Articles by Jay Lyman

IBM is looking to make more of the mainframe, by adding more performance, reliability, and security and selling the z9 system as a collaborative computing hub that is accessible to more users, including those on Intel and RISC platforms IBM said its three-year, US$1.2 billion development effort had resulted in "one of the most open, reliable and se...

Security institute SANS released its latest 20 most critical vulnerabilities list, warning of new attacks that are focused on applications, including backup and media software, and of hackers' increasing ability to embed attacks in sites to snare users simply visiting them The latest list of vulnerabilities includes software from a range of vendors...

Taking competition in the printer market beyond cost, Hewlett-Packard is differentiating its latest printing products by speeding text and photo printing while also leveraging its innovation to supposedly save ink and paper HP said its latest technologies -- improved printhead construction and other ehnancements aimed at lowering cost per page -- h...

Wireless provider T-Mobile announced it will deliver High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HDSPA) connectivity to mobile phone users in Germany, delivering the DSL-type speed and bandwidth required for content including video television on mobile phones While the service will not be launched for commercial use until CeBIT 2006, T-Mobile said the fixed...

Nortel Networks and the Wi-Mesh Alliance this week announced their continuing effort to standardize so-called mesh, extended 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLAN) worldwide to promote interoperability, which now includes standardization with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) The alliance -- a group of companies aimin...

Finnish broadband technology provider Teleste is hailing anticipated speeds of its high-speed Internet service over cable television lines, which the company reportedly claims will hit the 100 megabit-per-second mark as early as next year Teleste, a maker of cable broadband components, said its technology would rely on existing TV networks and woul...

Finnish broadband technology provider Teleste is hailing anticipated speeds of its high-speed Internet service over cable television lines, which the company reportedly claims will hit the 100 megabit-per-second mark as early as next year Teleste, a maker of cable broadband components, said its technology would rely on existing TV networks and woul...

By boosting the bandwidth of its front side bus (FSB), chip giant Intel is gradually improving performance of its Itanium 2 chips, laying the groundwork for the dual-core version of the microprocessor to come later down the road Intel said its latest Itanium 2 processors will have a 667 megahertz (MHz) front side bus -- a silicon component that con...

The growing number of compromised computers known as "zombies," as well as the growing danger these hijacked systems and networks can bring, have prompted anti-virus company Sophos to provide a service that finds the often quiet, malicious code Experts agreed that zombies, which are typically ceded to attackers through software programs such as Tro...

A number of software and service offerings allow computer users to conduct process monitoring to find out what malicious or hidden programs may be running on their machines, but security experts said the lower-level, PC-specific scanning is too detailed to be useful to most enterprise IT departments UniBlue, a backup and recovery management softwar...

The growing number of compromised computers known as "zombies," as well as the growing danger these hijacked systems and networks can bring, have prompted anti-virus company Sophos to provide a service that finds the often quiet, malicious code Experts agreed that zombies, which are typically ceded to attackers through software programs such as Tro...

A Florida man faces stiff penalties for allegedly accessing someone's residential WiFi Internet connection while parked outside the supposed victim's home in April Police in St. Petersburg reportedly said 41-year-old Benjamin Smith would be charged with unlawfully accessing a computer network, a crime carrying a penalty of as many as five years in ...

Rambus touted its ramped-up computer chip memory interface known as XDR2 this week, heralding the high-speed interface as a tool for "unprecedented graphics capabilities" enabled through the new technology The latest version of its high-bandwidth XDR memory interface, XDR2, uses a DRAM core innovation known as microthreading and other enhanced tech...

Japanese electronics and handset giants Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo proudly proclaimed joint development of a high-capacity micro fuel cell with recharger for mobile handsets this week, but analysts said that batteries continue to push the envelope ahead of such technologies, which have long been promised by industry Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo stated that t...

Backers of a narrow-band wireless technology that uses low frequencies alongside existing activity on the wireless transmission spectrum claim better reach than next-generation WiMax wireless, with a lower cost because of the sub-gigahertz spectrum and low power required for the solution Florida-based xGTM Technology has been testing a wireless tec...

Sprint continued its push toward next-generation WiMax technology this week, announcing an agreement with Motorola to conduct joint testing on wireless broadband to lay the groundwork for future infrastructure and services The move follows Sprint's close work with chipmaker Intel, which is also pushing the 802.16e, or WiMax, wireless technology. W...

A recent investor report has highlighted expected losses for PlayStation 3 maker Sony, which will take an estimated hit of US$100 per sold next-gen gaming console when the devices go on sale next year However, industry analysts said the negative margin is nothing new in gaming, pointing out that Microsoft, which will roll out its Xbox 360 sooner an...

The next-generation computer chip known as "Cell" isn't just about fun and games any more. With the announcement of the first major Cell applications effort, the chip will be used to enhance data-intensive apps such as sonar and digital X-ray by Mercury Computer Systems Jointly developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, the Cell processor represents an en...

AMD is accusing Intel of serious abuses of its dominant position in the computer microprocessor industry, saying the industry giant coerced manufacturers including Dell, HP, Sony, Acer, Fujitsu and others away from AMD products, thereby limiting the challenger's ability to compete The allegations are part of a federal antitrust complaint filed by A...

There are few of us who would choose to go anywhere without them, but we've all wished at one time or another that we had a magic jamming device that could hang up cell phones in the face of a loud, annoying user nearby. The fact is, for most of us, the only thing that makes us more angry than a fellow cell phone user is finding that our own cell phones can't get reception...