On Monday, HP launched a new range of ProLiant servers based on Intel's Nehalem-based Xeon processor, the 5500.
The ProLiant G6 range of 11 rack, blade and tower models targets datacenter capacity, virtualization and datacenter economics, the company said.
The threat from Web-based malware is growing at a rapid pace, with nearly 200 percent more malicious sites identified this month, according to a new report from MessageLabs.
Released Tuesday, the MessageLabs Intelligence Report revealed that 2, 797 new Web sites hosting malicious content including spyware, were blocked by the security vendor in March, a 200 percent jump over the previous month.
The rise, which was the highest since October 2008, was largely due to a spike in the number of images containing injected scripts. Such images were also found in e-mail messages during the month, said MessageLabs, now a Symantec company.
On Monday, HP launched a new range of ProLiant servers based on Intel's Nehalem-based Xeon processor, the 5500.
The ProLiant G6 range of 11 rack, blade and tower models targets datacenter capacity, virtualization and datacenter economics, the company said.
On Monday, HP launched a new range of ProLiant servers based on Intel's Nehalem-based Xeon processor, the 5500.
The ProLiant G6 range of 11 rack, blade and tower models targets datacenter capacity, virtualization and datacenter economics, the company said.
On Monday, HP launched a new range of ProLiant servers based on Intel's Nehalem-based Xeon processor, the 5500.
The ProLiant G6 range of 11 rack, blade and tower models targets datacenter capacity, virtualization and datacenter economics, the company said.
On Monday, HP launched a new range of ProLiant servers based on Intel's Nehalem-based Xeon processor, the 5500.
The ProLiant G6 range of 11 rack, blade and tower models targets datacenter capacity, virtualization and datacenter economics, the company said.
The threat from Web-based malware is growing at a rapid pace, with nearly 200 percent more malicious sites identified this month, according to a new report from MessageLabs.
Released Tuesday, the MessageLabs Intelligence Report revealed that 2, 797 new Web sites hosting malicious content including spyware, were blocked by the security vendor in March, a 200 percent jump over the previous month.
The rise, which was the highest since October 2008, was largely due to a spike in the number of images containing injected scripts. Such images were also found in e-mail messages during the month, said MessageLabs, now a Symantec company.
The threat from Web-based malware is growing at a rapid pace, with nearly 200 percent more malicious sites identified this month, according to a new report from MessageLabs.
Released Tuesday, the MessageLabs Intelligence Report revealed that 2, 797 new Web sites hosting malicious content including spyware, were blocked by the security vendor in March, a 200 percent jump over the previous month.
The rise, which was the highest since October 2008, was largely due to a spike in the number of images containing injected scripts. Such images were also found in e-mail messages during the month, said MessageLabs, now a Symantec company.
Microsoft and TomTom announced on Monday that they have reached a settlement in their respective patent suits.
As part of the deal, TomTom will pay Microsoft for coverage for the software maker's mapping-related patents as well as the file management patents that Microsoft claimed were infringed by TomTom's use of the Linux kernel. Microsoft will also get access to the TomTom patents that were cited in TomTom's countersuit against Microsoft, although Microsoft won't be making any payment to TomTom.
On Monday, HP launched a new range of ProLiant servers based on Intel's Nehalem-based Xeon processor, the 5500.
The ProLiant G6 range of 11 rack, blade and tower models targets datacenter capacity, virtualization and datacenter economics, the company said.
The threat from Web-based malware is growing at a rapid pace, with nearly 200 percent more malicious sites identified this month, according to a new report from MessageLabs.
Released Tuesday, the MessageLabs Intelligence Report revealed that 2, 797 new Web sites hosting malicious content including spyware, were blocked by the security vendor in March, a 200 percent jump over the previous month.
The rise, which was the highest since October 2008, was largely due to a spike in the number of images containing injected scripts. Such images were also found in e-mail messages during the month, said MessageLabs, now a Symantec company.
Microsoft and TomTom announced on Monday that they have reached a settlement in their respective patent suits.
As part of the deal, TomTom will pay Microsoft for coverage for the software maker's mapping-related patents as well as the file management patents that Microsoft claimed were infringed by TomTom's use of the Linux kernel. Microsoft will also get access to the TomTom patents that were cited in TomTom's countersuit against Microsoft, although Microsoft won't be making any payment to TomTom.
Microsoft and TomTom announced on Monday that they have reached a settlement in their respective patent suits.
As part of the deal, TomTom will pay Microsoft for coverage for the software maker's mapping-related patents as well as the file management patents that Microsoft claimed were infringed by TomTom's use of the Linux kernel. Microsoft will also get access to the TomTom patents that were cited in TomTom's countersuit against Microsoft, although Microsoft won't be making any payment to TomTom.
Microsoft and TomTom announced on Monday that they have reached a settlement in their respective patent suits.
As part of the deal, TomTom will pay Microsoft for coverage for the software maker's mapping-related patents as well as the file management patents that Microsoft claimed were infringed by TomTom's use of the Linux kernel. Microsoft will also get access to the TomTom patents that were cited in TomTom's countersuit against Microsoft, although Microsoft won't be making any payment to TomTom.
There's been lots of hype about the fact that the latest variant of the Conficker worm is set to start communicating with other computers on the Internet on April 1 - like an April Fool's Day time bomb with some mysterious payload.
But security researchers say the reality is probably going to be more like what happened when the clocks on the world's computers turned to January 1, 2000, after lots of dire predictions about the so-called millennium bug. That is, not much at all.
Don't let the attention-grabbing headlines elsewhere fool you. Twitter still has not announced a business model. There are no Pro Twitter accounts. There is no TwitterWords advertising program. You still can't buy plush toy Fail Whales from Twitter.
Twitter is engaged in a few experiments that are providing value to other companies, such as letting Federated Media use its content for its Microsoft-sponsored ExecTweets site. But this is not the big Twitter revenue model people are waiting for.
Don't let the attention-grabbing headlines elsewhere fool you. Twitter still has not announced a business model. There are no Pro Twitter accounts. There is no TwitterWords advertising program. You still can't buy plush toy Fail Whales from Twitter.
Twitter is engaged in a few experiments that are providing value to other companies, such as letting Federated Media use its content for its Microsoft-sponsored ExecTweets site. But this is not the big Twitter revenue model people are waiting for.
Don't let the attention-grabbing headlines elsewhere fool you. Twitter still has not announced a business model. There are no Pro Twitter accounts. There is no TwitterWords advertising program. You still can't buy plush toy Fail Whales from Twitter.
Twitter is engaged in a few experiments that are providing value to other companies, such as letting Federated Media use its content for its Microsoft-sponsored ExecTweets site. But this is not the big Twitter revenue model people are waiting for.
The next version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, code-named Jaunty Jackalope, went into its beta phase late on Thursday.
Ubuntu 9.04, as it is more properly known, includes a range of enhancements over its predecessor, Intrepid Ibex, or Ubuntu 8.10. These include a new notifications system, improvements to the start-up process, and the distribution's first foray into cloud computing.
The Millennials are coming - armed with Facebook accounts and netbooks, the latest generation of young workers are entering the workplace ready to raze traditional touchstones of business to the ground. Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image. Talking to silicon.com about his latest book
The Millennials are coming - armed with Facebook accounts and netbooks, the latest generation of young workers are entering the workplace ready to raze traditional touchstones of business to the ground. Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image. Talking to silicon.com about his latest book
The Millennials are coming - armed with Facebook accounts and netbooks, the latest generation of young workers are entering the workplace ready to raze traditional touchstones of business to the ground. Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image. Talking to silicon.com about his latest book
The Millennials are coming - armed with Facebook accounts and netbooks, the latest generation of young workers are entering the workplace ready to raze traditional touchstones of business to the ground. Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image. Talking to silicon.com about his latest book
The Millennials are coming - armed with Facebook accounts and netbooks, the latest generation of young workers are entering the workplace ready to raze traditional touchstones of business to the ground. Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image. Talking to silicon.com about his latest book
The Millennials are coming - armed with Facebook accounts and netbooks, the latest generation of young workers are entering the workplace ready to raze traditional touchstones of business to the ground. Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image. Talking to silicon.com about his latest book
The next version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, code-named Jaunty Jackalope, went into its beta phase late on Thursday.
