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The nation's retirement savings reached a record $16.4 trillion in 2006
Retirement assets now account for nearly 40% of household financial assets, up from 24% two decades ago, the research showed.At year-end 2006, investors held $8.3 trillion in IRA and defined contribution plans such as 401(k) plans.
Classified, or "black" programs, will account for $31.9 billion in DOD spending this year.
While the total amount of secret DoD spending has declined in inflation-adjusted dollars over the last two years, the group nevertheless noted that classified DoD acquisition programs have more than doubled in real terms since fiscal 1995.
Quantum Computer
Suspended in laser light, thousands of atoms pair up and dance, each moving in perfect counterpoint to its partner. They are the building blocks of what may one day become an enormously powerful quantum computer capable of solving in seconds problems that take today's fastest machines years to crack.
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Apple anti-theft system would leave thieves powerless—literally
The patent, titled "Protecting electronic devices from extended unauthorized use," outlines a technique that would allow a particular device to authenticate itself with certain, user-approved power supplies and devices so that it can only be charged by those devices. In a lot of ways, it's a lot like DRM, but for electronic devices.
Hitachi's Visual Search Finds Similar Images from Millions of Targets in 1 Second
Hitachi Ltd. has developed a search technology that can find images similar to a specified image from millions of images and video data in one second.
TiVo HD gets official: $299, loaded, with SATA and TTG coming
Today's the day TiVo launches its "mass appeal" $299 "TiVo HD" aimed at HDTV fans. The new TiVo certainly has appeal, but whether or not that appeal can overcome the monthly $12.95-$16.95 service fee—well, that's the question at the top of everyone's list.
Open Source ETL Takes On Proprietary Intelligence
ETL(extract, transform and load) allows applications to take data from outside sources, turn it into something usable and then make it available for loading in a database or business intelligence application.
Panasonic's New Digital Cameras Automatically Choose Shooting Mode
More specifically, when the user selects the Intelligent Auto Mode, the camera automatically recognizes the scene and changes the shooting mode to the most suitable one from the following five options: (1) portrait, (2) scenery, (3) macro (closeup), (4) night scenery and portrait and (5) motion (moving subject).
HP's Green Data Center Portfolio Keeps Growing "My house has a much more sophisticated air conditioner than most data centers," said Paul Perez, an HP vice president for scalable datacenter infrastructure. "I can program it to vary the amount of cooling over time. We're trying to bring that level of sophistication to data centers."
The Federal Reserve Board>
Federal Reserve Banks indicated that economic activity continued to expand in June and early July. New York, Richmond, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and San Francisco described the pace of growth as "moderate" while Cleveland and Chicago saw it as "modest." Philadelphia noted that economic conditions improved. Kansas City said the regional economy continued to grow but at a moderating pace, and Dallas characterized its economy as strong but said it decelerated. Boston and Atlanta described business contacts' reports as "varied" or "mixed."
Semiconductor Research Corp. to receive U.S. tech award
Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) is among several U.S. technology companies to receive the National Medal of Technology during a White House ceremony scheduled for Friday
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NetBeans Enterprise Pack Demos A great collection of 99-second Enterprise pack tutorials. You will see demos of Service Oriented Architecture (Composite Applications), BPEL Business Process Execution Language (synchronous and asynchronous processes, and Refactoring), Getting Started with XML Schema Tools, Securing Web Services Using the Liberty Token Profile, the SAML or UserName Token Profiles, and much more!
The Gandhi Protests Pay Off
The reversal set off a wave of protests from a community not known for speaking out. On July 14, five hundred tech workers from companies like Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Cisco marched in the streets of Silicon Valley to express their outrage. "Justice for Legal Immigrants" read a placard carried by one protester. "We Played by the Rules, Now It's Your Turn" read another.
Googlebot ,It crawls the Web without malice seeking out every possible bit of content
Any interested Web site owner can tell if a visitor is the real Googlebot. Anyone can set their browser to pretend to be any "user agent" that they want. How a particular Web server decides to handle a particular browser or user agent is a choice that the Web site owner makes.
Health warning over IT 'smog'
Fumes emitted by computers and other office machines could pose a substantial risk to the public's health, according to a new study.
Google Offers to Run Site Search Engines
Google is offering to run the search engines of small Web sites for as little as $100 per year, marking the company's latest attempt to make more money off technology that already steers much of the Internet's traffic.
Iran's New Game: `Rescue Nuke Scientist'
An Iranian hard-line student group unveiled a new video game Monday that simulates an attempt to rescue two Iranian nuclear experts kidnapped by the U.S. military and held in Iraq and Israel.
loopt Lets Sprint Customers Keep in Touch with Friends Using GPS on Select Sprint
Customers nationwide can now find and connect with friends using loopt(TM). loopt uses the GPS capabilities on select Sprint phones to facilitate real-world interaction between friends and put an end to frustrating missed connections.
AMR Research Releases Enterprise Applications Market Sizing Reports
AMR Research has released its enterprise resource planning (ERP), human capital management (HCM), customer relationship management (CRM), product lifecycle management (PLM), and procurement and sourcing market sizing reports.
Tech Trade Deficit Tops $102B in 2006
High-tech exports -- mostly semiconductors, computers and related equipment and industrial electronics -- totaled $220 billion last year, about 10 percent higher than in 2005. That accounted for about 21 percent of all U.S. exports last year.
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Will You Marry Me? :)
"While we weren't surprised to learn that 82 percent of respondents are using emoticons in their everyday communication, we were surprised by how many users admitted they would propose marriage via IM rather than in person," a Yahoo spokesperson said. "Clearly, the emoticon has become an important form of communication."
Enter a Portal For Free iPhone Apps
Leaflets, a mobile portal of free Web 2.0 applications optimized for the iPhone and other so-called "Mobile 2.0" phones. Blue Flavor also plans to offer original content and applications oriented to Mobile 2.0 from other developers on the site.
Schemes strip cost out of chip R&D
Fab in a lab:A startup will surface at Semicon West here today with a portfolio of technologies that it says can speed chip designs and processes from lab to fab, reining in runaway R&D costs and even allowing the function to be outsourced,Intermolecular makes use of a massively parallel processing methodology to make a discovery:
Is Facebook Worth Its Platform Hype?
More than 50 percent of Facebook users have added at least one application,more 25,000 developers have already created more than 1,000 applications for Facebook in the month since the platform's launch.
Italy arrests 26 for phishing operation; Italy has become the latest country to clamp down on phishing
According to a statement by one of those arrested, the scam involved sending fraudulent emails that appeared to come from Poste Italiane, the country's postal operator, which also offers bank accounts, insurance and loans, according to a news release (in Italian) from the Guardia di Finanza, which handles financial crimes.
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Video: Sony unveils the new and improved PSP, complete with video out to your home television.
Video: EE Times at the Paris Air Show
Chipmaker finally joins MIT researcher, Red Ht, Google, and others in One Laptop Per Child effort.
Intel said Friday that it will support a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher's project to put computers in the hands of poor children around the world, reversing its long-standing opposition to the proposal.
Carbon nanotubes could help extend manned spaceflight
NASA recently reported progress toward a neural implant technology using carbon nanotubes that could enable space flights of indefinite periods.
