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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a US$42.6 million grant to the Institute for OneWorld Health to create a cure for malaria OneWorld, America's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, will work with the University of California, Berkeley, and Amyris Biotechnologies, according to a statement from OneWorld....
Salesforce.com today announced the expansion of its on-demand service with Winter '05. The product line includes Salesforce.com Winter '05, Supportforce.com Winter '05, sforce 5.0 and the new on-demand customization toolkit, Customforce.com Winter '05 will provide the applications, customization toolkit and integration platform to enable companies ...
Gupta Technologies announced today that its SQLBase(R) 9.0 for Linux has been certified "Novell Ready" for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and 9 The Novell Ready designation means that the product has been designed to work with Novell's Linux family of enterprise-class software products....
ATI Technologies, the three-dimensional graphics chipmaker, today announced HyperMemory, a technology that allows a PC to use system memory for graphics processing HyperMemory uses the high-speed bidirectional data transfer capabilities of PCI Express to store and access graphics data in system memory, which could lead to less dependence on dedicat...
Eastman Kodak and IBM will team up to develop new image sensors for digital cameras and camera phones, Kodak said in a statment The agreement seeks to combine Kodak's image sensor technology with IBM's complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing expertise. Kodak hopes to use the technology to bring out a new family of CMOS image senso...
XM Satellite Radio today announced the introduction of an online, commercial-free radio service, to premier in October, the company said in a statement The Washington, D.C.-based company will charge a monthly fee of $7.99 for the service, called XM Radio Online. Customers who already subscribe to XM's satellite radio service will be able to purchas...
Borland Software today introduced Borland CaliberRM 2005 and Borland StarTeam 2005, software tools designed to help application developers manage the requirements, resources, tasks, assets and workflow for application development CaliberRM 2005 and StarTeam 2005 offer several new capabilities designed to improve visibility, predictability and contr...
IMlogic today released free software to help companies fight copyright piracy, avoid lawsuits from illegal file sharing and prevent damage from viruses and worms IM Detector Pro is designed to help corporations detect and block unmanaged instant messaging (IM), peer-to-peer (P2P) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) traffic while they plan the m...
Nokia said that it has applied for membership in the SD Card Association and has signed a licensing agreement for enabling the use of SD memory cards in its devices. According to a statement, Nokia will continue to support MultiMediaCards (MMC) that are currently widely used in Nokia's mobile devices The SD memory cards have gained acceptance in th...
As students all across the United States were getting ready to head back to school, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was busy beefing up its prolonged attack on consumer fair use rights and emerging consumer technologies In a quietly-submitted letter dated August 16, 2004, lawyers for the RIAA warned the Federal Communications C...
IBM has announced several new services and technologies to help push radio frequency identification (RFID) systems to industrial companies. The new services are geared toward the automotive, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, chemicals and paper and electronics companies IBM initially partnered with Philips Semiconductors in providing the RFID tech...
Yahoo and Musicmatch today announced they have signed an agreement for Yahoo to acquire Musicmatch for approximately US$160 million in cash According to Jupiter Research, digital music sales are expected to grow rapidly in the near future, particularly with the increasing availability of broadband access....
Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Siemens and Sony Ericsson today announced their cooperation in mobile broadcast services, a collaboration that started as the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) The charter of the work is to specify the enablers needed to bring broadcast services to mobile devices and to open up the market for new mobile services and terminals....
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announced that it has agreed to divest certain U.S. onshore properties to undisclosed parties for US$850 million in cash and interests in two oil and gas fields in Wyoming The transaction, effective September 1, 2004, will include an estimated 108 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) in proved reserves as of year-e...
NetSolve, a security and infrastructure applications developer, has signed an agreement with Cisco under which Cisco will acquire NetSolve for a purchase price of US$11.00 per share in cash "Our board has concluded this is a fair transaction for our stockholders and will be recommending its approval when we mail our proxy statement," said David Hoo...
Transmeta Corporation announced that the Efficeon TM8800 has achieved limited production status after passing Transmeta's quality requirements The Efficeon TM8800 is manufactured using a 90-nanometer process technology at the Fujitsu Electronics Akiruno Advanced Technology Center near Tokyo. By using this process, the initial 90-nm TM8800 shipments...
Oracle has prevailed in a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice seeking to block its proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft. The decision, even though it can be appealed, removes a significant roadblock to the acquisition "This decision puts the onus squarely on the board of PeopleSoft to meet with us and to redeem their poison pill so that the sh...
VeriSign has implemented an enhancement, called "rapid updates," to its .com and .net Domain Name System (DNS) servers ...
With good momentum already in the United States and worldwide, a new report from In-Stat/MDR suggests that mobile gaming, while remaining a niche market, will continue its rise as a key contributor to wireless data usage and revenues The research firm estimates that by 2009, mobile gaming services in the United States will generate US$1.8 billion a...
Nokia has announced the Nokia 9300, a new version of the company's Communicator that will be available early next year On the outside, the Nokia 9300 looks like a slim mobile phone. When opened, the device reveals a full keyboard and color screen. The 9300 is designed to appeal to professionals who want powerful functionality from a data-enabled de...
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