Ubuntu 9.04, as it is more properly known, includes a range of enhancements over its predecessor, Intrepid Ibex, or Ubuntu 8.10. These include a new notifications system, improvements to the start-up process, and the distribution's first foray into cloud computing.
The next version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, code-named Jaunty Jackalope, went into its beta phase late on Thursday.
Ubuntu 9.04, as it is more properly known, includes a range of enhancements over its predecessor, Intrepid Ibex, or Ubuntu 8.10. These include a new notifications system, improvements to the start-up process, and the distribution's first foray into cloud computing.
The Millennials are coming - armed with Facebook accounts and netbooks, the latest generation of young workers are entering the workplace ready to raze traditional touchstones of business to the ground. Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image. Talking to silicon.com about his latest book
The Millennials are coming - armed with Facebook accounts and netbooks, the latest generation of young workers are entering the workplace ready to raze traditional touchstones of business to the ground. Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image. Talking to silicon.com about his latest book
Apple's Australian division is currently fighting legal action on two fronts, it was revealed today, with one Federal Court trademark action and a separate case resuming next month against its former reseller, Buzzle Operations.
In Federal Court, Apple today continued fighting the first tussle, arguing for ownership over the trademark name "MacPro" with Melbourne-based computer equipment supplier Macpro Computers.
Records from intellectual property agency IP Australia reveal the history of the trademark "Macpro". Apple had attempted to register the names "Macpro" and "Mac Pro" in May 2006, with the names covering a range of computer hardware, software and equipment such as mobile telephones, microprocessors, cables and modems.
The Millennials are coming - armed with Facebook accounts and netbooks, the latest generation of young workers are entering the workplace ready to raze traditional touchstones of business to the ground. Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image. Talking to silicon.com about his latest book
Apple's Australian division is currently fighting legal action on two fronts, it was revealed today, with one Federal Court trademark action and a separate case resuming next month against its former reseller, Buzzle Operations.
In Federal Court, Apple today continued fighting the first tussle, arguing for ownership over the trademark name "MacPro" with Melbourne-based computer equipment supplier Macpro Computers.
Records from intellectual property agency IP Australia reveal the history of the trademark "Macpro". Apple had attempted to register the names "Macpro" and "Mac Pro" in May 2006, with the names covering a range of computer hardware, software and equipment such as mobile telephones, microprocessors, cables and modems.
The Millennials are coming - armed with Facebook accounts and netbooks, the latest generation of young workers are entering the workplace ready to raze traditional touchstones of business to the ground. Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image. Talking to silicon.com about his latest book
Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image.
Talking to silicon.com about his latest book Grown Up Digital, Tapscott laid out five "generational firewalls" that bosses need to tear down if they want to attract the brightest and best of Generation Y.
Apple's Australian division is currently fighting legal action on two fronts, it was revealed today, with one Federal Court trademark action and a separate case resuming next month against its former reseller, Buzzle Operations.
In Federal Court, Apple today continued fighting the first tussle, arguing for ownership over the trademark name "MacPro" with Melbourne-based computer equipment supplier Macpro Computers.
Records from intellectual property agency IP Australia reveal the history of the trademark "Macpro". Apple had attempted to register the names "Macpro" and "Mac Pro" in May 2006, with the names covering a range of computer hardware, software and equipment such as mobile telephones, microprocessors, cables and modems.
Commentary-There is a lot of buzz about the security features in the upcoming release of Microsofts Windows 7 operating system, especially User Account Control (UAC).
Apple's Australian division is currently fighting legal action on two fronts, it was revealed today, with one Federal Court trademark action and a separate case resuming next month against its former reseller, Buzzle Operations.
In Federal Court, Apple today continued fighting the first tussle, arguing for ownership over the trademark name "MacPro" with Melbourne-based computer equipment supplier Macpro Computers.
Records from intellectual property agency IP Australia reveal the history of the trademark "Macpro". Apple had attempted to register the names "Macpro" and "Mac Pro" in May 2006, with the names covering a range of computer hardware, software and equipment such as mobile telephones, microprocessors, cables and modems.
Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image.
Talking to silicon.com about his latest book Grown Up Digital, Tapscott laid out five "generational firewalls" that bosses need to tear down if they want to attract the brightest and best of Generation Y.
Microsoft is facing another patent infringement suit, this time over the technology it uses to automatically update Windows, Office, and other programs.
In a lawsuit filed March 20, BackWeb Technologies charges that Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), as well as Windows Update and other products, infringe four of BackWeb's patents. BackWeb, which is based in Israel and has U.S. offices in San Jose, Calif., filed the complaint in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Microsoft is facing another patent infringement suit, this time over the technology it uses to automatically update Windows, Office, and other programs.
In a lawsuit filed March 20, BackWeb Technologies charges that Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), as well as Windows Update and other products, infringe four of BackWeb's patents. BackWeb, which is based in Israel and has U.S. offices in San Jose, Calif., filed the complaint in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Cloud computing has been given a definite thumbs down by silicon.com's CIO Jury.
Following exclusive silicon.com research that found IT leaders voting cloud computing the most over-hyped technology of the year, the CIO Jury was asked whether cloud computing is part of their IT strategy to cut costs.
The jury came back with a 'no' majority of 10 to two.
Alistair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash, is one of the two CIOs using the cloud to cut costs.
Dell is attempting to gain some ground in the server market, which is dominated by Hewlett-Packard and IBM. In order to grab a larger piece of the data center pie, the company has shoveled everything together into one announcement. And it's a big one.
Social-networking site Facebook has criticized government suggestions that intelligence services should monitor the web communications of all UK citizens.
Facebook chief privacy officer and head of global public policy Chris Kelly told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that the government proposals, which include monitoring social-networking sites, were excessive.
"We think monitoring all user traffic is overkill," Kelly said. "There is legislation to allow law enforcement access to traffic data [of suspects]. We are not convinced at this time that expansion of those channels is necessary."
Thin clients are back on the agenda at IBM, after the company announced a partnership with the specialist thin-client supplier Wyse Technology.
On Monday, Wyse said in a statement that the two companies will be using IBM's Virtual Infrastructure Access service to build virtualized systems based on a thin-client infrastructure. IBM will use its Global Services division to do this.
Thin clients are systems that usually do not have a hard disk, mainly depending on a centralized server for processing in contrast, a standard PC is known as a 'fat client'. A thin client will therefore generally be just a terminal, so it should be less expensive than a PC and consume less power.
The OnLive system will be shown with 16 games. (Credit: OnLive)
SAN FRANCISCO--Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out. Your traditional video game console business model may be in danger.
The OnLive system will be shown with 16 games. (Credit: OnLive)
SAN FRANCISCO--Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out. Your traditional video game console business model may be in danger.
INDIA--The launch of Tata Nano not only reinforces the country's strengths in IT and engineering, but also highlights the fact that global markets today are led by demand, and not supply, says a company official.
Ratan Tata, chairman of the Mumbai, India-headquartered US$50 billion Tata Group, today realized his biggest dream, Tata Nano, since the company introduced Tata Indica in December 1998.
