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Nielsen//NetRatings is reporting that broadband connections for the first time reached 51 percent of the American online population at home during the month of July, as compared to 38 percent last July. Sixty-three million Web users connected to the Internet via broadband during July 2004 as compare...
Nielsen//NetRatings is reporting that broadband connections for the first time reached 51 percent of the American online population at home during the month of July, as compared to 38 percent last July. Sixty-three million Web users connected to the Internet via broadband during July 2004 as compare...
Symantec has announced the latest line of the company's consumer Internet security products. According to the company, the new software features enhanced levels of protection designed to address the newest and most rampant online threats. Led by Symantec's integrated-security and privacy-protection ...
A consortium of companies collaborating under the moniker "WWiSE" today announced their intended submission of a complete joint proposal to the IEEE 802.11 Task Group N (TGn), which is chartered with developing a next-generation WiFi standard capable of sustaining data throughput in excess of 100 Mb...
Microsoft plans to sell a discounted version of its Windows operating system to three Asian nations in a fight for market share with Linux. The 12-month pilot program to provide personal computers running stripped-down versions of Windows XP to governments in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia will st...
Mobile broadband networking products developer PacketHop today announced it has joined with wireless networks provider Nortel Networks to provide mobile communications technology targeting the homeland security market. Under the agreement, the companies will initially target the US$11 billion homela...
In an attempt to bring a new level of security to desktop and mobile PC computing, AMD today announced that with the release of Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), AMD's hardware-based enhanced virus protection (EVP) can now be enabled on all AMD Athlon 64 processors. This hardware-software c...
Sharp Systems of America, a division of Sharp Electronics, has introduced the Sharp LL-151-3D display, Sharp's first stand-alone display that features Sharp's 3D LCD Technology, formerly available only in a laptop from the company. This 15-inch 3D LCD monitor delivers 3D images to the naked eye, and...
Microsoft has finally announced the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major software update for Windows XP that contains what the company is calling "advanced security technologies." The free service pack comes with many across-the-board security updates, including hardened default security se...
As winter approaches on Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover continues to inch deeper into the stadium-sized crater dubbed "Endurance." On the other side of the planet, the Spirit rover found an intriguing patch of rock outcrop while preparing to climb up the "Columbia Hills" backward. This unusual approa...
TiVo, one of the initial creators of television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), announced today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has certified TiVo's technology protection of digital broadcast television. The FCC determined that digital broadcast television content shoul...
Telstra gained a head start on Australian rival entrants to the third generation mobile phone market with a US$450 million deal to share Hutchison Telecommunications' third generation infrastructure. The agreement ends speculation about whether Australia's biggest telco would build its own infrastru...
Dell and IBM plan to introduce servers with Intel's new 64-bit Xeon microprocessor, which allows greater amounts of computer memory than earlier architectures. IBM said it will begin on Monday rolling out eight new servers based on the Intel's new Xeon processor with 64-bit technology. A 64-bit comp...
Electronic Arts announced an agreement to acquire Criterion Software Group from Canon Europe. With the acquisition, EA will assume Criterion's studio in Guildford, UK; two intellectual properties, Burnout and Black; and the RenderWare middleware technology. Under a previous agreement, Criterion's Bu...
Worldwide dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) revenue reached US$6.7 billion in the second quarter of 2004, a 19.8 percent increase from the first quarter of this year, according to preliminary results by Gartner. Hynix Semiconductor moved into the number two position in the second quarter of 2004 w...
Fujitsu and TDK have agreed to form a strategic alliance in the magnetic hard disk drive head business. The agreement covers collaboration in drive head technology. It also covers a joint venture for drive-head manufacture, the companies will launch a new joint venture in the Philippines, where they...
Francis Crick, who helped discover the double helix shape of DNA along with James Watson, has died at the age of 88, his family said on Thursday. Crick died at Thornton Hospital in San Diego where he had been battling colon cancer. British-born Crick won the Nobel Prize for his work on DNA's structu...
Don't click on those alleged Osama bin Laden "suicide" pictures. The pictures are a hoax. They connect curious viewers to a damaging "Trojan horse" program. Word about the images spread fast late last week and through the weekend via Usenet postings, instead of the usual method of attaching them to ...
Computer virus companies spent yesterday scampering to develop defenses for the newest strain of the MyDoom virus, dubbed MyDoom.O. By mid morning yesterday, thousands of e-mail inboxes were filling up with headers designed to encourage opening. This latest worm variant of the MyDoom family was spre...
Sun Microsystems is carrying out its promise to provide Opteron-powered products for volume markets. The Santa Clara, California-based company said its expanded Solaris x86 combined with AMD's Opteron processor would be offered in new Sun workstations and Sun Fire V20z servers, which are priced to m...
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