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The ample media coverage of the U.S. release of Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) makes two things clear: It's a great gaming machine but not a great convergence device; and Sony operates a fabulous buzz machine The PSP will go on sale Thursday at US$250, and demand is so high that Sony's initial release of 1 million may be gone almost before it c...
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), once nicknamed "Terminator" for his 2003 comment thatthe recording industry should be allowed to remotely destroy the computersof file-sharers, was named today to head a new Senate subcommittee onintellectual property While Hatch backed down slightly from that comment the next day, saying, "I do notfavor extreme remedies ...
Oracle bumped up its bid to acquire Retek late yesterday, in the second round of its battle with SAP for the retail applications developer The move was expected, but the new offer, US$11.25 per share to SAP's $11, was lower than the $12 Gartner analyst Andrew White predicted yesterday. At the new high bid, Retek's value is up to $631 million. Oracl...
SAP took another shot in its battle with Oracle, raising to US$11 a share its bid for Retek. SAP had been set to buy the retail applications provider for $8.50 a share, then Oracle countered at $9 The war, however, is far from over, analysts say....
Novell's chief technology officer, Alan Nugent, has left the company, LinuxInsider has learned "Alan has left Novell to pursue other interests. We appreciate the work he's done for us and wish him well," Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry told LinuxInsider. "The folks that were reporting into Alan, a fairly small team, will now report into the senior e...
RIM announced today that it has settled a years-long patent fight by agreeing to pay US$450 million to NTP, a U.S. patent-holding company. In exchange, RIM will be allowed to continue operating its BlackBerry wireless business NTP sued RIM, a Canadian company, for infringing on 16 patents for radio frequency wireless communications in electronic ma...
Computer users who suffer from hand tremors often find it difficult tonegotiate a computer because shaking disturbs the smooth flow of the mouse.IBM today announced that its researchers had developed an Assistive MouseAdapter that compensates for the involuntary motion and allows normal mouseuse The company has licensed the technology to a small Br...
Google's news site, perpetually in beta, got an upgrade this week with the addition of a customization feature. The news aggregator site is programmed with an algorithm that sorts through more than 4,500 English news sites and calculates which are the most relevant....
Software developer SAP and chip designer Intel said today at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, that they would collaborate on technology to allow companies to integrate data collected from RFID chips "The announcement provides additional evidence that RFID is real and is moving from being an interesting technology to a key enabler of the n...
Five months after a preview version of CherryOS was released to cries that it was merely a copy of the open-source PearPC, software distributor Maui X-Stream has done it again. The Hawaii-based company re-released a final version of CherryOS on Tuesday to a similar reception PearPC, a PowerPC architecture emulator, is released under the General Pub...
Oracle, never a company to shy from head-on competition, announced todaythat it would outbid rival SAP in its attempt to buy software maker Retek,offering US$9 per share. SAP had agreed last week to pay $8.50 a share Oracle's offer bumps the bid for the retail applications provider from $496 million to $524million. The database giant has already be...
For the second time in less than a month, Americans are finding out that their private information may be in the hands of identity thieves Publisher and information broker Reed Elsevier announced today that criminals using a stolen identity and password gained access to information on as many as 32,000 Americans from a database in the company's Sei...
While Internet piracy and copyright infringement are usually thought ofas federal crimes, one University of Arizona student found that that is notalways the case Parvin Dhaliwal, 18, pleaded guilty last month in Maricopa County, Arizona, topossession of counterfeit marks, or unauthorized copies ofintellectual property. The FBI, which had found copi...
In an attempt to cut down on the exponential growth of phishing scams, Sen.Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, introduced a bill yesterday that defines the penaltiesfor perpetrators The Anti-Phishing Act of 2005 calls for fines of up to US$250,000 and prison terms of up to five years for people convicted of the scam, in which phony e-mails and Web sites mimi...
Craigslist announced today that it would expand theodds of finding true love, a vintage couch or a long lost pal by beaming itsads into outer space "Humans in general seem to like the chance of a long shot, hence thepopularity of the missed connections board," craigslist CEO Jim Buckmastersaid. "We're at least raising the odds."
Sony Ericcson has dusted off the Walkman name and attached it to its latestmultipurpose device: the W800, which contains a phone, a 2megapixel camera and a music player "I'm fairly bullish -- I think people are going to want music on their cellphones," Neil Strother, senior analyst at In-Stat/MDR, told TechNewsWorld."They're reinventing an old bran...
Intel will spend next week drumming up enthusiasm for its dual-core processing systems at its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco. The company, hot on the heels of AMD, announced it would release a 64-bit Pentium 4 processor for PCs by midyear, ending AMD's sole proprietorship of the 64-bit world, and promised to unveil more details of its dual-core strategy at the forum...
French Linux distributor Mandrakesoft will acquire its Brazilian counterpart, Conectiva, the two companies announced yesterday Mandrakesoft will buy all of Conectiva's stock for US$2.3 million to take over the 60-employee company, which had $2.2 million in revenue and reached the break-even point in the last six months of its fiscal year....
In another attempt to slow the spread of computer viruses, the British government has set up a Web site that offers to alert citizens when serious Internet security problems are making the rounds The IT Security Awareness for Everyone site (www.itsafe.gov.uk) will offer the alerts via e-mail or text message and will also give advice on data protect...
A characteristic that HIV shares with spam has led Microsoft and AIDS researchers to team up on developing a vaccine to kill the deadly disease Just as spam merchants make tiny changes in the words that are blocked by filters, so, too, HIV mutates rapidly and in tiny ways that keep it one step ahead of the body's immune system....
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