INDIA--The launch of Tata Nano not only reinforces the country's strengths in IT and engineering, but also highlights the fact that global markets today are led by demand, and not supply, says a company official.
Ratan Tata, chairman of the Mumbai, India-headquartered US$50 billion Tata Group, today realized his biggest dream, Tata Nano, since the company introduced Tata Indica in December 1998.
There's no doubt that Activision's Guitar Hero series is big business. Exactly how big the rhythm-game franchise has become was put into some perspective today, when the publisher announced former Yahoo chief operating officer and former ZDNet CEO Dan Rosensweig as the new CEO and president of its Guitar Hero division, RedOctane.
There's no doubt that Activision's Guitar Hero series is big business. Exactly how big the rhythm-game franchise has become was put into some perspective today, when the publisher announced former Yahoo chief operating officer and former ZDNet CEO Dan Rosensweig as the new CEO and president of its Guitar Hero division, RedOctane.
The relentless bombardment of video, music and information online could permanently alter our brains and trigger neurological disorders, according to an eminent neurologist.
With Western children spending more than six hours per day sat in front of a screen, Baroness Susan Greenfield told the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit it's no coincidence an increasing number of children are today being treated for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Online scammers are making a lucrative business out of redirecting visitors from legitimate Web sites to sites that try install rogue antivirus software, according to a report released by security firm Finjan on Monday.
Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center came across a traffic management server in Ukraine used by underground online scammers to keep track of how many redirects their rogue antivirus sites get from legitimate sites that have been compromised.
The relentless bombardment of video, music and information online could permanently alter our brains and trigger neurological disorders, according to an eminent neurologist.
With Western children spending more than six hours per day sat in front of a screen, Baroness Susan Greenfield told the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit it's no coincidence an increasing number of children are today being treated for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
The OnLive system will be shown with 16 games. (Credit: OnLive)
SAN FRANCISCO--Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out. Your traditional video game console business model may be in danger.
INDIA--The launch of Tata Nano not only reinforces the country's strengths in IT and engineering, but also highlights the fact that global markets today are led by demand, and not supply, says a company official.
Ratan Tata, chairman of the Mumbai, India-headquartered US$50 billion Tata Group, today realized his biggest dream, Tata Nano, since the company introduced Tata Indica in December 1998.
The OnLive system will be shown with 16 games. (Credit: OnLive)
SAN FRANCISCO--Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out. Your traditional video game console business model may be in danger.
There's no doubt that Activision's Guitar Hero series is big business. Exactly how big the rhythm-game franchise has become was put into some perspective today, when the publisher announced former Yahoo chief operating officer and former ZDNet CEO Dan Rosensweig as the new CEO and president of its Guitar Hero division, RedOctane.
INDIA--The launch of Tata Nano not only reinforces the country's strengths in IT and engineering, but also highlights the fact that global markets today are led by demand, and not supply, says a company official.
Ratan Tata, chairman of the Mumbai, India-headquartered US$50 billion Tata Group, today realized his biggest dream, Tata Nano, since the company introduced Tata Indica in December 1998.
Online scammers are making a lucrative business out of redirecting visitors from legitimate Web sites to sites that try install rogue antivirus software, according to a report released by security firm Finjan on Monday.
Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center came across a traffic management server in Ukraine used by underground online scammers to keep track of how many redirects their rogue antivirus sites get from legitimate sites that have been compromised.
There's no doubt that Activision's Guitar Hero series is big business. Exactly how big the rhythm-game franchise has become was put into some perspective today, when the publisher announced former Yahoo chief operating officer and former ZDNet CEO Dan Rosensweig as the new CEO and president of its Guitar Hero division, RedOctane.
The relentless bombardment of video, music and information online could permanently alter our brains and trigger neurological disorders, according to an eminent neurologist.
With Western children spending more than six hours per day sat in front of a screen, Baroness Susan Greenfield told the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit it's no coincidence an increasing number of children are today being treated for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Online scammers are making a lucrative business out of redirecting visitors from legitimate Web sites to sites that try install rogue antivirus software, according to a report released by security firm Finjan on Monday.
Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center came across a traffic management server in Ukraine used by underground online scammers to keep track of how many redirects their rogue antivirus sites get from legitimate sites that have been compromised.
The relentless bombardment of video, music and information online could permanently alter our brains and trigger neurological disorders, according to an eminent neurologist.
With Western children spending more than six hours per day sat in front of a screen, Baroness Susan Greenfield told the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit it's no coincidence an increasing number of children are today being treated for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
The outsourcing market faces up to two years of falling prices, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Prices in all areas of IT services will fall by between five and 20 percent, Gartner forecasts, with an average fall of 10 percent in the coming year because of the uncertain economic climate and IT budget constraints.
"This fall in prices will occur due to increasing competition in the market between traditional and new providers, as more providers compete aggressively to keep revenue growth on target," Claudio Da Rold, an analyst at Gartner, said in a statement on Monday.
The outsourcing market faces up to two years of falling prices, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Prices in all areas of IT services will fall by between five and 20 percent, Gartner forecasts, with an average fall of 10 percent in the coming year because of the uncertain economic climate and IT budget constraints.
"This fall in prices will occur due to increasing competition in the market between traditional and new providers, as more providers compete aggressively to keep revenue growth on target," Claudio Da Rold, an analyst at Gartner, said in a statement on Monday.
The outsourcing market faces up to two years of falling prices, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Prices in all areas of IT services will fall by between five and 20 percent, Gartner forecasts, with an average fall of 10 percent in the coming year because of the uncertain economic climate and IT budget constraints.
"This fall in prices will occur due to increasing competition in the market between traditional and new providers, as more providers compete aggressively to keep revenue growth on target," Claudio Da Rold, an analyst at Gartner, said in a statement on Monday.
The outsourcing market faces up to two years of falling prices, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Prices in all areas of IT services will fall by between five and 20 percent, Gartner forecasts, with an average fall of 10 percent in the coming year because of the uncertain economic climate and IT budget constraints.
"This fall in prices will occur due to increasing competition in the market between traditional and new providers, as more providers compete aggressively to keep revenue growth on target," Claudio Da Rold, an analyst at Gartner, said in a statement on Monday.
INDIA--The launch of Tata Nano not only reinforces the country's strengths in IT and engineering, but also highlights the fact that global markets today are led by demand, and not supply, says a company official.
Ratan Tata, chairman of the Mumbai, India-headquartered US$50 billion Tata Group, today realized his biggest dream, Tata Nano, since the company introduced Tata Indica in December 1998.
There's no doubt that Activision's Guitar Hero series is big business. Exactly how big the rhythm-game franchise has become was put into some perspective today, when the publisher announced former Yahoo chief operating officer and former ZDNet CEO Dan Rosensweig as the new CEO and president of its Guitar Hero division, RedOctane.
There's no doubt that Activision's Guitar Hero series is big business. Exactly how big the rhythm-game franchise has become was put into some perspective today, when the publisher announced former Yahoo chief operating officer and former ZDNet CEO Dan Rosensweig as the new CEO and president of its Guitar Hero division, RedOctane.
Online scammers are making a lucrative business out of redirecting visitors from legitimate Web sites to sites that try install rogue antivirus software, according to a report released by security firm Finjan on Monday.
Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center came across a traffic management server in Ukraine used by underground online scammers to keep track of how many redirects their rogue antivirus sites get from legitimate sites that have been compromised.
Online scammers are making a lucrative business out of redirecting visitors from legitimate Web sites to sites that try install rogue antivirus software, according to a report released by security firm Finjan on Monday.
Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center came across a traffic management server in Ukraine used by underground online scammers to keep track of how many redirects their rogue antivirus sites get from legitimate sites that have been compromised.
