The MPEG LA clearinghouse gives technology patent holders three more months to fine-tune submissions for a highly anticipated MPEG-4 video compression standard.
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Toshiba on Tuesday plans to unveil its first notebook capable of DVD burning. But an ongoing standards battle and other competition could throw some cold water on its plans.
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Beyond3D has posted a technical comparison of NVIDIA's NV30 and ATI's R300
Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell says the company would launch a personal digital assistant in the United States soon but saw limited near-term growth opportunities in that market.
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The computer maker is coming out with a minidesktop for businesses amid hopes that the trend toward small desktops will actually take off this time.
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CONSUMERS SENDING QUERIES to some Fortune 100 companies' sites could probably get a more rapid response by driving to the airport, booking a flight to the company's headquarters and talking to a customer representative there, a new study reveals.
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Hollywood took its fight against Internet song-swapping to the office on Thursday, asking the 1,000 largest U.S. public companies to block employee use of online file-trading networks.
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CRM APPLICATION LEADER Siebel is looking to stay neutral in the heated Java vs. Microsoft .Net applications battle. The company embraced both camps in separate announcements this week.
The moves by Siebel demonstrate the company's intentions to embrace both platforms while continuing to promote its own server software, according to analyst Jeff Comport, vice president and research fellow at Gartner, in Stamford, Conn.
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The moves by Siebel demonstrate the company's intentions to embrace both platforms while continuing to promote its own server software, according to analyst Jeff Comport, vice president and research fellow at Gartner, in Stamford, Conn.
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The graphics chip leader is expected to unveil the fastest PC graphics processor yet at the Comdex trade show next month, but analysts say the new chip may be too little, too late.
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Just as we've all invested in hardware and labeled all our CD-Rs and CD-RWs, ExtremeTech's Mark Hachman raises the spectre of obsolescence.
A start-up formed by a group of Dell Computer visionaries plans to release its device next month. Will it find the right formula for success?
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THE DISTRIBUTED denial-of-service (DDOS) attack launched Monday against all 13 of the Internet domain name system (DNS) root servers failed to bring down the Internet, but that doesn't mean that more attacks won't follow and succeed where this week's attack failed, according to experts, some of whom feel that the federal government needs to step in to secure the Net infrastructure.
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Visible announced Visible Developer 3.0, which works within Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net platform to automatically generate 90 percent or more of the business logic and database access code directly from an application model, the company said. Version 3.0 adds support for Visual Basic .Net, the latest version of the programming language, and eases the transition to it, according to the company.
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RSA Security Inc. will optimize two of its encryption software products for Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s 64-bit Opteron server processor, RSA said Wednesday in a release.
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Listen.com's music subscription service will let people burn their own music CDs from digital files--but only for a price.
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Just a few days after trumpeting its alliance with Microsoft Corp. and announcing plans to incorporate .Net technology into its own products, Siebel Systems Inc. is offering reassurances about its commitment to .Net rival Java by reaffirming its partnership with Java creator Sun Microsystems Inc.
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SHIFTING FROM DAILY nuisance to serious IT and business concern, uncontrolled spam is prompting customers to arm themselves with tools to fight back against productivity loss, potential liability, and bandwidth-clogging consequences that unsolicited commercial e-mail can bring to an enterprise.
Targeting a growing concern on the anti-spam battlefront, IronPort Systems on Wednesday introduced technology designed to prevent legitimate e-mail messages from being weeded out by anti-spam filters.
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Targeting a growing concern on the anti-spam battlefront, IronPort Systems on Wednesday introduced technology designed to prevent legitimate e-mail messages from being weeded out by anti-spam filters.
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The company is releasing a new version of its set of business applications next month, repositioning some programs to tap a trend and adding features that move Oracle into a new market.
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eWeek's Ken Popovich reports that major PC manufacturers are already getting their hands on 3GHz Pentium 4 processors -- what will this mean for the holiday buying season?
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VR-Zone has visited Shuttle HQ at Taiwan and managed to caught up with the man behind the popular Shuttle's XPC series, Mr Ken.
A controversial proposal in Congress to legalize hacking of peer-to-peer networks won't likely be enacted this year. Instead, the bill will be rewritten.
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The Bush administration said on Wednesday it was investigating this week's coordinated attack on the Internet, but played down speculation it was carried out by terrorists.
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With a new reference design, Philips Electronics hopes to make newer, DVD-rewritable players as successful as the enormously popular everyday DVD player.
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The premier.microsoft.com website they have started to accept nominations for the Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 beta program.
