Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

It's the sixth week of the all-important online holiday shopping season and the latest stats are in from Nielsen//NetRatings The Internet media and market researcher declared today that online holiday shopping has grown 33 percent year-over-year, according to its Holiday eShopping Index....

If another sequel to "Mission Impossible" makes its way to the big screen, Tom Cruise may receive his assignment via a text message. That's because a new text messaging service promises the digital communication will self-destruct in 40 seconds Staellium UK is playing off the 1960s television hit -- and the current blockbuster movie series -- to pe...

Seeking to take advantage of the many exciting online bargains this holiday shopping season? Be cautious about those e-mail promotions. Some of them contain more than deep discounts and free shipping offers -- they may contain malware Security vendors and messaging companies alike report heightened spam activity during the holiday season. Some of i...

Worldwide semiconductor revenue will total US$235 billion in 2005, a 6.9 percent increase from 2004, according to the latest Gartner Group data. This will be the first time that the semiconductor industry has surpassed the previous record-setting year in 2000 when revenue reached $223 billion "Strong growth in the NAND flash market was a recurring...

With little fanfare, Google yesterday launched yet another beta service related to its mapping products. The Google Transit Trip Planner targets consumers who take the bus. Analysts said the new service could pay advertising dividends for the search giant Google said its new Google Labs service enables travelers to enter the specifics of a trip, th...

Verizon is upping the wireless broadcasting ante in a partnership with CBS Television, announcing that Verizon's V Cast multimedia service will stream some of CBS Television's most watched programs, including "CSI," "Survivor," David Letterman and "Entertainment Tonight," beginning this month CBS chose a selection of its most popular content brand...

Looking to maintain its competitive advantage for years to come, Intel yesterday said it has developed a new, ultra-fast, yet very low power prototype transistor The transistor uses new materials that could form the basis of Intel's microprocessors and other logic products beginning in the second half of the next decade....

A new breed of malicious IM bots are duping users into activating and spreading IM worm payloads with interactive chat, according to IMLogic A malicious bot dubbed "IM.Myspace04.AIM" is being broadcast over the AOL Instant Messaging network. Once one computer is infected, the bot targets its next victim with messages that appear to come from a frie...

Red Hat this week announced a new service to provide full certification and production support for key open-source software stacks Starting in early 2006, Red Hat will offer three new stacks aimed at simplifying and standardizing open-source application stacks. The company said its goal is to allow developers to focus on their applications instead ...

Summer is behind us, but recent memories of credit card processing breaches are still haunting security-conscious consumers, safety-minded merchants and bustling banks While CardSystems Solutions made media headlines in June after a computer virus captured the private information of millions of consumers, it was certainly not the only security brea...

In a move to compete with Verizon, Cingular Wireless today launched its third-generation wireless network The new service is called Cingular BroadbandConnect, and is available to nearly 35 million throughout the United States. The company said it would continue to extend the network rapidly next year....

Sun plans to roll out its first servers based on the new multicore UltraSPARC T1 today. The company has its sights set on gaining market share in sectors dominated by x86 machines Formerly code-named Niagara, Sun has been playing up the new eight-core processor for more than a year and officially introduced it as the UltraSPARC T1 in November....

An Internet Explorer bug has put Google users at risk of a phishing attack, according to a security researcher in Israel Matan Gillon published an article detailing a method for exploiting an unpatched Internet Explorer flaw. The flaw could allow hackers entrance into computers running Google's desktop search tool....

JBoss today said it has acquired distributed transaction monitor and Web services technologies from Arjuna Technologies and HP. JBoss plans to open-source these offerings for its Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) JBoss executives believe the strategic move will propel JEMS further into the high-end market long dominated by proprietary application ...

Skype yesterday released the beta version of Skype 2.0 and announced new collaborations with hardware and software providers "At Skype we want to make talking over the Internet the most natural, simple thing for people all over the world to do," said Niklas Zennstrom, CEO of Skype. "With the release of our new software, it's never been easier for p...

A former assistant to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy joins the list of those who has a beef with the popular online, open-source encyclopedia known as Wikipedia John Seigenthaler joins Google Watch protest site creator Daniel Brandt in his claims that their bios on Wikipedia are not accurate. USA Today published an op-ed by Seigenthaler on No...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) this week released a document specifying the process and guidelines for revising the GNU General Public License (GPL). The FSF will release the first discussion draft of the GNU General Public License (GPL) revision in January 2006 The GNU GPL is the most widely used open-source license worldwide. Almost three qua...

Sun Microsystems this week delivered what it believes is a one-two punch in the battle to create the software platform of choice for the next-generation of the Internet. Analysts, however, are not sure the experiment will do anything beyond reducing pricing power in the field Based on what Sun calls "tremendous momentum" with the Solaris Operating ...

Cyber Monday outpaced Black Friday in the online shopping arena once again this year, which comes as no surprise to e-tail analysts who predicted the phenomenon long ago Nielsen//NetRatings' Holiday eShopping Index saw 15 percent more traffic on Cyber Monday than on Black Friday, drawing a total unique audience of 27.7 million, combined home and wo...

Yahoo yesterday announced the extension of the company's Really Simple Syndication (RSS) platform. The company has added RSS feeds in the new version of Yahoo Mail, which is currently in beta testing RSS is a technology that helps users keep track of their favorite syndicated content from across the Web, including news sites and Web log (blog) feed...