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Banks Pick Up Where Fed Left Off, Restricting Access to Credit
Fed officials may discuss the tightening in mortgage lending and its impact on the economy, already slowed by a housing recession, at their two-day meeting that starts today. Countrywide Financial Corp., the biggest U.S. mortgage provider, last week stopped taking applications for no-money-down loans from risky borrowers without proof of income.
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Rumours persist Apple developing AMD projects
The rumours are still circulating that Apple has a secret project bubbling on its back burner. But bear in mind that Intel managed to cheese off every major vendor with Apple getting the preferred treatment for Merom availability. And if, as the rumours run, Apple is thanking Intel for all its help and money by developing hardware for Fruity Company, well that's the way it goes because a chip vendor these days is nothing that special.
Miyamoto Plans To Make Wii A 'Household Tool'
In an interview at the 2007 Game Developers Conference, Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto has spoken out on how Nintendo plans to sustain the Wii's momentum by making the console part of household everyday life.
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Salesforce Makes 'MySpace' For Business : AppSpace:"an enterprise-quality MySpace" by Salesforce.com
AppSpace, which allows businesses to create customer-facing portals on demand, will be available in limited release beginning in April. The software, the latest in Salesforce.com's rapid software-as-a-service roll-out strategy, allows companies to engage their customers by sharing documents with them or soliciting feedback through forums. AppSpace customers will also be able to add and share other on-demand enterprise applications with their customers.
Narrowing Social Network's Focus
If social networks are a numbers game, count MySpace and Facebook as among the big winners. These upstarts have attracted millions of users to their online communities. But the bigger, come-one-come-all approach these sites employ isn't the solution every would-be online group wants.
Startup makes FPGA prototypes a snap:Eridon claims users can assemble a prototype in as little as a day, begin software development and end up with something very close to a production pc board.
Eridon wants to help embedded-systems developers literally snap together an FPGA-based prototype, without their having to understand the hardware or even program the FPGA. Eridon (Wayzata, Minn.) will be coming to next month's Embedded Systems Conference with its UnifiedLogic development framework, which includes off-the-shelf modules called "uCards" that snap together onto an FPGA-based development board. The FPGA itself is programmed at Eridon's servers using an Internet connection.
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PC Authority: Linux Not Ready to Kill Unix--Yet
Despite the relentless march of Linux, major vendors believe commercial Unix releases aren't ready for the scrapheap yet."As Linux evolves from its single-processor roots into larger-scale applications, many market watchers have predicted that it will eventually replace the remaining commercial Unixes: Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, Sun Microsystem's Solaris, IBM's AIX and SGI's Irix..."
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange has started to replace its Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and Access databases:
The Exchange has started a years-long effort to standardize on the Cognos 8 suite of tools for query, reporting and analysis of its back office systems that perform securities processing, trade clearing and billing, officials said this week. The project also includes the rewriting of legacy mainframe applications in J2EE to run on IBM AIX-based systems, officials said.
Unified Communications
Unified communications has repeatedly been the center of many discussions involving the future of communications. Unified communications encompasses a broad range of technologies and many potential applications. It is important to note that it is still in its infancy and many definitions have been used by the messaging industry. This tutorial will present one view of unified communications and present its appeal as a powerful mode of communication. The benefits to subscribers will be discussed along with considerations for service providers and the ways in which they will benefit from unified communications.
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Here Comes Another Google Summer of Code , student-focused open source project
Google has streamlined the Summer of Code, and slapped a trademark on it, too. All that awaits is another round of eager applications to roll in from students.
Each student who successfully completes a project over the summer will receive $4,500 from Google, while each open source organization that sponsors the student will receive $500 per successful student. Programmers have to apply to the "Google Summer of Code" initiative through a sponsoring open source organization.
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Google confirms mobile phone "in development"
Google's chief executive confirmed the company has been working on a mobile phone. Aguilera mentioned that "Some of our engineers' time is dedicated to the development of a mobile phone." She also reiterated that about 70 percent of Google's engineers' time is dedicated to developing the main products for the company, 20 percent of the time is to develop products that are somewhat related to the main business, and about 10 percent of engineering time is spent on projects that could be tangentially related to the business, indicating that the phone development was not necessarily an active project.