The relentless bombardment of video, music and information online could permanently alter our brains and trigger neurological disorders, according to an eminent neurologist.
With Western children spending more than six hours per day sat in front of a screen, Baroness Susan Greenfield told the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit it's no coincidence an increasing number of children are today being treated for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
The outsourcing market faces up to two years of falling prices, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Prices in all areas of IT services will fall by between five and 20 percent, Gartner forecasts, with an average fall of 10 percent in the coming year because of the uncertain economic climate and IT budget constraints.
"This fall in prices will occur due to increasing competition in the market between traditional and new providers, as more providers compete aggressively to keep revenue growth on target," Claudio Da Rold, an analyst at Gartner, said in a statement on Monday.
The outsourcing market faces up to two years of falling prices, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Prices in all areas of IT services will fall by between five and 20 percent, Gartner forecasts, with an average fall of 10 percent in the coming year because of the uncertain economic climate and IT budget constraints.
"This fall in prices will occur due to increasing competition in the market between traditional and new providers, as more providers compete aggressively to keep revenue growth on target," Claudio Da Rold, an analyst at Gartner, said in a statement on Monday.
TomTom has joined the Open Invention Network, a company that was formed to protect Linux, as a licensee.
The satnav maker announced it had signed up to the OIN on Monday. By joining, it gained access to more than 275 patents and patent applications. In return, it has to open up its own intellectual property to other OIN members, royalty-free.
"As we look to enable the Linux Ecosystem, we are pleased to have TomTom become a licensee," said OIN chief executive Keith Bergelt in a statement. "TomTom is one of a growing number of companies, of all sizes, that value the openness and collaborative culture of the Linux community. We applaud their support for Linux."
Action in the ITF junior team competitions continues this week with the North/Central America & Caribbean pre-qualifying event of the Junior Davis Cup & Junior Fed Cup by BNP Paribas in the Dominican Republic.
It is the second time after 2002 that Dominican Republic is hosting the 16 & under pre-qualifying. Last years’ boys’ winners Cuba and girls’ winners Bahamas will be amongst the good participation figure of seventeen boys’ teams and fifteen girls’ teams that compete from 23 to 28 March in the Parque del Este in the capital Santo Domingo.
Acer's recent push into the business notebook segment in Europe through its Gateway brand, has drawn criticism from analysts based in Asia.
Bryan Ma, director of personal systems research at IDC Asia-Pacific, told ZDNet Asia in a phone interview that it was "not completely clear" why the move was taken, because regardless of the region, Gateway "is very much a consumer-centric brand".
Citing market figures, Ma noted that 85 percent of Gateway's shipments worldwide in 2008 were categorized as consumer. For Acer, 63 percent of global shipments belonged to this category. In contrast, only 24 percent of Lenovo's global shipments consisted of consumer PCs, while Hewlett-Packard had 44 percent.
It's probably safe to assume that if they really do exist, Apple's marketing group doesn't plan on letting the iProd and iFPGA ever hit the market under those names.
As developers have gotten their hands on the iPhone OS 3.0 beta released earlier this week, they've started to turn up interesting tidbits while splashing around in the code. Ars Technica reports that an iPhone developer has uncovered references buried deep in the OS code to two possible Apple products: the iProd and the iFPGA.
The arrow is pointing to what a stroke on the space bar looks like on a spectrogram. (Credit: Inverse Path)
After inconspicuously lurking within Web sites' code for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of Web browser wars.
JavaScript, which lets developers create everything from basic Web site menus to online spreadsheet applications, was born in the mid-1990s when Microsoft's Internet Explorer challenged the incumbent browser, Netscape's Navigator. IE won that war, but now it faces its own challenge from the heir to the Navigator throne, Mozilla's Firefox, along with upstarts including Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari, and Opera.
The UK government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.
Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker said on Monday that the EU Data Retention Directive, under which ISPs must store communications data for 12 months, does not go far enough. Communications such as those on social networking sites and instant messaging could also be monitored, he said.
Enterprise security will increasingly move to include a cloud component but in-the-cloud protection cannot be the only means of defense, according to security vendor Sophos.
Paul Ducklin, head of technology for the Asia-Pacific region at Sophos, told ZDNet Asia in a phone interview that the cloud "is something that will improve existing mechanisms for protection" as it can block access to harmful Web sites or retrieve updates in real time.
The UK government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.
Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker said on Monday that the EU Data Retention Directive, under which ISPs must store communications data for 12 months, does not go far enough. Communications such as those on social networking sites and instant messaging could also be monitored, he said.
Ever since Google launched Chrome in September 2008, Google has been touting how fast its browser can run Web-based programs written in JavaScript. Now the company has launched a site called Chrome Experiments designed to show off what fast JavaScript can enable and to encourage adoption of the browser.
The UK government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.
Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker said on Monday that the EU Data Retention Directive, under which ISPs must store communications data for 12 months, does not go far enough. Communications such as those on social networking sites and instant messaging could also be monitored, he said.
Enterprise security will increasingly move to include a cloud component but in-the-cloud protection cannot be the only means of defense, according to security vendor Sophos.
Paul Ducklin, head of technology for the Asia-Pacific region at Sophos, told ZDNet Asia in a phone interview that the cloud "is something that will improve existing mechanisms for protection" as it can block access to harmful Web sites or retrieve updates in real time.
Enterprise security will increasingly move to include a cloud component but in-the-cloud protection cannot be the only means of defense, according to security vendor Sophos.
Paul Ducklin, head of technology for the Asia-Pacific region at Sophos, told ZDNet Asia in a phone interview that the cloud "is something that will improve existing mechanisms for protection" as it can block access to harmful Web sites or retrieve updates in real time.
Stranger things have happened, but there are several reasons why IBM buying Sun Microsystems could, to borrow a phrase from former Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy, be like two garbage trucks colliding in slow motion.
The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM is in talks to buy Sun for at least $6.5 billion in cash, which would amount to about $4 billion once Sun's cash and marketable securities are taken into account. On paper, the deal could make some sense: adding Sun's server market share would give IBM more clout in its competition with Hewlett-Packard, IBM would get some software and intellectual property assets, and that price would be a nice premium for Sun shareholders disappointed with the company's sliding stock price.
The UK government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.
Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker said on Monday that the EU Data Retention Directive, under which ISPs must store communications data for 12 months, does not go far enough. Communications such as those on social networking sites and instant messaging could also be monitored, he said.
The UK government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.
Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker said on Monday that the EU Data Retention Directive, under which ISPs must store communications data for 12 months, does not go far enough. Communications such as those on social networking sites and instant messaging could also be monitored, he said.
Ever since Google launched Chrome in September 2008, Google has been touting how fast its browser can run Web-based programs written in JavaScript. Now the company has launched a site called Chrome Experiments designed to show off what fast JavaScript can enable and to encourage adoption of the browser.
The UK government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.
Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker said on Monday that the EU Data Retention Directive, under which ISPs must store communications data for 12 months, does not go far enough. Communications such as those on social networking sites and instant messaging could also be monitored, he said.
Ever since Google launched Chrome in September 2008, Google has been touting how fast its browser can run Web-based programs written in JavaScript. Now the company has launched a site called Chrome Experiments designed to show off what fast JavaScript can enable and to encourage adoption of the browser.
Ever since Google launched Chrome in September 2008, Google has been touting how fast its browser can run Web-based programs written in JavaScript. Now the company has launched a site called Chrome Experiments designed to show off what fast JavaScript can enable and to encourage adoption of the browser.
Enterprise security will increasingly move to include a cloud component but in-the-cloud protection cannot be the only means of defense, according to security vendor Sophos.
