HIGHLIGHTS
News: Malicious software plays on legal fears
News: Google offers mobile access to calendar service
News: Microsoft Zune team invited to give up iPods
News: EarthLink to build out Philadelphia Wi-Fi network
News: RIM plans Wi-Fi/cellphone BlackBerry
News: VA Software drops software, becomes Sourceforge Inc.
News: Trade group forges e-waste proposal
News: Skype worm jumps to ICQ, MSN too
News: 'Harmless' worm hops past OpenOffice security
News: NetSuite goes wireless with help from its friends
News: Dell moves beyond direct sales with Wal-Mart deal
News: Netgear to ship Infrant desktop NAS
News: IBM busts the remote 3D graphics barrier
ITWhirled: Crime inspires math
NEWS UPDATES
Malicious software plays on legal fears
Hackers are trying to play on business' fear of legal action from customers to trick them into downloading a harmful program distributed through e-mail.
Google offers mobile access to calendar service
Users of Google Calendar can now access their schedules from their mobile phones.
Microsoft Zune team invited to give up iPods
In what can be seen as either a joke or a real attempt to get employees to give up Apple iPods in favor of the Zune MP3 player, the team at Microsoft Corp. that builds Zune has set up a bin at its headquarters so employees can drop in iPods they don't want to use anymore.
EarthLink to build out Philadelphia Wi-Fi network
The sun came out for EarthLink Inc.'s Philadelphia Wi-Fi network on Thursday even as prospects for its San Francisco project remain shrouded in fog.
RIM plans Wi-Fi/cellphone BlackBerry
Research In Motion Ltd. expects to start selling a BlackBerry with both cellular and Wi-Fi wireless capabilities, the company's CEO said Wednesday.
VA Software drops software, becomes Sourceforge Inc.
One of the survivors of the early days of Linux has changed its name and folded its software division in favor of doing business entirely on the Web.
Trade group forges e-waste proposal
The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA), a trade group representing manufacturers of tech products, has come up with a recycling agreement supported by both television and computer hardware makers, it said Thursday.
Skype worm jumps to ICQ, MSN too
A new variant of the Stration worm, which has been plaguing Windows users for the past year, has made the jump from Skype to the ICQ and MSN Messenger networks.
'Harmless' worm hops past OpenOffice security
The first cross-platform worm specifically tailored for the open-source OpenOffice.org and StarOffice productivity suites has raised a few hackles in open source circles, since it appears to tarnish the suite's reputation for security.
NetSuite goes wireless with help from its friends
NetSuite Inc. announced Thursday that three of its partners now provide extensions to the vendor's hosted midmarket applications suite so that the software will run on mobile devices.
Dell moves beyond direct sales with Wal-Mart deal
Dell Inc. will begin selling two models of its desktop PCs at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on June 10, fulfilling a series of recent hints from CEO Michael Dell that the company would move beyond the direct sales model that once made it the world's largest PC vendor.
Netgear to ship Infrant desktop NAS
Netgear will ship Infrant's desktop and rackmount NAS systems next week, following its recent acquisition of the company.
IBM busts the remote 3D graphics barrier
IBM is promising high performance 3D graphics from a new, blade-format workstation that's remotely accessed by a thin client. Thin clients, whether in this format or as virtual machines, have previously been unable to reproduce 3D graphics or real-time video for remote viewing with the performance of a fat client workstation.
ITWHIRLED
Crime inspires math
A bold gang of Germans followed the motto "think big" when they planned their crime: they stole more than 4 km of disused railway line, amounting to more than 500 tons of metal, to sell for scrap. The heist has become so notorious that the local schools are using it as a basis for math problems, asking students to compute the weight, volume and value of the stolen steel.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Dell launches three Ubuntu Linux PCs
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Dell launches three Ubuntu Linux PCs
Related Reading: Dell gives Ubuntu details
News: Nokia to add lightning detector to mobile phone
News: New tree for every phone handed in for recycling
News: INTEROP: Microsoft says licensing protects customers
News: Researcher: RSA 1024-bit encryption not enough
News: Microsoft funds new open-source digital ID projects
News: Toshiba's terabit per square inch technology
News: 3Com offers cheap IPS gateways
News: INTEROP: Cisco says wait for 802.11n
News: Ubuntu founder: Microsoft is our patent pal
News: Stratus offers green backup option
Go Figure: Study: Resolved calls in contact centers falling
ITWhirled: Geek Comic of the Week: Breakfast of the Gods
NEWS UPDATES
Dell launches three Ubuntu Linux PCs
Dell Inc. will officially launch its first three consumer PCs running the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux OS on Thursday, two desktops and an Inspiron E1505n notebook PC.
