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Microsoft announced packages and pricing for its latest Xbox 360 gaming console this week, delivering an expected price tag of about US$300, but also including a console package with hard drive and other accessories that will sell for another $100 While the timing of the Xbox 360 release is still aimed for sometime this fall -- "in time for this Ch...
Microsoft announced packages and pricing for its latest Xbox 360 gaming console this week, delivering an expected price tag of about US$300, but also including a console package with hard drive and other accessories that will sell for another $100 While the timing of the Xbox 360 release is still aimed for sometime this fall -- "in time for this Ch...
Toshiba announced a 1.8-inch, 40 gigabyte hard disk drive today, touting the technology -- the cutting edge of disk drives under development in different sizes from competitors Seagate and Hitachi -- as a "first" that would enable consumer electronics devices to store as many as 10,000 songs or 25,000 photos on a single 40GB platter Analysts indica...
Reports of Apple's inability to patent the interface software in its popular iPod music player and Microsoft's efforts to stake its claim to such technology through its own patent application have sparked wide speculation that Microsoft might make royalties off the Apple devices, which sold to the tune of nearly 20 million units in the last year Ho...
Agilent Technologies is selling its semiconductor business in yet another example of how the chip industry has blossomed with consumer, mobile and networking technology and devices, but has become a fast-moving, boom-or-bust business that is difficult to deliver for Wall Street The expected sale, a US$2.66 billion acquisition by Kohlberg Kravis Rob...
Agilent Technologies is selling its semiconductor business in yet another example of how the chip industry has blossomed with consumer, mobile and networking technology and devices, but has become a fast-moving, boom-or-bust business that is difficult to deliver for Wall Street The expected sale, a US$2.66 billion acquisition by Kohlberg Kravis Rob...
Intel is reportedly set to divulge more details of its switch from its current microprocessor architecture to a fuller use of the chip giant's Pentium M mobile platform, which affords Intel the energy efficiency and lack of heat its previous transistor-heavy processor platform did not The company will detail the next generation of Intel chips at th...
Intel is reportedly set to divulge more details of its switch from its current microprocessor architecture to a fuller use of the chip giant's Pentium M mobile platform, which affords Intel the energy efficiency and lack of heat its previous transistor-heavy processor platform did not The company will detail the next generation of Intel chips at th...
Broadband Internet service and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) companies must build technology that allows "tapping" for interception by U.S. law enforcement officials to comply with a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission last week that critics complain unnecessarily and unilaterally expands federal rules on eavesdropping Civil liber...
The two different camps behind two different next-generation DVD formats are at it again, this time feuding after the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced anti-piracy technology that mirrors the competing HD-DVD format's content control, and adds some unique measures as well While the BDA did not mention superiority over the HD-DVD format, the ...
A rumored deal whereby Yahoo would purchase a US$1 billion stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba is highlighting the efforts by U.S. companies, also including eBay and Google, to get deeper into the Chinese market. This difficult endeavor includes issues of resistance to foreign investment and local competition, as well as censorship and human rights concerns...
AOL, the Internet company struggling to shed its desktop days and move further into the more profitable mobile and wireless industry, continued its mobile-by-acquisition strategy this week, announcing it was acquiring handset software maker Wildseed Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but AOL made no secret of its intention to use the company, al...
AOL, the Internet company struggling to shed its desktop days and move further into the more profitable mobile and wireless industry, continued its mobile-by-acquisition strategy this week, announcing it was acquiring handset software maker Wildseed Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but AOL made no secret of its intention to use the company, al...
A new really simple syndication (RSS) feed aggregator from NewsGator touts the enterprise benefits of the blog form of communication, but analysts indicated RSS feeds have yet to substantially penetrate the corporate market However, RSS feeds -- increasingly popular with consumers seeking to cut through the overload of newsletters and get only the ...
Television and other applications for video over the Internet got a boost this week with the announcement that telecom provider Alcatel and customer management software maker Amdocs were joining forces on services for Internet protocol-based TV, or IPTV The companies said they were collaborating on a convergence solution combining Alcatel's suite o...
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 In its recent report on PDAs -- defined to include Research in Motion's BlackBerry, but not smartphon...
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 The news came from Microsoft's Chris Wilson,...
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) Microsoft is requiring the validation process for all updates and downloads of its software, except for security u...
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 The NASAA highlighted an uptick in phony correspondence used by c...
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...
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