Paul Ducklin, head of technology for the Asia-Pacific region at Sophos, told ZDNet Asia in a phone interview that the cloud "is something that will improve existing mechanisms for protection" as it can block access to harmful Web sites or retrieve updates in real time.
Android-powered netbooks will emerge in 2009, analysts are predicting.
According to market watchers Ovum, Google's mobile OS could become the platform of choice for lower-end mini laptops, rather than full-fat flavors of Linux traditionally associated with the desktop, such as Ubuntu.
The laptop market is becoming increasingly complex, according to Laurent Lachal, open-source research director at Ovum, with a growing variety of low-cost netbooks and laptops now on offer.
Android-powered netbooks will emerge in 2009, analysts are predicting.
According to market watchers Ovum, Google's mobile OS could become the platform of choice for lower-end mini laptops, rather than full-fat flavors of Linux traditionally associated with the desktop, such as Ubuntu.
The laptop market is becoming increasingly complex, according to Laurent Lachal, open-source research director at Ovum, with a growing variety of low-cost netbooks and laptops now on offer.
Android-powered netbooks will emerge in 2009, analysts are predicting.
According to market watchers Ovum, Google's mobile OS could become the platform of choice for lower-end mini laptops, rather than full-fat flavors of Linux traditionally associated with the desktop, such as Ubuntu.
The laptop market is becoming increasingly complex, according to Laurent Lachal, open-source research director at Ovum, with a growing variety of low-cost netbooks and laptops now on offer.
Ever since Google launched Chrome in September 2008, Google has been touting how fast its browser can run Web-based programs written in JavaScript. Now the company has launched a site called Chrome Experiments designed to show off what fast JavaScript can enable and to encourage adoption of the browser.
Ever since Google launched Chrome in September 2008, Google has been touting how fast its browser can run Web-based programs written in JavaScript. Now the company has launched a site called Chrome Experiments designed to show off what fast JavaScript can enable and to encourage adoption of the browser.
Stranger things have happened, but there are several reasons why IBM buying Sun Microsystems could, to borrow a phrase from former Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy, be like two garbage trucks colliding in slow motion.
The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM is in talks to buy Sun for at least $6.5 billion in cash, which would amount to about $4 billion once Sun's cash and marketable securities are taken into account. On paper, the deal could make some sense: adding Sun's server market share would give IBM more clout in its competition with Hewlett-Packard, IBM would get some software and intellectual property assets, and that price would be a nice premium for Sun shareholders disappointed with the company's sliding stock price.
Android-powered netbooks will emerge in 2009, analysts are predicting.
According to market watchers Ovum, Google's mobile OS could become the platform of choice for lower-end mini laptops, rather than full-fat flavors of Linux traditionally associated with the desktop, such as Ubuntu.
The laptop market is becoming increasingly complex, according to Laurent Lachal, open-source research director at Ovum, with a growing variety of low-cost netbooks and laptops now on offer.
Commentary--While our current economic state is one that most businesses have never experienced, the need to evaluate processes and optimize efficiencies is a no longer an option that can be put off to the next planning cycle.
A plan to put mobile connectivity on the London Underground has stalled.
Back in March 2007, Transport for London (TfL) put out a tender for a six-month trial of mobile-phone technology on the Waterloo and City line. The aim of the trial originally scheduled for 2008 was to determine whether it would be technically and commercially viable for coverage to be extended across the entire Tube network.
Speaking at the time, Richard Parry, strategy and service development director of London Underground, said: "We recognize that there is now growing demand for mobile coverage to be extended to deep-level sections of the Tube."
A plan to put mobile connectivity on the London Underground has stalled.
Back in March 2007, Transport for London (TfL) put out a tender for a six-month trial of mobile-phone technology on the Waterloo and City line. The aim of the trial originally scheduled for 2008 was to determine whether it would be technically and commercially viable for coverage to be extended across the entire Tube network.
Speaking at the time, Richard Parry, strategy and service development director of London Underground, said: "We recognize that there is now growing demand for mobile coverage to be extended to deep-level sections of the Tube."
Via's Surfboard C855 reference design
Via has released a new netbook reference design aimed at PC manufacturers that want to start selling netbooks for the first time.
Commentary--For many companies today, the focus around technology is on increasing efficiency, reducing costs, and embracing a greener business model, but does this mean paper documents are finally heading toward their long-predicted obsolescence? Probably not. However, creating, sharing, editing, and printing those documents has proven to be a large drain on productivity, efficiency, and budgets.
On Tuesday, Microsoft released a patch for a hole in Windows 2000 and Server 2003 and 2008 that could allow an attacker to redirect network traffic to a malicious site that has been set to serve as a proxy.
The vulnerability, rated important by Microsoft, allows IT managers to set a Windows Proxy Auto-Discovery, or WPAD, entry in the DNS. If IE or Firefox are configured to "automatically detect settings," the browser will connect to the proxy machine.
The BBC has said that it had no intention of breaking the law by building and using a botnet.
BBC Click acquired the means to build a botnet, used it to spam Gmail and Hotmail accounts it had set up, and launch a distrbuted denial of service attack against security company Prev-X.
In a statement on Monday, the BBC said that its actions had been "in the public interest".
"It was not our intention to break the law," the BBC told ZDNet UK on Monday. "There is a powerful public interest in demonstrating the ease with which such malware can be obtained and used; how it can be deployed on thousands of infected computers without the owners even knowing it is there; and its power to send spam e mail or attack other websites undetected."
Commentary--For many companies today, the focus around technology is on increasing efficiency, reducing costs, and embracing a greener business model, but does this mean paper documents are finally heading toward their long-predicted obsolescence? Probably not. However, creating, sharing, editing, and printing those documents has proven to be a large drain on productivity, efficiency, and budgets.
Commentary--For many companies today, the focus around technology is on increasing efficiency, reducing costs, and embracing a greener business model, but does this mean paper documents are finally heading toward their long-predicted obsolescence? Probably not. However, creating, sharing, editing, and printing those documents has proven to be a large drain on productivity, efficiency, and budgets.
Commentary--For many companies today, the focus around technology is on increasing efficiency, reducing costs, and embracing a greener business model, but does this mean paper documents are finally heading toward their long-predicted obsolescence? Probably not. However, creating, sharing, editing, and printing those documents has proven to be a large drain on productivity, efficiency, and budgets.
On Tuesday, Microsoft released a patch for a hole in Windows 2000 and Server 2003 and 2008 that could allow an attacker to redirect network traffic to a malicious site that has been set to serve as a proxy.
The vulnerability, rated important by Microsoft, allows IT managers to set a Windows Proxy Auto-Discovery, or WPAD, entry in the DNS. If IE or Firefox are configured to "automatically detect settings," the browser will connect to the proxy machine.
On Tuesday, Microsoft released a patch for a hole in Windows 2000 and Server 2003 and 2008 that could allow an attacker to redirect network traffic to a malicious site that has been set to serve as a proxy.
The vulnerability, rated important by Microsoft, allows IT managers to set a Windows Proxy Auto-Discovery, or WPAD, entry in the DNS. If IE or Firefox are configured to "automatically detect settings," the browser will connect to the proxy machine.
On Tuesday, Microsoft released a patch for a hole in Windows 2000 and Server 2003 and 2008 that could allow an attacker to redirect network traffic to a malicious site that has been set to serve as a proxy.
The vulnerability, rated important by Microsoft, allows IT managers to set a Windows Proxy Auto-Discovery, or WPAD, entry in the DNS. If IE or Firefox are configured to "automatically detect settings," the browser will connect to the proxy machine.
