Articles by Jay Lyman

It didn't take long for Novell to remark on how well its newest Linux operating system, Suse Linux Enterprise 10 (SLE 10), is doing in the marketplace. The company on Monday touted interest in the new platform as well as positive reviews of it, just two weeks after its release Suse Linux Enterprise 10 includes both enterprise server and desktop ope...

The Free Software Foundation and Software Freedom Law Center released a second working draft for the next iteration of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3, which updates digital rights management, patent and other provisions included in the most popular free and open source software license The release on Friday coincided with a keynote...

Microsoft demonstrated this week a new handheld device running its Windows CE mobile operating system that could in the future serve as a basic PC for users in developing nations The software giant did not say whether it would actually bring the prototype product, dubbed FonePlus, to market, but Microsoft is no doubt making moves to ensure it has a...

Saying it may have some scratch for the open source software itch, search giant Google chose the O'Reilly Open Source Developers Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., this week to unveil a free service hosting open source software projects The service, Project Hosting, will give open source software developers a place on the Internet to track issue...

The latest customer survey comparing Linux and Windows servers crowns the open source operating system the winner, but tips some ease-of-administration advantages to Microsoft Results of the Research and Markets survey, which did not specify any particular Linux distribution or Windows server version used among its 137 respondents, indicated that L...

Intel unveiled its Core 2 Duo computer processors Thursday, marking what some consider the chip giant's biggest new product release in years. The new Intel Core 2 Duos, a family of 10 new processors that includes desktop and mobile versions of the chips, more closely connect the two processor cores on each chip, which results in increased performance along with more efficient power use...

IM Flash Technologies, a NAND flash memory venture established by Intel and Micron, leaped ahead of rival Samsung this week by sampling a 50-nanometer manufacturing process that more efficiently delivers high density flash memory chips Last week Samsung announced it had achieved manufacturing of its NAND flash memory chips with a 60-nanometer proce...

People eat, put on makeup, play with the stereo, and of course, talk on their mobile phones while driving. Why not add e-mail to the list? A Waterloo, Ontario company has done just that, and Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (IMS) says its iLane device -- "the world's first hands-free and eyes-free e-mail solution for in-vehicle use" -- is a safe way...

Microsoft did it with the operating system, and now a newer company called JotSpot is trying to leverage ease-of-use and a friendly interface to popularize wikis, collaboration sites that allow for multiple editors and contributors JotSpot said its JotSpot 2.0 wiki application platform takes wikis -- named after the Hawaiian expression "hurry quick...

Government entities around the world are not only increasing their use of free and open source software (FOSS), they are actually sharing, collaborating and coordinating in open source fashion to meet federal, state and local government IT needs, recent data suggests IDC's government IT research company Government Insights predicts open source soft...

Sony BMG and Yahoo are teaming up to provide online music downloads in the popular, flexible MP3 format without the usual digital rights management (DRM) controls, but for about twice the price of a typical title download The Yahoo Music release is limited to a single song from Jessica Simpson that is personalized with hundreds of names for differe...

Intel is looking to bounce back from its disappointing second quarter earnings report by beating its charging rival Advanced Micro Devices to market with a four-core processor later this year AMD was able to beat Intel to market with its dual-core Opteron chips for x86 servers last year, and while the smaller company's quad-core server chip is not ...

Fresh on the heels of rival Movielink's announcement of a licensing deal allowing DVDs to be burned from feature film Internet downloads, CinemaNow said its customers could immediately begin burning titles from a catalog of 100 movies with its own burning service The beta service, "Burn to DVD," offers DVD content over the Internet that can be reco...

The Rice University open publishing project Connexions has scored an on-demand printing deal with Qoop, a content delivery company, aimed at making the educational site's materials more accessible and printable for educators and students Inspired by the open source software movement, where software code is open and shared among developers around th...

Intel officially introduced its Itanium 2 Processor 9000 "Montecito" family of high performance computing (HPC) server processors at an event in Santa Clara, Calif., this week, claiming greater cost and energy efficiency compared to earlier chips Intel said the new Itanium 2 chips, to be built into systems from major server vendors for release late...

Antivirus and security giant McAfee stirred up some controversy with the first issue of its security journal Sage, highlighting how hackers and creators of malicious software, or malware, are using open source software development techniques to target computer systems and users McAfee, which mainly provides security solutions for Microsoft Windows ...

Novell is touting its inclusion of Xen server virtualization software in its new Suse Linux Enterprise 10, calling the open source virtualization technology from XenSource one of the most important features of its latest Linux platform Novell, which also released updated enterprise desktop and server software as part of its Suse Linux Enterprise 1...

Several dynamic random access memory chip makers continue to be penalized for alleged price fixing efforts that did nothing to stem the falling price of their products from the late 1990s to 2002 The chip makers, which include Samsung, Micron, Infineon, Elpida, Hynix, Mosel-Vitelic, Nanya Technology and NEC, are being sued by New York and more than...

One small step for an inflatable satellite, one giant leap for commercial space travel took place this week as Genesis 1 launched from Russia and began orbiting the Earth The experimental craft, developed and paid for by Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace, may represent the biggest achievement by a private company in space flight since Paul Allen's Spa...

Microsoft is takingXbox 360 fans back a couple of decades, getting deeper into the red hot retro video game market by offering the 20-year-old "Frogger" title for its newest console via Xbox Live Arcade The well known frog-crossing-the-street game will be followed by other retro titles -- "Galaga," "Street Fighter," "Pac Man" and others -- that wil...