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Adding weight to the notion that two high-definition DVD formats may co-exist, leading manufacturer Thomson today announced that it would manufacture HD DVD-compatible discs as well as Blu-ray versions in its Technicolor division. The company, however, took a step closer to NEC and Toshiba's HD DVD ...
Men who have been balancing laptops on their knees as they work during rush hour on the train or wait in the airport for flights may be at risk of more than aches and pains from hunching over that little keyboard. They could also be prone to another major side effect: infertility. Dr. Yefim R. Sheyn...
Disney and its Buena Vista Home Entertainment Division have thrown their considerable weight behind the Blu-ray standard for next-generation DVDs, escalating the battle between this format and HD DVDs. Sony, Samsung, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are among the other companies that are promoting Blu-ray.
In an attempt to get a jump on the spread of malware through instant messaging, a group of security firms has banded together to create a community of watchdogs that will share information about potential threats. IMlogic has set up a free "threat center" where it will post information on viruses, w...
As an Australian court considers whether Kazaa's parent company should be forced to pay damages for the file sharing that goes on over its peer-to-peer (P2P) network, questions persist about the effectiveness of the music industry's enforcement efforts. Today, the Federal Court in Sydney heard from ...
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is extending its PowerNow technology into the server and workstation realms, building it into Opteron processors, the company announced today. PowerNow, already available in laptops and desktop computers, helps keep chips cooler by cutting back on the power supplied to t...
Trend Micro is giving away its antivirus and anti-spam software for smartphones until June, the company announced today, but how necessary that software is remains unclear. "It's a solution in search of a problem," analyst Ed Moyle of SecurityCurve told TechNewsWorld. Moyle added, however, that the ...
Microsoft today handed aspiring bloggers a simple, free tool to get started, releasing a public beta version of MSN Spaces. The tool is integrated into Microsoft's other Internet services, which the company has also upgraded. The latest version of its instant messaging service, MSN Messenger 7.0, is...
Hewlett-Packard has worked out the bugs in software it says will slow down the spread of worms and viruses within servers. Virus Throttler -- which HP had said it was shelving back in August because it was having trouble integrating it with Microsoft Windows server software -- is now back, HP CTO To...
In an attempt to cut down on the use of counterfeit software use, Microsoft is allowing users of non-licensed copies of Windows XP in the United Kingdom to trade them in for legitimate versions of the operating system. The program, Windows XP Counterfeit Project, has some strings attached. To be eli...
Video game distributors are under fire from two groups today that claim children can still buy games with violent and sexual themes despite a rating system designed to prevent just that. In separate events, The National Institute on Media and the Family and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Respons...
IBM will sell its "intellectual capital" to Honeywell in a 10-year deal worth an estimated US$250 million. Analysts said the agreement is a sign of things to come as well as a sound proposition for both companies. "It's a great deal for IBM. IBM spends $5 billion in R&D a year and has generated ...
Days after several financial analysts stated that Hewlett-Packard had outperformed expectations and gave it positive marks, the company said it expects to make job cuts in the first half of 2005 that will cost $200 million, or 4 cents a share. The cuts will come after the company hired 4,000 people ...
Internet Explorer users who are not running Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 are vulnerable to an attack that infiltrates through the banner ads on some Web sites. Hackers this weekend broke into a server used by Falk eSolution of Germany to deliver banner ads to Web sites. The hackers loaded e...
Forget about a spot on the grassy knoll: A new Internet video game offers players the opportunity to shoot President John F. Kennedy themselves, for a $9.99 download. JFKReloaded, released today, the 41st anniversary of the president's death, is a first-person game in which the player sees the view ...
Microsoft, which has been rolling out expanded storage for its Hotmail customers, announced today that it would also add European and Japanese domain names. The move has two purposes, Peter Christy, co-founder and principal analyst of NetsEdge in Los Altos, Calif., told TechNewsWorld. "E-mail is the...
Google today launched a site dedicated to results that it says will help scientists and other academics get up-to-date research that may not be available at libraries. Searches on Scholar.google.com target academic, scientific and technical publications. The company worked with some scholarly publi...
As companies clamp down on their IT systems to ensure they are safe from tampering and information leaks, one threat remains difficult to neutralize: handheld devices. For the most part, employees who use PDAs, cell phones and their smartphone cousins have unfettered access to their office computers...
IPass, which focuses on bundled services for remote workers, announced today it will offer enterprise customers monthly and annual flat rates for WiFi connectivity within the United States. The company has partnered with T-Mobile to add more than 5,000 hot spots to its network. The flat-rate offerin...
SBC has jumped into the IP TV market, sealing a 10-year, US$400 million deal with Microsoft to provide television services using the software giant's TV Internet protocol television edition software platform. Microsoft has been trying to crack the TV market for years, investing billions of dollars i...
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