The BBC has said that it had no intention of breaking the law by building and using a botnet.
BBC Click acquired the means to build a botnet, used it to spam Gmail and Hotmail accounts it had set up, and launch a distrbuted denial of service attack against security company Prev-X.
In a statement on Monday, the BBC said that its actions had been "in the public interest".
"It was not our intention to break the law," the BBC told ZDNet UK on Monday. "There is a powerful public interest in demonstrating the ease with which such malware can be obtained and used; how it can be deployed on thousands of infected computers without the owners even knowing it is there; and its power to send spam e mail or attack other websites undetected."
A Northern Territory IT worker who caused millions of dollars of damage to government systems has reportedly been jailed for three years.
Computer engineer David Anthony McIntosh, 28, is a former CSG employee who crashed several government services at Berrimah Prison, Royal Darwin Hospital and the Supreme Court on May 5 last year. McIntosh also deleted over 10,000 public servants from the system. CSG holds major contracts with the NT Government.
The BBC has said that it had no intention of breaking the law by building and using a botnet.
BBC Click acquired the means to build a botnet, used it to spam Gmail and Hotmail accounts it had set up, and launch a distrbuted denial of service attack against security company Prev-X.
In a statement on Monday, the BBC said that its actions had been "in the public interest".
"It was not our intention to break the law," the BBC told ZDNet UK on Monday. "There is a powerful public interest in demonstrating the ease with which such malware can be obtained and used; how it can be deployed on thousands of infected computers without the owners even knowing it is there; and its power to send spam e mail or attack other websites undetected."
The current economic downturn is set to drive Linux adoption, according to a white paper by research organization IDC.
In a survey of 330 organizations with 100 or more employees, IDC found that 53 percent were planning to increase adoption of Linux on servers, while 48 percent were planning to increase Linux on clients, as a direct result of the economic climate. The survey was conducted in February, and the white paper published on Monday.
The current economic downturn is set to drive Linux adoption, according to a white paper by research organization IDC.
In a survey of 330 organizations with 100 or more employees, IDC found that 53 percent were planning to increase adoption of Linux on servers, while 48 percent were planning to increase Linux on clients, as a direct result of the economic climate. The survey was conducted in February, and the white paper published on Monday.
The current economic downturn is set to drive Linux adoption, according to a white paper by research organization IDC.
In a survey of 330 organizations with 100 or more employees, IDC found that 53 percent were planning to increase adoption of Linux on servers, while 48 percent were planning to increase Linux on clients, as a direct result of the economic climate. The survey was conducted in February, and the white paper published on Monday.
Ericsson has successfully demonstrated data-transfer speeds of more than 500Mbps over copper, the communications company said on Monday.
The data-transfer rates were achieved using a version of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology called 'vectorized' VDSL2, Ericsson said in a statement. The technology, also called 'crosstalk cancellation', provides such high transmission rates through a twisted pair of copper cables by reducing the noise coming from other pairs in the same cable bundle. VDSL2 has traditionally offered speeds of around 100Mbps.
Ericsson has successfully demonstrated data-transfer speeds of more than 500Mbps over copper, the communications company said on Monday.
The data-transfer rates were achieved using a version of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology called 'vectorized' VDSL2, Ericsson said in a statement. The technology, also called 'crosstalk cancellation', provides such high transmission rates through a twisted pair of copper cables by reducing the noise coming from other pairs in the same cable bundle. VDSL2 has traditionally offered speeds of around 100Mbps.
Ericsson has successfully demonstrated data-transfer speeds of more than 500Mbps over copper, the communications company said on Monday.
The data-transfer rates were achieved using a version of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology called 'vectorized' VDSL2, Ericsson said in a statement. The technology, also called 'crosstalk cancellation', provides such high transmission rates through a twisted pair of copper cables by reducing the noise coming from other pairs in the same cable bundle. VDSL2 has traditionally offered speeds of around 100Mbps.
Asus plans to offer fewer storage options for users of its Eee PC netbook range, a company representative said on Monday.
The manufacturer's spokesperson told ZDNet UK that, while Eee PC models are currently available in each country with a choice of hard-disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), the company will from August offer only one version per model in any given country.
"We plan to make the product line a lot clearer for consumers," Asus's spokesperson said. "Currently you have a lot of choice of SSD and hard disk, but we plan to find the one consumers want the most and make the choice easier."
Asus plans to offer fewer storage options for users of its Eee PC netbook range, a company representative said on Monday.
The manufacturer's spokesperson told ZDNet UK that, while Eee PC models are currently available in each country with a choice of hard-disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), the company will from August offer only one version per model in any given country.
"We plan to make the product line a lot clearer for consumers," Asus's spokesperson said. "Currently you have a lot of choice of SSD and hard disk, but we plan to find the one consumers want the most and make the choice easier."
Asus plans to offer fewer storage options for users of its Eee PC netbook range, a company representative said on Monday.
The manufacturer's spokesperson told ZDNet UK that, while Eee PC models are currently available in each country with a choice of hard-disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), the company will from August offer only one version per model in any given country.
"We plan to make the product line a lot clearer for consumers," Asus's spokesperson said. "Currently you have a lot of choice of SSD and hard disk, but we plan to find the one consumers want the most and make the choice easier."
Browser maker Opera Software has released a test version of software called Opera Turbo, designed to use compression and the company's own servers to speed browsing over slow Internet connections.
Opera Turbo is useful when grappling with overtaxed wireless networks, slower broadband wireless cards, or Net connections through a mobile phone, the company said.
IBM on Friday disclosed the elements of an initiative to sell technology and services to better manage fresh water, often referred to as the "oil of the 21st century."
The company said it has technology, now being tested at the SmartBay project in Galway, Ireland, to gather and analyze data to improve water conservation. It also announced a membrane for purifying saltwater which was developed by IBM in collaboration with other researchers.
Google's open mobile OS platform Android is buoying the fortunes of Linux-powered smartphones. The news for Apple's iPhone, however, is not so good.
According to analyst house Gartner, the iPhone saw a quarter-on-quarter sales decline in Q4 08 as the device took 10.7 per cent share of the smartphone market, compared to 12.9 per cent share the previous quarter.
Despite its decline in market share, the iPhone-maker held onto its third place global ranking among smartphone makers - behind first-placed Nokia with 40.8 per cent share and BlackBerry-maker RIM with 19.5 per cent.
IBM on Friday disclosed the elements of an initiative to sell technology and services to better manage fresh water, often referred to as the "oil of the 21st century."
The company said it has technology, now being tested at the SmartBay project in Galway, Ireland, to gather and analyze data to improve water conservation. It also announced a membrane for purifying saltwater which was developed by IBM in collaboration with other researchers.
IBM on Friday disclosed the elements of an initiative to sell technology and services to better manage fresh water, often referred to as the "oil of the 21st century."
The company said it has technology, now being tested at the SmartBay project in Galway, Ireland, to gather and analyze data to improve water conservation. It also announced a membrane for purifying saltwater which was developed by IBM in collaboration with other researchers.
Google's open mobile OS platform Android is buoying the fortunes of Linux-powered smartphones. The news for Apple's iPhone, however, is not so good.
According to analyst house Gartner, the iPhone saw a quarter-on-quarter sales decline in Q4 08 as the device took 10.7 per cent share of the smartphone market, compared to 12.9 per cent share the previous quarter.
Despite its decline in market share, the iPhone-maker held onto its third place global ranking among smartphone makers - behind first-placed Nokia with 40.8 per cent share and BlackBerry-maker RIM with 19.5 per cent.
In the future, technology will be able to help address issues such as crop failure in the developing world, the competitiveness of the U.K. economy and even understand the motivation of historical figures.