What's hot at next week's Semicon West trade show in San Francisco?:
Semicon West trade show in San Francisco? Alcatel, Cymer, DuPont, InterCrossIP, KLA-Tencor, New Wave, Xitronix and others have made major announcements leading up to the show.
Firefox Has 100 Million Users, 20% Of U.S. Net Usage
Mozilla, Firefox browser has been downloaded by about 15% of Internet users in the U.S., and accounts for about 20% of U.S. Internet usage; the numbers are higher in Europe. Overall, there are about 100 million people using Firefox worldwide.
VCs Talk About The New Tech Economy; Facebook ‘07 Rev To Top $100 Million
The impact on Web 2.0 and other new technologies on what has been historically a pretty geeky dull segment of the software business.
Tech bigwigs encourage businesses to open their platforms to third-party developers—and reap the rewards.
Top Net executives at the Fortune iMeme conference in San Francisco extolled the virtues of opening up software to let third-party developers build applications on top of existing Web sites or services.
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Serious Business Apps Arriving For iPhone
NetSuite is launching SuitePhone, an integrated set of business management programs for the hot-selling device. Actually, SuitePhone isn't so much a new set of applications but NetSuite for the iPhone. NetSuite officials say Apple's announcement that its Safari browser should be the target for iPhone developers was music to its ears.
Pause TV is coming
Get ready for Pause TV, a television receiver equipped with flash memory that lets TV viewers to pause for a fridge break or rewind in mid-broadcast for instant replays.
US, Japan have best IT environments
The U.S. and Japan have the top national environments for their IT industries to grow and flourish, including intellectual-property protections and IT infrastructure, according to a study released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) Wednesday.
Bosch expands U.S. automotive R&D
Automotive supplier Bosch Group has launched a technology center in Plymouth Township, Michigan. With more than 400 engineers and technicians, the center focuses on driver assistance and safety systems for the U.S. market, including Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) systems.
A two-person Massachusetts software company, has launched a product that turns the Apple iPhone into a storage device
Ecamm Network, has launched a product that turns the Apple iPhone into a storage device for people who want to take files from their Mac on the road.
Fortune iMeme: “Who Moves The Bits” Telecom Panel
Who will end up providing search on mobile phone, for instance - carriers, handset operators, Google…everyone is trying to drain value out of other people's part of the value chain. Big opportunity to me - really inexpensive, functional devices, with high speed networks, combined with Web 2.0 platforms - that will fundamentally change the way a lot of computing is done in this world.
Fortune iMeme: Building New Internet Platforms; Facebook Has 1000s Of Third Party Apps
Fortune iMeme ;The first session incudes Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook , Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com (CRM) ), Marissa Mayer of Google and Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab , which runs Second Life. The panel is called "Platforms for the Next Net." I'll blog it as we go along. (The panel is being moderated by Fortune's David Kirkpatrick.)
IBM Charts Open Beta Course For AIX 6
IBM released its first ever open beta for AIX 6.1, the latest version of the company's Unix operating system, one day after Oracle unveiled more than 400 features in its Database 11g.
Suspense mounts for San Francisco Wi-Fi plan
Two important votes concerning San Francisco's plan for citywide Wi-Fi that were set for this week have been pushed back, delaying what may be life-or-death decisions on the controversial network.
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Jonathan Schwartz on what technology has taken the most unexpected turn in your lifetime?:The telephone. I remember when they used to be attached to walls. I remember pay phones, too. Now mobile phones are literally everywhere. There are billions of them around the world, and they've become the dominant device through which people experience the Internet. Via SMS, social networks, maps, bank accounts, music or news -- even camera phones dwarf the number of stand-alone cameras. People fight hard to communicate with one another; now they don't have to fight quite so hard. Mobile devices, and the services delivered through them, will only become more interesting and valuable.
Oracle Database to Get a Dust Up in 11g
Oracle is heading to New York to formally introduce 11g, the company's first major database refresh since the launch of 10g nearly four years ago.
Handset panels moving to higher resolution
QVGA resolution will become the next mainstream specification in the overall handset panel market in the second half of 2007, panel makers estimate.
Baseball goes solar
In advance of the U.S. baseball all-star game in San Francisco this week, a solar electricity system was unveiled Monday (July 9) at the San Francisco Giants' AT&T Park. Some 590 solar panels from Sharp Corp. were used for the solar electricity system, which is the first to be installed in a Major League Baseball stadium.
Apple to turn iPod Nano into iPhone, say reports
Apple is working on a second iPhone, based on the form-factor of the iPod Nano music player, according to online reports that reference a note to clients written by J.P. Morgan analyst Kevin Chang.
Developer models of OpenMoko open-source smartphone released
FIC has announced the official availability of the OpenMoko Neo1973 smartphone developer handsets. The OpenMoko project was first announced by FIC last year with the goal of creating a comprehensive open-source software platform for touchscreen mobile phone devices. The hackable Neo1973 handset—which features a 2.8 inch touchscreen, a 266 Mhz ARM processor, and WiFi—is the first phone designed to run the OpenMoko software platform.
Nantero, HP join to explore flex-electronics apps
July 10, 2007 Nantero, a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices, announced that it is working with HP to explore the use of HP inkjet technology and Nantero's CNT formulation to create flexible electronics products and develop low-cost printable memory applications.
Microsoft Whacks Its Partner Piñata
Microsoft on Tuesday opened its toy box for partners gathered to attend the company's annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, with the aim of helping them better serve their joint customers – and keeping them happy.
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Microsoft to study Japan's digital lifestyle
Microsoft Corp.'s Japan unit plans to study more closely the use of digital technology in the lives of average Japanese to gain insight that it might use overseas.
Google Bags Postini to Shore Up Applications
Google today took a major step toward protecting its Web applications business by bidding to acquire partner and on-demand security software maker Postini for $625 million in cash.
Bay Area leaders meet to chart telecommunications infrastructure
A number of Silicon Valley employers will join a meeting to chart "a major rework" of the Bay Area's information and communication technology infrastructure.
Among those joining the planning session on Monday at San Jose's Tech Museum of Innovation will be Cupertino-based Apple, Cisco , Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corp.
Clinton urges Indian businesses to invest in U.S.
In a conference of Indian business leaders gathered in Santa Clara, California, Clinton said Friday that many global businesses are eager to sell to American consumers, while at the same time American jobs are being exported to lower wage countries.
Offshoring eliminates good-paying jobs in the U.S. and threatens the middle class, she said. While the U.S. accounts for only 5 percent of the world's population, it accounts for about 20 percent of the world's gross domestic product, a measure of economic activity.
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Rich
Internet Applications were supposed to be the solution to
client-installed software
No more dealing with upgrades or version updates, because the latest
version of the application would be sent down to the client and
accessed via a browser. Then a funny thing happened: Supporters of RIAs
and software as a service (SAAS) started turning on-demand
applications into local applications. Making on-demand applications
available when an Internet connection exists is the whole point of
Google Gears, Adobe AIR and JavaFX, but doesn't that turn them into
desktop applications?
