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With New Unlocked Treo, Palm Offers Freedom for a Price
Palm has debuted the latest addition to its Treo line of smartphones, the Treo Pro. The announcement comes less than a week after photos and details about the new handset were leaked on the Web. Aimed at business users, the mobile device will be available in Europe in September through carriers Vodafone and O2, as well as in an unlocked configuration.2008-08-21 00:00:00
American Takes Lead in Sky-High WiFi Race
The race is over for domestic airlines looking to turn their planes into flying WiFi hotspots; American Airlines is first off the runway. But can offering onboard Internet access help smooth out passenger turbulence created by additional charges for carry-on bags, food, even blankets and pillows?2008-08-21 00:00:00
Intel Lays Out Plans for TV, Smartphone Push
Intel is sharing its vision for the future of computing at its Intel Developer Forum, which is taking place in San Francisco. Put simply, the products under development have three major focuses: superfast, superportable and superconnected. Revelations include details about its Nehalem processors, new uses for the Atom microprocessor, and plans for a smartphone-style chip -- plus a new multimedia concept.2008-08-21 00:00:00
Microsoft Pumps Another $100M Into Novell Deal
Microsoft is bumping up its monetary investment in its controversial partnership with Novell. Styling the deal as a so-called incremental investment increase, Microsoft will buy up to $100 million in Suse Linux Enterprise Server support certificates. The certificates are sold and exchanged for IT support from Novell for its Suse Linux Enterprise Server.2008-08-21 00:00:00
Virtualization Reality Spurs Microsoft to Change Licensing Rules
Microsoft announced Tuesday it is easing licensing restrictions for server applications. Companies will no longer be required to pay additional fees to move software within a server farm, the company said. The move is an attempt to remove barriers in order for its enterprise customers to develop more dynamic data centers and enterprise IT systems using virtualization software, according to the software maker.2008-08-21 00:00:00
Google to Dig Up $10M for Geothermal Energy
Representatives from Google and General Electric said Tuesday that widespread use of renewable energy in the United States would be possible -- if it were cheaper. Renewable energy options will remain "boutique" industries unless their costs are cut to make them competitive with coal and other widely used power sources, said Dan Reicher, director for climate change and energy initiatives at Google.org.2008-08-21 00:00:00
Metrics Mavens: Vista Gets Dumped From One-Third of New Enterprise PCs
An independent software development company claims to have statistics showing that one out of three new enterprise PCs purchased are running Windows XP, not Windows Vista. The numbers from Devil Mountain Software, based on a study of more than 3,000 machines, found that enterprises are purchasing new machines with Vista pre-installed and downgrading them to Windows XP.2008-08-21 00:00:00
Universal Remotes: Do Brand Names Turn Consumers On?
Brand is always among the top factors for consumers when they purchase a product. However, rankings between the top factor categories change by specific product. Brand has power for gaming and laptops but lower importance for digital photo frames and NAS. Where brand power is high, price sensitivity drops, and strong awareness of available brands exists. Where it is low, the reverse is true.2008-08-15 00:00:00
Sun Gives Mobile Devs Shiny New Toolkit
Sun has released a new development kit aimed at mobile software developers. The toolkit will allow developers to create user interfaces for Java-based mobile phone applications. The package is being made available for download by the company under the title "Light-Weight UI Toolkit" or LWUIT.2008-08-15 00:00:00
Intel Shows Way to Nudge a Napping PC
Intel will begin rolling out motherboards next month that support Remote Wake technology -- the ability for a computer to be turned on from sleep mode remotely. Applications that have already been designed around this technology include PC-based phone service and content delivery. Users of computers with Remote Wake will not have to keep their computers on 24/7 to use a particular service or product.2008-08-15 00:00:00
