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AMD announced the release of its Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card Monday. The company's latest offering, courtesy of its 2006 ATI acquisition, combines two ATI Radeon 3870 chips on a single graphics board, connected via an integrated CrossFire technology The double-barreled approach makes AMD the first graphics technology provider to "break the Tera...

Cisco Systems released a new data center switching technology designed to make it easier for IT network managers to create a centralized data storage center The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is part of Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision, which reverses the previous client-server side architecture that many data centers were using. The move comes in response ...

Amazon.com is taking its digital music store to the world -- a necessary move if the online retailer hopes to compete with a digital giant like iTunes Amazon will roll out its music store internationally this year, offering music that is free of digital rights management copy-protection technology that is more a weight on music sales than a benefit...

Desktops crash all the time, but e-mail is forever. Or so some 14,000 customers ofCharter Communications may have thought until they tried to log on recently and found their messages and photos gone and never to return It was a software glitch during routine maintenance that caused Charter to permanently dump the 14,000 active accounts. To compensa...

Fewer people are thumbing through newspapers, but more than ever are clicking on them, according to the latest industry findings -- and that trend appears to be on an upward spiral, with no end in sight What it means to newspapers' profitability, however, remains a mystery....

The proliferation of marketing channels represents a key challenge for every CMO seeking to optimize return on marketing investments. Today, the marketing department is tasked with maximizing return across dozens of marketing channels Most organizations have become intimately familiar with the need to leverage multiple technologies in marketing -- ...

Typically I pick two or three things that I think were interesting, chat about them briefly and then make my product of the week selection. I'll still do my product of the week thing but, on doing the background work on Dell and Microsoft joining the (Product) Red campaign, I started to get really upset, not once but twice, and thought I would share why this week...

Black Duck Software announced today the availability of Black Duck Code Center software to help manufacturers accelerate software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Code Center manages software component selection, project approval and license tracking designed to maximize benefits to organizations from their reuse of open source and other third-party software components...

The global mobile handset market ended 2007 with a bang, recording shipments of more than 300 million devices in the fourth quarter, according to a report released by IDC Friday. While year-over-year growth for 2007 slowed, the 334 million handsets shipped during the holiday season set a new industry record and was an increase of some 15 percent over the previous quarter...

ATG is building out its personalization feature set with the US$10 million acquisition of best-of-breed vendor CleverSet. It is the first acquisition the company has made since its $48.3 million eStara deal in 2006 CleverSet is an automated personalization engine delivered in Software as a Service mode. Sometimes called "recommendation engines," "d...

Microsoft posted an impressive quarter on Thursday, with Vista and Office sales setting the pace. The software giant also issued a strong outlook for the current quarter and all of 2008 -- something many of its fellow tech companies have been unable to do Microsoft's earnings rose about 79 percent for the quarter that ended in December -- its fisca...

Computer manufacturer HP has unveiled a new ultra-slim business desktop, the Compaq dc7800 desktop PC. The energy-efficient desktop features a 16 GB solid-state hard drive (SSD) and also meets the requirements of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Gold registry, HP said The introductions of the dc7800 and the Compaq dc5800...

Recently, I wrote an article for the E-Commerce Times entitled "The Dollar's Decline and Its Implications." Since then, I was fortunate enough to interview the president of the Single Global Currency Association, Morrison Bonpasse, to get his take on the current state of the dollar Opinions abound about the implications of a weak currency. Therefor...

Today's top companies know that the most effective way to grow revenue is by developing and maintaining strong relationships with current and potential clients. A company's own employees are building these relationships every day, and helping each other with introductions whenever possible Unfortunately, finding the right introduction is difficult....

At this week's Digital Life Design (DLD) conference in Germany, renowned scientists Craig Venter, Ph.D., and Richard Dawkins wowed the audience with a conversation about genes and information technology. They discussed how evolution is becoming man-made, which brings up a number of interesting issues "Genetics has become a branch of information te...

YouTube has amped up its catalog of videos accessible by mobile phones around the world. Now users of more than 100 million devices can access tens of millions of YouTube videos on what YouTube is calling the "largest repository of mobile video content available." YouTube for Mobile, which is accessible from any browser in addition to mobile phones...

The Federal Communications Commission began its long-awaited 700 megahertz wireless spectrum auction Thursday, setting in motion a process that could help determine how -- and by whom -- next-generation wireless services will be delivered The FCC has said the auction could raise more than US$15 billion for the federal government. The spectrum also ...

Storm clouds are roiling anew over Washington this week as the impending expiration of the Protect America Act brings surveillance legislation to the forefront of congressional attention once again Not least among the rumbles of thunder was an address delivered Wednesday by Vice President Dick Cheney at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think...

Sprint Nextel announced the layoffs of three top executives on Thursday, continuing the company's restructuring as it attempts to bolster its sagging financial situation The three executives -- Chief Financial Officer Paul Saleh, Chief Marketing Officer Tim Kelley and Mark Angelino, president of sales and distribution -- will leave the company on F...

The global music industry is winning some sales battles, but online piracy continues to pummel it in a larger war As a result, the industry's worldwide trade group is calling on Internet regulators to assist in bringing an end to illegal downloads....