Cisco, Microsoft gear up for growing battle
Cisco and Microsoft often describe themselves as partners, but they increasingly look like rivals as they compete to bundle e-mail, phones and other communication tools into a single system.
HomePlug AV networking tech takes stage at CeBIT
The HomePlug Powerline Alliance is using CeBIT as a platform to announce new products and talk up HomePlug AV, their home networking technology. Linksys is the one of the companies exhibiting HomePlug AV gear to the market, announcing the new PLE200 PowerLine AV networking adapter. Buyers will get two adapters, both of which contain an Ethernet jack and plug into a wall outlet to handle all of your networking needs over your house's wiring.
Samsung introduces 30-inch LED-based monitor
The monitor will come equipped with "Eyeone Design & Eyeone Photo" and "Natural Color Expert" software. The "Natural Color Expert" program will allow users to enjoy custom-made features of gamma, color temperature and white balance. The settings can be set to Adobe RGB as well as sRGB so that users can operate on the color ranges of their choices.
Your ISP may be selling your web clicks
Clickstream data includes every web site visited by each user and in which order they were clicked.
The data is not sold with accompanying user name or information, but merely as a numerical user value. However, it is still theoretically possible to tie this information to a specific ISP account.
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New music service to slug it out with satellite, iTunes
The most ambitious plan for Slacker is its satellite service. The company will sell kits for the car and will push programming to them using Ku-band satellite. The in-car kits will be able to store music so that the listening experience is uninterrupted when subscribers pass out of reach of the satellite signal.
| Country | Subscriber additions in 2006 (in millions) | Total subscribers Dec 2006 (in millions) | % increase over Dec 2005 |
| India | 73.56 | 149.5 | 97 |
| China | 67.68 | 461.08 | 17.2 |
| Pakistan | 28.9 | 48.29 | 147 |
| Russia | 26.12 | 151.92 | 21 |
| Indonesia | 23 | 65 | 38.6 |
| Ukraine | 19.03 | 49.21 | 63.1 |
| Brazil | 13.7 | 99.92 | 15.9 |
| Bangladesh | 12 | 21.76 | 135 |
| Nigeria | 11.4 | 30 | 38 |
| Vietnam | 10 | 22.5 | 80 |
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Worldwide 2006 Top 25 Semicondoctor Sale Leaders
Top 25 IC suppliers in 2006, according to market research firm IC Insights Inc:
Atom chip devices
Bring quantum computing nearer to reality.
Atom chips have potential uses in a variety of technologies. For example: sensors with unprecedented accuracy and sensitivity; quantum computing, and atom interferometers, instruments that exploit the wave characters of atoms.
Quantum information processors are potentially leading to quantum computers and atom chip devices will facilitate this process.
Teen's spectrograph nets $100,000
An Okalahoma City teenager won the top award of a $100,000 scholarship for building a spectrograph that can identify individual molecules as part of the annual Intel Science Talent Search (STS). Seventeen-year old Mary Masterman spent $100 on the spectrograph in the competition against 1,705 entrants.
Looking at engineering cycle time reduction as a way of achieving growth:
Avionics electronics firm Rockwell Collins has initiated a five-year effort to cut its engineering cycle time by 50 percent
. It's "a little ahead of plan," according to Snow-Solum. "It's a lot of change to try to get through the organization," she said. "If I've got just one message for the tool vendors, it's to make sure you come up with some sort of standard interface so tools can talk to each other," Snow-Solum said. "It's going to be extremely important going forward."
Google's leaders aren't afraid to experiment:
Google is given "beta" a whole new meaning, with Page pushing to get applications in front of users sooner rather than later, even if they're imperfect, so that Google can start gathering user feedback on how to make them better.
The End of Software, and a New Way of Doing Business
"We knew from the very beginning that we wanted to sell a service that made sales-force automation as easy as buying a book on Amazon.com," said Benioff. "That meant customers had to love to use it. And our subscription-based business model meant that they had to succeed. It sounds simple, but this was a revolutionary break with the enterprise software model of the past, where drawn-out implementations were long on promises but short on results."