The British Computer Society (BCS) has laid out the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues facing the world that it feels could be solved with technology within the next two decades.
One of the challenges listed by the BCS is to develop a way for computers to virtually map out the external and internal functions of plants as they grow, helping scientists to see what's happening within the plant and understand why it's taking place.
Google's open mobile OS platform Android is buoying the fortunes of Linux-powered smartphones. The news for Apple's iPhone, however, is not so good.
According to analyst house Gartner, the iPhone saw a quarter-on-quarter sales decline in Q4 08 as the device took 10.7 per cent share of the smartphone market, compared to 12.9 per cent share the previous quarter.
Despite its decline in market share, the iPhone-maker held onto its third place global ranking among smartphone makers - behind first-placed Nokia with 40.8 per cent share and BlackBerry-maker RIM with 19.5 per cent.
In the future, technology will be able to help address issues such as crop failure in the developing world, the competitiveness of the U.K. economy and even understand the motivation of historical figures.
The British Computer Society (BCS) has laid out the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues facing the world that it feels could be solved with technology within the next two decades.
One of the challenges listed by the BCS is to develop a way for computers to virtually map out the external and internal functions of plants as they grow, helping scientists to see what's happening within the plant and understand why it's taking place.
Microsoft has cut the price of leasing software by as much as 25 percent.
Companies can sign up for discounts on SQL Server, SharePoint and other Microsoft software, or two bundles of client-access licenses, according to notices posted on the Microsoft Incentives website.
One special promotion is 'Simplify and Save', which offers savings of 15 percent for those who consolidate at least two existing license agreements into an Open Value agreement. Microsoft said the discount will run for the entire length of a three-year license deal.
Imagine if all the hospitals, schools, churches, and government buildings that appear on online maps were nothing but blurs.
Researchers at the universities of Miami, Tokyo, and Tohoku have discovered a new form of battery.
Charged by the application of a very strong magnetic field, the Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) contains a set of nano-magnets - zones some 5 nanometers across in a zinc-gallium-arsenic-magnesium matrix - which absorb energy and then release it over time. Although the effect had been predicted, the size and duration of the result was not.
SAN FRANCISCO--Google plans to unveil a service called Google Voice on Thursday that indicates Google wants to do with your telephone communications what companies such as Yahoo have done with e-mail.
Nokia is still by far the No. 1 mobile handset maker in the world, but as competition heats up in the smartphone market, Nokia has become increasingly vulnerable to smaller players such as Apple and Research In Motion, which are increasing market share.
Open standards and the need for interoperability on the cloud will not necessarily drive the adoption of open-source software, said a Red Hat executive.
In an interview with ZDNet Asia, Frank Feldmann, senior product manager at Red Hat Asia-Pacific and Japan, said the industry push to get on the cloud will be a boon to open standards as businesses look more closely at interoperability issues.
To consume different applications on different platforms-as-a-service (PaaS), companies will need to be mindful of interoperability so each application will be able to work with the rest in their enterprise stack, Feldmann explained.
Netbooks have received a qualified thumbs up by IT leaders in the latest CIO Jury.
When the jury of UK IT chiefs was asked whether netbooks were ready for business use, the answer was yes - by seven votes to five.
Alastair Behenna, CIO of Harvey Nash, was one head of IT already using the devices. "We are already deploying netbooks internally in a relatively limited way and the results of the pilot are extremely encouraging. I see no reason why we won't extend and expand their use," he said.
EMC launched Smarts Server Management, an analysis tool for managing virtualized datacenters, on Wednesday.
Using a behavioral model for systems, Smarts Server Management (SSM) is able to understand the relationships between virtual servers, physical servers and the network, EMC said in a statement. It can also "distinguish how symptoms are propagated to related infrastructure components".
The latest addition to EMC's Smarts line of automated IT management tools, SSM is intended to increase the control of, and compliance across, mixed datacenter environments. EMC claims it can help alleviate some of the complexity of managing systems.
Next time you are eating at your desk, try not to think of multitude of germs lurking on your keyboard along with some other unpleasant debris.
Nail clippings, chips, pastry crumbs, chewing gum and beard hair are some of the disagreeable detritus that accumulates inside the average office keyboard, according to Claire Burke, director of Keep IT Clean, an IT hardware cleaning company with clients including hotels and the NHS.
Burke told silicon.com, that IT chiefs call her company in so tech staff don't have to negotiate a minefield of grime when they are called on to fix a broken PC.
Apple has apparently had a change of heart about a Twitter iPhone app that sometimes presents users with language some might find objectionable.
The popular Twitter app for iPhone and iPod touch--called Tweetie 1.3--was apparently rejected because it gives users access to the Twitter Trends section, which displays the most frequent topics or words on Twitter at any given moment. This list sometimes list swear words--including a particular four-letter word that begins with the letter F--that apparently raised Apple's disdain.
With the buzz surrounding social networking, it may surprise few that developers are flocking to develop applications on these platforms to take advantage of the growing trend.
Chew Choon Keat, Malaysian programmer and founder of web startup, SharedCopy, told ZDNet Asia in an interview that the money in web-app development these days lies in apps riding on giants such as Facebook.
"Web apps that involve building a community of some sort and integrating with Facebook Connect and OpenSocial [receive the highest demand]", said Chew.
The iPhone's lead over smartphone upstart Android is set to be short-lived, according to new research.
Android smartphone sales will outstrip iPhone sales by 2012, a report by industry watchers Informa Telecoms & Media has predicted.
Last month, O2's parent Telefonica Europe revealed sales of the iPhone topped one million in the UK. While T-mobile UK - the exclusive carrier of the first Android device, the G1 - wouldn't put a figure on how many of the devices have been sold, it did say the handset now accounts for 20 per cent of its contract sales.
Craigslist released numbers Monday it touted as evidence of its success in reducing the volume of "erotic services" ads appearing on the Web classified site in an apparent response to a federal lawsuit that accuses the site of facilitating prostitution.
The number of ads for such services is down 90 percent to 95 percent during the past 12 months on Craigslist sites that serve five major U.S. cities, according to information posted on a company blog. The site credited the "spectacular" reduction on its joint effort with 40 attorneys general and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children it announced in November 2008, which included the introduction of new measures that require posters to the erotic section to furnish a working phone number and credit card:
The New South Wales Government has unveiled plans to give state police the power to hack into computers remotely, with owners potentially remaining in the dark about the searches for up to three years.
The new powers are part of a package introduced into parliament last week by Premier Nathan Rees. Broadly, they aim to give police the right to apply for covert search warrants from the Supreme Court to gather evidence in cases which could involve serious indictable offenses punishable by at least seven years' imprisonment.
With the buzz surrounding social networking, it may surprise few that developers are flocking to develop applications on these platforms to take advantage of the growing trend.
Chew Choon Keat, Malaysian programmer and founder of web startup, SharedCopy, told ZDNet Asia in an interview that the money in web-app development these days lies in apps riding on giants such as Facebook.
"Web apps that involve building a community of some sort and integrating with Facebook Connect and OpenSocial [receive the highest demand]", said Chew.
With the buzz surrounding social networking, it may surprise few that developers are flocking to develop applications on these platforms to take advantage of the growing trend.
Chew Choon Keat, Malaysian programmer and founder of web startup, SharedCopy, told ZDNet Asia in an interview that the money in web-app development these days lies in apps riding on giants such as Facebook.
"Web apps that involve building a community of some sort and integrating with Facebook Connect and OpenSocial [receive the highest demand]", said Chew.
The iPhone's lead over smartphone upstart Android is set to be short-lived, according to new research.
