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Broadcom Says Qualcomm In Contempt On Patents
The complaint is related to chips used in phones with high-speed Web links and royalties Qualcomm should pay for its walkie-talkie feature QChat, used by Sprint Nextel.
Dell's Profit Drops As IT Spending Slowdown Spreads
The company has been cutting expenses for months to meet a promise to Wall Street to cut at least $3 billion in spending by the end of the fiscal year 2011.
FBI Arrests Blogger Over Online Music Sharing
Los Angeles music blogger Kevin Cogill is accused of releasing Guns N' Roses songs online before their commercial release.
Best Western CIO Scott Gibson On The Data Breach That Wasn't
Gibson has been dealing with a small data breach that somehow snowballed into eight million records stolen and tagged as "one of the most audacious cyber-crimes ever."
Google Unveils Android's App Store
A competitor to Apple's App Store, the Android Market will allow users to browse, purchase, install, and rate applications on Android handsets.
Oracle Ties Middleware To Eclipse Workbench
Developers can create Java applications using Fusion's WebLogic application server and other middleware services with Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse.
Lenovo Unveils Low-Power Business Desktop PC
The ThinkCentre A62 is also available with Lenovo's optional Dash 1.1 card, which lets an IT department remotely manage, boot, audit and update a desktop.
Motion-Powered Cell Phone Charger Coming Soon
M2E Power said it will have a charger for sale next year that can provide 60 minutes of talk for six hours of motion.
Veoh Lawsuit Dismissal Provides Hope For YouTube
A U.S. District Court judge said the adult entertainment company Veoh is not responsible for users who upload copyrighted material to its video-sharing Web site.
How Do You Make A Robot Fish? Copy Bluefin Tuna
The Olin-Boston Engineering project expects to have a working prototype of its "RoboTuna" by the end of the year.
Orange Caps iPhone 3G Speeds At 384 Kbps
Users have complained that the French wireless provider's capping of network speeds violates the company's service agreement.
User Group Hosting Discussions On SAP Price Hikes
SAP is holding firm on its plan to raise maintenance fees to 22% over the next four years, despite some customers' opposition to the plan.
Sony Readies Thinnest 40-Inch LCD HDTV
The TV includes LED backlighting to produce higher contrast, boosts standard images to high-definition 1080p quality, and uses technology that shows all the colors the eye can see.
EU Court Won't Save McKinnon From U.S. Trial
The hacker, who deleted data from U.S. military and NASA computer systems, claimed he would be subjected to inhumane treatment in the U.S. justice system.
Smartphone Sales To Hit $200 Billion In 2012
Interest in the iPhone and open-source operating systems like Symbian will drive smartphone sales, according to Gartner.
Alcatel-Lucent Considers Former Exec Mike Quigley For CEO Post
The company has been looking for a new chief executive ever since chief executive Patricia Russo and chairman Serge Tchuruk resigned their posts last month.
Web News Aggregators Rise Despite Papers Woes
The ability to get news on a mobile device is flourishing, with several outlets providing context that helps explain particular stories' places in the larger universe of world events.
Cisco To Buy PostPath For $215 Million
Privately-held PostPath, which develops and provides e-mail and calendaring software, will enhance Cisco's WebEx product line, the company said.
SugarCRM Upgrades To 5.1 With Reporting, Analytics, Tracking
The new Tracker feature tells an employer which salespeople are making use of SugarCRM's capabilities, which features are most frequently used, and which are being ignored.
Demand For Spring Skills Dominates Java Programming
Job listings for Java projects that require the open source Spring framework now outnumber those that want Enterprise Java Bean-building skills, the hallmark of traditional Enterprise Java programming.
What Do SMB Wi-Fi Customers Want?
A good percentage of small to medium businesses are planning to upgrade to 802.11n in the next 12 months, according to a survey from ABI Research.
NASA Security Badge Poses Safety Risk
The badge's metal clasps, if installed backwards, will become a projectile when the badge is opened creating a potential eye injury hazard.
Oracle Tabs New CFO, Reporting To Safra Catz
Jeff Epstein most recently served as CFO of Oberon Media, a privately held Internet game technology provider and publisher.
Linux Systems Being Hit By SSH-Key Attacks
The attack appears to rely on stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system and then uses a local kernel exploit to gain root access, whereupon it installs the "phalanx2" rootkit.
Dell, IBM Revenue Growth Double Overall Server Market
The overall market recorded its ninth consecutive quarter of positive revenue growth, increasing sales by 6.4% over the same period a year ago to $13.9 billion.