"We believe that now, any application can be developed on our Apex Platform, marketed on the, AppExchange, sold via AppStore, deployed seamlessly into Salesforce, and run on our on-demand infrastructure," said Benioff.
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Apple mega-platform
Multi-Touch will be “prevalent” in Apple hardware in 3-5 years, with touchscreen Macs appearing next year. He also envisions touchscreen video iPods, touchscreen ultra portables, more phones and “possibly even TVs.”
Microsoft Suffers Latest Blow As NIST Bans Windows Vista
The influential National Institute of Standards and Technology has banned the software maker's Windows Vista operating system from its internal computing networks.
Wal-Mart asks electronics suppliers to go 'green'
Wal-Mart Stores is asking electronics suppliers to rate the environmental-friendliness of their products.
MIT to put its entire curriculum online free of charge
On Tuesday, school officials revealed plans to make available the university's entire 1,800-course curriculum by year's end. Currently, some 1.5 million online independent learners log on the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site every month and more than 120 universities around the world have inaugurated their own sites for independent learners. MIT has more than 1,500 course curriculums available online to date.
U.S. Economy to IT: Thank You
Information technology has been the primary driver of the economy over the last decade, adding $2 trillion annually...
Produced by the IT& Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the report says the growth is not only attributable to booming Silicon Valley industries but also the integration of IT into widespread sectors of the economy.
Ensuring that societies take full advantage of the IT revolution will require that the large majority of citizens participate in the digital economy.
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The U.S. economy is strong and getting stronger
"Labor markets are firm; unemployment is low; consumer confidence is rising; inflation is easing; exports are growing and they contributed about one percentage point to the fourth-quarter GDP number; and of particular importance to me, working families are now benefiting from this expansion, with real wages up 2.1% over the last year.”
National Semi chief blasts politicos' tech inertia
In what sounded suspiciously like a stump speech, National Semiconductor Corp. CEO Brian Halla Monday (March 12) blasted U.S. politicians for ignoring technology issues and, in doing so, putting the country at risk.
Do not vote for any politicians who do not understand how important technology is to the future of this nation.
Where are the programmers?
The number of students pursuing computer science is on the decline just as researchers are being pressed to solve thorny problems in parallel programming for tomorrow's multicore processors. So said top researchers at Microsoft Corp. who gathered for an annual meeting here last week.
Intel gets into the flash hard drive game
Intel announced today that the company is releasing its first entry into the flash-based hard drive market. The Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive will be available in 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB models and boasts sustained write speeds of 28MB per second. This is comparable to the low end of magnetic platter hard drives, which have typical write speeds varying from 30MB to 75MB per second. The drives are contained in a 3.5cm by 2.5cm package and connects via a USB 1.1 or 2.0 interface using a standard 2x5 USB connector.
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Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching:
A new company founded by a longtime technologist is setting out to create a vast public database intended to be read by computers rather than people, paving the way for a more automated Internet in which machines will routinely share information.
Sleep-deprived drivers could make dark roads dangerous on Monday
If ever there was a morning to switch off the alarm clock, pull up the covers and snuggle in for a day of playing hooky from work, it would have to be Monday, March 12.
Star Trek's 'tricorder' realized:
Purdue University researchers have demonstrated a portable instrument that they claim can identify any substance in less than a second, much like the "tricorders" used by the crew of the Enterprise in the Star Trek series.
Lawmakers Bash Colleges Over Campus Piracy
Annoyed at recent reports that online campus piracy rates top 50 percent, lawmakers warned college and university administrators Thursday if they don't do more to curb the theft, Congress would.
Gabetti Joins Virtual Land Rush in Second Life
Italy's Gabetti Property Solutions has joined the Second Life land rush, laying claim to being the first real-life property company in the booming virtual world.
Apple's AirPort Extreme Exploits 802.11n's Dual-Band Feature
One of the benefits of 802.11n is that it supports both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz radio bands. However, up until now, routers based on the still-in-draft 802.11n spec have not leveraged this capability. Apple is leading the charge to change all that with its Airport Extreme, the first draft 802.11n-compliant wireless router eWEEK Labs has tested that supports both wireless radio bands.