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Sea Phantom is a prototype high speed boat which almost flies above the
water
The Sea Phantom can reach speeds of 70mph, with a 100mph version
expected
soon. Still in development, the Sea Phantom has been evolving since
boat designer David Borman, who made his first boat at 12 years old,
came up with the idea.
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Solution to the Black Hole Information Paradox
Three researchers from Case Western Reserve University have concluded
that there's nothing inside a black hole:
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Want My E-Mail? Get a Warrant
The federal government can no longer seize and read e-mail without a search warrant, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. Americans, the court said, have the same reasonable expectation of privacy for e-mail as they do telephone calls and snail mail.
FCC Chairman: Everybody in US must be in on "broadband revolution"
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin made a case for increased investment in broadband infrastructure, saying that the FCC's role is to ensure everyone in the country is able to take advantage of the "broadband revolution.
The YouTube effect: HTTP traffic now eclipses P2P
In the Internet traffic race, P2P used to be way out in front. For years, P2P traffic eclipsed HTTP traffic as broadband users slurped down music and movies, some of which were actually legal. But P2P fell behind this year; for the first time in four years, HTTP traffic is out in front.
Matsushita claims that it has begun making chips, based on its new 45-nm process technology
Within its fab in Japan, the company has developed the 45-nm process, thanks to 193-nm immersion lithography, stress-induced mobility-enhanced transistors, low-k dielectrics and design-for-manufacturability (DFM) technologies.
Is Apple working on car navigation and sound systems?
Apple is said to be working for an introduction in 2009, working with Mercedes exclusively for 6 months.
The system is reported to include "entertainment, communication, and navigation," similar to devices already on the market .
Google accounted for 65.13% of U.S. search traffic in May
Just a fraction below the 65.26% share in April, but up from the 59.27% recorded in May 2006, according to traffic tracker Hitwise .Yahoo's share in May was 20.89%, up from 20.73% in April, but down from 21.95% a year ago. Microsoft's was about flat at 8.40%, versus 8.46% in April, but down from 12.10% a year earlier.
Google security API spots dangerous URLs
Google has released an API that enables other applications to access its blacklist of URLs of Web sites that may have malicious programs.
Developers can incorporate the API into their applications that deal with user-generated links.
Three-month average of world chip sales to be $20.2 billion in May verses $19.9 billion in April
'Handset chips should sell well, with Apple's iPhone ramp-up boosting sales and average selling prices. Handset indicator is pointing to a 15 percent increase in handset sales in Q2, reaching 263 million units. We see 2007 handset sales rising 12 percent.
M'soft extends IPTV software to PC and beyond
Microsoft Mediaroom,:rebranded its Internet TV platform and introduced several new features that include the ability to access PC-stored photos and music through a TV
3 degrees aren't enough for 16-year-old UW grad
Andrew Hsu has not yet been on a date or taken his driving test. But he does have three degrees — in neurobiology, biochemistry and chemistry. This month, just weeks after his 16th birthday, Hsu became the second-youngest person to graduate from the University of Washington, and the youngest with a triple degree.
Google turned on the solar panels covering nearly all the roof space on its corporate campus and announced that its philanthropic arm plans to dole out over US$10 million in grants to support hybrid cars.
Smarts Make For a Better Network Experience
The IP networks of tomorrow, according to a panel at the NXTcomm conference here that included Juniper Networks, Verizon, BT Group and Microsoft, will be more open and offer degrees of dynamic control that improve the network experience for all.
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China exports 385 million mobile phones in 2006, says Research and Markets
In 2006, the mobile phone output of China reached 455 million units, accounting for 43.75% of world total output of 1.04 billion units, according to market research firm Research and Markets. Of the number of mobile phones produced, 385 million units were for export, noted the firm.
TOKYO EDGE: June's coolest gadgets
This month Sanyo Electric Co.'s Xacti video camera has gone waterproof -- perfect for those days on the beach or even snorkelling -- and Casio Computer has packed a high-res digital still camera function into its new cell phone -- great for when you're wearing light clothes and don't have a million pockets for gadgets.
Zero-power display market expected to grow by factor of 12 by 2012, says iSuppli
Bi-stable displays have the capability to sustain images with zero-power consumption. This makes them well suited for use in flash-memory storage devices, smart cards and e-book applications. More than likely, heated competition between bi-stable displays and low-power LCDs will flare up soon as manufacturers of both technologies vie for the Electronic-Shelf-Label, Point-of-Sale and mobile-phone markets.
EPA plans Energy Star program for servers
The US Environmental Protection Agency will propose extending its Energy Star program used for desktop PCs and consumer appliances to computer servers later this year. If the trial goes well, Energy Star metrics for power consumption could be applied to other data center equipment including networking switches and storage arrays.
IBM dives deep into virtual realms
IBM's Rational Software Development Conference is physically taking place this week in Orlando, but a good chunk of Tuesday morning's keynote on "The Future of Software Delivery" took place elsewhere: the virtual realm of Second Life, where IBM has invested in some sizable chunks of "metaverse" real estate.
Next billion PCs shipping soon
All the talk is about cell phones and consumer electronics, but PCs suck up much more silicon per box and remain a major driver for the chip industry.
Intel Reportedly Plans 50% Price Cut On Core 2 Quad Processors
Intel plans to cut prices on Core 2 Quad processors by 50% on July 22, which attributes the information to an Intel document given to clients. The Quad core processors are designed to be used in servers and very high end desktop PCs.
Are PC chip sets passe?
The kitchen sink ,the CPU single chip .Merging the chip set and microprocessor.
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New York state to debate open document format legislation
Moves towards open source software and open formats have also been made in Europe – often with more success. The French government has announced that it will make Paris a centre of excellence for open source software development.
A New York politician has launched a bill that would order the US state to examine a switch to open document formats for official business.
Bloomberg: Connecticut Attorney General Says Microsoft Anti-Trust Measures at “Turning Point”
ollowing on reports in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times this weekend that U.S. State authorities may pursue anti-trust accusations against Microsoft brought by Google, Bloomberg News reports today that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says the State is considering demanding that Microsoft change aspects of its Windows Vista operating system to address Google's complaints.
Google Shortens Hold Time on User Data
From now on, or at least until another government complains, Google will anonymize its search server logs after 18 months. The company made the announcement this week in response to another round of European Union objections. Previously, Google held onto user search data for as long as 24 months, a length of time the company decided on in reaction to past European Union (EU) concerns.
Second impression for nanoimprint
After years of hype and false starts, the nanoimprint lithography market is set to explode--or, perhaps, implode. In one scenario, nanoimprint tool vendors--whose business thus far has been largely limited to small R&D markets--are poised to fulfill past promises, enabling a low-cost paradigm shift for the production of optoelectronics, semiconductors, storage and other products. But nanoimprint vendors could also be on the brink of a shakeout, wrought by too many vendors chasing too small a market.
Apple offers developers Web 2.0 apps for iPhone
Apple says it plans to let developers build Web 2.0 applications for the iPhone, a move that slightly opens the door to a mostly closed environment.
Tech companies set goals for energy efficiency
A group of some of the biggest technology companies said they've committed to a plan to improve the power efficiency of equipment they make and use:
Can a Tiny Microphone Save the Bees — and the Food Supply?
