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IBM and Nortel this morning announced a joint research agreement in the telecommunications market that will focus first on a new class of blade servers The Nortel-IBM Joint Development Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., -- which a spokesman called a "bellwether" -- will make use of IBM's consultants, technology assets, R&D and engineers to dev...
America Online may have hit on the perfect way to get the name Netscape back into the midst of the browser wars with Netscape 8.0, unveiled today. At least one analyst has said that Web users should seriously consider switching to the browser, which has been in public beta testing since March "In some ways this is the most innovative thing to come ...
Oracle announced it's working to allow developers to use the open source PHP scripting language to work with its 10g database The company and Zend, which was founded by the writers of PHP, will release Zend Core for Oracle some time in the third quarter. The scripting engine is designed to ease the development of PHP applications in Oracle....
America Online today invited developers to build AOL Instant Messenger or its ICQ instant messaging service right into their games. The company released AOL Messaging Software Development Kit (SDK), which contains the tools necessary to do so AOL last week announced it would start offering free Web mail to entice more users and steer away from its ...
Microsoft's new desktop toolbar, released today in its final version, adds several new features, but is missing the tabbed browsing function for Internet Explorer that had been previewed in beta versions MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search indexes all files on a hard drive so that users can later search through them. Searches can be done...
Microsoft pulled back the curtain on its next generation console, Xbox 360, and announced some impressive features, but that and the fact that it beat its rivals to the public's eye, may not give it an edge in the market, one analyst said "The market is going to be more evenly split this round -- regardless of when the players launch," Jay Horwitz,...
America Online is stepping into the free Web mail game today with the second beta of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) version 5.9 The mail service will be linked to AIM and features a whopping 2 GB of storage. Also included are spam filters, antivirus protection and the ability to drag-and-drop messages into folders. AOL will charge for ads that run alo...
Motorola Labs announced today what it called a "breakthrough" in high-definition TV technology, but analysts were more skeptical about its significance The research arm of Motorola Inc. has built a 5-inch color video display prototype using its own carbon nanotube (CNT) technology. The company said CNT could be used to create higher quality, large,...
Napster and Dwango Wireless said today they will begin selling ring tones graphics, "shout-outs" from celebrities and wallpaper and graphics from Napster's library. The new service will be called Napstertones The move comes five months after the companies' press release announcing "Napster Mobile," which was going to offer ring tones and "be the fi...
Buoyed by a significant increase in the number of RIM Blackberry's, the PDA market is showing surprising growth, according to sales figures from research firm Gartner. Gartner, which breaks the market into data-centric or voice-centric devices, said that worldwide data-centric PDA shipments increased 25 percent to 3.4 million in the first quarter of 2005...
IBM wasted no time announcing the first product suite to come out of its US$1.1 billion acquisition of Ascential Software, which closed Monday. Big Blue also released today technology that enables companies to manage all their electronic records even if they are housed within different document-management systems The company announced that it woul...
Enterprise is far from the days when it was enough simply to have a Web presence. More and more sophisticated consumers are shopping for services based not only on what a company offers, but what it offers online and how easy it is to negotiate A recent study by Keynote Systems, which offers e-business performance management services, focused on ba...
Sony's latest DVD burners, announced today, add compatibility for the DVD-R DL format to its 800 line of dual-layer drives. Its earlier versions supported only DVD+R DL The ability to create drives that support both DVD recording formats has been "one of the things that's been cool about the current vendors," according to Michael Gartenberg, vice p...
Security professionals just can't say it enough: Download those patches The latest warning comes from the SANS Institute, a non-profit organization that provides information security training and certification. The institute ranked the most critical Internet vulnerabilities of the more than 600 new problems discovered in the first quarter of this y...
Prone to typos? Beware. Hackers have revived a once common scam in which they use a URL that contains a misspelled real site to spread malware. The latest targets Google users with the misspelled "www.googkle.com." Users can't check it out, even out of curiosity, anymore because it has already been taken down, Mikko Hypponen, director of anti-virus...
Within the next year, Hewlett-Packard will shift its entire line of ProLiant servers and storage to 2.5-inch, 10K RPM disk drives, the company said yesterday The small form factor (SFF) drives offer several benefits over the 3.5-inch disks in common use today. The smaller drives are denser, allowing for more storage in a smaller space and more hard...
Quickly following on the heels of Google's My Search History, Yahoo today released My Web, a feature that lets users create a personalized record of online Web search information The beta version of My Web is available for download on the Yahoo site or through its toolbar....
Microsoft and SAP announced today they are working to build a program -- code named "Mendocino" -- to link together Microsoft's Word office suite with SAP's enterprise software, a move that analysts say could have a profound effect on the entire market "The possibility of a close relationship between SAP and Microsoft carries all kinds of weighty i...
There are many CRM solutions that track click-throughs, e-mail responses or track ads, but Manticore Technology today released a solution that does all three and takes that a step further to the generation of sales leads. The leads are discovered by organizing information from online marketing campaigns The company, an application service provider ...
RealNetworks released a patch earlier this week for a "highly critical" security flaw discovered by Piotr Bania during a security audit of Real Player and reported to security firm Secunia Bania told TechNewsWorld that leaving the hole unpatched could lead to serious problems....
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