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Software programmers, developers, analysts, engineers and architects are facing an ever-widening range of job roles and expectations. Organizations worldwide are asking more of these professionals, in ways rarely seen only a decade ago. "One of the things I've seen over the last three years is a dec...
IBM is working to turn its System z mainframe computer into an online 3-D gaming platform, and it's doing it by putting advanced technology used in video games into a mainframe. The idea is to merge the massive transaction and account-based scalability of the mainframe with the graphics power of the...
A European team of astronomers has discovered what may be the most Earth-like planet outside of our solar system, potentially capable of having liquid water and extraterrestrial life. The planet, Gliese 581 c, named after the red dwarf star Gliese 581 that it orbits every 13 days, is about 20.5 ligh...
A pair of NASA spacecraft have recorded the first 3-D images of the sun, giving scientists and space weather experts a much-improved ability to monitor and predict solar storms that can disrupt communications satellites, interfere with widely-used GPS systems, and knock out electrical power grids. T...
The maker of the popular BlackBerry mobile e-mail device, Research In Motion (RIM), plans to let Windows Mobile-based devices run virtual BlackBerry applications. RIM will offer the new software solution later this year for select devices that run on Windows Mobile 6. Once installed, the software wi...
In the battle to bridge the world's digital divide, the world's largest software company will offer a special suite of Microsoft solutions to children in developing nations for a rock-bottom price of $3. The program is an expansion of Microsoft's Unlimited Potential initiative and its Partners in Le...
With nearly simultaneous announcements Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas, Microsoft and Adobe have started a turf war over the future of Internet video and next-generation rich Internet application solutions. On one hand, Microsoft announced Silverlight, whic...
Microsoft on Monday unveiled Silverlight, a new browser plug-in designed to compete head-to-head with Adobe's Flash plug-in. Announced at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas, Microsoft says the new cross-platform application will let Web publishers deliver rich interacti...
The biggest problem with online streaming video is that one must be connected to the Internet to view it. That problem may be mitigated by Adobe's new media player. The company on Monday announced at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas a new Flash-focused, application-ba...
Microsoft has pushed back its plans to deliver the much-anticipated public beta of its next-generation server virtualization software, code-named "Viridian." Instead of delivering the beta in the first half of the year, Microsoft will offer it up to the public sometime in the second half of 2007. Th...
In response to customer feedback from the original beta version, Nintendo and Opera Software on Thursday beefed up the Internet Channel on Nintendo's Wii game console with a faster and more functional version of the Opera Web browser. Designed for browsing the Web via the Wii remote and the user's t...
Google has teamed up with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to promote awareness of recent atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan. The USHMM has assembled photographs, data and eyewitness testimony to form a Global Awareness layer in Google Earth, which Google has enabled by default for ...
The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that a student's obscenity-filled MySpace post blasting a school principal is protected free speech. The student, who is identified as "A.B." in court documents, was originally placed on probation by a lower court judge in Indiana after she commented about her ...
As part of its latest enhancement to the Xbox 360, Microsoft announced Monday it is bringing Windows Live Messenger instant messaging features to Xbox Live, letting gamers text chat with more than 200 million Windows Live Messenger users. The new IM feature, which will be delivered in a firmware upd...
Leading IT vendors have proposed a new Fiber Channel over Ethernet standard to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute. The new FCoE specification is designed to let organizations transmit Storage Area Network traffic over Ethernet networks, which would give organizations more...
Josh Wolf, an independent and freelance video blogger who refused to turn over his footage of a San Francisco street protest and testify about it to a grand jury, is now out of jail after spending a record-setting 226 days behind bars. Wolf spent more time in jail than any other journalist being hel...
The world's largest online social networking site, MySpace, is leaping into politics. The site plans to host a virtual primary Jan. 1 and 2, 2008, in advance of traditional bellwether political events such as the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. MySpace announced its intentions Tuesday, but ...
In May, Yahoo will go to infinity and beyond. The world's largest free e-mail provider will give its 250 million or so users unlimited e-mail storage, up from its current offer of a single gigabyte. After the system is put in place, Yahoo inboxes will apparently be impossible to fill. The offer tru...
IBM researchers are touting a new tiny optical transceiver chipset that can move data at speeds up to 160 GB per second, which is eight times faster than previous optical components. The new chipset generates fast data transfer rates because it uses light pulses to move data instead of sending elect...
The industry-rocking news that NBC and News Corp. plan to start their own video broadcasting Internet site -- which will include partnerships with AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo, not to mention Fox, which is owned by News Corp. -- has the potential to radically reshape the online video world. The yet-t...
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