Colony collapse disorder is bad news for anyone who eats. Typically, almost a third of an American's diet comes from fruits and vegetables, which require pollination, and no technology gets the job done as effectively as Apis mellifera , the humble honeybee. Wild bee populations in the US have declined steadily over the past half century, and today most of the remaining 2.4 million colonies are domesticated. To pollinate their crops, farmers rely almost completely on the latter — and now these hives are endangered, too.
Device Helps Autistic Adults Read Body Language
A device being developed by an MIT grad may help autistic adults with interpersonal communication. Rana El Kaliouby's Emotional Social Intelligence Prosthetic uses intelligent software and a computer/video camera apparatus worn by the user to determine a listener's level of interest in a conversation; the device vibrates to warn the user when the listener's attention strays. The goal is to enhance autistic individual's ability to pick up other's emotional cues.
No Data Can Outrun This 'Cheetah'
Informix isn't ready to retire.IBM said today it has refreshed its Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), adding continuous availability and disaster-recovery features to its online transaction-processing database.
Heat generates electricity
Acoustically coupled transducers can directly generate electricity from heat, researchers reported on June 8 during the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America here. "We have a new source of renewable energy from waste heat," said University of Utah professor Orest Symko.
U.S. Mortgage Foreclosure Filings Rise 90% in May (Update4)
U.S. foreclosure filings surged 90 percent in May from a year earlier as more homeowners fell behind on their monthly mortgage payments, RealtyTrac Inc. said. A jump in foreclosures at a time of year that traditionally is the busiest for home sales means the slide in prices probably isn't over, said James Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac. Typically, more than half of all home sales occur in the April to June period, according to Freddie Mac, the No. 2 mortgage buyer.
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IBM Acquires Telelogic For Its Rational Software Unit
IBM announced Monday that it has offered $745 million to acquire Telelogic AB and that it plans to integrate the software development firm into IBM's Rational Software unit.
What Does Apple's Steve Jobs Have Up His Sleeve?
Apple: Jobs Keynote At The WWDC
Apple's annual world wide developers conference opens this morning at San Francisco's Moscone and the town is abuzz with speculation about what secrets Steve Jobs will reveal in the keynote speech.
Computer failure triggers worst flight delays of the year
A federal computer system that processes pilots' flight plans went down for two hours Friday morning, causing a domino effect of problems and hours of delays for travelers.
IP business model 'broken,'
The IP business is "broken" and needs consolidation to better serve customers, according to Mike Kaskowitz, vice president of semiconductor IP at Mosaid Technologies.
Nintendo Wii video game console has a dark side. Dr. Julio Bonis couldn't figure out why his right shoulder was so sore after awakening one Sunday morning. He hadn't suffered any trauma or recent injuries, which made the pain even more puzzling After consulting with a colleague, the 29-year-old family practice physician in Madrid, Spain, determined that he suffered from acute tendonitis caused by what Bonis calls "Wiiitis." Yes, the popular Nintendo Wii video game console has a dark side.
Wireless sensor nets get a boost from Dust Networks
When the Sensors Expo opens next week in the Chicago suburbs, Dust Networks . may be pulling ahead in wireless sensor networks by exploiting industrial applications ranging from process control to cold storage:
Circuit design algorithm compensates for tangled nanotubes
Researchers from Stanford University reported Thursday (June 7) at the Design Automation Conference here on a way to design circuits that should work even when many of the nanotubes in them are twisted and misaligned.
NASA chooses Web suite for moon, Mars spacecraft design
On the morning of its space shuttle launch, NASA announced that its engineers and scientists will use a Vignette Next-Generation Web Suite to design spacecraft for the upcoming Constellation Program.
Yahoo Hacker Uses Story To Find, Exploit Yahoo Messenger Bug
Exploit code has hit the Internet for the critical flaws in Yahoo Messenger that could enable a remote hacker to take control of a user's system.
Taiwanese Tea Leaves Auger Well for Intel, Drive Makers
A note today from A.G. Edward & Sons analyst Dr. David Wong tells of a robust market for personal computers, including desktop computers, based on data Wong has inspected from Taiwanese motherboard shipments, which showed a sharp 19% rise in May following lackluster growth the beginning of the year. Wong thinks that bodes well for Intel and disk-drive makers Seagate and Western Digital.
SAP's Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto
SAP brought out its top brass to show off the big iron inside its new Co-Innovation Lab here today. Executives from a number of tech companies, including HP, Intel, Cisco and NetApp joined SAP CEO Henning Kagerman and other top execs at the unveiling of the lab which includes computer products and systems donated by the above-mentioned companies.
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Bill Gates finally gets degree Bill Gates returned to Harvard University
"I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree,'" Microsoft Chairman Gates said to hearty audience laughter as he began his speech.
Vietnamese fishermen 'salvage' Internet lines
Fishermen who were allowed to take unused war-era undersea copper cables have gone too far, "salvaging" fibre-optic lines providing some of Vietnam's Internet and other international communications.
China's IT services industry set to overtake UK
China's strength comes from robust software engineering programmes for students, according to Developing the Future 2007 , a series of essays and reports on the U.K.'s IT industry.
SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East Charter Sponsors Announced
The Largest SOA, Enterprise Open Source and Virtualization Event of the Year Will Offer Three Days and Seven Tracks of Content
Hollywood Goes High Tech
The Visual Effects , Spider-Man 3 , the two-minute "Birth of Sandman" sequence, which involved groundbreaking particle dynamics and control over individual grains of virtual sand, took up 37 terabytes of data. The entire Spider-Man 2 movie was only 4.5 terabytes.
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The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online lifeMozilla has issued the last security update for its open source Firefox 1.5 browser. It included an automatic update mechanism to give users the option of upgrading to Firefox 2.0.
Firefox 1.5 Gets Its Last Update
Mozilla ends Firefox 1.5 support
Google gears up for offline applications Google is using its first worldwide Developer Day today to launch Google Gears, an open source technology for building web applications that can work offline.
The latest Fedora release improves that customization and puts Red Hat squarely in the face of custom Linux appliance builders, such as rPath, that have recently begun to challenge Red Hat's dominance in the Linux market:.
Apple Partners With YouTube Apple today announced it's giving its floundering Apple TV something it has yet to gain, besides an audience: content. The company struck a deal with Google's YouTube video streaming service to provide originally-created content on Apple TV.
D: Google's Eric Schmidt On The Viacom Lawsuit And MoreNow at the D: All Things Digital conference, we get the other side of the Viacom (VIA) /Google (GOOG) battle.
D: RealNetworks Unveils New Version Of Real Player With Web Video CaptureRealNetworks (RNWK) today unveiled a a new version of its RealPlayer media player software , adding the ability to capture, store and burn non-protected Web-based video. Real CEO Rob Glaser unveiled the software today at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California.
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NetBeans 6.0 Preview (M9)Cookbooks.
These CookBooks cover some new functionality that will be available in NetBeans 6.0 Preview (M9):
Vista no more secure than XPOne of Microsoft's big promises with Vista was a more secure operating system. But when stripped to the bare bones and thrown into the wild, wild Web, Vista's security failed to impress Test Center engineers.