Tourism Wikis: The World According to the Crowd
It used to be that travelers looking for the hippest getaway, the coziest hotel, or the best restaurant had to rely solely on travel guidebooks, which were often out of date by the time they were published. The Web, however, has spawned a new destination for those seeking travel information: travel wikis and online communities.2008-08-13 00:00:00
Product Development: Getting Customers In on the Act
This week, Sage Software is bringing out version 11 of ACT, its high-flying contact management software. ACT has been around since the mid-1980s and has been through multiple incarnations and owners in that time. ACT was what you used back then if you were tired of keeping notes on paper and wanted to improve the way you sell.2008-08-13 00:00:00
HP Draws Up New Imaging Systems, Inks Deals With Smaller Vendors
HP on Tuesday announced partnerships with five printing vendors to grow its portfolio of security and manageability enterprise printer and imaging offerings. The new solutions range from check printing security to document capture. The new additions to the HP Solution Business Partner program is aimed at managing and securing workflow in imaging and printing environments.2008-08-13 00:00:00
Disaster Training: Software That Virtualizes Calamities
Garage-door-sized television monitors showed a sexy, virtual cable-news anchor reading a breaking news alert about the effects of Hurricane Nerissa that had crashed ashore east of Norfolk about 10 hours earlier. "Removal of traffic congestion is especially challenging," the news anchor said.2008-08-10 00:00:00
CSI, Mac Style
When Macintosh laptops began showing up more often at crime scenes in Pittsburgh this year, police Sgt. Michael Delcimmuto knew he had to do something. Delcimmuto, who oversees the city police unit that investigates computer crimes, said 95 percent of the computers most police agencies forensically analyze contain Windows-based operating systems.2008-08-10 00:00:00
Journalists Hack Journalists at Black Hat
A trio of French journalists from Global Security Magazine were reportedly kicked out of the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas for targeting fellow reporters in the press room with a WiFi hack. The offending journalists/hackers may have used a network-sniffing tool called "Cain" to capture username and password information sent out in the clear over the WiFi network in the press room.2008-08-09 00:00:00
I Spy With My Bionic Eye: New Imaging Development
Researchers have announced a technological development they say will improve the functionality of digital cameras and other imaging products. Yonggang Huang, a professor at Northwestern University, and John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a lens they said was inspired by the human eye.2008-08-09 00:00:00
The Secret Lives of Supercomputers, Part 2
Despite the declining cost of supercomputing, the technology still remains out of reach for many businesses and universities, some of which have found alternative solutions. Bringing supercomputing to industry is just what the Blue Collar Computing program at the Ohio Supercomputer Center was designed to do.2008-08-09 00:00:00
City-Sized Collider Set for Smashing Debut
A machine poised to make science history is now ready to launch. The Large Hadron Collider -- a giant machine built 330 feet below the France-Switzerland border -- is scheduled to fire up for the first time next month, on Sept. 10. The LHC, as its name suggests, works by smashing tiny particles called "hadrons" together at extremely high energies -- higher than has ever been possible before.2008-08-09 00:00:00
Political Gain and Net Neutrality
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission came under fire for making a ruling that many consider outside its authority. Without levying a fine, it charged that Comcast violated federal policy when it interfered with a file-sharing application used by consumers.2008-08-09 00:00:00
Fitness Tips for Chair-Bound Computer Users
When Jeffrey Spencer prepared for his college exams, he would tape his notes to the handlebars of his bike and ride to school, studying all the while. To him, it made perfect sense. "I am a kinetic learner, which means I learn and mentally perform best when I am moving," he says.2008-08-09 00:00:00
In-Flight Cell Phone Use: New Fear of Flying?
