AT&T has won one of the largest commercial contracts in its history, the company announced Wednesday -- a massive five-year global networking contract from automotive giant General Motors. The deal, which is worth nearly $1 billion, calls for AT&T to deliver next-generation telecommunication...
AT&T has won one of the largest commercial contracts in its history, the company announced Wednesday -- a massive five-year global networking contract from automotive giant General Motors. The deal, which is worth nearly $1 billion, calls for AT&T to deliver next-generation telecommunication...
AT&T has won one of the largest commercial contracts in its history, the company announced Wednesday -- a massive five-year global networking contract from automotive giant General Motors. The deal, which is worth nearly $1 billion, calls for AT&T to deliver next-generation telecommunication...
Intel and Motion Computing have teamed up to develop and deliver a new tablet PC for the healthcare industry -- the C5 mobile clinical assistant. Based on Intel's new MCA platform, Motion's C5 device is currently in trial use in hospitals and is already gaining enthusiastic interest from the health...
AMD released two different kinds of desktop processors Tuesday, giving one product line a speed boost while dropping the wattage requirements for the other, more energy-efficient line. On the high end, the company introduced the AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor 6000+, which should be available i...
The United States is considering taking legal action against China for continued violations of intellectual property rights, as well as the use of subsidies in a broad array of manufactured goods. The U.S. may pursue its case to the World Trade Organization -- an action it has previously threatened ...
In a move that could signal a massive leap forward in unlocking some of the most complex mysteries of our world, D-Wave Systems has demonstrated what it called the world's first commercially viable quantum computer. The theories behind quantum computing have been around for decades, and the first re...
IBM has unveiled its latest microprocessor advance, which promises to use a new on-chip dynamic memory technology to significantly increase chip processing performance. The chip could go into production as early as 2008. In papers presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference Wedne...
Sun Microsystems, Secunia, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team and other security agencies have issued alerts for a somewhat oxymoronic telnet vulnerability in the Sun Solaris 10 operating system. The vulnerability is oxymoronic because, while it's possible for a hacker to gain poten...
IBM is billing its new Open Client Solution as an "alternative to vendor lock-in" for user desktop operating systems. The Open Client Solution has two basic goals. One is to let organizations replace Microsoft Windows-based PCs in favor of Linux or Mac OS X-based desktops. The other is to let busine...
Open source database developer MySQL has launched an attack on the enterprise database business. The company on Tuesday revealed a new enterprise subscription pricing strategy that lets organizations deploy an unlimited number of MySQL databases in their environment and still get enterprise-class le...
The open source Bandit and Eclipse Higgins projects, both of which are working toward providing an open and consistent approach to identity management, have announced they have created a reference application that showcases open source identity services that interoperate with the Microsoft Windows C...
Despite losing an antitrust case in the European Union nearly three years ago, Microsoft is releasing its new Vista operating system in Europe with features similar to those found illegal by the European Commission in 2004, charged a coalition of Microsoft rivals. Microsoft, of course, is still appe...
Most people have heard about the Nintendo Wii Remote, which some avid gamers have allowed to slip out of their sweaty hands and fly into their high-priced big-screen televisions, cracking glass and becoming the catalyst for news stories around the world. In addition to making the news with its Wii v...
Microsoft has just released its ASP .NET AJAX 1.0, a free tool that lets developers create standards-compliant Web applications based on Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or Ajax. The most ubiquitous Ajax-based applications, for example, are Google Maps and Gmail, which let users interact with them w...
Microsoft and Novell are proudly announcing the biggest proof-point to date that their groundbreaking alliance to work together for the benefit of their customers has real traction: Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is gearing up to take advantage of Microsoft and Novell's collaboration and in...
Google's most recent efforts to expand its advertising delivery network to the world of video games may bring credibility to the in-game advertising space. The search giant reportedly is in talks to acquire Adscape Media, a San Francisco company that places advertising inside video games. The deal c...