Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

Will camera phones replace digital cameras for the average consumer? Not by a long shot, according to a new study from IDC. The study refutes what it refers to as a myth about the digital technologies and affirms the notion of peaceful co-existence between the two According to IDC's Mobile Imaging Survey, the myth is suspect at best, especially sin...

Have IBM and Hewlett-Packard outpaced Sun in the worldwide market for Unix servers? IDC declared it so on Friday, but Gartner's numbers tell a different story Generally speaking, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew at 5.6 percent year over year to US$12.2 billion in the second quarter of 2005, marking the ninth consecutive quarter o...

In a move that expands its decade-old data storage management software portfolio, IBM on Friday announced a new application designed to continuously protect information -- on laptops, desktop PCs and file servers -- from viruses, file corruption or accidental deletion IBM is billing its Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files as a "data safety ...

In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies Dubbed Intel Viiv (rhymes with "five"), the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment of digital entertainment. The...

After months of speculation, Microsoft has inked a deal with Hollywood to make a movie based on its popular science-fiction video game series "Halo." Universal Studios and Twentieth Century Fox agreed to pay Microsoft US$5 million plus up to 10 percent of domestic box office receipts. Universal will handle the film's production and domestic distri...

In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies Dubbed Intel Viiv (rhymes with "five"), the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment of digital entertainment. The...

After delivering the industry's first 2.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drive in January 2004, Fujitsu Computer Products this week set out to close the performance and capacity gap between desktop and laptop computers when it announced its latest hard disk drive The MHV2160BT is a 4200 RPM, 160 GB 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) drive engineered to address ...

In what appears to be a clever strategic move to level the playing field, Microsoft is negotiating with the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) to undergo a joint study to determine which operating system best suits the needs of today's enterprises OSDL representatives did not return calls seeking comment....

Korean telecommunications provider KT Corp. announced yesterday it has selected Siemens Communications and Sycamore Networks to deliver an optical switching solution. Analysts said this is a major win for the duo as the world watches broadband development in Korea KT will deploy the intelligent optical switching solution to increase the performance...

There's a new controversy surrounding Linux, but this time it has nothing to do with Microsoft supporters. Linux founder Linus Torvalds recently began defending the trademark for his namesake software, and, as a result, he has found himself having to defend his own reputation in the open-source community ...

Sun Microsystems has unveiled an open-source community project to develop a royalty-free digital rights management (DRM) standard Dubbed Open Media Commons, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz presented the initiative during his keynote speech to leading policymakers, media, telecommunications and technology executives at the Progress and Freed...

WSO2, a company started by key leaders of the Apache Web Services Project, today announced the creation of a new project tasked with creating a Web service mediation framework. The project proposal has been submitted to the Apache Software Foundation incubator under the Web Services project Dubbed Synapse, the new initiative is an open-source imple...

Symbian yesterday reported that worldwide shipments of Symbian phones under the OS-standard tripled in the second quarter of 2005 compared to the year-ago period. The average royalty per unit was also higher than the same period a year ago The company shipped 7.8 million Symbian OS phones in the second quarter. Total shipments of Symbian OS phones ...

Google surprised analysts yesterday by announcing that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of more than 14 million class A common shares of stock The Internet IPO darling has seen its shares triple since going public a year ago. The sale could yield an estimated US$4 billi...

Google surprised analysts today by announcing that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of more than 14 million class A common shares of stock. The Internet IPO darling has seen its shares triple since going public a year ago Google shares closed yesterday at US$285.10 on t...

In a move to bolster its software and enterprise platform strategies, Intel yesterday announced it has acquired privately held XML solutions provider Sarvega. Terms of the deal were not disclosed Intel said the acquisition combines its hardware capabilities with Sarvega's underlying XML software technology and engineering expertise....

As of yesterday afternoon, users of computers running the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system were feeling serious affects of network worms, thanks to a Plug-and-Play vulnerability known as MS05-309. Media outlets including CNN, ABC, the Associated Press and The New York Times have suffered computer shutdowns, and analysts said we haven't seen the end of the drama yet...

Symantec yesterday announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire endpoint compliance solutions provider Sygate Technologies Endpoint compliance solutions help enterprise organizations enforce security by guaranteeing that all devices connected to a network -- desktops, laptops, servers, and mobile devices -- are running the appropriate secur...

Novell this week launched the latest version of its collaboration platform. GroupWise 7 is now available on multiple operating system platforms Novell said the new version delivers significant advances designed to increase end-userproductivity, including integrated e-mail and instant messaging, enhanced Microsoft Outlook support and a pre-bundled l...

The open-source Firefox browser may be the new kid in town, but Microsoft is out to show that the sheriff is back with a vengeance, according to some analysts. New figures from Web monitoring firm Net Applications reveal that Microsoft regained some ground from alternate browsers -- including Firefox -- last month In July, 87.2 percent of Web site ...