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Mountain View, California-based Stretch, a fabless semiconductor developer, this week debuted a new family of process that can be configured by software, making this the first design to embed powerful programmable logic within an off-the-shelf processor. The chip family -- the S5000 -- also includes a suite of development tools that let developers...
A memorandum from Microsoft argues against the European Commission's antitrust decision, stating that Brussels is creating legal precedents that inflict long-term damage on the software developer's business model. The memo outlines the legal strategy that the Redmond, Washington, software maker is to take in the appeals court in Europe shortly....
Two leading U.S.-based technology developers -- IBM and Stanford University -- are partnering to launch an advanced research project to create new high-performance, low-power electronics in the emerging field of nanotechnology called "spintronics." A recent report by a leading technology analysis firm indicates that ongoing research into spintronic...
A Philippines-based software developer this week released software that enables Windows-based programs to run on computers using archrival Linux In a statement, Peter Valdes, CTO of SpecOps Labs, said the software ultimately will help users migrate from Windows machines to the open-source Linux platform....
Sun Microsystems on Thursday revealed it has forged 21 deals with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) during the last four months. The massive announcement provides an objective sign of growth in open-source technologies, according to the company But is demand for alternative, open-source computing technologies, including the Java Desktop Syste...
The Better Business Bureau this week issued a national warning about 321 Studios, a developer of DVD copying, backup and repair software that is causing controversy in U.S. federal courts and in Hollywood The BBB, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group, issued the consumer advisory against the St. Louis, Missouri-based company in response to customer ...
The SCO Group late Friday disclosed that one of its investors is extremely unhappy -- and wants its money back. But the Lindon, Utah-based Unix provider apparently isn't going to resolve the legal controversy without a fight, at least for now In a letter released to other investors by SCO, BayStar Capital requested that SCO immediately redeem BaySt...
A new study released this week indicates that nearly 28 "spyware" items infest each PC, demonstrating the broad proliferation of the secret software, researchers said Spyware is a rapidly proliferating type of software that covertly forwards information about a computer user's online activities to another individual or company without the user's kn...
Court papers filed this week demonstrate that the U.S. Department of Justice is asking Microsoft to reveal more to rivals who license essential Windows computer code as part of the company's ongoing antitrust settlement. The documents in federal court show that Microsoft has agreed to a deal with the DOJ, as well as state attorneys general, to res...
Arguments that Linux poses a threat to national security if its use on Pentagon projects continues unchecked are "short-sighted and self-serving," and are merely an attempt to cultivate "uncertainty and doubt" in the marketplace. So said Dr. Inder Singh, chairman and CEO of LynuxWorks, a San Jose-based embedded software developer Last week, a natio...
The developer of one of the world's most high-profile, open-source databases, Sweden's MySQL AB, this week launched MySQL Cluster, a new open-source database clustering technology for applications that need continuous availability. The MySQL Cluster combines a clustering architecture with the MySQL database to deliver 99.999 percent uptime for dat...
An investigative report by a government agency in the United Kingdom has revealed many disabled users find online chores that are routine for most people to be Herculean for them, as they "find it impossible to book a holiday, open a bank account or buy theater tickets online." The study on Internet access was released this week by the Disability R...
A filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the regulatory body that monitors publicly traded companies, indicates that Dell last year generated most of its new jobs overseas, in the fastest-growing markets there, including China. Dell's disclosure confirms the pattern in global IT spending growth last year, but business analysts said the outsourcing numbers need to be placed in context...
Earlier today, at a developer's forum in Taipei, Taiwan, chipmaker Intel disclosed that it has developed two new, low-priced Itanium processors targeted toward the server market. Servers employing the new processors will be about 28 percent lower in price and up to 25 percent faster than earlier Itanium 2-based servers, the company said A 1.4-GHz v...
Think that viruses and worms sent by e-mail are an IT security nightmare? Wait until you experience the next assault hackers are unleashing -- the browser-based attack. The second annual survey on IT security and the workforce conducted by CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association -- a copy of which was obtained by TechNewsWorld -- re...
It may be a one-time fluke or a sign of the broader economic recovery, but domestic music sales in the first quarter of this year increased dramatically for U.S. record labels. Fueled by sales from artists like Norah Jones and Usher, both of whom accomplished the now-unusual feat of selling 1 million copies of their albums in a one-week period, ov...
Public comments are due today at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding a policy proposal instigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to bolster government surveillance of the Internet Last month, the FBI, along with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), filed a petition with ...
Listening to some Linux critics, you might think that the open-source operating system is more of a threat to U.S. national security than a gaggle of Islamic jihadis lugging rocket-propelled grenade launchers around Fallujah, or mad Pakistani nuclear scientists selling secrets to rogue states At yesterday's Net-Centric Operations Industry Forum in ...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is ratcheting up the computer industry establishment's pressure on hackers, meeting this week in Washington, D.C., with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and IT industry leaders to decry Internet crime Ballmer observed that the circle of active hackers today is largely "far-flung and anonymous" but could wreak havoc ...
Japanese scientists have built their largest distributed-computing grid yet, a Linux-based supercluster that performs 11 trillion floating operations per second, at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Salt Lake City-based Linux Networx this week disclosed As Japan's largest public research organization, AIST...
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