Related Reading: Dell gives Ubuntu details
Dell has published on its blog the first details of what users can expect for some of its forthcoming Ubuntu Linux systems, even though the company remains coy on many specifics.
Nokia to add lightning detector to mobile phone
If you thought developers were running out of new applications to squeeze into mobile phones, think again. Nokia Corp. hopes someday to add a new feature to its phones that could warn users of imminent lighting strikes.
New tree for every phone handed in for recycling
The official recycling program of Australia's mobile phone industry, MobileMuster, has launched a new environmental campaign in partnership with Landcare Australia.
Researcher: RSA 1024-bit encryption not enough
The strength of the encryption used now to protect banking and e-commerce transactions on many Web sites may not be effective in as few as five years, a cryptography expert has warned after completing a new distributing-computing achievement.
Microsoft funds new open-source digital ID projects
As part of its plan to promote identity management across multiple platforms, Microsoft Corp. is funding several new projects to develop open-source versions of its digital-identity technology for information cards.
Toshiba's terabit per square inch technology
Toshiba and Tohoku University researchers have found a read head drive technology that could increase areal density five hundred percent. It could mean a 5TB 3.5-inch drive or a 1TB 2-5-inch drive, both by 2013. The highest areal density of any shipping disk drive product is 178.8Gbit/sq inch. The new technology could push this to 1Tbit/sq inch and beyond.
3Com offers cheap IPS gateways
3Com is jumping into the unified security business, with branch office and SMB gateways that include enterprise-grade security technology from its TippingPoint subsidiary.
Ubuntu founder: Microsoft is our patent pal
Microsoft is not the real patent threat Linux and open source developers should be worried about, said Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. In fact, the software giant will itself be fighting against the software patents system within a few years, Shuttleworth predicted.
Stratus offers green backup option
Fault-tolerant server supplier, Stratus Technologies, has announced green fault-tolerant storage for its servers. The ftScalable Storage product does away with battery backup for its continuous availability feature. It is designed to offer fully-redundant, fault-tolerant storage to organizations that want the same level of reliability across both their storage and servers and have a green agenda.
INTEROP ROUND-UP
INTEROP: Microsoft says licensing protects customers
A top Microsoft executive promoted the company's licensing of network security protocols at the Interop trade show on Wednesday, but not before taking time out during a keynote address to defend the company's patent licensing program for open-source software.
INTEROP: Cisco says wait for 802.11n
Cisco has added location sensing to its wireless LAN and allowed it to scale up -- but it has stopped short of launching faster 802.11n Wi-Fi access points, with a set of announcements at the Interop event in Las Vegas.
GO FIGURE
69.8%
The share of customer service calls, worldwide, that were resolved by the first agent in 2007; that's a drop of 12.3 percent from 82.1 percent in 2005, according to a survey of 400 call centers in 42 countries by Datacraft and Dimension Data Group.
SOURCE: IDG News Service
ITWHIRLED
Geek Comic of the Week: Breakfast of the Gods
This one's for everyone who's ever eaten too much sugary cereal before bedtime: a totally unauthorized and very detailed imagining of a battle between good and evil, as personified by breakfast cereal mascots. Can the forces of righteousness, led by Tony the Tiger and Captain Crunch, defeat the sinister Count Chocula?