Microsoft Surface Teaser One of Microsoft Corp.'s biggest secrets looks like a normal coffee table. Until it's switched on. After years of covert development, Microsoft says it will release a computer that uses the tabletop as its high-resolution display, recognizes objects placed on the surface and skips the traditional keyboard and mouse in favor of fingers on the screen. The company envisions a variety of uses. In one example, people place a card on the table to call up a virtual stack of digital photos from a computer server and then rotate, resize and spread them across the table using their hands. In another, diners split a tab by dragging icons of their meals to their credit cards.
Microsoft Surface brings computing to the table
Ballmer is set to take the stage this morning at D Today at The Wall Street Journal's D: All Thing's Digital conference in Carlsbad, California, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled a new product called Microsoft Surface, a multi-touch sensitive surface computer running a highly customized version of Windows Vista that the company hopes will “change the way people interact with technology”.
D:Apple's Steve Jobs On Macs, Music, iPhone and More; Adding YouTube To AppleTV
Jobs says Apple has three businesses and a hobby. Mac business, the music business, the third one will be the phone business. The hobby is AppleTV; a lot of people have tried to make that a business; we're trying; hundreds of thousands of units a year, hasn't crested to be millions of units a year.
Shopping Kiosk Brings Online Benefits To The Store HP previewed the latest work from its HP Labs here, an interactive shopping kiosk it expects to pilot with a few retail customers later this year. The HP Retail Assistant is meant to help improve what HP said is an ecosystem of manufacturers, retailers and consumers.
Adobe Gives ColdFusion A Big Overhaul ColdFusion is the latest Macromedia product to get a long-needed overhaul from Adobe Systems, with the announcement today of a beta release of ColdFusion 8. ColdFusion is a Web site development tool and previously part of the Macromedia family, which merged with Adobe back the 2005.
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NetBeans 6.0 Preview (M9)Cookbooks.
These CookBooks cover some new functionality that will be available in NetBeans 6.0 Preview (M9):
The fourth edition of the Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference, D4 returned to the Four Seasons Resort Aviara in Carlsbad, California from May 30 to June 1, 2006 with a complete buy-out of the property and a number of other improvements that made it the best D yet. At D4 , Bill Gates shared a sneak peek at Microsoft's next version of Office; Nicholas Negroponte gave attendees a first look at the working prototype of his low-cost computer for children in developing countries; Terry Semel defended Yahoo!'s involvement in China; and Stanford's Larry Lessig warned of the chilling effects produced by copyright law in a spirited debate with Random House's Richard Sarnoff. speakers:
Bill Gates | Chairman, Microsoft
Steve Jobs | CEO, Apple
Steve Ballmer | CEO, Microsoft
George Lucas | Film director and producer
Eric Schmidt | Chairman and CEO, Google
Steve Case | Chairman and CEO, Revolution
John Chambers | Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems
Les Moonves | President and CEO, CBS
Ann Moore | Chairman and CEO, Time Inc.
Peter Chernin | President and COO, News Corp.
Jeff Hawkins | Founder of Palm Computing
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen | Founders of YouTube
Philippe Dauman | President and CEO, Viacom
Senator John McCain | United States Senator from Arizona
Complex Events? BEA Has 'Em Covered BEA WebLogic Event Server, a Java application server geared to handle loads of streaming data and complex event processing (CEP) in real time
Google: Gaining Share In Search. AgainGoogle's share of the U.S. home, work and university query market was 49.7%, up from 48.3% in March. Yahoo's share slipped to 26.8%, from 27.5%; Microsoft fell to 10.3% from 10.9%; Ask dipped to 5.1% from 5.2% and Time Warner's AOL unit had 5% share, flat with March.
Google Apps business Google Apps is a collection of software - Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar and Google Docs and Spreadsheets - offered for free in a standard version and for $50 per user in a premium version that provides additional support and contains no advertising. Weinstein thinks Gmail could be a powerful way for the company to move more aggressively into the host software business, and asserts that the company's email service alone could be addressing a $23 billion market by 2009. He notes that the small business market alone could be a $5 billion addressable market by 2009.
Intel researchers focus on parallel softwareWith the rise of multicore CPUs the push for parallel software has become job number 1 for Intel's microprocessor R&D labs
Microsoft cancels key developer conference citing inconvenient timing for the show in light of the launch of important new infrastructure and developer-platform.
Microsoft sues alleged stock scammers Hoping to tackle the growing problem of pump-and-dump stock scams Microsoft Corp. has quietly filed lawsuits against at least three alleged perpetrators who it says used its MSN Hotmail networks to promote stocks.
Chip forum dials up next-gen cellular The struggles for more performance, less power and tighter silicon integration in cell phones took center stage at the Microprocessor Forum here last week. ARM Ltd. and Qualcomm Inc. detailed upcoming architectures for 2008-class 3G phones, and a researcher at Japan's NTT Docomo sketched out the road to the next two generations of systems.
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Senator skeptical about permanent Internet tax break
The chairman of a key Senate committee Wednesday (May 23) expressed reservations about a proposal to permanently ban state taxes on Internet access.
Dell to ship Ubuntu-loaded PCs
PC maker Dell said Thursday it will start taking orders for notebooks and desktops today that are pre-loaded with Ubuntu 7.04, at starting street prices between $599 and $849.
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.
Nvidia graphics chips perform double duty as CPUs
CUDA ( compute unified device architecture),Nvidia Corp. is promoting the idea that the graphics processing units (GPUs) it makes can also operate, when needed, as additional CPUs (central processing units) to vastly increase computing power.
The NAC: Can't They All Just Get Along?
Decisions, decisions -- especially network access control decisions (NAC). Should enterprises choose Microsoft's NAP, Cisco's NAC or Juniper-backed TNC for their NAC needs? And, most important, can they all get along?
NAC has been one of the most-hyped new networking technology approaches over the past few years, but plenty of work remains regarding interoperability between vendors' solutions.
Microsoft Aims for 'Identity Metasystem'
Microsoft announced Wednesday a set of initiatives aimed at aiding interoperability between competing online identity management systems based on information card technologies.
Opsware Plants a 'Virtual' Leg Up
Opsware Inc. has fortified its server automation in a bid to improve its chances of gobbling more market share against IBM, HP and CA in the multi-billion dollar market for datacenter automation software.
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I-SPY with my little eye... a new spyware actThe House has just passed the Internet Spyware Prevention Act of 2007 —otherwise cleverly known as "I-SPY"—in order to lay the smack down on spyware purveyors whose actions are already illegal and who are currently being pursued by the Federal Trade Commission . Wait, what? :
China backs off mandatory blogger identity registration The Chinese government has surprisingly backed down on a proposal to require all bloggers in the country to register their real identities. The government-regulated Internet Society of China said that real-name registration would now only be "encouraged" but not required, according to the Xinhua news agency. Blog service providers will be required to take measures to ensure the privacy of those who have chosen to register so that there are no concerns over identity theft.
New Internet Radio Royalty Fees Pressure Webcasters
Under the new rules, Webcasters would no longer pay royalties as a percentage of earnings. Instead, they would pay a fee each time a user listens to a song.
