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A new architecture that uses micro-threading in DRAM cores may result in four-times faster performance for gaming applications, among other uses. The development, announced today by Rambus, a technology licensing company that specializes in high-speed chip interfaces, will increase memory subsystem ...
Hitachi said today that it is a step closer to releasing its version of next-generation storage technology: perpendicular recording, which allows for much more densely packed hard disk drives. Hitachi expects to release a 1-terabyte drive by the end of the year and said that a group of its employees...
Symantec today made public security vulnerabilities in the 2004 and 2005 versions of its Symantec Norton AntiVirus suite of products. The company said patches have already been released. Both vulnerabilities allowed denial of service (DoS) attacks through the SmartScan feature in which a real-time s...
Intel's newest platform offering, code-named "Truland," is an evolutionary step in the established path toward dual-core processors and 64-bit architecture. Truland, which comprises five different 64-bit Intel Xeon processors MP (multiprocessor) and the Intel E8500 chipset -- codenamed Twin Castle -...
A new lithium-ion battery from Toshiba may hold promise for the future of electric vehicles. The electronics giant yesterday unveiled a battery that takes only a minute to recharge to 80 percent of its full strength, making it by far the fastest recharging lithium-ion battery available.
The latest mass-mail worm to attack unprotected computers is Mytob, which first appeared at the beginning of the month, but last week, threatened with eight new variants, two of which were reported by security firm Symantec yesterday. As with other mass-mail worms, Mytob uses its own SMTP engine to ...
Fans of "Halo 2" -- and there are many -- will soon have the chance to wander new realms. Bungie.Net, the Internet home for Bungie Studios, which developed Halo, announced it will release nine new multiplayer map packs for the game. Bungie will release four of the maps at the end of April for online...
Just days after the hugely successful North America release of its PlayStation Portable (PSP), Sony was dealt a blow by a U.S. federal court, which ordered the company to stop selling PlayStations and to pay US$90.7 million to Immersion Corp. in a patent infringement suit. Immersion filed suit in 20...
The IBM supercomputer BlueGene/L has done it again, almost doubling its already world record-breaking speed to 183.5 teraflops -- or 183.5 trillion floating point calculations -- per second. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is building the computer to help simulate the condition o...
Sony, which has spent the past year touting the Blu-ray high-definition video storage format and rallying other companies to its cause, hinted that it may be amenable to working with its rival format, HD DVD. At a news conference today, Ryoji Chubachi, head of Sony's electronic components and manufa...
A lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general against Vonage -- which claims the company misled VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) customers about 911 emergency service -- brings up one of the problems with emerging telecommunications technology. Customers must register for 911 service as a separat...
IBM today released a free download of a new spam filtering tool, FairUCE (Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail), which it admits is not a full-fledged solution but a technology foundation that could one day reach the marketplace. Big Blue released the product under its AlphaWorks program in whi...
While there's been no official word from either company, confirmation is out on the Web that Yahoo has acquired Flickr, the photo sharing company. Rumors of such a deal have been circulating for weeks. Flickr is a Web-based photo sharing system that allows users to add tags to photos, making them ea...
The ample media coverage of the U.S. release of Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) makes two things clear: It's a great gaming machine but not a great convergence device; and Sony operates a fabulous buzz machine. The PSP will go on sale Thursday at US$250, and demand is so high that Sony's initial ...
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), once nicknamed "Terminator" for his 2003 comment that the recording industry should be allowed to remotely destroy the computers of file-sharers, was named today to head a new Senate subcommittee on intellectual property. While Hatch backed down slightly from that comment ...
RIM announced today that it has settled a years-long patent fight by agreeing to pay $450 million to NTP, a U.S. patent-holding company. In exchange, RIM will be allowed to continue operating its BlackBerry wireless business. NTP sued RIM, a Canadian company, for infringing on 16 patents for radio f...
Computer users who suffer from hand tremors often find it difficult to negotiate a computer because shaking disturbs the smooth flow of the mouse. IBM today announced that its researchers had developed an Assistive Mouse Adapter that compensates for the involuntary motion and allows normal mouse use...
Google's news site, perpetually in beta, got an upgrade this week with the addition of a customization feature. The news aggregator site is programmed with an algorithm that sorts through more than 4,500 English news sites and calculates which are the most relevant. The site, which has been in beta ...
For the second time in less than a month, Americans are finding out that their private information may be in the hands of identity thieves. Publisher and information broker Reed Elsevier announced today that criminals using a stolen identity and password gained access to information on as many as 32...
While Internet piracy and copyright infringement are usually thought of as federal crimes, one University of Arizona student found that that is not always the case. Parvin Dhaliwal, 18, pleaded guilty last month in Maricopa County, Arizona, to possession of counterfeit marks, or unauthorized copies ...
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