News: Dell launches three Ubuntu Linux PCs
Related Reading: Dell gives Ubuntu details
News: Nokia to add lightning detector to mobile phone
News: New tree for every phone handed in for recycling
News: INTEROP: Microsoft says licensing protects customers
News: Researcher: RSA 1024-bit encryption not enough
News: Microsoft funds new open-source digital ID projects
News: Toshiba's terabit per square inch technology
News: 3Com offers cheap IPS gateways
News: INTEROP: Cisco says wait for 802.11n
News: Ubuntu founder: Microsoft is our patent pal
News: Stratus offers green backup option
Go Figure: Study: Resolved calls in contact centers falling
ITWhirled: Geek Comic of the Week: Breakfast of the Gods
NEWS UPDATES
Dell launches three Ubuntu Linux PCs
Dell Inc. will officially launch its first three consumer PCs running the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux OS on Thursday, two desktops and an Inspiron E1505n notebook PC.
Related Reading: Dell gives Ubuntu details
Dell has published on its blog the first details of what users can expect for some of its forthcoming Ubuntu Linux systems, even though the company remains coy on many specifics.
Nokia to add lightning detector to mobile phone
If you thought developers were running out of new applications to squeeze into mobile phones, think again. Nokia Corp. hopes someday to add a new feature to its phones that could warn users of imminent lighting strikes.
New tree for every phone handed in for recycling
The official recycling program of Australia's mobile phone industry, MobileMuster, has launched a new environmental campaign in partnership with Landcare Australia.
Researcher: RSA 1024-bit encryption not enough
The strength of the encryption used now to protect banking and e-commerce transactions on many Web sites may not be effective in as few as five years, a cryptography expert has warned after completing a new distributing-computing achievement.
Microsoft funds new open-source digital ID projects
As part of its plan to promote identity management across multiple platforms, Microsoft Corp. is funding several new projects to develop open-source versions of its digital-identity technology for information cards.
Toshiba's terabit per square inch technology
Toshiba and Tohoku University researchers have found a read head drive technology that could increase areal density five hundred percent. It could mean a 5TB 3.5-inch drive or a 1TB 2-5-inch drive, both by 2013. The highest areal density of any shipping disk drive product is 178.8Gbit/sq inch. The new technology could push this to 1Tbit/sq inch and beyond.
3Com offers cheap IPS gateways
3Com is jumping into the unified security business, with branch office and SMB gateways that include enterprise-grade security technology from its TippingPoint subsidiary.
Ubuntu founder: Microsoft is our patent pal
Microsoft is not the real patent threat Linux and open source developers should be worried about, said Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. In fact, the software giant will itself be fighting against the software patents system within a few years, Shuttleworth predicted.
Stratus offers green backup option
Fault-tolerant server supplier, Stratus Technologies, has announced green fault-tolerant storage for its servers. The ftScalable Storage product does away with battery backup for its continuous availability feature. It is designed to offer fully-redundant, fault-tolerant storage to organizations that want the same level of reliability across both their storage and servers and have a green agenda.
INTEROP ROUND-UP
INTEROP: Microsoft says licensing protects customers
A top Microsoft executive promoted the company's licensing of network security protocols at the Interop trade show on Wednesday, but not before taking time out during a keynote address to defend the company's patent licensing program for open-source software.
INTEROP: Cisco says wait for 802.11n
Cisco has added location sensing to its wireless LAN and allowed it to scale up -- but it has stopped short of launching faster 802.11n Wi-Fi access points, with a set of announcements at the Interop event in Las Vegas.
GO FIGURE
69.8%
The share of customer service calls, worldwide, that were resolved by the first agent in 2007; that's a drop of 12.3 percent from 82.1 percent in 2005, according to a survey of 400 call centers in 42 countries by Datacraft and Dimension Data Group.
SOURCE: IDG News Service
ITWHIRLED
Geek Comic of the Week: Breakfast of the Gods
This one's for everyone who's ever eaten too much sugary cereal before bedtime: a totally unauthorized and very detailed imagining of a battle between good and evil, as personified by breakfast cereal mascots. Can the forces of righteousness, led by Tony the Tiger and Captain Crunch, defeat the sinister Count Chocula?