The friendly skies are not so affable when it comes to using cell phones on commercial airliners. Nearly half of U.S. residents say they would oppose allowing cell phone use aboard flights even if there were no issues with the phones interfering with aircraft communications systems, a Department of Transportation survey finds.2008-08-09 00:00:00
Microsoft Squeaks Out SQL Server 2008 Not a Moment Too Soon
Following a nearly six-month delay from its original target release date, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of its SQL Server 2008 Wednesday. The software maker had initially planned to launch the database application in February, but in January said it would have to move the date back to the third quarter.2008-08-09 00:00:00
Doctors Sound Alarm Over Reckless Texting
For people who may not be clear about the dangers of texting while walking, exercising or driving, the American College of Emergency Physicians issued a warning this week advising avid texters to resist the urge to read or send messages when engaged in another activity.2008-08-01 00:00:00
IBM Unveils Hogwarts-Inspired Personal Memory Vault
Forget about forgetfulness: IBM scientists have come up with a high-tech way to help you remember every name, face and phone number you encounter. The technology -- named "Pensieve," in a nod to the magical memory machine from the "Harry Potter" series -- uses data from your mobile devices to build and store connections from your day-to-day experiences.2008-08-01 00:00:00
iPhone Web Tethering Tool Gets Short Shelf Life at App Store
An iPhone application that would let the iPhone act as a computer modem was shot down by Apple shortly after its launch. It was only available for a few minutes on the Apple App Store before it disappeared, but it was there was long enough to be noticed. The application, NetShare by Nullriver Software, went on sale on iTunes Thursday night for $9.99.2008-08-01 00:00:00
Network and App Management: Going Wide vs. Drilling Down
End-user organizations are looking to leverage enterprise applications to achieve competitive advantages and operational efficiencies, and to improve information flow in their value chains. In order to maximize the return on investment from these deployments, organizations are optimizing their networks and ensuring a high level of performance.2008-08-01 00:00:00
CE Makers: What the World Needs Now Is Another Wireless HD Standard
Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp and Sony have joined forces with Amimon, a developer of wireless home digital interface technology. The companies have pledged support for the creation of a new interoperable industry standard for audio, video and control that could connect multiple high-definition devices around a home without the use of wires.2008-07-24 00:00:00
Intel Unveils Atom-Powered System-on-Chip Plans
Intel announced on Thursday new processors built around its plans for a new category of highly integrated, purpose-built and Web-savvy system-on-chip designs. The company also unveiled its first eight products under its Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor family for security, storage, communications and industrial robotics.2008-07-24 00:00:00
Court Nixes Law Aimed at Protecting Kids Online
Proponents of the beleaguered Child Online Protection Act suffered yet another blow Tuesday when a federal appeals court deemed the law unconstitutional once again. The 1998 law, known as "COPA," aims to keep children from viewing pornographic materials on the Internet by making it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access "harmful" material.2008-07-24 00:00:00
Mac Wares for the Jurisprudence Crowd
"The Jury Loved My iBook" is how Peter Zavaletta begins his testimonial on MacLaw Online. A personal injury and medical malpractice attorney in Brownsville, Texas, Zavaletta attributes his victory in an obstetrical negligence case in part to his array of Mac tools.2008-07-24 00:00:00
MindTouch Sharpens Its Deki App Masher
MindTouch announced on Wednesday the latest version of its open source collaboration and collective intelligence platform, MindTouch Deki. Dubbed "Kilen Woods," it features new workflow capabilities, enterprise adapters and usability improvements. The release targets information workers, IT professionals, and developers looking to collaborate and connect enterprise systems and data sources.2008-07-24 00:00:00
Giving Your Site a Social Life
The world of online business communication has introduced two industry-changing elements for small business: more customers and more competitors. Circa 1999, you were ahead of the competition by simply having a Web site to preview your service or products. By 2004, Web transactions were the norm, and convenience was the king.2008-07-24 00:00:00
Web 2.0 the Enterprise Way
Web 2.0 technologies are empowering enterprises in ways we could only have imagined a few years ago. They have evolved beyond consumer-grade blogs and wikis into enterprise-class solutions driving collaboration, productivity, sales and cost savings. But despite the business value they deliver, are enterprises ready to fully embrace Web 2.0 technologies?2008-07-23 00:00:00
Are VM Environments Open to Attack?