Virus Found On Computer In Space Station
Citing security policies, NASA would not disclose details about how the virus got on a laptop on the International Space Station.
Spammers Use 'Hijacked' Babies To Lure Victims
The social engineering campaign includes an attached file, purportedly a photo of the recipient's child, but which is, of course, malware.
Internet Explorer 8 Release Approaches As Microsoft Offers Second Beta
The beta includes a number of new security features, including protection against cross-site scripting attacks and a phishing and malware filter.
Nortel Demo Puts 4G Wireless One Step Closer
The company demonstrates the first live Long Term Evolution handoff between cell sites, but data speeds were lower than what's been promised.
Dell Looks To Tap Emerging Markets With Latest Business PCs
The Vostro notebooks and desktops are tailored for companies and institutions in countries where low-cost, basic computers are strong sellers.
The 'Poor Man's Traffic Intercept'
A weakness in the Border Gateway Protocol makes the Internet's core infrastructure look about as watertight as a screen door.
MIT Model Helps Computers Think Like Humans
The researchers' algorithm lets computers use multiple approaches to examine data, much like the way humans size up the world.
iPhone Password Flaw Discovered
Once the emergency call keypad is accessed through the passcode entry screen, a person only needs to double tap the home button.
Era Of Exclusive Video Game Deals Ending
Rising development costs might force console makers Microsoft and Sony to publish more video games themselves, as independent studios avoid exclusive deals for blockbusters.
Dell Explains Cloud-Computing Trademark Attempt
The computer maker can appeal the Patent Office's rejection of its trademark application for the commonly used term.
hi5 Offers Mobile Social Networking In 26 Languages
The social networking site's hi5 Mobile service is aimed at smartphone and PDA users worldwide.
'Misleading' U.K. iPhone Ad Pulled
Viewers complained that they couldn't access "all parts of the Internet" due to the lack of Flash and Java support on the handset.
Retailers Use Social Media To Spur Back-To-School Sales
Researchers see growth in Web 2.0-style campaigns as fall shopping season kicks off.
Japan's Ricoh To Buy Ikon Office For $1.6 Billion
Office equipment makers have been snapping up distributors to strengthen their sales channels and product offerings.
Nokia Continues Its Cell Phone Dominance
The dual strategy of targeting developing countries with low-cost mobile phones and instituting price cuts for its mid-tier devices helped propel its momentum, Gartner said.
Immersion To Pay Microsoft $20.75 Million To Settle 'Force Feedback' Suit
The agreement stems from a complex arrangement under which Immersion agreed to pay the software maker a portion of moneys obtained from a similar settlement with Sony.
SaaS Doubts Give Remote Infrastructure Services Life
Remote managed services are a stepping-stone toward cloud computing for companies with economic, legal, or security concerns about software-as-a-service, a Gartner analyst says.
Mac Clone Maker Psystar Plans Antitrust Suit Against Apple
Psystar claims Apple's restrictions on third-party hardware makers violate U.S. antitrust laws.
Mozilla's 'Ubiquity,' A Command Line For Web 2.0
The goal is to make it easier to combine data in the Web browser and allow users to define their own commands, like macros than span applications.
Amazon Buys Social Network For Book Lovers
Shelfari is a nearly 2-year-old social networking Web site in which users build virtual bookshelves of the book titles they've owned or read.
Inventor Sues Google, Verizon, Others On 'Visual Voicemail'
Klausner Technologies previously sued and won settlements from Time Warner's AOL and Vonage Holdings.
FAA Computer Glitch Causes National Flight Delays
The problems began when an Atlanta facility that processes flight plan information went down due to a software malfunction, FAA officials said.
Blame iPhone 3G Reception Problems On Carriers, Not Handset
A global survey of owners found their iPhones operated with very slow speeds, especially in metro areas like San Francisco.
Aircell Signs Up Fourth Airline For Wi-Fi Service
CEO Jack Blumenstein expects there will be some 2,000 commercial airplanes offering Aircell's in-flight Gogo Internet service by the end of next year.
Obama's VP Text Reached 2.9 Million
With the success of the announcement, advertisers may take a closer look at SMS as a marketing tool, Nielsen Mobile said.
Nations Respond To Google Earth Threat
From banning Google Earth to simply ignoring the mapping service, countries are working to deal with potential security violations arising from the images Google makes available online.
Acer Drops Mini-Notebook Prices
The Windows or Linux-based PCs include 1.6 GHz Atom processors, built-in Webcams and Wi-Fi support, and a three-cell rechargeable battery.