Why Is Networking Growing So Fast? According to Germanow's IDC data:
The No. 1 reason is voice and video.
The No. 2 reason for the growth of networking is the rise of network-based businesses. Because the network is the business, networking-based business is all businesses and not just Amazon, Google and eBay.
The third reason for the growth of networking, With all the applications and users coming onto the network, the need for intelligent networking gear is a key enterprise requirement.
The fourth reason for the growth of networking is end-point growth. Germanow noted that their has been an explosion of network touch points, which means that more items are connecting to the network.
Microsoft trademarks logo for on-demand IPTV service Microsoft has filed for a trademark for software that will enable consumers to watch television and movies on-demand. The trademark itself is for a logo, described as "arrowheads diverging from disc." That's the boring part of the trademark, though. The goods and services described along with the trademark are what raises some eyebrows, as Microsoft hopes to offer software that will allow users to watch "broadcast-quality video and television programming" over their broadband Internet connections.
Micron predicts flash memory will replace disk drivesMicron Technology believes it's only a matter of time before solid-state flash-memory drives used today for storage in digital cameras and MP3 players become an alternative to disk drives in the data center.
JP Morgan says hardware, telcoms next buyout sectors The next wave of leveraged buyouts in the technology industry is likely to extend to computer hardware and telecom equipment sectors, a managing director of JP Morgan predicted.
Next Market Transition is Collaboration Cisco CEO John Chambers, who delivered the opening keynote of the Interop conference in Las Vegas, says the next wave of innovation will be driven by user needs to collaborate in real time over IP networks. "Watch how often we've been accurate in the past," Chambers said, referring to Cisco's acquisitions to move into new market segments. "The reason we're pretty accurate–we keep our fingers on your pulse pretty tightly," he reminded Interop conference attendees.
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Power shift in the laptopAdvanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. are pulling neck-and-neck in the race to define the core high-end silicon for notebook computers. Competition among chip and system makers is keen, because notebooks are edging out desktops as the dominant platform in client computing.
Microsoft shuffles server, developer groups in reorg Microsoft said it would move its server and tools group, led by Bob Muglia, into its business division. The change positions Jeff Raikes, president of the business division, to control over half the company's revenue and the bulk of its earnings growth, said Robert Helm, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft. "It puts him in a strong position to succeed CEO Steve Ballmer, should Ballmer decide to start a retreat from day-to-day management," he said.
LG.Philips LCD shows next-generation display technologies at SID 2007 LG.Philips LCD is demonstrating a number of advanced displays including; a hair-thin flexible AM OLED display which can reproduce a full 16.7 million colors, along with a 14.1-inch flexible color A4-size electronic paper (e-paper) display and a 6-inch e-paper display which could replace a number of current paper products because of their crisp output and low power consumption.
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North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.00 in March, up from 0.98 in February, according to SEMI: The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving averages of worldwide bookings and billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers.
Intel's Silverthorne applying its 45nm process technology to a new processordesigned for ultramobile PCs:
Intel is applying its 45nm process technology to a new processor designed for ultramobile PCs . The chip, code named Silverthorne, is Intel's first ground up design aimed at a new class of mobile systems smaller than notebooks but larger and more feature rich than cellphones.
Cisco build one of the largest Wi-Fi deployments to date
Cisco Systems on Thursday unveiled that the Italian Province of Brescia is using its Wi-Fi mesh equipment to deploy a wireless network that stretches across 4,800 square kilometers. The network will deliver broadband services and applications like voice-over-IP to over 200 rural towns.
Google buys Marratech video conferencing company: A Stockholm-based developer of video conferencing software, taking it further into the sphere of collaborative work tools. Marratech will continue to support its customers and resellers following the acquisition, it said on Thursday. Google said Marratech's engineers will remain in Sweden and continue to develop the desktop conferencing software. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
EPIC, CDD ask FTC to block Google-DoubleClick merger
Three U.S. online civil rights groups have filed a complaint asking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block Google Inc.'s planned US$3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. unless the company agrees to stop tracking its users.
High-brightness LED market to grow to US$9 billion in 2011, says Strategies Unlimited
The market will see growth for the next three to five years driven by lighting, display backlights and automotive, while the mobile appliance sector will decline slowly, the firm indicated.
Broadcasters, Content and the Un-YouTube
The broadcast and cable companies' recent deal to bring thousands of hours of movies and television shows to the online realm, and for free, is another example of platform integration among broadcasters, and just giving viewers content for Web consumption, said Todd Chanko, a Jupiter Research analyst who advises television and film entertainment industries.
TurboTax Servers Overwhelmed by Late Filers
Last-minute electronic filers late yesterday swamped the servers at Intuit, the maker of the popular TurboTax tax-preparation software and the Web preparation service of the same name. This morning, the company said it was working with the Internal Revenue Service and that the agency would accept late returns without penalty.
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North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.00 in March, up from 0.98 in February, according to SEMI: The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving averages of worldwide bookings and billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers.
Intel's Silverthorne applying its 45nm process technology to a new processordesigned for ultramobile PCs:
Intel is applying its 45nm process technology to a new processor designed for ultramobile PCs . The chip, code named Silverthorne, is Intel's first ground up design aimed at a new class of mobile systems smaller than notebooks but larger and more feature rich than cellphones.
Cisco build one of the largest Wi-Fi deployments to date
Cisco Systems on Thursday unveiled that the Italian Province of Brescia is using its Wi-Fi mesh equipment to deploy a wireless network that stretches across 4,800 square kilometers. The network will deliver broadband services and applications like voice-over-IP to over 200 rural towns.
Google buys Marratech video conferencing company: A Stockholm-based developer of video conferencing software, taking it further into the sphere of collaborative work tools. Marratech will continue to support its customers and resellers following the acquisition, it said on Thursday. Google said Marratech's engineers will remain in Sweden and continue to develop the desktop conferencing software. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
EPIC, CDD ask FTC to block Google-DoubleClick merger
Three U.S. online civil rights groups have filed a complaint asking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block Google Inc.'s planned US$3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. unless the company agrees to stop tracking its users.
High-brightness LED market to grow to US$9 billion in 2011, says Strategies Unlimited
The market will see growth for the next three to five years driven by lighting, display backlights and automotive, while the mobile appliance sector will decline slowly, the firm indicated.
Broadcasters, Content and the Un-YouTube
The broadcast and cable companies' recent deal to bring thousands of hours of movies and television shows to the online realm, and for free, is another example of platform integration among broadcasters, and just giving viewers content for Web consumption, said Todd Chanko, a Jupiter Research analyst who advises television and film entertainment industries.
TurboTax Servers Overwhelmed by Late Filers
Last-minute electronic filers late yesterday swamped the servers at Intuit, the maker of the popular TurboTax tax-preparation software and the Web preparation service of the same name. This morning, the company said it was working with the Internal Revenue Service and that the agency would accept late returns without penalty.
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North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.00 in March, up from 0.98 in February, according to SEMI: The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving averages of worldwide bookings and billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers.
