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Having unwillingly ceded Web search leadership to Google, Yahoo is not about to also let the growing world of mobile services slip through its fingers. The Internet veteran chose the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show to announce a number of mobile initiatives, including a decision to open...
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has created what it calls an "industry milestone:" a 2.5-inch computer hard drive capable of storing a whopping 500 GB of data. It also has struck a deal with computer vendor Asus, which will sell a notebook PC equipped with two of the drives. The new Travelstar 5...
Joining Nevada and Florida, New Jersey is the latest state to enact legislation that strongly limits the rights of convicted sex offenders to use the Internet. A bill, signed Thursday by New Jersey Acting Gov. Richard Codey, allows judges to impose the restrictions and also makes it easier for autho...
Zumobi, a new mobile widget platform and zooming interface based on Microsoft technology, has launched in beta mode after more than a year of development. The trial version of the service is available for phones running Windows Mobile 5 and 6. In the second quarter of 2008, Zumobi is planning to off...
Hoping to add to its paltry market share in the Google-dominated world of Internet search, Ask.com has added a feature that, at the user's request, supposedly deletes records of their online activity. However, the feature might not deliver as much privacy as it seems. The new "AskEraser" is being to...
The third Service Pack for Microsoft Windows XP, expected to be publicly released next year, might boost the operating system's speed to the point where it is substantially faster than Vista, its successor OS, according to a new study. In a benchmarking comparison between a beta version of XP Servic...
The capability gap between personal computers and mobile phones continues to narrow and, from a convenience and productivity point of view, that's a good thing. But along with the benefits come risks, according to Symantec. The Cupertino, Calif. company -- known mainly for its Norton brand of comput...
Touting its long history of supercomputing and grid computing expertise and citing the "extreme scale" potential of highly distributed processing, IBM is unveiling a series of cloud computing offerings based on open standards and open source software. Called "Blue Cloud," a reference to IBM's "Big B...
On the heels of Intel's launch of an environmentally friendly new chip fabrication plant in Arizona, IBM is showing it, too, knows how to be green. The company announced a new silicon reclamation process that won a recent pollution prevention award. The new process, in operation at IBM's Burlington,...
Intel is now mass producing its 45 nanometer architecture Penryn processors at a new, state-of-the-art facility in Arizona, and it expects to have the new chips on the market in about two weeks. The company spent $3 billion to build the new "Fab 32" processor foundry in Chandler, Ariz., its first hi...
IBM has announced improved storage virtualization offerings for disk and tape, including a new product and enhancements to its Virtualization Engine TS7520 tape solution. The goal in making the changes is to increase the efficiency of its storage virtualization products and bring cost savings to its...
SanDisk has renamed and launched its USBTV flash memory-based gadget, introduced in January, and says the Sansa TakeTV video player is an easy way for people to watch on the televisions video content downloaded on their computers. Described by the company as a "smart, simple and seamless way to easi...
It was trouble enough when Sony released "Resistance: Fall of Man," a video game that includes shoot-outs between people and aliens that take place within Manchester Cathedral. To give the game an award is salt in the wound, says the dean of the cathedral. The Very Rev. Rogers Govender is upset that...
Toshiba chose the CEATEC electronics show in Japan this week to demonstrate the capabilities of a notebook supercharged with the new "SpursEngine" processor. Journalists attending the event seemed particularly impressed with the way the Cell Broadband Engine technology enabled a laptop to sense hand...
Not giving up on its foray into portable media players despite the iPod's dominance, Microsoft is expanding and improving its stable of Zune devices and pairing their release with a new, music-oriented social networking site. Chairman Bill Gates and Corporate Vice President J. Allard announced three...
As it battles Microsoft to try to gain some of the Web search market share gobbled by Google, Yahoo has upgraded its search technology with a feature that makes suggestions while users type. Called "Search Assist," the new feature arrives several days after Microsoft similarly unveiled improvements ...
A demonstration by Motorola of Sprint's Xohm WiMax wireless broadband technology took place this week on a tour boat in the Chicago River. Accounts of the exhibition are likely to have DSL and cable Internet providers worried. Journalists invited aboard the "Summer of George" filed generally upbeat ...
Hoping to ride the rising mobile Web wave, Fox Interactive Media is offering free mobile access to MySpace and several other sites. The free mobile Web versions of the sites will be supported by advertising instead of user subscription fees. However, the fee-based versions of the sites will remain a...
Intel, which wants to be at the forefront of a trend toward more powerful mobile devices capable of full Internet capability, said its new Menlow platform will be a big part of that future. Discussed at this year's Intel Developer's Forum by Anand Chandrasekher, the senior vice president and general...
Hoping to offer something for all budgets and desktop computing power requirements, Advanced Micro Devices is planning to sell triple-core versions of its multi-core processors. The Phenom Triple-Core units will be less expensive than its forthcoming top-of-the-line quad-core, AMD said. "Triple-core...
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