New adopters often see virtualization as the Holy Grail of enterprise computing. It enables consolidation of separate servers and databases to provide more economic operations. Running consolidated computers from one virtualized machine also eliminates the electrical waste spent to keep idling servers and data-processing machines running.2008-07-23 00:00:00
Qik Lets Video Cell Phones Broadcast to the World
Streaming mobile video service Qik opened its doors to all comers Monday, moving from the invitation-only alpha it began late last year to an open beta program. The company also announced a bevy of new features, distribution partners and support for more mobile handsets. With Qik (pronounced "quick") software, members can stream video directly from their mobile handsets to the Web.2008-07-23 00:00:00
CherryPal Mini PC Makes Firefox the OS
PC users seeking an environmentally friendly desktop system can add the new CherryPal C100 desktop to the list of contenders. The machine, announced Monday, was designed by green computer maker CherryPal and contains no moving parts. With 80 percent fewer components, the minimalist system uses a scant 2 watts of power.2008-07-23 00:00:00
AbiWord: A Scalpel, Not a Chain Saw
A master carpenter would neither drive a finishing nail with a sledgehammer nor trim a tabletop with a chain saw. Such a craftsperson needs tools that are small, versatile and cheap. One such tool -- for writers and anybody who needs to kick out anything from a short memo or letter to a full-length report -- is AbiWord.2008-07-16 00:00:00
iSCSI: The Perfect Storage Complement to OS X?
Mac OS X users who face growing storage requirements due to larger, more complex projects and ever-expanding file sizes often turn to SANs to help overcome their challenges. With benefits such as leveraging existing IT equipment and expertise, many Mac users are turning to Internet SCSI SANs as an easy, low-cost way to reap the benefits of a SAN in an OS X environment.2008-07-16 00:00:00
Jailed SF Sysadmin Holds Parts of City Net Hostage
Officials have arrested a city of San Francisco IT network administrator for locking up a city computer system, according to several reports stemming from a press conference with San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris. The employee, Terry Childs, is accused of improperly tampering with computer systems and causing a denial of service, effectively locking out other top city administrators from the critical network.2008-07-16 00:00:00
Wii Shows Its Chatty, Sensitive Side With New Accessories
Nintendo made news at the E3 Media & Business Summit Tuesday with additions to its Wii video game console. The game maker debuted a new accessory for gamers to enhance the sensitivity of its Wii Remote as well as a bevy of games, some of which add new functionality to the Balance Board and another that offers a different community experience.2008-07-16 00:00:00
Sony, HP Build a Better Backup Tape
HP and Sony have collaborated on the creation of a next-generation digital audio tape format, the two companies announced Tuesday. Aimed at small and medium-sized businesses as well as enterprises with remote locations, the upcoming DAT 320 format provides improved performance and capacity over existing DAT drives, including the current generation DAT 160.2008-07-16 00:00:00
Music 2.0: The New Indie Model
The Web continues to play a central role in affecting radical, disruptive change in the music industry as musicians latch on to the latest Web 2.0 tools and bypass traditional producers and distributors. High Street music and video chains -- all the rage not that long ago -- seem to be closing outlets as quickly as they once opened them.2008-07-16 00:00:00
Second Life Goes Hollywood
Ariella Furman took her first summer vacation as a college graduate to Walt Disney World, where reality hides behind princesses. When it was over, she returned to Ivyland, Bucks County, Pa., and her job making videos -- or more accurately, machinimas -- for the virtual world Second Life, where reality hides behind avatars.2008-07-14 00:00:00
Microblogs: No Tidbit Too Trivial, No Moment Too Mundane
In cyberspace, no status update is too small to share with friends, family and strangers, including this: In Franklin, Tenn., an office worker reports that he just shuffled over from his desk to the couch. A biker in Orange, Calif., is headed to Starbucks. Elsewhere in California, someone just got coffee up his nose.2008-07-14 00:00:00
Colorful Glass Delivers Massive Solar Energy Boost
The secret to affordable fuel-free energy may lie in some pretty-looking glass. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to use dye-colored glass to harness clean and renewable energy -- and to do it in a practical and cost-effective way.2008-07-14 00:00:00
Your Reputation Online, Part 1: How Damage Is Done
Our reputation is one of our most valuable possessions, determining in large part where we work, how much money we make, whom we date or marry, and many other aspects of our lives. The Internet, however, has made protecting, maintaining and defending our reputations difficult.2008-07-10 00:00:00
EA Heats Up Scrabulous Scrap With Sanctioned Scrabble
Electronic Arts and Hasbro have announced the release of a legit version of Scrabble for Facebook. The iconic word game will launch in mid-July for Facebook users in the U.S. and Canada. A version can currently be played through the gaming site Pogo.com. The release sets up a showdown between the Hasbro-sanctioned Scrabble and the unauthorized but popular Scrabulous, a Facebook game that closely resembles Scrabble.2008-07-09 00:00:00
