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Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson became the latest high-profile technology company to disappoint investors with its first quarter earnings report, saying today that low-price handsets from competitors was pinching its profits Sony Ericsson said it earned US$41 million in the first quarter, a 61 percent decrease compared to a year ago, while sales w...

A worm that made its way into Reuters private instant messaging system, causing the company to temporarily shut it down, is a warning to enterprises, one IM security company told TechNewsWorld "This is a wakeup call for the entire enterprise market," Francis deSouza, CEO of IMLogic, which offers IM enterprise security, said. "If you're deploying in...

A job posting on IBM's Web site seeking programmers to enhance the Firefox Web browser with new features to compliment its On Demand middleware stack is stirring speculation about the open-source browser's chances to grab enterprise market share from rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) Analysts said Big Blue is probably moving to sell more ser...

A critical path to growth for any company is the creation of business proposals that ultimately are accepted by prospective customers. Unfortunately, it has been my experience that many proposals are poorly prepared and lose site of both their goal (to secure a sale) and their audience (the prospective customer) This article is based on an actual s...

In the hopes of getting Linux developers interested in supporting their hardware, VIA Technologies and XGI Technology, both Taiwanese chip makers, have released the source code for some of their drivers XGI Technology released code for X.Org, XFree86.Org, and Kernel.Org for desktop, notebook, and servers. VIA released the source for the S3 Graphics...

Today is tax day, but those who think this expensive event only comes once a year should examine monthly phone bills and beware of recent actions by greedy bureaucrats Anyone who's ever taken the time to inspect their landline or wireless phone bill will know that, on top of the price of service, the government piles on a heap of taxes such as the ...

Tens of thousands of people who want to wipe out their debts in bankruptcy court would have to work out repayment plans instead under legislation Congress approved Thursday A 302-126 vote by the House sent the legislation to President Bush, who said he was eager to sign the measure, the biggest rewrite of the bankruptcy code in a quarter-century. I...

After suffering a string of multi-million dollar court settlements with rivals large and small -- including Sun Microsystems last year and more recently Gateway -- Microsoft may now face setbacks for its next-generation Windows operating system known as Longhorn. A court injunction was issued against the software giant this week barring the company from using an important network performance technology it had planned to integrate into the Longhorn OS...

Number two chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced plans to spin off its Spansion flash memory business, which has been a drag on the parent company's performance amid an industry-wide glut of the technology AMD registered for an initial public offering of the Spansion unit, saying the stock sale could raise as much as US$600 million.

Microsoft yesterday released the public beta of its Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM). The application marks Microsoft's first foray into disk-backed backup and recovery Formerly code named Data Protection Server, the software is designed to integrate disk-to-disk and near-continual data protection into its server platforms. Dat...

Cisco Systems announced today it will buy Topspin Communications, a maker ofprogrammable server switches, for US$250 million in cash and options The acquisition gives Cisco, which now has only Ethernet offerings, an entry into the InfiniBand data transition architecture market....

In a recent decision that might have wide ranging implications for the growing number of people who work by telecommuting from home, the New York Appeals Court ruled that a Nashville man who works remotely via a PC for a New York-based union -- but 25 percent of the time performs his employment within New York borders -- must pay New York income tax for his entire salary...

How small can a full-feature consumer camcorder get? Sony is certainly pushing the limits with its latest entry in its digital Handycam family of products The new unit, the DCR-PC55, not only fits in the palm of your hand, but you can practically hide it there. At 1.1-by-4.0-by-2.9 inches, it's smaller than a compact cassette recorder and it weighs...

It is designed to increase network speed, bandwidth, and the ability to share vast amounts of data quickly and easily, but according to copyright owners, the next-generation Internet known as Internet2 has also been facilitating illegal, unlicensed trading of copyrighted music and movie files The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) all...

Nielsen//NetRatings reported today that escalating interest in the Firefox browser garnered a 237 percent spike in unique visitors to the Web site from nine months ago when the site first met Nielsen//NetRatings' minimal reporting levels in June 2004 More than 2.6 million people visited the Firefox site during March 2005 to download the browser and...

PalmOne today announced Tungsten E2, an update to its popular Tungsten E. E2 adds Bluetooth wireless capability, longer battery life, a better display and flash memory to the PDA standby, which has been on the market since October 2003 The flash memory ensures that even if the batteries drain completely, the device will retain all the data containe...

It is designed to increase network speed, bandwidth, and the ability to share vast amounts of data quickly and easily, but according to copyright owners, the next-generation Internet known as Internet2 has also been facilitating illegal, unlicensed trading of copyrighted music and movie files The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) all...

In a victory for mobile operators, MPEG LA, which includes electronics giants Sony and Philips Electronics, said today it will cut its proposed antipiracy software royalties by one-third per electronic device The decision marks the group's response to feedback that high tariffs could stifle the growth and innovation of the digital music and video m...

Wireless e-mail connectivity will be a built-in feature on all smartphones by the end of 2008, according to a new report from Gartner that underscores the shift in the hand-held device market and portends massive future changes Gartner said wireless e-mail is on its way to becoming a mainstream mobile application as common as voice communications a...

Microsoft yesterday released its monthly security updates, which on this "Patch Tuesday" included fixes for the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer (IE), MSN Messenger, Exchange Server and Word. The company designated five of the patches as critical and three as important Analyst Ed Moyle of Security Curve said its vital for Microsoft us...