Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

Samsung yesterday announced three new technologies targeted at the expanding, multi-faceted mobile application industry At a press conference held in Seoul, Dr. Chang-Gyu Hwang, Samsung's semiconductor business president and CEO, introduced a 16 Gb NAND flash memory, a 7.2 Megapixel CMOS image sensor for high-end digital pictures, and fusion semico...

Sun today announced a new family of enterprise-class x64 multi-core available servers powered by AMD Opteron processors and running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) Sun said the new servers are about one-third the power, one-and-a-half times the performance, and cost half as much as comparably configured 4-way servers from competitors....

In a move to compete against rival Google, Microsoft yesterday said it plans to release new tools to help developers build software applications that work with its MSN online search and instant messaging products Microsoft will publish Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to several of its public Web sites. An API is a set of definitions of the wa...

Chief information officers (CIOs) anticipate steady growth in the hiring of information technology (IT) professionals, according to the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report released this week Sixteen percent of executives polled plan to hire full-time IT staff in the fourth quarter of 2005, while 4 percent expect personnel reduc...

Phishing scams seeking to steal donations earmarked for Hurricane Katrina victims may have started a week ago, but security experts said to expect a spike in this fraudulent activity in the weeks to come Scam artists often prey upon the sympathy for tragedy victims by sending out millions of spam messages requesting aid be sent to a particular bank...

Enterprises are driving the adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) security solutions, according to new research from the In-Stat group The report, "Trends and Spending Plans for Security Appliances: Are We Ready for VoIP?," covers the impact of VoIP in the security appliance market, and concluded that while VoIP can add many desirable new...

In a move that could have major implications for the software industry, Computer Associates yesterday pledged open access to key innovations covered by 14 of its U.S. patents -- and counterparts of these patents issued in other countries -- for individuals and groups working on open-source software CA also announced it has reached a long-term, pate...

While the open-source license covering the Linux operating system is not scheduled to be released for public comments until early next year, there is already speculation about how some of its provisions could impact developers Specifically, the General Public License (GPL) version 3, a draft scheduled for release in January 2006, could contain a pa...

Borland Software yesterday announced the release of JBuilder 2006, the latest upgrade to its Java integrated development environment (IDE) designed to speed up industrial Java application development JBuilder 2006 includes new capabilities aimed at helping software teams more effectively collaborate in real time. New peer-to-peer developer collabor...

In a move to grab market share in the world's largest population base, Skype this week announced a joint venture with Tom Online, China's leading wireless Internet provider. The joint venture seeks to push Skype's Voice over Internet Protocol software and services to Tom Online's more than 70 million wireless Internet users The joint venture builds...

Borland Software today announced the release of JBuilder 2006, the latest upgrade to its Java integrated development environment (IDE) designed to speed up industrial Java application development JBuilder 2006 includes new capabilities aimed at helping software teams more effectively collaborate in real time. New peer-to-peer developer collaboratio...

In a move to grab market share in the world's largest population base, Skype yesterday announced a joint venture with Tom Online, China's leading wireless Internet provider. The joint venture seeks to push Skype's Voice over Internet Protocol software and services to Tom Online's more than 70 million wireless Internet users The joint venture builds...

Linspire said yesterday that it would give away free copies of its Linux desktop operating system until Sept. 6. Linspire Five-O was launched in March and retails for US$49.95 The company said it decided to give away the software because a package called Freespire has caused confusion in the marketplace. Freespire is comprised of various open-sourc...

Nikon this week announced two WiFi-enabled digital cameras, the Coolpix P1 and P2. The models allow consumers to immediately transmit images wirelessly directly to a computer or printer adapted for wireless printing Analysts said the Coolpix eight-megapixel P1 and the five-megapixel P2 are indeed the world's first digital cameras with built-in WiF...

Just about a week after Microsoft threw down the gauntlet in the Open Source Development Labs' (OSDL) courtyard, IBM yesterday threw it back at Microsoft Two IBM-sponsored research reports arguing that Linux is less expensive both to buy and to operate than Windows and Unix come on the heels of Microsoft's invitation to the OSDL to co-sponsor a stu...

Just about a week after Microsoft threw down the gauntlet in the Open Source Development Labs' (OSDL) courtyard, IBM yesterday threw it back at Microsoft Two IBM-sponsored research reports arguing that Linux is less expensive both to buy and to operate than Windows and Unix come on the heels of Microsoft's invitation to the OSDL to co-sponsor a stu...

Mercury Computer Systems and Terra Soft Solutions announced today they have joined forces to deliver an advanced dual-PowerPC 970FX-based High Performance Computing cluster node The duo announced an alliance to provide the XR9 with its 64-bit Linux OS 'Y-HPC' and cluster management suite Y-Imager, pre-installed and configured. The heart of the tech...

In what appears to be clear evidence that the digital revolution is ready for takeoff, results from a commercial mobile TV pilot in Helsinki, Finland, reveal consumers are willing to pay for services Specifically, 41 percent of pilot participants said they would be willing to purchase mobile TV services, according to the study, and half thought a f...

Microsoft made the first beta of its new file system available to the Microsoft Developer Network ahead of schedule. But analysts still have questions about the functionality of the program WinFS is a relational file system for Windows. Microsoft calls it an essential piece of its Integrated Storage strategy that bridges the gap between file system...

Microsoft made the first beta of its new file system available to the Microsoft Developer Network ahead of schedule. But analysts still have questions about the functionality of the program WinFS is a relational file system for Windows. Microsoft calls it an essential piece of its Integrated Storage strategy that bridges the gap between file system...