Android smartphone sales will outstrip iPhone sales by 2012, a report by industry watchers Informa Telecoms & Media has predicted.
Last month, O2's parent Telefonica Europe revealed sales of the iPhone topped one million in the UK. While T-mobile UK - the exclusive carrier of the first Android device, the G1 - wouldn't put a figure on how many of the devices have been sold, it did say the handset now accounts for 20 per cent of its contract sales.
The iPhone's lead over smartphone upstart Android is set to be short-lived, according to new research.
Android smartphone sales will outstrip iPhone sales by 2012, a report by industry watchers Informa Telecoms & Media has predicted.
Last month, O2's parent Telefonica Europe revealed sales of the iPhone topped one million in the UK. While T-mobile UK - the exclusive carrier of the first Android device, the G1 - wouldn't put a figure on how many of the devices have been sold, it did say the handset now accounts for 20 per cent of its contract sales.
With the buzz surrounding social networking, it may surprise few that developers are flocking to develop applications on these platforms to take advantage of the growing trend.
Chew Choon Keat, Malaysian programmer and founder of web startup, SharedCopy, told ZDNet Asia in an interview that the money in web-app development these days lies in apps riding on giants such as Facebook.
"Web apps that involve building a community of some sort and integrating with Facebook Connect and OpenSocial [receive the highest demand]", said Chew.
With the buzz surrounding social networking, it may surprise few that developers are flocking to develop applications on these platforms to take advantage of the growing trend.
Chew Choon Keat, Malaysian programmer and founder of web startup, SharedCopy, told ZDNet Asia in an interview that the money in web-app development these days lies in apps riding on giants such as Facebook.
"Web apps that involve building a community of some sort and integrating with Facebook Connect and OpenSocial [receive the highest demand]", said Chew.
Craigslist released numbers Monday it touted as evidence of its success in reducing the volume of "erotic services" ads appearing on the Web classified site in an apparent response to a federal lawsuit that accuses the site of facilitating prostitution.
The number of ads for such services is down 90 percent to 95 percent during the past 12 months on Craigslist sites that serve five major U.S. cities, according to information posted on a company blog. The site credited the "spectacular" reduction on its joint effort with 40 attorneys general and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children it announced in November 2008, which included the introduction of new measures that require posters to the erotic section to furnish a working phone number and credit card:
The iPhone's lead over smartphone upstart Android is set to be short-lived, according to new research.
Android smartphone sales will outstrip iPhone sales by 2012, a report by industry watchers Informa Telecoms & Media has predicted.
Last month, O2's parent Telefonica Europe revealed sales of the iPhone topped one million in the UK. While T-mobile UK - the exclusive carrier of the first Android device, the G1 - wouldn't put a figure on how many of the devices have been sold, it did say the handset now accounts for 20 per cent of its contract sales.
The iPhone's lead over smartphone upstart Android is set to be short-lived, according to new research.
Android smartphone sales will outstrip iPhone sales by 2012, a report by industry watchers Informa Telecoms & Media has predicted.
Last month, O2's parent Telefonica Europe revealed sales of the iPhone topped one million in the UK. While T-mobile UK - the exclusive carrier of the first Android device, the G1 - wouldn't put a figure on how many of the devices have been sold, it did say the handset now accounts for 20 per cent of its contract sales.
The New South Wales Government has unveiled plans to give state police the power to hack into computers remotely, with owners potentially remaining in the dark about the searches for up to three years.
The new powers are part of a package introduced into parliament last week by Premier Nathan Rees. Broadly, they aim to give police the right to apply for covert search warrants from the Supreme Court to gather evidence in cases which could involve serious indictable offenses punishable by at least seven years' imprisonment.
The New South Wales Government has unveiled plans to give state police the power to hack into computers remotely, with owners potentially remaining in the dark about the searches for up to three years.
The new powers are part of a package introduced into parliament last week by Premier Nathan Rees. Broadly, they aim to give police the right to apply for covert search warrants from the Supreme Court to gather evidence in cases which could involve serious indictable offenses punishable by at least seven years' imprisonment.
The New South Wales Government has unveiled plans to give state police the power to hack into computers remotely, with owners potentially remaining in the dark about the searches for up to three years.
The new powers are part of a package introduced into parliament last week by Premier Nathan Rees. Broadly, they aim to give police the right to apply for covert search warrants from the Supreme Court to gather evidence in cases which could involve serious indictable offenses punishable by at least seven years' imprisonment.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has confirmed the sudden drop in altitude of a Qantas Flight 72 over Western Australia last year was due to a computer error.
Moments after the pilot of Qantas Flight 72 had switched off autopilot, one of the Airbus A330-303's air data inertial reference units (ADIRUs) "started providing erroneous data" spikes, according to an ATSB interim report released last week.
The ADIRU is a core component of the aircraft's navigational systems, and is used to capture and relay air data sensor information such as position and altitude which is then fed into the aircraft's flight control computers. The Airbus A330-303 was equipped with three ADIRUs.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has confirmed the sudden drop in altitude of a Qantas Flight 72 over Western Australia last year was due to a computer error.
Moments after the pilot of Qantas Flight 72 had switched off autopilot, one of the Airbus A330-303's air data inertial reference units (ADIRUs) "started providing erroneous data" spikes, according to an ATSB interim report released last week.
The ADIRU is a core component of the aircraft's navigational systems, and is used to capture and relay air data sensor information such as position and altitude which is then fed into the aircraft's flight control computers. The Airbus A330-303 was equipped with three ADIRUs.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has confirmed the sudden drop in altitude of a Qantas Flight 72 over Western Australia last year was due to a computer error.
Moments after the pilot of Qantas Flight 72 had switched off autopilot, one of the Airbus A330-303's air data inertial reference units (ADIRUs) "started providing erroneous data" spikes, according to an ATSB interim report released last week.
The ADIRU is a core component of the aircraft's navigational systems, and is used to capture and relay air data sensor information such as position and altitude which is then fed into the aircraft's flight control computers. The Airbus A330-303 was equipped with three ADIRUs.
LAS VEGAS--Olympus has declared an end to the megapixel race.
"Twelve megapixels is, I think, enough for covering most applications most customers need," said Akira Watanabe, manager of Olympus Imaging's SLR planning department, in an interview here at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA). "We have no intention to compete in the megapixel wars for E-System," Olympus' line of SLR cameras, he said.
Instead, Olympus will focus on other characteristics such as dynamic range, color reproduction, and a better ISO range for low-light shooting, he said.
LAS VEGAS--Olympus has declared an end to the megapixel race.
"Twelve megapixels is, I think, enough for covering most applications most customers need," said Akira Watanabe, manager of Olympus Imaging's SLR planning department, in an interview here at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA). "We have no intention to compete in the megapixel wars for E-System," Olympus' line of SLR cameras, he said.
Instead, Olympus will focus on other characteristics such as dynamic range, color reproduction, and a better ISO range for low-light shooting, he said.
After widespread rumors, MTV Games-owned Harmonix announced that it was developing a rhythm game based on The Beatles, arguably the most popular band of all time. At the time, Harmonix cofounder Alex Rigopoulos insisted that the game would be an all-new game, and "not just a Rock Band expansion pack" a la the AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack.
LAS VEGAS--Olympus has declared an end to the megapixel race.
"Twelve megapixels is, I think, enough for covering most applications most customers need," said Akira Watanabe, manager of Olympus Imaging's SLR planning department, in an interview here at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA). "We have no intention to compete in the megapixel wars for E-System," Olympus' line of SLR cameras, he said.
Instead, Olympus will focus on other characteristics such as dynamic range, color reproduction, and a better ISO range for low-light shooting, he said.
