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A Georgia woman has filed a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard over the company's use of chips to disable printer ink cartridges after a certain date The suit, filed in Santa Clara (California) Superior Court, seeks class-action status on behalf of anyone who has purchased an inkjet printer with smartchip technology in the United States since February...
HP announced a line of new routers it says will aid security at thenetwork's edge and sell for half the price of offerings from Ciscoand other networking rivals The new ProCurve Networking products are the Secure Router 7000dl series and Access Controller Module software for the ProCurve Switch 5300xl. HP said that the new router will include a fir...
The advent of a new technology often requires building a whole new set of rules to govern its use. Occasionally, the technology's use easily falls under a set of rules already in place Either way, there is often a gap between the widespread use of the technology and the cementing of policies and procedures that will cover most circumstances under w...
A partnership between publisher Random House and Vocel, amobile application start-up based in San Diego, is designed to deliver language lessons and videogame guides to mobile phone subscribers The agreement, announced today, gives Random House aminority interest in Vocel. Vocel gains the right to use Random House'sLiving Language and Prima Game br...
Samsung Electronics stayed a bit ahead of the curve with its announcementyesterday that it has developed the first working DDR3 DRAM (dynamic randomaccess memory) device The 512 MB DDR3 (double data rate 3) can process dataat 1,066 mbps, which Samsung equated with 8,000 newspaper pages a second. Itis expected to be available in early 2006....
Microsoft announced today an offer to replace the power cords on 14.1million Xboxes worldwide because they can overheat, causing smoke and firedamage, the company said The affected game consoles were made before January 12, 2004, except in continental Europe, where the cutoff date is October 23. 2003....
Using an old-fashioned con, thieves posing as legitimate businesses were able to extract the personal information of thousands of consumers from ChoicePoint, which stores Social Security numbers, credit reports, addresses, and other data for the vast majority of Americans The company sells the information to local, state, and federal government age...
Red Hat unveiled its updated enterprise Linux distribution today and used the occasion to take a shot at rival Sun "It's the beginning of the end of Solaris in the enterprise," Paul Cormier, executive vice president of engineering at Red Hat, said of Enterprise Linux v4, which the company said is capable of handling any enterprise-level application...
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates the Wikipedia project among others, said Google has offered to host part of the free encyclopedia's content Wikipedia's entries are written and edited in an open-source, collaborative fashion by members of the online community. It is growing rapidly and needs more server space and b...
In spite of his denial of IBM's request for a partial summary judgment, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball bolstered Big Blue's defense when he questioned whether SCO had any evidence to support the claim that IBM's Linux business infringed upon SCO's Unix patents "Despite the vast disparity between SCO's public accusations and its actual evidence --...
In IBM's Global Business Security Index Report for 2004, the company warnsthat malware and spam attacks on mobile devices such as smartphones andwireless-enabled PDAs are on the rise As Big Blue joins a growing list of high-tech companies and researchers warning of the increasingdanger of mobile phone spam and viruses, one analyst said the threat s...
Intel, playing catch up with AMD, has announced that it has plans for the release of its much delayed 64-bit processors for desktop computers. Systems containing the 600 series Pentium 4 chips will be in stores next month, the company said "With Intel and AMD, it's always a game of leapfrog. Sometimes one leaps ahead, sometimes they leap and just c...
Although a study released today found that 8 of 10 respondents had received unsolicited mobile phone messages and warned that the intrusions will only worsen, one analyst questioned whether the problem was as significant as thestudy made it seem "Every form of communication, old and new, gets spammed -- from 'voice spam' on the streets of New York ...
Linux has so far barely made a blip in the mobile phone market, accounting for less than 1 percent of units shipped in 2004, according to IDC. Yesterday MontaVista announced an effort to change that The company, which develops mobile phone software for Linux, has created Mobilinux Open Framework to gather momentum for its Montavista Linux Consumer...
Google today offered up a new way to search the information superhighway forthe best routes on terra firma's highways with a beta release of Google Maps. Some are already touting the site as a vastimprovement over offerings from Yahoo and Mapquest....
Harvard President Larry Summer's comments that "innate differences" account for some of the reason women don't succeed as often as men in science careers shines a light on a problem that most in the world of science and technology are keenly aware of The university president, dutifully repentant, on Thursday appointed two task forces to try to rect...
In the rush to implement new technology, security concerns may sometimes be left behind, but doing so can mean the difference between widespread adoption and failure This, David Endler, director of Digital Vaccine atTippingPoint Technologies, told CRM Buyer, is the impetus behind the VoIPSecurity Alliance, announced today....
Bill Gates has taken another jab at Linux in an e-mail to customers publishedon Microsoft's Web site Thursday in which he sings the praises of software interoperability and hiscompany's ability to provide it "Open source is a methodology for licensing and/or developing software --that may or may not be interoperable. Additionally, the open sourcede...
The latest worm to wriggle its way around the Web is spreading as quickly as an instant message. A new variant of Bropia, first discovered by Symantec on Jan. 19, has mutated and is whipping around the Internet via MSN Messenger communications Several antivirus companies, including Trend Micro, Symantec, Secunia and F-Secure, have all labeled the w...
Microsoft has announced that it will share information on security-related issues in its software with government agencies using its products Through the Security Cooperation Program, Microsoft will provide early warnings of security threats to participating agencies and alert them about security updates in advance. The company also said it wants t...
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