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
GPL author: Google must share code
HIGHLIGHTS
News: GPL author: Google must share code
News: Moore's Law meets Gore's Law at processor forum
Related Reading: Intel shakes the lead out of its chips
News: Spyware bill passes House
News: Google e-mail confuses paying Apps customers
News: Gartner: IBM, HP lead server market thanks to x86 sales
News: Open-source firms MuleSource, Zmanda net extra funding
News: Business Objects buys Inxight, upgrades EPM
Related Reading: Business Objects to go on demand all the way
News: INTEROP: Samsung to aim WiMax at SMB networking
News: INTEROP: Cisco's Chambers pushes video, Web 2.0
Feature: WORLDBEAT: Taxi, follow that satellite...
ITWhirled: Washable technology
NEWS UPDATES
GPL author: Google must share code
Companies like Google Inc. that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, a prominent open-source advocate said Tuesday.
Moore's Law meets Gore's Law at processor forum
Microprocessor makers say they can meet demand for greater processing power and energy efficiency with research aired at an industry conference Tuesday in San Jose, California.
Related Reading: Intel shakes the lead out of its chips
Intel Corp. will stop using lead in its upcoming microprocessors, eliminating one of the most toxic components used in semiconductors from its product line.
Spyware bill passes House
The U.S. House of Representatives passed an antispyware bill Tuesday on a voice vote.
Google e-mail confuses paying Apps customers
Google Inc. recently confused administrators of Google Apps Premier Edition with an e-mail that misstated the number of accounts they will be billed for.
Gartner: IBM, HP lead server market thanks to x86 sales
IBM Corp. edged out Hewlett-Packard Co. in first-quarter server revenue, as both companies relied on a rebound in sales of x86-based computers, according to a market report released Tuesday.
Open-source firms MuleSource, Zmanda net extra funding
Two open-source companies had reason to celebrate Tuesday as each announced more venture capital funding to grow their businesses.
Business Objects buys Inxight, upgrades EPM
Broadening its portfolio of business intelligence software offerings, Business Objects SA has agreed to buy technology for analyzing unstructured data, added enhancements to its financial performance application and begun testing an on-demand market information service, the company announced Tuesday at customer event in Berlin.
Related Reading: Business Objects to go on demand all the way
Responding to growing customer demand for hosted services, Business Objects SA plans to offer its entire range of products via on-demand subscriptions, according to a company executive.
INTEROP ROUNDUP
INTEROP: Samsung to aim WiMax at SMB networking
WiMax will face a test as an enterprise network technology with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s entry into the U.S. business market Tuesday at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas.
INTEROP: Cisco's Chambers pushes video, Web 2.0
John Chambers has found a technology that can keep up with his fast-talking style, and it's at the core of Cisco Systems Inc.'s push to bring Web 2.0 technology into enterprises.
FEATURE
WORLDBEAT: Taxi, follow that satellite...
San Francisco cabbies aren't especially famous for their sense of direction, but it's a small city so learning your way around isn't hard to do. Thanks to GPS (global positioning system) the job is getting a whole lot easier. And if the city's mayor gets his way, taxi drivers won't have to know their way around at all.
ITWHIRLED
She's a 10
Free Photoshop plug-ins ... washable technology ... things not to do on your Mac.
News: GPL author: Google must share code
News: Moore's Law meets Gore's Law at processor forum
Related Reading: Intel shakes the lead out of its chips
News: Spyware bill passes House
News: Google e-mail confuses paying Apps customers
News: Gartner: IBM, HP lead server market thanks to x86 sales
News: Open-source firms MuleSource, Zmanda net extra funding
News: Business Objects buys Inxight, upgrades EPM
Related Reading: Business Objects to go on demand all the way
News: INTEROP: Samsung to aim WiMax at SMB networking
News: INTEROP: Cisco's Chambers pushes video, Web 2.0
Feature: WORLDBEAT: Taxi, follow that satellite...
ITWhirled: Washable technology
NEWS UPDATES
GPL author: Google must share code
Companies like Google Inc. that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, a prominent open-source advocate said Tuesday.
Moore's Law meets Gore's Law at processor forum
Microprocessor makers say they can meet demand for greater processing power and energy efficiency with research aired at an industry conference Tuesday in San Jose, California.