Adobe Launches Photoshop Elements 7, Photoshop.com Storage
New features in Elements 7 include a tool that lets users brush away unwanted images, such as passers-by in a photo's background.
Online Pharmacy Risks Rising, Report Finds
Criminals are trying to take advantage of consumer interest in low-cost medicines by offering counterfeit drugs and spamming to drive sales at online pharmacies.
Disney Exec Wins Award Named For 'Last Lecture' Author Pausch
Ed Catmull is the first winner of the award, which will be given annually by Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.
QuickBooks Comes To iPhone, BlackBerry
The application will enable customers to get an up-to-date view of their finances from a smartphone.
AT&T Adds Two International Data Plans For iPhone
While still expensive, the latest offerings are hundreds of dollars less than pay-per-use international data roaming charges.
Qatar Telecom To Pursue Rapid Expansion
The company's recent acquisitions include a stake in Kuwait's National Mobile Telecommunications.
Internet Explorer 8 To Include 'Stealth' Privacy Mode
Microsoft's forthcoming Web browser will feature four tools that let users surf the Web anonymously.
HTC Adds Windows Mobile Smartphone
The HTC S740 has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, integrated Wi-Fi, 3G capabilities, assisted-GPS, and is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1.
Acquisition Scorned By Zi, Nuance Sues For Patent Infringement
The patents involved are entitled "reduced keyboard disambiguating system" and were obtained by Nuance when it acquired Tegic last June.
National Tech Medal Winners Include eBay, OS Creator, And Net Engineer
The National Medal of Technology and Innovation is the nation's highest honor for technological achievement.
Facebook Blocks Scrabulous Worldwide
The social networking site's ban on the word game follows a legal dispute between the game's creators and Hasbro.
HP Closes $13.9 Billion EDS Acquisition
The deal creates the world's second largest IT services and outsourcing vendor, trailing only IBM.
Nvidia CEO Huang Outlines Smartphone Strategy In Battling Intel
The graphics chipmaker's mobile strategy revolves around the smartphone, which "will become the next personal computer," said CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at Nvidia's Nvision 2008 conference.
Q & A: Futurist Ray Kurzweil
We caught up with the visionary inventor at SpeechTek 2008, where he talked with InformationWeek about speech technology, his new cellphone reading machine, and two new movie projects.
Nokia Rolls Out Pair Of N Series Smartphones
The Nokia N85 and N79 pack integrated Wi-Fi, 3G capabilities, built-in GPS, and robust multimedia functionality over a Symbian operating system.
Electronic Arts, Take-Two In Confidential Talks
EA offered to buy Take-Two for $25.74 a share, or about $2 billion, in April. The bid was promptly rejected as too low.
Video Demand Spearheads 802.11n Wi-Fi At Colleges
Several vendors led by Aruba, Cisco, Meru Networks, and Trapeze Networks are deploying 802.11n networks on campuses across North America.
This Year's Data Breaches Surpass 2007 Totals
The rising number of reported data breaches in the last eight months may just mean corporate security auditors are better at finding compromised systems, ITRC researchers suggest.
Amazon's Kindle May Go Back To School
The company could be aiming its e-reader at colleges and universities to get a chunk of the $5.5 billion textbook market, according to a McAdams Wright Ragen analyst.
Embarq To Trim 4% Of Workforce
The former Sprint landline operator will confront its declining customer base by dropping 1,000 company and contract positions.
iPod Nano To Get Makeover, Digg Founder Reveals
Apple's iPod lineup is set for an overhaul, including a thinner Nano with a larger widescreen display, according to Kevin Rose's predictions.
Chipmakers Get Moving With Motion-Sensing Chips
The success of Nintendo's Wii and Apple's iPhone has convinced chipmakers of the strong potential for micro-electro-mechanical systems chips.
India's Infosys To Buy U.K.'s Axon Group For $753 Million
Axon, which provides services to companies using products of German business software maker SAP, would be delisted.
IBM Wins International Services Deals
Contract wins in India and Russia boost the company's global outsourcing unit.
8 Million-Record Data Breach Claim 'Grossly Unsubstantiated,' Says Best Western
The hotel chain says that only 13 customer records may have been exposed, not the millions that a Scotland newspaper reported.
Canada To Review Yahoo-Google Ad Deal, Reports Say
Canadian antitrust authorities will look at whether the pact violates the country's competition rules.
