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The fastest-growing technology companies in North America are still growing at a rapid rate, but a maturation of tech sub-industries and health of the bigger players has apparently slowed the growth rate, according to the latest Fast 500 Ranking from Deloitte & Touche Naming mostly software and semiconductor companies in the top slots, Deloitte cro...
Intel this week signaled changes and delays in its road map for its Xeon and Itanium processors, stirring some speculation that rival AMD is forcing the server chip adjustments with its own success in the space Industry analysts, however, said the alterations are too long term to have much impact, and are likely a strategy Intel will further explai...
Universities and digital freedom organizations are filing appeals to the Federal Communications Commission's call for phone-system wiretapping on the Internet, complaining of the expense of compliance and negative effect on innovation A requirement that universities, carriers and other Internet service companies build spying capabilities into their...
IBM says it is pleased with the better-than-expected results from its Power.org effort, which seeks to open some of the silicon hardware of the PowerPC processor to developers similar to how developer communities collaborate on software in the open-source world Pointing to growing membership, improvement and deployment of the Power technology, Big ...
AOL confirmed this week the layoff of about 700 employees, most of whom were working in customer call centers across the United States. The once-dominant Internet service company blamed the job cuts on its dwindling dial-up customer base, but industry watchers also viewed the layoffs as a ploy to please potential buyers or investors of the Time Warner unit, which are rumored to include Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others...
Hewlett-Packard and Cingular are touting their collaboration on the new iPaq 6500 series, heralding the Pocket PC handhelds as the first in the U.S. capable of connecting via Cingular's high-speed EDGE wireless network The companies said they would cram digital wireless voice and data capability, global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver, camera,...
Current economic conditions, particularly high oil and gas prices and looming inflation, would anticipate a slowdown in major markets including personal computers, but this week IDC reported that the worldwide PC market continued to expand recently, posting 17 percent growth in the third quarter of this year The growth, typically tied to U.S. gains...
Current economic conditions, particularly high oil and gas prices and looming inflation, would anticipate a slowdown in major markets including personal computers, but yesterday IDC reported that the worldwide PC market continued to expand recently, posting 17 percent growth in the third quarter of this year The growth, typically tied to U.S. gains...
Palm and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) yesterday announced that the Palm Treo smartphone will soon feature BlackBerry Connect, allowing BlackBerry e-mail, calendaring, and support for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino, among other features, beginning next year In the latest case of smartphone industry partnering and interoperabili...
Palm and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that the Palm Treo smartphone will soon feature BlackBerry Connect, allowing BlackBerry e-mail, calendaring, and support for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino, among other features, beginning next year In the latest case of smartphone industry partnering and interoperability, ...
Unfortunately for Samsung, it is not only the latest dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip maker to admit to price fixing, but it is also paying the largest fine, US$300 million, for the illegal activity alleged by the U.S. Department of Justice The South Korean company joins other DRAM chip makers Hynix and Infineon, which have already agreed t...
Although stiffer jail sentences and legislation have cut into the United States' share of junk e-mail spam sent in the past year, the land of the free is still the number one spam sender in the world, accounting for more than a quarter of the unsolicited nuisance, according to a report issued by software security firm Sophos this week The United St...
Although stiffer jail sentences and legislation have cut into the United States' share of junk e-mail spam sent in the past year, the land of the free is still the number one spam sender in the world, accounting for more than a quarter of the unsolicited nuisance, according to a report issued by software security firm Sophos yesterday The United St...
Sony Ericsson has taught its newest smartphone some new tricks, unveiling the P990 handheld with Symbian operating system version 9.1, UMTS and WiFi connectivity, integrated keyboard under flip-down number keypad, and a 2 megapixel camera The new smartphone retains the form factor and weight of previous models, including the successful P800, P900 a...
Continuing a pattern of kinder, gentler software licensing terms and relationships, Microsoft announced this week its simplified, virtualization-ready Windows Server licensing that allows as many as four virtual instances of the software on one physical server for the same price Virtualization involves the use of server software in the abstract, ra...
Continuing a pattern of kinder, gentler software licensing terms and relationships, Microsoft announced this week its simplified, virtualization-ready Windows Server licensing that allows as many as four virtual instances of the software on one physical server for the same price Virtualization involves the use of server software in the abstract, ra...
In an unprecedented move, service provider Level 3 Communications cut off Internet traffic flowing from rival Cogent Communications this week, following failed negotiations between the two companies embroiled in a bandwidth fight that has now reportedly affected thousands of Internet users The connectivity cutoff left consumer and corporate users w...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission took action against spyware this week by asking a U.S. District Court Judge to halt an operation that allegedly plagued users who clicked for free file-sharing software with performance-slowing, private-information-gathering software that also altered search results for victims The FTC said Odysseus Marketing and p...
It used to be that the Hollywood portrayal of a computer virus writer -- the teenage, late night pizza-eating, underachieving genius who gets a kick out of taking down the White House Web site -- was fairly accurate. But today's malicious code creator has a variety of ways to disrupt and trespass onto consumer and corporate PCs and networks: information-stealing trojans, spyware, spamming and phishing, and more...
EarthLink will attempt to make the City of Brotherly Love the city of brotherly wireless access as well, with a deal to cover America's fifth largest city with WiFi mesh connectivity over 135 square miles, the largest municipal wireless rollout to date The undertaking, described as a lifesaver for EarthLink by industry analysts, comes as similar In...
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