Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

Looking for a Web hosting service provider? All vendors are not created equal. A little consumer education goes a long way toward ensuring you get a host that offers the right combination of products and services -- and at the right price "There are so many Web hosting providers out there today," said John Lally, area vice president of marketing fo...

As virus writing is increasing, average time to infection is decreasing, according to a Danish Internet security firm. Sophos' chart of activity for the first six months of 2005 reports there is now a 50 percent chance of being infected by an Internet worm in just 12 minutes of being online using an unprotected, unpatched Windows PC Patrick Hinojos...

It's been a busy week at Opera Software. The Norwegian browser maker said yesterday it has inked a three-year deal with Motorola. The contract is an expansion of an existing deal with the mobile mammoth and assures that the Opera Web browser will be available on all Motorola mobile phones Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox told TechNewsWorld that,...

Microsoft's MSN and Vodafone this week announced plans to launch an instant messaging (IM) service between PCs and mobile phones. The new service will bring together MSN Messenger's 165 million customers with Vodafone's nearly 155 million customers The service will allow customers to see the "presence" of their contacts and exchange instant message...

Microsoft's MSN and Vodafone yesterday announced plans to launch an instant messaging (IM) service between PCs and mobile phones. The new service will bring together MSN Messenger's 165 million customers with Vodafone's nearly 155 million customers The service will allow customers to see the "presence" of their contacts and exchange instant message...

A Norwegian programmer who calls himself DVD Jon has tweaked Google's new Video Viewer application to make it play clips that are not on Google's servers Google launched the new tool on Monday as part of a Web-based video search service to let consumers use keywords to search its indexed video database....

Apple is turning podcasting into an everyday activity for the average person. The iPod maker said it plans to program everything users need to discover, subscribe, manage and listen to podcasts into iTunes 4.9, the latest version of its digital music software and online music store "Apple is taking podcasting mainstream by building it right into iT...

Danish security firm SophosLabs is warning users to beware a new e-mail virus that poses as breaking news stories about the supposed arrest of the author of the MyDoom worm, the capture of Osama bin Laden or conspiracy theories about the death of the late Pope John Paul II. Analysts said social engineering worms like this one are not going away The...

British telephone company BT Group yesterday said it would begin testing Microsoft's TV Internet Protocol Edition software platform to deliver TV over broadband in the United Kingdom early next year BT plans to offer its customers interactive features such as video games, voting, gambling, and online chat services. Commercial service delivery is ex...

Apple is turning podcasting into an everyday activity for the average person. The iPod maker said it plans to program everything users need to discover, subscribe, manage and listen to podcasts into iTunes 4.9, the latest version of its digital music software and online music store "Apple is taking podcasting mainstream by building it right into iT...

IBM and Sun yesterday announced a 10-year extension of their Java technology agreement along with plans to deliver IBM middleware support for the Solaris 10 operating system on SPARC, x86 and x64 systems. Analysts said the agreements play a key role in Sun's new direction "The next wave of economic and social progress will spring from ever-growing ...

AMD yesterday launched its AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 processor, a chip designed to provide realistic graphics resolutions and enhanced PC performance on 3D games and other intense applications As PC gaming continues to escalate, AMD has been on a mission to provide the fastest processor on the market. The company claims its Athlon 64 FX family of process...

AMD today launched its AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 processor, a chip designed to provide realistic graphics resolutions and enhanced PC performance on 3D games and other intense applications As PC gaming continues to escalate, AMD has been on a mission to provide the fastest processor on the market. The company claims its Athlon 64 FX family of processors ...

Sun Microsystems today introduced a new workstation aimed at computer-aided design engineers and software developers -- with a price point low enough that the company hopes it will woo users away from the competition The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation enters the market with a starting price of US$895, or $29.95 a month on a three-year subscription, with ...

The SCO Group on Wednesday officially began shipping its OpenServer 6, the fruit of a multi-year, multi-million dollar development effort that the company is calling a "significant upgrade" to its flagship Unix operating system SCO said OpenServer 6 was designed to provide customers with increased productivity, greater security and more agility thr...

In what has become a closely-watched event in the world of high-performance computing, IBM's BlueGene/L System this week was named the fastest computer in the world on the Top 500 supercomputer rankings BlueGene/L is a joint development of IBM and the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration. It is installed at DOE's La...

EMC and Sun Microsystems yesterday announced agreements on several hardware, software and support initiatives designed to help customers more easily deploy their technologies together The companies will work to ensure compatibility between the EMC family of networked storage platforms and Sun's Solaris 10 operating system. EMC also intends to port ...

HP yesterday announced it has teamed with AMD to address the fast-growing small and mid-size business (SMB) mobile market. The computer maker introduced the 2.4-pound HP Compaq nx6125 Notebook PC, which incorporates AMD Turion 64 mobile technology and includes biometric security features IDC vice president Roger Kay told TechNewsWorld that HP has l...

In what has become a closely-watched event in the world of high-performance computing, IBM's BlueGene/L System yesterday was named the fastest computer in the world on the Top 500 supercomputer rankings BlueGene/L is a joint development of IBM and the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration. It is installed at DOE's La...

Phishers could exploit a vulnerability in several popular Web browsers, according to a report from security research firm Secunia. The flaw would allow cybercriminals to steal personal information from its victims Specifically, malicious Web sites could spoof pop-up boxes in Internet Explorer for both Mac and Windows, Opera, Safari, iCab, Mozilla, ...