Intel's Silverthorne applying its 45nm process technology to a new processordesigned for ultramobile PCs:
Intel is applying its 45nm process technology to a new processor designed for ultramobile PCs . The chip, code named Silverthorne, is Intel's first ground up design aimed at a new class of mobile systems smaller than notebooks but larger and more feature rich than cellphones.
Cisco build one of the largest Wi-Fi deployments to date
Cisco Systems on Thursday unveiled that the Italian Province of Brescia is using its Wi-Fi mesh equipment to deploy a wireless network that stretches across 4,800 square kilometers. The network will deliver broadband services and applications like voice-over-IP to over 200 rural towns.
Google buys Marratech video conferencing company: A Stockholm-based developer of video conferencing software, taking it further into the sphere of collaborative work tools. Marratech will continue to support its customers and resellers following the acquisition, it said on Thursday. Google said Marratech's engineers will remain in Sweden and continue to develop the desktop conferencing software. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
EPIC, CDD ask FTC to block Google-DoubleClick merger
Three U.S. online civil rights groups have filed a complaint asking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block Google Inc.'s planned US$3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. unless the company agrees to stop tracking its users.
High-brightness LED market to grow to US$9 billion in 2011, says Strategies Unlimited
The market will see growth for the next three to five years driven by lighting, display backlights and automotive, while the mobile appliance sector will decline slowly, the firm indicated.
Broadcasters, Content and the Un-YouTube
The broadcast and cable companies' recent deal to bring thousands of hours of movies and television shows to the online realm, and for free, is another example of platform integration among broadcasters, and just giving viewers content for Web consumption, said Todd Chanko, a Jupiter Research analyst who advises television and film entertainment industries.
TurboTax Servers Overwhelmed by Late Filers
Last-minute electronic filers late yesterday swamped the servers at Intuit, the maker of the popular TurboTax tax-preparation software and the Web preparation service of the same name. This morning, the company said it was working with the Internal Revenue Service and that the agency would accept late returns without penalty.
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North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.00 in March, up from 0.98 in February, according to SEMI: The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving averages of worldwide bookings and billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers.
Intel's Silverthorne applying its 45nm process technology to a new processordesigned for ultramobile PCs:
Intel is applying its 45nm process technology to a new processor designed for ultramobile PCs . The chip, code named Silverthorne, is Intel's first ground up design aimed at a new class of mobile systems smaller than notebooks but larger and more feature rich than cellphones.
Cisco build one of the largest Wi-Fi deployments to date
Cisco Systems on Thursday unveiled that the Italian Province of Brescia is using its Wi-Fi mesh equipment to deploy a wireless network that stretches across 4,800 square kilometers. The network will deliver broadband services and applications like voice-over-IP to over 200 rural towns.
Google buys Marratech video conferencing company: A Stockholm-based developer of video conferencing software, taking it further into the sphere of collaborative work tools. Marratech will continue to support its customers and resellers following the acquisition, it said on Thursday. Google said Marratech's engineers will remain in Sweden and continue to develop the desktop conferencing software. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
EPIC, CDD ask FTC to block Google-DoubleClick merger
Three U.S. online civil rights groups have filed a complaint asking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block Google Inc.'s planned US$3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. unless the company agrees to stop tracking its users.
High-brightness LED market to grow to US$9 billion in 2011, says Strategies Unlimited
The market will see growth for the next three to five years driven by lighting, display backlights and automotive, while the mobile appliance sector will decline slowly, the firm indicated.
Broadcasters, Content and the Un-YouTube
The broadcast and cable companies' recent deal to bring thousands of hours of movies and television shows to the online realm, and for free, is another example of platform integration among broadcasters, and just giving viewers content for Web consumption, said Todd Chanko, a Jupiter Research analyst who advises television and film entertainment industries.
TurboTax Servers Overwhelmed by Late Filers
Last-minute electronic filers late yesterday swamped the servers at Intuit, the maker of the popular TurboTax tax-preparation software and the Web preparation service of the same name. This morning, the company said it was working with the Internal Revenue Service and that the agency would accept late returns without penalty.
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Seven years after the Internet bubble burst, investors say it's time to recoup their Silicon Valley losses:
Technology firms backed by venture capitalists raised $701 million in seven initial public offerings last quarter, equaling the third period of 2004 as the busiest since 2000, according to Dow Jones VentureOne, which does research on the industry. The IPOs came after venture capitalists poured $13.8 billion into U.S. technology companies last year, the most since 2001.
Intel is preparing to sample a 128-Mbit phase-change memory that will roll into volume production in the second half of the year using 90-nanometer technology: The device, codenamed Alverstone, is Intel's first phase-change memory product and is being billed as a NOR flash compatible replacement. Intel is the second-largest NOR flash vendor behind Spansion Inc.
Intel boosts multicore programming effort at Chinese universities
Intel Corp is expanding its multicore programming effort in China, signing up another 35 universities to train students in multi-core development. That brings the total number to 37 universities that Intel is helping to design curriculums, research and training programs.
Intel is developing a programmable processor with many cores that is compatible with the x86 instruction set and capable of performing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, a senior company executive said Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing:
Hewlett-Packard (HP) on April 16 introduced Edgeline Technology, its self-developed ink-based printing technology:
Compared with conventional color inkjet printers which have print heads moving across paper, Edgeline color printers can print faster at 40-50ppm (pages per minute) through moving papers for receiving color ink jetted from as many as 10,560 nozzles of a inkjet base, according to HP vice president Gary Cutler for Edgeline Technologies.
Amazon Web Services losing money
Amazon Web Services, launched in 2004, provides hosted IT infrastructure services for developers in areas like storage and server computing. It is Amazon's newest business and Bezos is convinced it will succeed because there is rising demand from companies large and small for offloading IT infrastructure work to a third party, Bezos said at the Web 2.0 Expo event in San Francisco.
Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco
The Web2.Open is a part of the Web 2.0 Expo, open to anyone who would like to attend. The Web2.Open was conceived with FooCamp/BarCamp in mind. This open event blends some pre-scheduled content with an open grid where the attendees fill in the sessions they either want to discuss or present themselves. It is the perfect space to provide the community at large with a place to connect with other attendees, learn more about elements of Web 2.0, and share one's knowledge and experiences.
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BEA announced that it would OEM a rebranded version of AmberPoint's services management
BEA has had arms length ties for some time with AmberPoint, as well as with AmberPoint rival SOA Software. Back in November, SOA Software added the capability to anticipate service policies on BEA's AquaLogic Service Bus. But now AmberPoint is clearly the preferred offering now that it has won the OEM and re-badging deal.
Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. traded comparisons of their enterprise search products to their rival's during a technology
Nitin Mangtani, lead product manager for Google's search appliance business, feigned throwing a punch at Jared Spataro, group product manager for Microsoft's enterprise search, as they shared a stage at the Gilbane Conference on enterprise technology issues.
IPod proves untouchable, but Apple laptop sales slip
Hot on the heals of the announcement that it has sold its 100 millionth iPod.
However, it's not all good news for Apple, in January 2007 the company was ranked in fifth place for total dollar volume and unit share of laptop sales, with 10.1 percent of the U.S. laptop sales in that month, preceded by Gateway, Lenovo, Toshiba and HP in first place.