Sony introduces wireless Cyber-shot digital camera
Sony on March 8 introduced its 6-megapixel Cyber-shot DSC-G1 digital camera, the company's first digital camera with the ability to send photos wirelessly to other Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)-enabled devices, such as another camera or a PC.The G1 model features a 3.5-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 921,000 pixels, four times higher than the average compact digital camera and all previous Sony Cyber-shot models, according to Phil Lubell, director of marketing for digital cameras at Sony Electronics.
Microsoft looks at micro-machine displays
Microsoft Research has said its hardware devices group is currently building micro-devices using micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) in an effort to build cheaper flat-panel displays with high resolution.
Seven Steps for Helping Geeks Grow
Geeks are the IT staffers who are more interested in technology than the business drivers to use it. For the health of the business it's most important that management understand the geek mentality and manage appropriately. To get you started, we pointed out the most important threats to watch out for from geek culture. Now we move on to really managing geeks: how to get the best from your geeks and to help them grow.
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A $10 wok replaces a $20,000 satellite dish
Transmission techniques run the gamut from connecting tin cans with string to bouncing signals off the moon. But when it comes to saving money, it's likely no one can outdo the software programmer who substituted a $10 Chinese cooking wok for a $20,000 satellite dish on behalf of his New Zealand television station.
Graphene transistor to rival silicon, say researchers
Researchers at the University of Manchester, working with a group at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, claim to have created transistors that are just one atom-thick and less than 50 atoms wide from a new class of material.
BEA paying $135 million for tower
BEA Systems is paying $135 million -- or $355 a square foot -- to buy the Sobrato Building in downtown San Jose, according to documents filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Get Ready For The Data Dump
Several reports talk about how the explosion of digital information is creating new challenges for companies trying to rein in IT costs. Others tell us how to cope with these challenges. But none tells us just how big the information glut will be in the next few years. Until now.
Number of Internet users expected to reach 1.35 billion in 2007, says Research and Markets :
The global population of Internet users is expected to reach 1.35 billion in 2007 and this increased access to and use of the Internet is driving the growth of online channels for businesses, according to research firm Research and Markets.
3-D Solar Weather Forecasting -Daily Video Feature
Imagine being able to see in 3-D solar prominences looping out into space for thousands of miles. Now picture a billion megaton blast of solar plasma flying toward Earth and the effect it would have on astronauts, satellites in orbit, airplanes, and power grids. The Image left is a close up of loops in a magnetic active region. These loops are at a million degrees c.
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Getting a Second Life in Davos
Avatars, digital identity and the virtual world of Second Life were topics at a Davos dinner session moderated by Fortune's David Kirkpatrick.
Microsoft Rivals Renew EU Complaints
Microsoft Corp.'s rivals renewed their call Friday on EU regulators to act against what they say are "illegal practices," alleging that the new Vista operating system is the company's attempt to extend its monopoly to the Internet.
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Not everything went exactly as planned for Microsoft this week, despite the considerable efforts it made to script its Vista release event as closely as a TV sitcom.
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Is Microsoft Driving Innovation Or Playing Catch-Up With Rivals?
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The most technology-advanced cities in America have been named by the Center for Digital Government based on its 2006 Digital Cities Survey. The sixth annual study examines how city governments are utilizing digital technologies to better serve their citizens and streamline operations.
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CA Inc, Novell Inc, and Sun Microsystems Inc, have reviewed a draft of the standards and plan to help develop the full specifications.
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Rush University Medical Center Deploys Sun Microsystems Infrastructure for Electronic Medical Records.
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virtual in worlds are inhabited by three-dimensional representations of the users themselves, called avatars, and are filled with anything the citizens of those worlds want to make, from chairs and coffee tables to huge open-air arenas capable of seating thousands of "people."
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Sun isn't shy about taking advantage of new Internet technologies – it was one of the first firms to launch employee blogs – so it wasn't too surprising to see the server maker become the first Fortune 500 company to hold a press conference in the virtual world of Second Life .
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Executives from Sun Microsystems Middle East & North Africa have revealed that the company has recorded overall regional growth of more than 38 percent in the last financial year.
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Sun Microsystems continued to challenge with "significant annual growth in both shipments and revenue for the period," Gartner said, 6.4 and 24.7 percent, respectively.
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