Related Reading: Intel shakes the lead out of its chips
Intel Corp. will stop using lead in its upcoming microprocessors, eliminating one of the most toxic components used in semiconductors from its product line.
Spyware bill passes House
The U.S. House of Representatives passed an antispyware bill Tuesday on a voice vote.
Google e-mail confuses paying Apps customers
Google Inc. recently confused administrators of Google Apps Premier Edition with an e-mail that misstated the number of accounts they will be billed for.
Gartner: IBM, HP lead server market thanks to x86 sales
IBM Corp. edged out Hewlett-Packard Co. in first-quarter server revenue, as both companies relied on a rebound in sales of x86-based computers, according to a market report released Tuesday.
Open-source firms MuleSource, Zmanda net extra funding
Two open-source companies had reason to celebrate Tuesday as each announced more venture capital funding to grow their businesses.
Business Objects buys Inxight, upgrades EPM
Broadening its portfolio of business intelligence software offerings, Business Objects SA has agreed to buy technology for analyzing unstructured data, added enhancements to its financial performance application and begun testing an on-demand market information service, the company announced Tuesday at customer event in Berlin.
Related Reading: Business Objects to go on demand all the way
Responding to growing customer demand for hosted services, Business Objects SA plans to offer its entire range of products via on-demand subscriptions, according to a company executive.
INTEROP ROUNDUP
INTEROP: Samsung to aim WiMax at SMB networking
WiMax will face a test as an enterprise network technology with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s entry into the U.S. business market Tuesday at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas.
INTEROP: Cisco's Chambers pushes video, Web 2.0
John Chambers has found a technology that can keep up with his fast-talking style, and it's at the core of Cisco Systems Inc.'s push to bring Web 2.0 technology into enterprises.
FEATURE
WORLDBEAT: Taxi, follow that satellite...
San Francisco cabbies aren't especially famous for their sense of direction, but it's a small city so learning your way around isn't hard to do. Thanks to GPS (global positioning system) the job is getting a whole lot easier. And if the city's mayor gets his way, taxi drivers won't have to know their way around at all.
ITWHIRLED
She's a 10
Free Photoshop plug-ins ... washable technology ... things not to do on your Mac.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Linux users say 'Sue me first, Microsoft'
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Linux users say 'Sue me first, Microsoft'
News: INTEROP: Cisco, Nortel, Meru WLANs smarten up
News: Microsoft tools keep bad Office files at bay
News: INTEROP: Telephony vendors line up behind Microsoft
News: Cisco agrees to buy BroadWare for video security
News: HP says SOA is ready for prime time
News: Networking trouble caused nuke plant to shut down
News: Do Google and Salesforce fear becoming rivals?
News: Norton smartphone suite to ship next week
News: INTEROP: Network show blooms, thinks green
News: MySpace to turn over sex offender data to AGs
ITWhirled: Moon-dirt competitors don't dig deeply enough
NEWS UPDATES
Linux users say 'Sue me first, Microsoft'
In an unconventional request, some users of Linux and other open-source software are inviting Microsoft Corp. to sue them.
Microsoft tools keep bad Office files at bay
Microsoft Corp. released a pair of tools on Monday that help protect computers from Office 2003 files containing malicious software code.
Cisco agrees to buy BroadWare for video security
Cisco Systems Inc. announced an agreement to buy software maker BroadWare Technologies Inc. in a bid to improve its video surveillance offerings, the company said.
HP says SOA is ready for prime time
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) said service-oriented architecture (SOA) for more efficient development of IT services is ready to move from the testing phase into production.
Networking trouble caused nuke plant to shut down
Water pumps need firewalls too. That's what operators of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant discovered last August when they were forced to manually shut down one of their plant's two reactors after networking problems caused two water pumps to fail and threatened the stability of the plant itself.
Do Google and Salesforce fear becoming rivals?
Reports that Google Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. are discussing partnership options should come as no surprise, considering the companies have collaborated in the past and firmly believe in the market for hosted business applications.
Norton smartphone suite to ship next week
Next week, Symantec Corp. will broaden its mobile security product line by shipping new products designed for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile devices.
