Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

IBM today said it has formed a joint agreement with Univa Corporation, acommercial software and professional services provider for open-sourceGlobus software Under the terms of the agreement, Univa will deliver a commerciallysupported andenterprise-ready release of open-standard software built around the GlobusToolkit for use across IBM's eServer p...

Low-cost general use PCs are becoming a reality with recent announcementsfrom the MIT Media Lab and AMD. Chipmaker AMD began peddling a US$299 PC designed for emerging markets at U.S. Radio Shack stores over the weekend AMD launched the the Personal Internet Communicator (PICs) in India about ayear ago with high hopes of connecting 50 percent of th...

Smart mobile devices are surpassing the growth in the overall mobile market, according to new research from Canalys Shipments of converged smart mobile devices, namely smartphones and wireless handhelds, grew from 3.6 million in the first half of 2004 to 9.6 million in the first half of 2005, representing a 170 percent year-on-year rise in the Euro...

In a move to tap into the growing popularity of the digital device type that Apple's iPod has made a household name, the Walt Disney Co. yesterday announced plans to peddle a kid-sized MP3 player Disney Mix Sticks is about the size of a pack of gum, holds about 60 songs on a 128 Mb storage card and sells for US$49.99. The Mix Stick can hold an addi...

MIT researchers are forging ahead with plans to put US$100 laptops into the hands of the world's children A prototype of the low-cost laptop is due in November, but Negroponte showed off blueprints at the Emerging Technologies conference at MIT this week....

In its first release since it was acquired by eBay earlier this month, VoIP provider Skype yesterday introduced a new version for Windows platform The new Skype for Windows 1.4 includes more mobility options, new ways for callers to personalize Skype with ringtones, sounds and pictures....

In its first release since it was acquired by eBay earlier this month, VoIP provider Skype today introduced a new version for Windows platform The new Skype for Windows 1.4 includes more mobility options, new ways for callers to personalize Skype with ringtones, sounds and pictures....

MIT researchers are forging ahead with plans to put US$100 laptops into the hands of the world's children A prototype of the low-cost laptop is due in November, but Negroponte showed off blueprints at the Emerging Technologies conference at MIT yesterday....

Just months after its US$250 million acquisition of Topspin, Cisco Systems today announced the first fruit of the merger's labors: technology that will help customers power their on-demand computing systems Cisco said the latest elements of its Data Center Networking Architecture portfolio, InfiniBand-based Server Fabric Switch (SFS) portfolio and ...

Sanyo today unveiled the Sanyo MVP, a multimedia phone built exclusively for ESPN Mobile Targeted to avid sports fans, the Sanyo MVP is designed to work on a high-speed "EVDO" (Evolution Data Optimized) wireless network, enabling it to deliver the ESPN programming at ultra-fast speeds, as well as fast Internet browsing, e-mail access and downloads....

Microsoft and JBoss today bridged part of the gap between open-source and commercial software with plans to explore how their respective technologies can work together better The two companies will explore enhanced interoperability between the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System and Microsoft Windows Server products and deepenJBoss support for the W...

In a bid to grab market share from Microsoft, Sun today launched the latest version of its desktop productivity suite, StarOffice 8. The offering represents the first upgrade for Sun's office software in about two years -- one that is designed with improved compatibility with Microsoft Office StarOffice 8 software includes word processing, spreadsh...

Dell yesterday said it has added multi-core technology from Intel to its portfolio of dual-socket servers and workstations. Meanwhile, AMD also said yesterday that IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun are using its new dual-core Opteron The announcements undoubtedly heighten the competition between AMD and rivalIntel. Analysts said the X86 dual-core proces...

Dell today said it has added multi-core technology from Intel to its portfolio of dual-socket servers and workstations. Meanwhile, AMD also said today that IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun are using its new dual-core Opteron The announcements undoubtedly heighten the competition between AMD and rivalIntel. Analysts said the X86 dual-core processor mark...

With worldwide ringtone sales reaching more than US$4 billion last year, some industry experts have speculated that phone tones will soon outsell CDs. Others, however, speculate that ringtones' success will be shortlived, and that they will eventually go the way of beepers: virtually extinct The question of whether ringtone sales will continue grow...

Nokia is making moves to draw more developers to its platform in an increasingly open-source software landscape. Part of the phone maker's strategy is getting a little cozier with the Eclipse Foundation Nokia this week joined the Eclipse Foundation as a "strategic developer" and board member. Nokia said it will support the Eclipse open-source commu...

In a move to beef up on the latest online security threats, Symantec has agreed to acquire WholeSecurity, a behavior-based security and anti-phishing technology firm Phishing attacks use both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers' personal identity data and financial account credentials....

A Paris-based media watchdog has set its sights on helping anonymous bloggers avoid Internet censors in countries like Iran and China Reporters Without Borders, an organization better known for tracking the abuse and murder of journalists, has turned its attention to online protesters with its "Handbook for Blogger and Cyber-Dissedents."

A Paris-based media watchdog has set its sights on helping anonymous bloggers avoid Internet censors in countries like Iran and China Reporters Without Borders, an organization better known for tracking the abuse and murder of journalists, has turned its attention to online protesters with its "Handbook for Blogger and Cyber-Dissedents."

In yet another step toward the day when consumers everywhere will watch TV on mobile devices, mobile network operator O2 and broadcaster Arqiva have teamed up with Nokia to kick of the United Kingdom's first trial of a full multi-channel mobile TV The trial will run for up to six months and is designed to test and showcase the televisual capabiliti...