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Like a persistent piece of malware that your antivirus product just can't seem to eradicate, the annual RSA cybersecurity conference was back with a vengeance this year. But while the malware example is inherently malicious, the industry event seemed to be bustling with goodwill and a positive messa...
Smarting from speculation that the U.S. intelligence community hoarded knowledge about the Heartbleed bug that's placed millions of servers and devices that access the Internet at risk, the White House Tuesday gave the public some insight into how it decides to release information about vulnerabilit...
Nokia chief Stephen Elop said Wednesday that his company is in no hurry to get into the tablet market. In an interview on YLE TV in Nokia's homeland, Finland, Elop observed that there were already more than 200 tablets on the market and only one was really doing well, the iPad, and he didn't want No...
Not all polymers are plastics, but all plastics are polymers. And organic polymer plastics, known mostly for being insulators, in some cases make excellent conductors and semiconductors. The term "all-polymer semiconductor" sounds almost like an oxymoron. Plastic is generally considered a poor med...
Twitter has stomped out a bug that for a brief period allowed users to force other users to follow them on the microblogging site. In eliminating the glitch, however, Twitter emptied out some users' list of followers entirely. "Like other social networks, Twitter was originally designed to serve a p...
Although Twitter is growing at an incredible rate, it's having trouble retaining users, according to online activities research firm Nielsen Online. The Twitter micro-blogging service only retains about 40 percent of users month-over-month, Nielsen Online Research Vice President David Martin claims ...
All together now: The Beatles are getting their own video game. If you're of a certain age, then the idea of playing a "Rock Band"-esque game featuring the Fab Four's music will almost certainly make you twist and shout. The big question for Harmonix and MTV Networks -- the makers of "Rock Band" whi...
BT Group has teamed up with FON to blanket the UK with free WiFi, the companies announced Thursday. Under the agreement, UK-based BT's roughly 3 million broadband customers can join the FON WiFi-sharing network, which has 500,000 users and 190,000 hotspots worldwide, for free. The result, the compan...
Apple archrival Creative introduced its answer to Apple's iPod Shuffle Thursday. The Zen Stone offers the same 1 GB storage capacity of the Shuffle, but at half the price. The player, which will hit store shelves May 14, comes in six glossy colors: black, white, red, blue, pink and green, and is jus...
Martin Carmichael, the chief security officer for security software developer McAfee, is responsible for IT security, forensics, risk management, physical security, IT security engineering, and compliance with regulatory controls. He also serves as the chief privacy officer for McAfee. His more than...
Researchers say they've created the world's densest memory circuit, about 100 times denser than today's standard memory unit and as small as a human white blood cell. Although mass production could still be a decade away and the chip contains only a modest capacity of 160,000 bits of information, th...
Freescale Semiconductor staked out an industry first with the commercial availability of its speedy, non-volatile Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory technology, which the Texas company is already producing in volume. The MRAM solution joins the speed of static random access memory and the stabili...
As the battle for Instant Messaging market share heats up, Microsoft and Yahoo are upping the ante with new and improved communications services. While Microsoft is touting its Windows Live service with the release of its glorified Messenger, Yahoo is pushing plug-ins with its new beta. Microsoft o...
The world's biggest chip company is taking its technology smaller, announcing this week it has hit the 45-nanometer (nm) milestone with its "next-generation, high-volume" semiconductor manufacturing process. Intel is on track to create chips smaller than the current 65-nm and 90-nm variety by next y...
Microsoft is aggressively pursuing Novell NetWare customers with discounts, new migration tools and services for Windows Server 2003. Industry analysts called the strategy a smart one, indicating that the majority of enterprise NetWare users -- at a crossroads of moving to SuSE Linux with Novell or ...
Gearing up to supply a growing demand, AMD has secured a microprocessor sourcing and manufacturing deal with Chartered Semiconductor, which will add capacity for production of AMD's Athlon64 and Opteron chips. AMD said it will have its Dresden, Germany, facility cranking out its latest processors, b...
AMD and IBM are extending their microprocessor manufacturing collaboration deal another three years and will now continue working together on next-generation computer chips through 2008, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from AMD this week. The extension, which has yet to be a...
AMD announced this week that with the help of server market leader HP, it would be demonstrating the industry's first x86 dual-core processor in an HP ProLiant DL585 server powered by four dual-core Opteron processors for an eight-way server. A day after Intel announced a march to more efficient, 65...
Pushing the number of transistors it can cram onto silicon, chip giant Intel announced a step forward in its advance to the 65-nanometer manufacturing process, a move toward further miniaturization to boost chip efficiency and performance. In a sign it is on course to begin manufacturing computer ch...
Opposing forces in the DVD format world are lining up support and touting firm rollout timelines as they compete to establish the next generation of DVD format specs, with the Blu-ray disc format winning support this week from computer makers Dell and Hewlett-Packard. The two American companies join...
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