MySpace to turn over sex offender data to AGs
MySpace will provide attorneys general offices in all U.S. states with information it has gathered on convicted sex offenders who have used its social networking site, the most popular of its kind.
INTEROP ROUND-UP
INTEROP: Network show blooms, thinks green
The Interop networking trade show is growing bigger by getting broader.
INTEROP: Cisco, Nortel, Meru WLANs smarten up
Vendors are adding bells and whistles to their wireless LAN products at Interop this week as the industry awaits a new generation of gear that may replace wired LANs entirely.
INTEROP: Telephony vendors line up behind Microsoft
If Microsoft Corp. is muscling in on enterprise telephony vendors' turf, most of those companies right now are just trying to get along.
ITWHIRLED
Moon-dirt competitors don't dig deeply enough
NASA thought an X-Prize-style competition might net them an automated excavating machine that could serve on a future moon mission. But none of the competing robots managed to deposit 330 pounds of dirt into a container in 30 minutes, and so nobody walked home with the $250,000 prize money. Only one of the machines even managed to go for a full half-hour without breaking down.
News: Linux users say 'Sue me first, Microsoft'
News: INTEROP: Cisco, Nortel, Meru WLANs smarten up
News: Microsoft tools keep bad Office files at bay
News: INTEROP: Telephony vendors line up behind Microsoft
News: Cisco agrees to buy BroadWare for video security
News: HP says SOA is ready for prime time
News: Networking trouble caused nuke plant to shut down
News: Do Google and Salesforce fear becoming rivals?
News: Norton smartphone suite to ship next week
News: INTEROP: Network show blooms, thinks green
News: MySpace to turn over sex offender data to AGs
ITWhirled: Moon-dirt competitors don't dig deeply enough
NEWS UPDATES
Linux users say 'Sue me first, Microsoft'
In an unconventional request, some users of Linux and other open-source software are inviting Microsoft Corp. to sue them.
Microsoft tools keep bad Office files at bay
Microsoft Corp. released a pair of tools on Monday that help protect computers from Office 2003 files containing malicious software code.
Cisco agrees to buy BroadWare for video security
Cisco Systems Inc. announced an agreement to buy software maker BroadWare Technologies Inc. in a bid to improve its video surveillance offerings, the company said.
HP says SOA is ready for prime time
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) said service-oriented architecture (SOA) for more efficient development of IT services is ready to move from the testing phase into production.
Networking trouble caused nuke plant to shut down
Water pumps need firewalls too. That's what operators of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant discovered last August when they were forced to manually shut down one of their plant's two reactors after networking problems caused two water pumps to fail and threatened the stability of the plant itself.
Do Google and Salesforce fear becoming rivals?
Reports that Google Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. are discussing partnership options should come as no surprise, considering the companies have collaborated in the past and firmly believe in the market for hosted business applications.
Norton smartphone suite to ship next week
Next week, Symantec Corp. will broaden its mobile security product line by shipping new products designed for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile devices.
MySpace to turn over sex offender data to AGs
MySpace will provide attorneys general offices in all U.S. states with information it has gathered on convicted sex offenders who have used its social networking site, the most popular of its kind.
INTEROP ROUND-UP
INTEROP: Network show blooms, thinks green
The Interop networking trade show is growing bigger by getting broader.
INTEROP: Cisco, Nortel, Meru WLANs smarten up
Vendors are adding bells and whistles to their wireless LAN products at Interop this week as the industry awaits a new generation of gear that may replace wired LANs entirely.
INTEROP: Telephony vendors line up behind Microsoft
If Microsoft Corp. is muscling in on enterprise telephony vendors' turf, most of those companies right now are just trying to get along.
