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IBM has reportedly come up with a hardware-secured processor design that incorporates encryption onto the chip. The technology could be used to lock down PCs and mobile devices Big Blue made no official announcement, but company executives indicated the technology, dubbed "SecureBlue," was relatively simple, and may even be used with other manufact...

Indian call centers are being purchased by U.S. and Canadian companies seeking to quickly gain access to call center services offshore, particularly outbound services. Although media attention focuses more on the sale of U.S. assets to Asian and Middle Eastern firms, this trend in the other direction highlights how globalization is linking economies, consumers and businesses around the world...

With cell phones now becoming popular fixtures among the masses, securing coverage in even the most remote geographic areas has become an important goal for service providers. Cell towers are expensive, however, costing from US$100,000 to more than $1 million to set up, and present logistical problems, such as clearing local regulations and finding suitable placement...

The global outbound dialing market -- dominated by equipment vendors includingAspect, Avaya, Genesys, Nortel and Cisco -- not only is saturated in many regions, especially North America, but also is facing stiff headwinds, according to a new study by Frost & Sullivan These challenges include a growing backlash against outsourcing, reluctance to upg...

Silicon Valley startup Webaroo is angling for position in the search industry with an approach that is based on storage capacity The company has introduced a software service that allows laptop and handheld users to search a portion of the Web without an Internet connection....

IBM has reportedly come up with a hardware-secured processor design that incorporates encryption onto the chip. The technology could be used to lock down PCs and mobile devices Big Blue made no official announcement, but company executives indicated the technology, dubbed "SecureBlue," was relatively simple, and may even be used with other manufact...

Last November, a European probe took off on a 250-million mile trip to visit Earth's nearest neighbor, Venus. The European Space Agency (ESA) Venus Express team is now standing by as it waits for the probe to touch down tomorrow The mission's first, and most important, objective is the Venus Orbit Insertion (VOI) maneuver. This task involves a seri...

At least one UK-based telecommunications firms may be on the verge of launching a free broadband product, offering high-speed Internet access as a free service that comes with telephone service The yet-to-be-announced services would be a new twist in what is shaping up to be a long and hard fought war to deliver a growing bundle of telecommunicatio...

Violent video game play leads young men to believe it's acceptable to smoke marijuana and drink alcohol, according to the latest study on the digital entertainment medium Dr. Sonya Brady at the University of California, San Francisco and Professor Karen Matthews at the University of Pittsburgh set out to test the effects of media violence exposure ...

Google has gobbled up yet another technology -- this time from a computer science student Down Under Google bought a new search algorithm created by Ori Allon, a 26-year-old Israeli Ph.D. student from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. Allon patented a new way of exploring the Web that he believes could revolutionize existing se...

Consolidation came to the Linux space Monday, with Red Hat saying it would acquire open source middleware maker JBoss in a stock-and-cash deal worth US$350 million Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat said the deal would speed the development of more open source solutions for enterprises and accelerate a shift to service-oriented architectures (SOA)....

Profit margins for American and Canadian mobile phone carriers are soaring -- having reached the highest point this decade during the fourth quarter of last year EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) margins among North American cellular carriers jumped four percentage points during the fourth quarter of 2005, reac...

Last week,Apple became a tentative Windows platform OEM with its announcement of Boot Camp, which allows new Machardware to run Windows XP and, eventually, Vista. Apple had said it wasn't planning to support Windows -- just like it said it didn't plan to supportIntel or bring out flash-based media players Take note: When Apple announces something i...

His name is Jack Bauer. He's a federal agent, and he has almost no time left to complete his urgent assignment for the President of the United States. So, he's going to have to kill you if you don't cooperate That's a typical, weekly scenario from the smash hit Fox TV drama, "24," starring Kiefer Sutherland....

Archaeologists have learned that a pre-Hispanic pyramid recently found in a low-income, high-crime area about 30 miles north of Mexico City is 1,500 years old. They've been digging on the Iztapalapa hillside, known as the Hill of the Star, which is used for the annual re-enactment of Christ's crucifixion prior to Easter The people who constructed t...

Discovery Communications will be adding clips of its video to Google Earth so users can view the footage while surveying national and global sites on the Internet The streaming video will accompany Google's 3D, satellite mapping solution and will feature major world attractions such as natural wonders and historic sites....

An effort to get so-called net neutrality baked into telecommunications laws suffered a setback, with a key committee voting against language that would ensure that Web services firms would be able to access broadband networks to delivery video and other content The Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Commi...

Shares of Research In Motion dropped Friday after the maker of the BlackBerry e-mail reader said revenue fell short of analyst targets for the fourth quarter. The company gave a weaker-than-expected forecast, despite its claim that it has regained momentum now that its legal issues are behind it Ontario, Canada-based RIM reiterated that sales were...

Spending the last week traveling through Australia, visiting a manufacturer, giving presentations and talking with several other companies after my presentations has been fascinating. Before saying anything else, I have to compliment this nation and its people -- they are kind, humorous and have a ton of class Land of Pragmatic Processes...

San Francisco has selected a joint proposal from Google and EarthLink to run its citywide WiFi network. A panel of tech and municipal experts, which remained anonymous until the decision was announced, selected the two companies over MetroFi and four other bidders Now city officials will begin negotiating the final deal. The US$15 million network ...