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Get ready for Intel's 3GHz Pentium 4. PC makers will show off systems containing the high-performance chip just days before the Comdex trade show.
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The company is backing one of its fault-tolerant servers with a $100,000 guarantee that the system will not crash when running Microsoft's Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Stratus announced Monday. Under the terms of the "Perfect Performance" program, Stratus will shell out the cash to any customer who experiences unplanned downtime from an operating system or hardware failure on its ftServer 6500 product, said James Gargan, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Stratus.
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SPRINT PCS JOINED Verizon this week in announcing a nationwide flat fee pricing model for unlimited access to data on its 3G PCS Vision network. Verizon launched an unlimited data plan on its Express Network (3G) this summer.
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ipKonfig has put up a short story about Net Send ads
Icrontic has posted an article on Microsoft's Xbox
ExtremeTech has the news that AMD seems to be moving away from the desktop-centric Clawhammer project towards the server-destined Opteron (formerly Sledgehammer) project.
Symantec Corp., a leader in computer security products and services, on Wednesday posted a second-quarter profit versus a loss a year ago, handily beating estimates.
Symantec reported a net profit of $52 million, or 33 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $12 million, or 8 cents a share, a year earlier.
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Symantec reported a net profit of $52 million, or 33 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $12 million, or 8 cents a share, a year earlier.
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T-Break has posted some initial benchmarks on the Leadtek nForce2 using an XP2700.
Within hours of its release, AOL 8.0 was downloaded 1.7 million times, America Online Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jon Miller said during AOL's raucous launch celebration at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. He also announced a new policy: AOL will no longer accept third-party pop-up ads. The change comes in response to user feedback, and is intended as a mark of AOL's "back to basics" return to focusing on its customers, he said.
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The chipmaker will announce smaller flash memory products and new chip packages for makers of wireless devices.
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T-Break has posted part 2 of their Gitex coverage
It's so far proved to be the impossible dream in the chip market: to make money selling a chip based on the same architecture as Intel's chips. But another start-up is going to try.
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When Intel and Advanced Micro Devices report third-quarter results this week, the focus will be on what they say about the last quarter of the year--usually the strongest for the industry.
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Opera Software's new technology for browsing Web pages on tiny cell phone screens could deal a blow to both Microsoft and WAP.
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T-Break has posted a coverage from the first day of the Gitex 2002
Two critical programming technologies developed by Microsoft for its broad .Net initiative are nearing approval by a leading international standards body, the software maker confirmed Friday.
The programming language C#, as well as the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure), have passed through a working group within the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and will likely be approved by January, said John Montgomery, group product manager with Microsoft's .Net developer platform group.
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The programming language C#, as well as the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure), have passed through a working group within the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and will likely be approved by January, said John Montgomery, group product manager with Microsoft's .Net developer platform group.
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jv16 PowerTools is basically the Tool to control your computer. Until now your computer might had been the one who is in charge, but with jv16 PowerTools you can take the control. The program contains all the tools needed for monitoring, cleaning and controlling the registry, the file system and your Local Area Network.
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The market for standard servers, which include systems running Linux or Microsoft Windows with an Intel processor, break through the economy's malaise, according to market research.
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A new compression format for digital video is turning heads over claims that it can deliver DVD-quality broadcasts on the Internet using fewer network resources than rivals.
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Federal copyright regulators are opening the door for new exceptions to a controversial copyright law that has landed one publisher in court and a Russian programmer in jail.
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A federal court rules that Intel's Itanium processor violates patents owned by Intergraph and orders Intel to pay $150 million in damages.
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SOME DAY IN the future the Intel Pentium 4 processor will have to retire, but behind the scenes its successor seems to be ready to take over.
Intel is currently developing a new processor code-named Nehalem. This news was presented in an interview with Doug Carmean, managing engineer with Intel, that appeared on the company's Web site but has since been removed.
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Intel is currently developing a new processor code-named Nehalem. This news was presented in an interview with Doug Carmean, managing engineer with Intel, that appeared on the company's Web site but has since been removed.
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X-bit labs has posted a Memory Market Overview.
Intel is working on "Nehalem," an architectural redesign of its Pentium 4 processor, which sources say will debut in the first half of 2005.
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AS MICROSOFT LAYS out its messaging platform road map at the Exchange User Conference this week, competing vendors are attempting to lure Exchange customers with the promise of lower cost, less complex platforms and licensing agreements.
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Big Blue will debut its first homegrown Itanium 2 servers by the first quarter of 2003, an important step in the years-long arrival of the high-end Intel chip family.
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