Healthy growth seen for digital content creation
The digital content creation (DCC) market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent between 2005 and 2012,The fastest growing segments in the future will be interactive development and video as the Web offers new distribution networks and new programming approaches such as AJAX to enable small compelling applications to be developed that extend the power of individual Web sites
Bill Gates headed for space, says cosmonaut
During a live interview on Russian state television, cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin revealed that, "Charles said that Bill Gates is also preparing to visit space," according to reports of the interview emanating from Moscow.
military plans to put Internet router in space
Cisco Systems Inc. and Intelsat General Corp., a subsidiary of Intelsat Ltd., are among the companies selected by the U.S. Department of Defense for its Internet Routing In Space (IRIS) project, which aims to deliver military communications through a satellite-based router.
China exported over US$281 billion in high-tech products in 2006
China exported US$281.47 billion worth of high-technology products last year, rising by 33.3% from 2005 and accounting for 29.0% of the country's total export value, according to statistics published by the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on its Chinese-language web site.
Samsung: 10G LCD production on the way
Samsung Electronics indicated that it is now assessing the glass substrate size for its 10G line, though no set construction schedule has been fixed, according to company executive vice president of LCD and R&D center Jun H. Souk at the recent Finetech Japan.
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Microsoft'Vista may be the last big operating system developed by the Microsoft,according to Goldman Sachs,who also says "potentially mark the end of an era," with "changing technology and business models:
Friar says that “ahead of the second-quarter earnings report investor nervousness remains high, particularly given uncertainty regarding spending plans in FY 2008 and recent negative management comments on Vista.”.
Friar's comments sound a more cautious stance than we have heard from Goldman on Microsoft in quite some time. Recent product launches, she says “potentially mark the end of an era,” with “changing technology and business models in areas such as software-as-a-service, virtualization and open source” combining to “diminish Microsoft's stranglehold on the desktop, which in turn significantly depletes the company's cash cow. Vista may be the last big operating system developed by the company.”
VoIP is too complicated for mass markets, says Forrester Research
In a survey of VoIP users, a Forrester Research analyst has found the low-cost calling technology to be too complicated to appeal to mass-market users. Forrester's Zayera Khan found voice-over-IP navigation systems generally to be a problem with users who are bewildered by a plethora of icons, buttons, rollovers, and navigation features. Khan cited the lack of clear keyword search capability as another problem. Khan said "highly educated males hungry for the latest technology" was the group most comfortable with VoIP. But when they began using market pace setters like Skype and Windows Live Messenger, only 4% continued to use those services.
Sohu Threatens to Sue Google
Sohu.com Inc. Tuesday threatened to sue Google Inc. for violating its intellectual property rights, and renewed a demand for the company to stop downloads of a Chinese software tool based, in part, on one of its own databases.
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Sun Micro is on IP target lists of Potential targets for acquisitions for Dell
As for acquisitions, he( Pacific Crest's Brent Bracelin ) thinks the company is likely to buy a computer services before year end, and he also thinks the company could target companies with intellectual property complimentary to its PC, server and storage lines. He even offers some target lists.
Carrier groups oppose spectrum auction proposal
A coalition of consumer groups, including Public Knowledge and Consumers Union, sent a proposal to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, calling on the agency to place conditions on upcoming auctions of valuable spectrum in the upper 700MHz band. The groups called on the FCC to limit the bidding of large broadband providers, to allow open access on half of the spectrum being auctioned and to enforce net neutrality rules prohibiting auction winners from blocking customer access to Web content or applications.
Google has commented on a new software tool it released in China this week
Google China released its Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME), earlier this week. Pinyin is a romanization system for Chinese characters, and IME software allows users to enter Chinese characters by typing their Pinyin equivalents on a standard QWERTY keyboard.
Vendors push Fibre Channel on Ethernet
An all-star lineup that includes Cisco Systems Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and EMC Corp. said Thursday it has proposed the creation of an FCOE standard to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Other vendors in the group include IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Emulex Corp., Nuova Systems Inc. and QLogic Corp. They proposed creating a new standard to the ANSI's T11 Committee, which already oversees Fibre Channel. This type of proposal typically takes a year or two to mature into an approved specification.
Yahoo tests customizable Alpha search engine
Yahoo is quietly testing a search engine that users can customize by adding, removing and rearranging components, suggesting that the company may plan to make it easier for users to tailor search sites to reflect their interests
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Intel ® I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel ® I/OAT)
Like Sun, Intel Corp. has been promoting its own approach to 10G Ethernet baked into its processors and chip sets. The concept called I/O Acceleration Technologs uses advances in its processors and chip sets. Both Intel and Sun hope to eliminate the need for TOEs, driving more jobs to their multicore CPUs.
Google adds personalized map-making to Google Maps
Each map gets a unique URL for sharing with family and friends, but users can also choose to have their maps published publicly for inclusion alongside regular Google Maps results. This means that whenever someone searches for Fogo de Chao in Chicago, they'll see the red Google Map result for the restaurant as well as the blue marker for the picture that I planted there on my own map.
Applied Materials etch system helps scaling 70nm DRAM production
Applied Materials announced that it has made a significant leap forward in deep trench etch nanomanufacturing technology with its new Applied Centura Mariana Trench etch system. Mariana is the first system that can etch 80:1 aspect ratio trenches – a critical capability that will allow customers to scale DRAM capacitors beyond 70nm, the equipment maker highlighted.
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PayPal,is trying to persuade e-mail providers to block messages that lack digital signatures:
An agreement with, for example, Google Inc. for its Gmail service could potentially stop spam messages that look legitimate and bypass spam filters. PayPal is using several technologies to digitally sign its e-mails now.
PayPal has introduced rules to counter fraud, such as limits on how much money can be transferred.
BEA today is launching AquaLogic Ensemble, AquaLogic Pages and AquaLogic Pathways
The tools leverage the "power of participation" Web sites such as Wikipedia.org, digg and del.ici.ous to foster connections between people and what people do. Specifically, AquaLogic Ensemble is a mashup developer that can proxy a Web application or any URL-addressable resource. Simons said Ensemble can dictate who is authorized and authenticated to see it.
Samsung phone dials up digital TV
The Samsung SGH-P920, adds to an already impressive feature set the ability to receive Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld television programming.
DLP mobile phone projector with beam
This prototype is capable of displaying an image about the size of a sheet of paper (8.5x11 inches) in ambient light conditions and What TI DLP is demonstrating is HVGA (320x480) resolution, which is four times the resolutions of a typical mobile phone screen.
Mobile Web Browsing on Microsoft's Dime "unique user experience"
The Zooming User Interface technology, initially developed by Microsoft Research, creates a user interface consisting of 36 individual "tiles" that users select and customize according to their interests.
AJAX Goes Offline on Zimbra Desktop
Starting tomorrow, Zimbra will be making its offline utility publicly available as an alpha release.
The alpha release is still missing a major functionality, namely calendaring. Zimbra Co-Founder and CEO Satish Dharmaraj told internetnews.com that the next release of Zimbra Desktop, expected in early summer, will include support for offline calendaring in the same way that Outlook users can integrate with offline calendars today.
Posted at 12:26PM Mar 27, 2007 by barkodar in General | Comments[1]