Articles by

Cisco and IBM are expanding their long-standing partnership with the extension of their Global Services Alliance into 46 new countries The two partner firms collaborate on many initiatives and products. The expansion of this particular initiative suggests that it is going exactly as the companies planned, Charles King, principal with Pund-IT, told ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday filed civil fraud charges against four former executives of troubled telecom gearmaker Nortel Networks, which has spent the past several years embroiled in an accounting mess The executives had engaged in "accounting fraud to bridge gaps between Nortel's true performance, its internal targ...

Intel welcomed two new additions to its family of quad-core processors Monday with the arrival of the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors L5320 and L5310. The two server chips sport the added benefit of energy efficiency, operating on 50 watts of power "We are thrilled to drive further records in lower power consumption and we won't stop here. Our engi...

To help meet demand for online streaming video of the upcoming NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship, CBS SportsLine is doubling its bandwidth reserves and offering preregistration The company, part of CBS Interactive, expects "an even greater audience" for the March Madness games than it enjoyed last year, when it served more than 19 milli...

Seagate Technology has been working on delivering a laptop hard drive with built-in hardware encryption for a couple of years, but now the technology is finally hitting the streets, the company announced Monday Seagate's new Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (full disk encryption) uses a government-grade security protocol to encrypt all hard drive information tr...

Microsoft is introducing a number of productivity tools to its Dynamics product line that should extend ERP (enterprise resource planning) functionality and data throughout the enterprise using the familiar user interface (UI) and productivity tools in the Microsoft Office system This release -- specifically a license package of Microsoft Dynamics ...

Most federal agencies have failed to comply with a decade-old law designed to ease public access to government information over the Internet, according to a report released Monday A mere one out of every five federal agencies actually complies with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act amendments, or E-FOIA, the National Security Archive said i...

The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) got busy early this year. The technology standards division of the National Retail Federation (NRF), ARTS began in 2007 with the introduction of several e-commerce data and content management standards Among those standards, ARTS -- in partnership with the NRF's Shop.org division -- introduced...

The movement to Internet protocol (IP)-based phone systems and contact centers is in full swing. This is great news for smaller businesses, since standards-based IP networks offer far more flexibility and capabilities for much lower costs than their TDM (time-division multiplexing) predecessors As a bonus, the protocol that runs the Internet handle...

Don't you get a sense that we are on the edge of some big changes? Whether it is the PC market, the consumer electronics market, the server market -- anyone notice Sun is actually getting stronger? -- the network market, or the world in general, we seem to be seeing a lot of change all of a sudden. Clearly, we can't talk about all of that this week, but we can chat about a few things...

Sun Microsystems, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, announced it would open source its online game server platform, called "Project Darkstar," which is written entirely in Java technology The source code for Project Darkstar will become available under a GPL (general public license) in the coming months, the company stat...

If one were to conduct a survey of technology publications over the past decade or so, it's a good bet there would be at least one instance in each of those years in which someone declared that "this is the year of biometrics." Full of promise but long constrained by a diverse set of obstacles, biometrics -- or the use of body or physical character...

Scientists in Europe have created a robotic salamander that uses an amphibian type central nervous system to switch from swimming to walking as it crawls onto land out of water The "Salamandra Robotica," built by the Biologically Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG) at Ecole Polytechnique Federale (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, is a groundbreaking crea...

As part of its crackdown on fraudulent e-mails promoting bogus investments, the Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended securities trading of 35 companies that have been the subject of such e-mails Sometimes called pump-and-dump schemes, these e-mails typically urge the recipient to buy a stock -- usually an over-the-counter or pink sheet ...

Oracle has joined the board of the Eclipse Foundation, an open source consortium, and says it will donate its Java persistence framework, Oracle TopLink, to help grow the new Eclipse Persistence Platform Project The Eclipse software is already widely used for writing applications in Java and other programming languages, and TopLink is one of the pi...

AT&T wants to renegotiate a long-standing partnership with Yahoo, apparently seeking a scaled-down deal to gain greater control over the content delivered to its broadband customers. The move could cost Yahoo nearly a quarter billion dollars in annual revenue The deal, which Yahoo signed in 2001 with SBC Communications -- now AT&T -- is believed t...

AT&T wants to renegotiate a long-standing partnership with Yahoo, apparently seeking a scaled-down deal to gain greater control over the content delivered to its broadband customers. The move could cost Yahoo nearly a quarter billion dollars in annual revenue The deal, which Yahoo signed in 2001 with SBC Communications -- now AT&T -- is believed t...

AT&T wants to renegotiate a long-standing partnership with Yahoo, apparently seeking a scaled-down deal to gain greater control over the content delivered to its broadband customers. The move could cost Yahoo nearly a quarter billion dollars in annual revenue The deal, which Yahoo signed in 2001 with SBC Communications -- now AT&T -- is believed t...

For some, it may seem like a dream come true. For others, it may feel like an April Fools' Day joke come early, but make no mistake about it: The beer-launching fridge has arrived John Cornwell, who graduated last year from Duke University with a degree in electrical and computer engineering, is the mastermind behind the innovation that's sure to b...

Microsoft plans to skip its monthly round of security patches scheduled for release next Tuesday, despite at least five zero-day vulnerabilities waiting to be fixed Redmond is working on patches for known vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 7, Office 2007's Publisher 2007 and Windows Vista OS, but is not ready to release any fix at the moment, acc...