AMD Selling Digital TV Group To Broadcom For $193 Million
The acquisition, which includes ATI-AMD integrated Xilleon DTV processors, will let Broadcom flesh out its growing DTV product line.
NASA Investigates Rocket Failure
The space agency said that no injuries have been reported but warned that rocket debris could be hazardous.
QinetQ's Zephyr Captures Unmanned Flight Record
The solar powered aircraft soared 60,000 feet above the Sonoran Desert for more than 82 hours.
Microsoft Photosynth Buckles Under Demand
The 3-D photo-stitching service slowed to a crawl after receiving more than 286,000 image uploads on its first day.
Citrix Unwraps XenApp 5, Presentation Server Upgrade
Citrix Systems' Presentation Server, renamed XenApp, fits into a broader suite of desktop virtualization and virtualizes Windows applications on central servers for shared access.
Iran Stokes Fears With Telecom Satellite Launch Plans
The satellite will be sent up using missile technology the West fears is being developed to fire nuclear warheads.
Obama Announces Biden Veep Pick Via E-Mail, SMS
Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Fuel Cell Tech Demoed In Hydro Auto Race
Six international teams competed in what was billed as a motor racing championship for hydrogen-powered vehicles.
Getting Fit Online: Your Guide To Web Workouts
Has watching nonstop Olympics coverage left you flabby, but eager to get fit? A variety of online workout sites, gaming systems like Nintendo's Wii Fitness -- even Apple's iPhone -- can motivate and whip you into shape.
FCC Puts Off Plan To Change Cell Roaming Rules
Chairman Kevin Martin had proposed guaranteeing that carriers who owned unused spectrum could continue roaming for four years before they lost roaming rights.
Red Hat Confirms Intruder Breached Fedora Servers
The enterprise Linux software vendor referred to the incident on Aug. 14 as "an issue in the infrastructure systems."
Mozilla Unleashes TraceMonkey For Firefox
The project aims at enhancing Mozilla's JavaScript engine and speeding up the rendering and response times of the Web browser.
Dell Wins, Sun Loses In Latest Server Survey
Overall, the worldwide server market showed solid growth, driven in part by an upswing in x86 server replacements.
Apple MobileMe Reportedly Vulnerable To Data Loss
Sniffing public file sharing folders is the latest in a string of problems that has plagued the service, which replaced Apple's .Mac service.
Orville Wright, Former MCI Exec And AT&T Challenger Remembered
Wright was also the driving force behind MCI's e-mail service -- MCI Mail -- which was popular in the 1990s.
Google Continued To Gain U.S. Search Share In July
Google increased its share by a small amount, while Yahoo and Microsoft had small decreases, according to ComScore.
China Blocks iTunes Access Over Pro-Tibet Album, Users Claim
Government Web site calls "Songs Of Tibet" offensive, says citizens want Apple boycott.
U.S. Carmakers Lag In Eco-Friendly Features
Detroit is more focused on power-train technologies, such as hybrids or battery-powered electric vehicles than it is on navigation and telematics, an iSuppli report said.
Memory Stick With 84,000 Prisoner Records Lost In U.K.
U.K. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith blames PA Consulting, a contractor that stored the data on the memory stick in violation of its contract.
Microsoft Readies 'InPrivate' And 'Cleartracks' Internet Privacy Tools
Trademark applications show that the features are designed to let users conceal their movements on the Web.
GSM Trade Group: 4 Million HSPA Monthly Signups
U.S. HSPA business has been paced by AT&T, which recently moved to deploy HSPA across America in preparation for the recent rollout of Apple's iPhone 3G.
Web TV Wins Media Olympics; Mobile TV Gets Silver
With free Olympics video in abundance on the Internet, viewers have little incentive to seek out grainy pirate images, analysts suggest.
UC Berkeley seeking Helpdesk Team Lead in Berkeley, CA
Hebrew SeniorLife seeking Telecommunication Analyst in Boston, MA
Novant Health seeking Chief Technology Officer in Charlotte, NC
ISES, Inc. seeking SAS Oracle Clinical Developer in Clinton, NJ
Lowe's seeking Network Engineer II in Mooresville, NC
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Today's Top News
- Broadcom Says Qualcomm In Contempt On Patents
- Dell's Profit Drops As IT Spending Slowdown Spreads
- FBI Arrests Blogger Over Online Music Sharing
- Best Western CIO Scott Gibson On The Data Breach That Wasn't
- Google Unveils Android's App Store
- Oracle Ties Middleware To Eclipse Workbench
