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A new Yankee Group survey shows only 4 percent of Unix users and 10 percent of Windows users have any desire to switch platforms The Yankee Group report, called "Linux, Unix and Windows TCO Comparison," advises corporations to delay a Linux migration -- or any software migration -- until they can satisfactorily answer how a software operating syste...
Best Buy has announced the rollout of an electronic product code (EPC) strategy designed to increase its supply chain efficiency over the next several years The company yesterday said it plans to leverage radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to drive the change. RFID allows retailers to easily and efficiently track products as they move...
The Blu-ray Disc Association and Microsoft have agreed to include the VC-1 advanced compression video codec, the proposed SMPTE standard based on Windows Media 9, as a mandatory codec in Blu-ray Disc's BD-ROM specification for video playback equipment Video codecs are used to compress video images for storage to a disc and then decompress them for ...
Skype Technologies today launched the beta version of Skype for Mac OS X. The software can be downloaded for free and is available immediately "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennstrom, Skype CEO and cofounder....
Skype Technologies today launched the beta version of Skype for Mac OS X. The software can be downloaded for free and is available immediately "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennstrom, Skype CEO and cofounder....
Veritas has entered into an agreement to acquire KVault Software (KVS), a provider of e-mail archiving software, in an all-cash transaction valued at US$225 million With the addition of KVS, Veritas hopes to offer customers software to store, manage and archive corporate e-mail and data. The idea is to help companies address regulatory compliance a...
Opera Software announced that its Opera smartphone browser will soon become available for Microsoft Windows Mobile software Windows Mobile is a new platform for Opera, whose smartphone browsers includes Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) technology to let users browse regular Web pages on small mobile screens....
Pushing the number of transistors it can cram onto silicon, chip giant Intel announced a step forward in its advance to the 65-nanometer manufacturing process, a move toward further miniaturization to boost chip efficiency and performance In a sign it is on course to begin manufacturing computer chips with the new process -- and maintain the Moore'...
Circuit City and Verizon Wireless have signed an agreement to create a Verizon Wireless store within each of more than 570 Circuit City stores around the country Verizon Wireless will operate the Verizon Wireless stores and be responsible for the employees and inventory....
Plans were announced today for the Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Organization to become part of the global OASIS standards consortium. Through this shift in proprietorship, the DCML Organization could benefit from the OASIS membership base -- more than 3,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members across 100 countries...
FrontBridge Technologies today announced the acquisition of MessageRite to broaden the company's service portfolio to include e-mail and instant message archiving. FrontBridge's existing technologies include inbox management tools such as perimeter-based spam filtering, virus scanning, secure e-mail, policy enforcement and disaster recovery Complia...
New research from Forrester predicts that spending on IT goods, services and staff will grow 7 percent in 2005 and continue at a similar pace through 2008 -- only slightly faster than overall economic growth. This finding is consistent with the cyclical nature of IT spending, where periods of digestion and refinement follow periods of heavy technology investment...
Aruba Wireless and Ortronics announced they have developed a WiFi wall outlet. Financial details of the development agreement were not disclosed The new Wi-Jack WiFi wall outlet will be marketed and manufactured by Ortronics and will integrate Aruba's enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) technology directly into an office network wall outlet....
Orion Multisystems has announced two models of the Orion Cluster Workstation, a computing platform for engineering and scientific professionals who need to solve computationally complex problems ...
Ciber today reported that it has signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire, subject to approval by German antitrust authorities, approximately 67 percent of the net outstanding shares of Novasoft AG, a Heidelberg, Germany, international consultancy specializing in implementation of SAP's products Founded in 1989, Novasoft is a SAP integrator for...
Offshore outsourcing of IT infrastructure management is likely to be the next big wave, according to results of a recent survey conducted by Wipro Technologies According to the online survey of 145 executives from various industries, more than 30 percent of the respondents are planning to offshore their IT infrastructure in the next 12 months, and ...
Microsoft announced it will target broad availability of the Windows client operating system codenamed "Longhorn" in 2006, and make key elements of the Windows WinFX developer platform, which Longhorn provides, available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Microsoft said Longhorn will deliver major improvements in user productivity, important ne...
ICANN confirmed today that Judge A. Howard Matz of the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, has issued an order dismissing VeriSign's antitrust claims against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- with prejudice. In dismissing VeriSign's antitrust claims, Judge Matz noted that VeriSign had failed in its first amended complaint to sufficiently allege an antitrust claim...
Sprint and SBC Communications today announced a reciprocal WiFi roaming agreement that will provide their customers access to each other's public WiFi networks Under the agreement, customers will be able to roam on the WiFi networks of each company using their existing user IDs and passwords. Service charges will be billed according to the customer...
The Thomson Corporation and KnowledgeNet, a privately held company, have signed an agreement under which Thomson will acquire KnowledgeNet and merge it with its enterprise learning business, Thomson NETg "The acquisition underscores our commitment to delivering high-impact integrated learning solutions for the corporate, government, academic and pr...
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