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Microsoft Moves Into Midst of DVD Format War

As the two sides pushing different standards for the next-generation DVD format continue to send mixed signals on a unified technology, Microsoft and Toshiba announced today they would be collaborating to create products compatible with the HD DVD format, which is competing against the Sony-backed Blu-ray Expected and predicted by some industry obs...

Samsung, Analysts Clash Over Memory Market

Samsung's president and CEO of semiconductors Hwang Chang-gyu has reportedly signaled the price decline in Flash and DRAM chips is likely to subside and the cost of the memory technology -- popular in portable music players, digital cameras and mobile phones -- should stabilize Analysts, however, indicated that the continued oversupply of memory ch...

RIM Wins Another Victory in NTP Patent Dispute

Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the popular BlackBerry mobile messaging device, won another round in its intellectual property fight with U.S.-based NTP as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office continued its re-examination of patents that are the basis of NTP's case Shares of RIM rose nearly 3 percent on news that the USPTO rejected ...

Microsoft Finalizes Sybari Deal

Microsoft continued its efforts to make more third-party security software of its own this week, completing its acquisition of enterprise messaging protection provider Sybari The deal, announced last February and finalized this week, will result in the availability of Sybari's Antigen software for messaging, gateway, spam and other security on the ...

Microsoft Closes Sybari Deal

Microsoft continued its efforts to make more third-party security software of its own this week, completing its acquisition of enterprise messaging protection provider Sybari The deal, announced last February and finalized this week, will result in the availability of Sybari's Antigen software for messaging, gateway, spam and other security on the ...

Report Suggests Security Software Attacks Increasing

IT analysis firm Yankee Group is warning that an increasing number of vulnerabilities in security software from major vendors may be putting enterprises and users at risk The company called for security vendors to make their computer protection products more secure themselves before applications such as antivirus, firewalls and anti-spyware become ...

Intel Makes Multi-Mode, CMOS Radio for Wireless Chips

Intel is touting its development of a prototype, CMOS-standard wireless radio that supports all WiFi, or 802.11 standards, including a, b and g, as well as the next-generation wireless 802.11n The chip giant said through standard CMOS silicon manufacturing, it could create the "system-in-a-package," which is a wireless transceiver capable of connec...

Intel Joins South Korea on Wireless Net

Looking to the world's leading nation in terms of broadband and wireless adoption, Intel is working with South Korean company KT to collaborate on the country's next wireless broadband solution KT and Intel indicated they would team up on what is known as WiBro 802.16e wireless technology, and on Intel's similar wireless solution for wider coverage...

Big Blue Bolsters Blades with Opteron

IBM upped its backing of AMD's Opteron processor this week, announcing its new eServer Cluster 1350, which the company claims is the only integrated cluster solution using AMD 64 dual-core technology in the blade form factor -- thin, lower-power servers that are joined in large numbers for higher-performance computing Big Blue said its Cluster 1350...

BT To Offer Dual-Mode Handsets, Services

Months after it first signaled its intentions to merge fixed wireless Bluetooth technology with WiFi 802.11 mobile wireless in one handset, UK telecom giant BT said this week that it is readying its BT Fusion brand for UK consumers, who will soon be able to purchase the dual-mode devices there The company hopes to merge devices and services with th...

BT Bridging Mobile-Landline Gap with Dual-Mode Devices

Months after it first signaled its intentions to merge fixed wireless Bluetooth technology with WiFi 802.11 mobile wireless in one handset, UK telecom giant BT said this week that it is readying its BT Fusion brand for UK consumers, who will soon be able to purchase the dual-mode devices there The company hopes to merge devices and services with th...

IBM Builds Sister for Top Supercomputer

Looking to match the kind of computing power it created in the BlueGene/L supercomputer -- a system made up over more than 130,000 processors -- IBM launched this week what it called the fastest privately-owned supercomputer in the world. The system is sister to BlueGene, dubbed "BGW," and is expected to rank among the world's three fastest public/private super systems...

HP Claims Circuit Breakthrough

HP said its researchers have created a new way to make electronic circuits using so-called "coding theory," which is already applied today in certain math, cryptography and telecommunications applications, including digital cell phones and deep-space probes HP said the new design method, based on nanotechnology, could produce future electronic circ...

Cutting the Cord for Mobile Phones

The ranks of those cutting off their traditional, land line telephone service in favor of only wireless telecommunication services are growing, with some reports putting the figure at over 10 percent of wireless users While most analysts doubt much more than 8 percent of wireless users -- mostly college-age students or younger -- are ditching their...

Intel’s Yonah: Dual Core To Go

Intel wound up a week of multi-core processor madness at Computex in Taiwan, fittingly, outlining its newest mobile chip technology: the dual-core "Yonah" processor and accompanying chipset and wireless module In addition to the dual-core technology, which has put Computex in the spotlight this week with desktop offerings from both Intel and rival ...

Samsung, Airgo Team Up on MIMO Wireless Notebooks

Samsung and Airgo, a company that plans to take 802.11n or WiFi wireless to another level with its multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna technology, announced this week they will ship new notebook computers that incorporate the extended reach and higher data rate wireless solution The companies did not announce a release date, but they did...

HP Moving Forward on Plans for Itanium Server Switch

Amid skepticism from some industry observers who have been wary of Intel's Itanium processors, HP has continued along the road to a server switch to Itanium, touting its higher-end Integrity NonStop server as the latest to leave behind reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processing technology for the new technology HP unveiled its new server a...

AMD Takes Turn with Dual-Core Athlon X2

Only one holiday weekend behind its rival Intel released its dual-core Pentium D chipset, AMD this week announced the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor that, much like Intel's offering, is aimed at rolling the new chip technology into the wider marketplace of desktop and notebook PCs, in addition to servers AMD said the new processors -- backed by P...

Intel Pentium D Takes Dual-Core Mainstream

Delivering its first dual-core processor intended for mainstream, consumer and small-business PCs, chip giant Intel launched the Pentium D and 945 chipset this week, touting better support for multiple computing tasks, which increasingly include high-end graphics, audio, video and security Intel said its new, multi-core technology was a combination...

Cisco Aims at Data Center, Acquires FineGround

Computer networking giant Cisco continued its effort to compete beyond routers and switches and grab a foothold in the data center, where it has had weakness in the past. The company's presence in this area has been strengthened by acquisitions recently, including the latest: FineGround Networks, a popular data center appliance maker Cisco said by ...

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