ITWHIRLED
Moon-dirt competitors don't dig deeply enough
NASA thought an X-Prize-style competition might net them an automated excavating machine that could serve on a future moon mission. But none of the competing robots managed to deposit 330 pounds of dirt into a container in 30 minutes, and so nobody walked home with the $250,000 prize money. Only one of the machines even managed to go for a full half-hour without breaking down.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Dell to launch convertible tablet PC this year
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Dell to launch convertible tablet PC this year
News: Motorola's solar LCD promises to charge your cell phone
News: Mobile provider Alltel agrees to US$27.5B buyout
News: AusCERT: Beware the RFID mark of the beast
News: Report: Google, Salesforce.com discussing alliance
News: Mobile marketing deal could generate more ads
News: Chinese XML format will get Microsoft converter
ITWhirled: 'We can make her better than she was. Better...stronger...faster.'
NEWS UPDATES
Dell to launch convertible tablet PC this year
Dell Inc. is planning to sell its first convertible tablet PC later this year.
Motorola's solar LCD promises to charge your cell phone
Motorola Inc. has patented a way of keeping your mobile phone charged using only sunlight.
Mobile provider Alltel agrees to US$27.5B buyout
Mobile phone and wireless services provider Alltel Corp. on Sunday agreed to a US$27.5 billion buyout, a deal likely to spur more such acquisitions in North America.
AusCERT: Beware the RFID mark of the beast
Technology is advancing so fast that consumers now live in a somewhat disturbing age where their underwear can track their movements and let others know what they are doing.
Report: Google, Salesforce.com discussing alliance
Google Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. are discussing an alliance that could see the two bundle Web-based applications, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Mobile marketing deal could generate more ads
Advertisements could start popping up on your mobile phone soon, if a deal between Acuity Mobile and Acxiom Corp., expected to be announced on Monday, takes off.
Chinese XML format will get Microsoft converter
Microsoft Corp. will collaborate with the Chinese government and universities to make a plug-in that will let users read and save documents written in two different XML (Extensible Markup Language) file formats.
ITWHIRLED
'We can make her better than she was. Better...stronger...faster.'
OK, so Patsy Brisendine was injured when she fell off a stepladder, not when she crashed her experimental spacecraft. But that hasn't stopped her doctor for from touting her as the "bionic woman." Her new artificial knee is built with a new metal foam to which her ligaments and tendons can attach, thus stabilizing the knee. Supervision will apparently have to wait, however.
News: Dell to launch convertible tablet PC this year
News: Motorola's solar LCD promises to charge your cell phone
News: Mobile provider Alltel agrees to US$27.5B buyout
News: AusCERT: Beware the RFID mark of the beast
News: Report: Google, Salesforce.com discussing alliance
News: Mobile marketing deal could generate more ads
News: Chinese XML format will get Microsoft converter
ITWhirled: 'We can make her better than she was. Better...stronger...faster.'
NEWS UPDATES
Dell to launch convertible tablet PC this year
Dell Inc. is planning to sell its first convertible tablet PC later this year.
Motorola's solar LCD promises to charge your cell phone
Motorola Inc. has patented a way of keeping your mobile phone charged using only sunlight.
Mobile provider Alltel agrees to US$27.5B buyout
Mobile phone and wireless services provider Alltel Corp. on Sunday agreed to a US$27.5 billion buyout, a deal likely to spur more such acquisitions in North America.
AusCERT: Beware the RFID mark of the beast
Technology is advancing so fast that consumers now live in a somewhat disturbing age where their underwear can track their movements and let others know what they are doing.
Report: Google, Salesforce.com discussing alliance
Google Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. are discussing an alliance that could see the two bundle Web-based applications, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Mobile marketing deal could generate more ads
Advertisements could start popping up on your mobile phone soon, if a deal between Acuity Mobile and Acxiom Corp., expected to be announced on Monday, takes off.
Chinese XML format will get Microsoft converter
Microsoft Corp. will collaborate with the Chinese government and universities to make a plug-in that will let users read and save documents written in two different XML (Extensible Markup Language) file formats.
ITWHIRLED
'We can make her better than she was. Better...stronger...faster.'
OK, so Patsy Brisendine was injured when she fell off a stepladder, not when she crashed her experimental spacecraft. But that hasn't stopped her doctor for from touting her as the "bionic woman." Her new artificial knee is built with a new metal foam to which her ligaments and tendons can attach, thus stabilizing the knee. Supervision will apparently have to wait, however.
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