Articles by Jay Lyman

Intel may be abandoning some failed efforts at developing technology -- including a 4 GHz Pentium 4 and silicon for large-screen, liquid crystal televisions -- but the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant is going in the opposite direction on wireless. Today it announced it would throw its weight behind WiMax provider Clearwire Intel said it wi...

As servers with dual-core processors come closer to hitting the market,Microsoft announced today it will not base its per-processor softwarelicensing charges on the number of cores in a chip, sticking to thetraditional price per processor, regardless of its number of cores The issue has risen in significance as software vendors with per-processorli...

AMD and Intel have shifted focus away from processor clock speed toward such issues such as power and heat. But the gigahertz are still climbing in one market segment: theultra high-end, where gaming enthusiasts want the fastest silicon available It is not a large market, but it is a loyal one that includes customerswilling to leave behind a $2,000...

In an effort to avoid consumer confusion and information overload, and atthe same time to mirror the success of companies like Amazon and Dell,Microsoft has unveiled a new shopping site for Windows hardware andsoftware The software behemoth said the main reason for theWindows Marketplace site was to present all of the nearly 100,000 Windowsadd-ons ...

Search superstar Google rolled out a new short message service (SMS) thisweek, delivering its search and other Internet data to mobile phones ofseveral major vendors through text messaging The Mountain View, California-based company indicated it will be testing a beta version ofthe free service in the U.S., where text messaging has beenmuch slower...

Satellite radio got a bolt of energy with the announcement that shock jockHoward Stern will be delivering his controversy-stirring show over the Sirius satellite radio network starting in 2006 While the company remains number two in satellite radio to XM -- whichearlier this year added former NPR voice BobEdwards to its roster -- Sirius hopes to ga...

The second private space flight in a week piloted by history's second civilian astronaut was worth US$10 million today as the Paul Allen-funded SpaceShipOne (SS1) touched the edge of space and returned to Earth winner of the Ansari X Prize The SS1 team, who will collect the prize officially at a presentation November 6, reached the designated 62-mi...

PalmSource is paving a path for its operating system (OS) to suit phonecapabilities in the small but growing smartphone market Previously limited to handheld personal digital assistants (PDA), whichhave not grown at nearly the same rate as mobile phones, PalmSource says itslatest Cobalt OS, version 6.1, would have integrated telephony componentsinc...

IBM is set to announce this week a major radio frequency identification(RFID) strategy that involves integrating the next-generation supply-chainand tracking technology with existing data systems Seen as a refinement and eventually replacement of barcode supply-chaintracking and inventory, the wireless tags and readers are slowly gainingtraction in...

Sony Electronics, maker of the first portable music device in the Walkmancassette player, has switched course on the format of its latest digitalplayers, which will now support the consumer format of choice: MP3 Sony's MP3 move is a departure from supporting only its own Atrac format,which is among a number of proprietary alternatives that, while t...

Touting research that showed the world's DSL broadband connections grewby more than 30 million subscribers in the year ending in June, the DSLForum claimed the broadband technology is doubling and dominating broadbandcable connection growth Analysts pointed out that there was a sizeable gap between DSL and broadband cable deployments, which used to...

AMD and IBM are extending their microprocessor manufacturingcollaboration deal another three years and will now continue workingtogether on next-generation computer chips through 2008, according to aSecurities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing from AMD this week The extension, which has yet to be approved by IBM's board of directors,builds on a ...

U.S.-based TruSecure is merging with Betrusted to create a security company with global reach. The new company, to be called Cybertrust, hopes to respond to the expanded risks in IT of not only vulnerabilities and viruses, but also compliance with government regulations on the handling of information The merger agreement, which has yet to beapprove...

UK officials announced this week the arrest of a 20-year-old there suspected of stealing Cisco source code last May in a case of software theft involving integral Internet components, such as routers and switches, that rely on Cisco's Internet Operating System (IOS) While the Cisco source code -- posted to a Russian Web site and other Internet sour...

In a lukewarm endorsement of a bounty system for spammers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said offering US$100,000 to $250,000 to whistleblowers inside the spamming community would help catch the online criminals In a report assessing the feasibility of a system that rewards members of the public for tracking down spammers, the FTC cited the dif...

In a lukewarm endorsement of a bounty system for spammers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said offering US$100,000 to $250,000 to whistleblowers inside the spamming community would help catch the online criminals In a report assessing the feasibility of a system that rewards members of the public for tracking down spammers, the FTC cited the dif...

Just as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has emerged as a significant competitor to traditional telephone services and has grown more pervasive in U.S. homes and businesses, television via high-speed Internet is becoming a reality as both broadband and competition grow Evidence of the broadband TV steps that both telecommunications and content p...

Microsoft's monthly security update was highlighted this week by a JPEG-handling vulnerability that could allow pictures in the format to provide attackers access to targeted machines Microsoft also announced an "important" code-execution vulnerability in a WordPerfect 5.x converter, but rated the JPEG weakness -- a common buffer-overflow vulnerabi...

Two new computer worms have security experts both worried and wondering. One new virus is now capable of monitoring a network to steal passwords or other information, and another virus can hijack the voice capabilities of Windows XP to announce its presence to users Experts agree that the network monitoring or "sniffing" capability displayed in the...

In an effort to defend its dominance in router technology, Cisco has released three new multifeature routers aimed at smaller businesses and branch offices The new routers, known as the 1800, 2800 and 3800, represent an upgrade from Cisco's previous offerings and also highlight an emerging class of competition for business networking gear....