Mobile Users Clueless About Recycling Devices
Only one in 10 people in the UK recycle their mobile phone, according to new research by Nokia. Two-thirds of respondents did not even think about recycling their devices, and nearly a fifth were unaware that it is even possible to do so, the mobile giant said. Despite these rather dismal figures, the UK fares much better than most other countries.2008-07-09 00:00:00
Gloomy Take on Digital Downloads Rattles Entertainment Investors
A Lehman Brothers analyst downgraded the entertainment industry Monday and slashed forecasts for its five major companies, saying digital downloads of movies and TV shows posed a huge threat to profits from DVD sales that the companies rely on. The stocks of The Walt Disney Co., News Corp., CBS, Time Warner and Viacom fell slightly more than the broader market by the close.2008-07-09 00:00:00
Data Brawn Meets Interface Brains
The larger the business or government agency is, the bigger the volume of data it deals with. That translates into massive efforts to manage that data to meet ever-increasing compliance regulations for adequately maintaining electronic records. Any software company that can figure out how to manage this process better than its competition can become king of the vendor hill.2008-07-09 00:00:00
5 Ways to Build an Indestructible Customer Data Fortress
On June 30, data security standards set by the Payment Card Industry became mandatory for organizations that handle online credit card payments. This is a significant milestone in the ongoing push to strengthen online security as these important standards have moved from recommendations to hard and fast mandates.2008-07-08 00:00:00
The Net Neutrality Debate: Still Sizzling
The Internet is the greatest technical development of the 20th century, and its open competition model has been the envy of other market sectors. Internet advances are being crushed by monopolistic carriers who are more concerned with censoring content than delivering services to customers.2008-07-08 00:00:00
While You Watch the Olympics, NBC Will Be Watching You
NBC is using the Olympics as a "billion-dollar research lab" to get a sense of how people are using different media platforms to experience the Beijing Games that begin Aug. 8. NBC hopes its research provides a comprehensive picture of how people are supplementing TV viewership with tools such as video streaming, video on demand and mobile phones.2008-07-08 00:00:00
Shoring Up Customer Communications With BCPs
Enterprises have long sought ways to add real-time communications to business applications to improve customer interactions, streamline workflows, more quickly respond to critical events and more efficiently execute time-sensitive transactions. Integrating interactive communications with software applications and business processes, however, has proven difficult, costly and time-consuming.2008-07-08 00:00:00
What I Did at VC Camp
In the spring of 2007, Michael Sullivan was trying to figure out how to add some mojo to his startup, Affine Systems. As a graduate student in applied mathematics at Harvard University, Sullivan had cofounded the company in the fall of 2006 with classmate Bobby Impollonia. Working out of their homes, the two computer whizzes had whipped up a software program to let media companies know if their copyrighted videos show up on the Internet.2008-07-07 00:00:00
Virtual Personal Assistants: Not Just for the Filthy Rich
Think only celebrities, high-ranking professionals and the wealthy can enjoy having personal assistants at their beck and call? Not necessarily. A growing number of Web sites are making it easier to outsource virtual errands overseas, making it cheaper to indulge in the luxury of never having to write another thank-you card or sit on hold with the department of motor vehicles.2008-07-07 00:00:00
Headed for an E-Commerce Upgrade? Take the 2.0 Track
With the advent of new personalization technologies and the integration of user-generated content, social networking, RSS feeds, multichannel interaction and Ajax-based user interfaces, online retailers are rushing to upgrade their e-commerce sites to provide better user experiences and increase customer acquisition, retention and loyalty.2008-07-02 00:00:00
Virtual Worlds: And the Children Shall Lead
Virtual worlds, despite all the press attention of late, are still in the early stages of development. Virtual worlds came into existence several years before YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, but their adoption rates pale in comparison to these services. Only 7 percent of Internet gamers ages 13 and older visit a virtual world on a weekly basis, according to a recent Parks Associates survey.2008-07-02 00:00:00
Tooling Around With Ajax
Social networks are peppering the Internet with Facebook-like interactive features. Ajax is fast becoming the defacto programming tool for Web developers. But by itself, Ajax is a daunting challenge that requires demanding coding skills. Ajax toolkits offer Web developers a shortcut method to build in the convenient and useful features that visitors of Web 2.0 sites have come to expect.2008-06-30 00:00:00
HuffPo Local: Boon or Bane to Traditional Media?
