gates also touched on the company's plann...
Few people hold the status of "visionary" in the computer processor field, but Sun Microsystems' Marc Tremblay fits the bill. Sun fellow, vice president, and chief architect for the firm's Scalable Systems Group, Tremblay foresaw the advent of "throughput computing" and the jump in performance afforded by multiple cores and multiple computing threads...
Handset heavy Motorola and software giant Microsoft will team to integrate Windows Media technology into Motorola music handsets, the companies announced at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain this week A number of new Motorola "music handsets" will add support for Windows Digital Media Rights Management (DRM) and Windows Media Audio (...
Nvidia hopes to bring console-quality graphics and fluid, digital video to mobile phones with its multimedia-minded GoForce 5500 graphics processing unit (GPU), announced this week at the 3GSM Conference in Barcelona, Spain The graphics giant said the new processor architecture would deliver improved graphics, video and sound, and was aimed at catc...
The company behind the console that helped launch the video game industry nearly 30 years ago may be facing a game-over situation. Atari (NYSE: ATAR) this week reported significant quarterly losses and the departure of a top executive that together paint a bleak picture for the future of the firm Atari posted a US$4.8 million net loss for its fisca...
IBM is trying to prove that its powerful, multi-tasking Cell computer chip is not just about fun and games The company, whose Cell chips will be incorporated into the next-generation PlayStation 3 from Cell collaborator Sony, announced this week a new family of blade computing systems -- thin, lightweight servers that consolidate space while bumpin...
Dell on Wednesday said it is in the testing stage of plans to load Google's search and other branded software onto new Dell PCs. While Google has repeatedly denied rumors of its supposed plans to market hardware of its own in the future, the company joined with Dell to affirm that a deal is indeed in the works between the two, with industry analysts indicating computers coming in the spring may offer a first look at the fruits of their partnership...
Intel and AMD are duking it out again, this time putting the additional processor cores and capabilities they've built into hardware to deliver virtualization -- the running of multiple operating systems and applications on processors that are virtually carved up to carry the load Intel said its virtualization technology (VT) was ready for testing ...
Intel and AMD are duking it out again, this time putting the additional processor cores and capabilities they've built into hardware to deliver virtualization -- the running of multiple operating systems and applications on processors that are virtually carved up to carry the load Intel said its virtualization technology (VT) was ready for testing ...
IBM has introduced a chipset technology that will take close-in wireless connectivity to the next stage, it claims, by leveraging higher-frequency radio spectrum to digitally transmit and receive 10 times faster than today'sWiFi The new silicon germanium technology allows the chipset to send and receive information in an unlicensed portion of the r...
Microsoft is calling "Shotgun!" as the software giant teams with automaker Fiat to feature its telematics applications designed for information and entertainment aboard new vehicles The companies' "Blue&Me" plans, to be detailed at the 2006 Geneva Motorshow later this month, provide drivers of new Fiat cars with wireless integration with mobile pho...
Several major broadcast networks have turned to technology and Internet companies in recent months to put their programming on the Web, but now, CBS (NYSE: CBS) has announced that it will cut out the middle man with its new strategy The television network plans to make available downloadable episodes of some of its primetime programs, directly via ...
The U.S. government's efforts to conduct surveillance and gather data on the nation's citizens has been aided by huge U.S. companies, specifically AT&T, which are privy to the telephone calls and e-mails of millions of Americans, according to a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation this week Following last month's lawsuit against the ...
Five major anti-virus and security companies this week announced a collaboration effort aimed at fighting spyware, promising to share detection, testing and methodology for the benefit of consumers McAfee (NYSE: MFE), Symantec, Trend Micro, ICSA Labs and Thompson Cyber Security Labs agreed to create standardized identification and testing for spywa...
The characters in the wildly popular, extremely violent and graphically explicit video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" face crackdowns from police and other authorities responding to their evil doings Now the real life backers of the game are facing a crackdown of their own. The City of Los Angeles is suing Take-Two Interactive (NYSE: TTWO) an...
Sony is telling its robotic dog Aibo, as well as the rest of its robotics program, to lie down and play dead as the electronics giant continues to cut projects and products in search of profitability Although the robot dog and Sony's bi-pedal Qrio robots gained some traction among consumers, mostly in the Asian market, they failed to win continuati...
The world's biggest chip company is taking its technology smaller, announcing this week it has hit the 45-nanometer (nm) milestone with its "next-generation, high-volume" semiconductor manufacturing process Intel is on track to create chips smaller than the current 65-nm and 90-nm variety by next year, equipping them with more transistors for great...
Academic officials from Oxford University and Harvard Law School announced Wednesday a plan to publish the names of "badware" senders in an attempt to thwart makers of malicious software such as viruses, worms, deceptive adware and spyware The new initiative, StopBadware.org, will also involve prominent technology companies including Google and Su...
News programming channel Times Now will put video news content on Reliance India Mobile cell phones in India, a potentially huge marketplace that has shown early demand for mobile video The companies announced Tuesday that English-language Indian news programming for mobile phones will soon be offered to Reliance subscribers in the country, where c...
U.S. college students are falling behind their counterparts in other parts of the world in terms of their ability to calculate basic quantitative problems, such as automobile fuel consumption or the total cost of ordering office supplies, according to a new survey from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) The study, funded by The Pew Charitab...
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