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Not giving up on its foray into portable media players despite the iPod's dominance, Microsoft is expanding and improving its stable of Zune devices and pairing their release with a new, music-oriented social networking site Chairman Bill Gates and Corporate Vice President J. Allard announced three new Zune models, including two based on flash memo...

Avid Technology has long had a sterling reputation among videoprofessionals for its editing systems. However, while widely respected withthe pro set, its consumer offerings have been at worst ornery and atbest, disappointing. Then the company acquired Pinnacle Pinnacle's heritage in consumer video on a PC stretched back to the daysof low-octane com...

The holiday shopping season is almost upon us. Many online retailers are still trying to get everything ready for the anticipated hordes of shoppers who will be beating down their online gates to buy gifts for their loved ones and friends Most retail sectors depend heavily -- and some, almost exclusively -- on December sales to make their yearly nu...

Just a couple of weeks ago, two terms, on-demand and Software as a Service (SaaS), were used interchangeably -- it was truly a difference without a distinction -- but a lot has changed in a short time First, Salesforce.com introduced Force.com, and a day later SAP announced a long awaited on-demand product, SAP Business By Design. The difference be...

A long-simmering debate among top Linux developers has boiled over recently, resulting in a flame war of sorts on a kernel forum Linux creator Linus Torvalds and kernel developers working to harden Linux systems with security modules have been exchanging heated words over a security application slated for the upcoming 2.6.24 kernel release....

Given the penchant of online scammers to exploit high-visibility events for their own malignant purposes, security experts were unsurprised this week to learn that Myanmar has became a vehicle for planting malware on unsuspecting users of personal computers The e-mail scam publicized by endpoint security and control firm Sophos uses a Microsoft Wor...

IBM made several developments in its RFID (radio frequency identification) partner and product platform that should make software and hardware integration of the technology easier for firms, the company said For starters, standards organization GS1 EPCglobal certified the IBM WebSphere RFID Information Center as fully compliant with its EPCIS (Elec...

Adobe Systems is buying the maker of the Buzzword Web-based wordprocessing software, marking a shift in strategy for the maker of Flash and Acrobat and setting up a showdown over Internet-based applications with the likes of Microsoft and Google Adobe will purchase Waltham, Mass.-based Virtual Ubiquity and said the move is part of a larger push to ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has opted to postpone the planned opening of its new National Applications Office (NAO) that would oversee the expanded use of spy satellite imagery of American territories, the agency announced Monday. The NAO had been scheduled to start operations on Oct. 1 The decision came after the agency received seve...

Enthusiastic Wii gamers know that it can be hard not to get carried away in play, but one consequence of the fun can be a damaged Wii Remote. With such players in mind, Nintendo on Monday announced the new Wii Remote Jacket, which is designed to add an extra level of protection The Wii Remote Jacket is a durable, silicone cover for the Wii Remote t...

As it battles Microsoft to try to gain some of the Web search market share gobbled by Google, Yahoo has upgraded its search technology with a feature that makes suggestions while users type Called "Search Assist," the new feature arrives several days after Microsoft similarly unveiled improvements to its Live Search....

Handheld device maker Palm saw its stock take a hit after reporting a fiscal loss for its first quarter and issuing a weaker-than-expected forecast that suggests it is struggling to regain ground lost to rivals such as Research In Motion and Apple and as it shifts its focus to lower-cost devices Palm reported a net loss of US$841,000, or a penny pe...

Only a few companies can afford to spend millions of dollars onresearching and developing new technologies for their product lines, butthat doesn't necessarily exclude smaller businesses from getting theirhands on cutting-edge innovation Each year, thousands of discoveries aremade at universities, and many of them are left on the shelf because they...

Only a few companies can afford to spend millions of dollars onresearching and developing new technologies for their product lines, butthat doesn't necessarily exclude smaller businesses from getting theirhands on cutting-edge innovation Each year, thousands of discoveries aremade at universities, and many of them are left on the shelf because they...

Only a few companies can afford to spend millions of dollars onresearching and developing new technologies for their product lines, butthat doesn't necessarily exclude smaller businesses from getting theirhands on cutting-edge innovation Each year, thousands of discoveries aremade at universities, and many of them are left on the shelf because they...

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) has been a highly touted technology in recent years, but concerns -- particularly among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) -- about high costs and actual benefits have hindered its adoption That's gradually changing as developers and vendors focus on systems design, development and interoperability of spe...

Turbolinux, one of the first-generation Linux vendors to enter the business arena, on Monday announced a new online storage service for its Wizpy device, which was first introduced in June The Wizpy, which behaves as a Linux operating system as well as media player, now provides an online storage service fromOmnidrive, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based s...

The explosive growth of pay-per-click (PPC) search advertising has created an US$8.2 billion industry led by Google, according to JupiterResearch. More than 60 percent of companies recently surveyed by JupiterResearch stated they intend to increase their spending on search advertising This growth in search spending means increased competition for ...

With the current ban on Internet access taxes due to expire on Nov. 1, tensions rose last week when a move to extend the ban stalled in the Senate The Internet tax ban has been in place since 1998, having last been renewed in 2004 for another three years. On Thursday, the Senate Commerce Committee was scheduled to vote on S. 1453, the ITFA (Interne...

Consumers who thought Christmas would be the perfect time to join in on the hottest craze in video game consoles could be disappointed, according to Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America. The supply for Wiis will remain tight for the 2007 holiday season, he said Extremely high demand for the consoles has outstripped even Nintendo execu...