Arianna Huffington is planting her flag -- or at least a Post -- in Chicago this summer. Reached last Friday in London, Huffington said she looked last week to finalize plans for a Chicago version of The Huffington Post Web site, the first of what the writer/Internet entrepreneur hopes will be dozens of localized news sites throughout the United States.2008-06-30 00:00:00
Moving to the Mobile Web
Wait. Scroll. Scroll. Tap-tap. Wait. Wait. For many years, that was the typical experience of someone surfing the Web using a mobile phone or PDA, at least in the U.S. Although some content providers offered stripped-down versions of their sites specially designed for mobile users, most did not.2008-06-30 00:00:00
Linuxy Declarations of Independence
Well, the Fourth of July is just a few days away, and all good citizens of the nation we call America must naturally be thinking of the birth of this great land. Not content to be just great, our founding fathers wanted independence as well, and that value is still held dear today.2008-06-30 00:00:00
How Drunk Are You? Just Ask Your iPod
Since the release of the iPod, the market has flooded with accessories ranging from the mundane to the radical. All are meant to further incorporate the tiny device into another aspect of daily life. Many of these add-ons are innovative solutions for common problems. Others are just gimmicks targeting consumers with a taste for silly novelty items.2008-06-30 00:00:00
Magnetic Zapper May Short-Circuit Migraines
New research has suggested that technology-based, non-invasive and drug-free techniques may be effective at relieving pain for some migraine sufferers, according to a study presented at the annual American Headache Society meeting in Boston. The treatment used in clinical trials conducted by Dr. Richard B. Lipton, a researcher in the cause and treatment of migraines, utilized a portable transcranial magnetic stimulation device.2008-06-28 00:00:00
Dell Targets Creative Types With Color, Customization
Dell on Thursday introduced a new, colorful laptop line aimed at artistic and creative consumers. Combining aesthetics and technology, the new Studio line launched with two distinctively styled laptops: the Dell Studio 15 and Dell Studio 17. Both offer sleek designs, striking visual color elements and personalization options.2008-06-28 00:00:00
Inside the Latest iPhone
Apple packed a lot of features into the latest version of the iPhone but managed to keep a tight lid on the cost of components that go into it. Manufacturing and components for the 8-gigabyte iPhone 3G set Apple back about $173 per unit, according to an estimate by Silicon Valley-based research firm iSuppli, due to be released June 24.2008-06-25 00:00:00
Virgin Tailors Unlimited Plan for Big Talkers
Virgin Mobile USA will roll out a new unlimited wireless calling plan next month in a bid to undercut similar unlimited plans from the big four wireless carriers -- AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. In a flurry of activity earlier this year, the big four in close succession announced unlimited voice calling plans for just under a $100 a month.2008-06-25 00:00:00
Extreme Makeover, Internet Edition: ICANN to Vote on Major Revamp
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which has regulated the use of Web site names since 1998, may lift current URL restrictions so much that the only limits will be in the imagination of the domain name holder -- that is, as long as the name is not longer than 64 characters.2008-06-25 00:00:00
Mobile Security Means Business
The proliferation of portable computing is fueling the need for mobile embedded security solutions. By enabling new applications while overcoming the risk of thefts and infringements, mobile security has become a vital requirement for both consumer and enterprise applications.2008-06-25 00:00:00
Nokia: The Mobile Future Is Wide Open
Nokia is getting in the game of open source cell phone software with its newly acquired Symbian platform. Nokia -- which had already owned 48 percent of Symbian -- bought the remaining 52 percent of the company Tuesday and immediately shifted the product to a royalty-free model.2008-06-25 00:00:00
HP Slaps Open Source License on Unix File System
HP announced Monday it is letting its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System source code run free in the Linux community. Access to this code will provide capabilities that increase uptime, enhance security and help ensure maximum performance of Linux file systems, according to HP officials.2008-06-23 00:00:00
The Old iPhone and the Day After
Many of the millions of iPhone 2G users are looking forward to buying the iPhone 3G on July 11 and have been thinking about what to do with their old iPhone. AT&T has provided some answers. AT&T has announced that when the new iPhone 3G ships on July 11, current iPhone customers will be able to buy a new iPhone 3G for $199 and start a new two-year contract.2008-06-23 00:00:00
Ode to Summer With Wine and OpenSuse
Well, summer has officially arrived, and what better way to celebrate than by enjoying some fine Wine? Yes, for those who stopped paying attention over the last 15 or so years, Wine 1.0 is here! Time to get those Windows apps running on Linux at last! The excitement could be felt all across the Linux blogs -- particularly on Slashdot, where more than 600 comments had appeared by Friday.2008-06-23 00:00:00
Marathon CTO Jerry Melnick: A Fault-Tolerant Approach to Virtualization
In March of this year, Marathon Technologies announced everRun VM, a first-of-its kind, fault-tolerant, high availability software package for server virtualization. This product picks up where its first-generation kin -- everRun -- left off in providing companies the ability to prevent outages and data loss in Citrix XenServer virtual infrastructures.2008-06-23 00:00:00
Community Source Software: If You Build It, They Will Join
A partnership with the Collaborative Software Initiative and the Utah Department of Health is cementing an emerging community sourcing software model that could thrust open source development deeper into vertical markets. CSI and the state of Utah on May 19 announced the availability of a software system that resulted from a first-of-its-kind agreement.2008-06-18 00:00:00
Hellish Ordeal Ends for State Worker Caught in Child Porn Malware Snare
Months after arresting a man for having child pornography images on a state-issued laptop, prosecutors dropped the charges when a defense-sponsored forensic investigation showed that a poorly configured laptop that had become riddled with malware was to blame. The victim -- besides the children in the images -- was Michael Fiola, a former investigator with the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents.2008-06-18 00:00:00
Firefox 3: Good Browsers Come to Those Who Wait
Tuesday was D-Day for Mozilla with the scheduled launch of the third version of Firefox, its open source Web browser. The company had billed the day as "Download Day" and aimed its sights on setting a Guinness World Record for the most downloads of an application in a 24-hour period.2008-06-18 00:00:00
HP Enters Media Convergence Scrap
HP has a new way to bring all your home media together in one central place. The company introduced the HP MediaSmart Connect system Tuesday. MediaSmart Connect is essentially a wireless server that aggregates content from various sources around your home and makes it all accessible via your high-definition television.2008-06-18 00:00:00
ZeeVee Builds New Bridge From PC to TV
When startup ZeeVee launched its ZvBox last month, it entered a fray in which high-profile contenders have already found success elusive. The ZvBox aims to let consumers watch any Internet TV, online video or computer content on their home high-definition TVs, and it marks one of the latest attempts in the industry to solve the persistent problem of how to bring Internet content onto HDTVs.2008-06-18 00:00:00