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Rio Rancho, N.M., may not provide its citizens with all of the services available in larger cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia, but the small city six miles north of Albuquerque is leading the technological race to provide a citywide WiFi network The rollout of wireless Internet access is already underway in Rio Rancho, one of the fastest g...

In a move to compete in one of the Internet's fast-growth markets, IBM yesterday announced plans to start offering hosted service for its Web conferencing. Big Blue will target small- to mid-sized businesses (SMB) with an offering planned for December Web conferencing software integrates teleconferencing and the Web to allow users to gather in an o...

Skype Technologies, viewed by many as a pathfinder in the bid to bring voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) calling to consumers, said it has collaborated with Siemens on technology that will enable traditional cordless phone users to have their calls sent over the Internet The product, being made available first in European countries such as Englan...

Microsoft yesterday released a patch aimed at protecting its ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000), an enterprise-level firewall and Web cache server, and Proxy Server 2.0, which serves as an Internet gateway for networked computers The affected software includes Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 Service Pack 1, Microsoft Internet Security ...

Intel announced the latest versions of its Itanium 2 processors, six chips designed to add heft to the product line The manufacturer released three multi-processor chips, two dual-processor chips and a low-volt chip. At the high-end, the highlight of the announcements is a 1.60 GHz processor with 9 MB Level 3 (L3) cache. The chips will cost $4,226 ...

Confident that its technology now is on a par with its competition, Microsoft reportedly plans to formally launch its long-awaited new search product tomorrow, taking the search wars to a new level in the process Microsoft reportedly has been working on the search engine for 18 months and made a beta version of it available for public and developer...

An alleged Microsoft hacker was arrested yesterday on charges that he illegally sold a secret source code used for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 programs The United States Attorney's Office in Manhattan charged William P. Genovese, Jr., 27, of Connecticut, with unlawfully distributing a trade secret via his illmob.org site....

Microsoft announced today that it would extend its indemnification program to all end-users of its software products. According to analysts, however, the move is more a way to ease customers' fears than a real value-add The software giant's policy protects end users of software -- including Windows Server System, SQL Server and Exchange Server, Mi...

As of November 15, the Big Four record label cartel's 'Man in Canada' will be Graham Henderson, senior VP of business affairs and e-commerce for Universal Music Canada, who manages Universal's e-commerce strategy and helped launch the Puretracks plastic music site He'll soon be running the CRIA, short for Canadian Recording Industry Association, so...

"Guilty" on all three counts was the finding of the Virginia jury on November 3 in the nation's first felony spam prosecution. The greatest shock was when the jury returned a sentence of nine years against Jeremy Jaynes when many on the jury did not even know what spam was prior to the eight-day jury trial. The result has prompted debates on electronic message boards and other media outlets around the world...

Why are most technology corporations so stubborn to admit puzzling marketing issues? They are somehow used to a torturing path, all in the name of "tough times and rough markets." It's a puzzle, especially when in relation to creating a new innovation, solving such marketing issues are the easiest thing to fix....

The Mozilla Foundation today officially released its open-source browser, Firefox 1.0, but the news won't come as a surprise to a great many computer users. Since it released its preview version in September, 8 million people have downloaded the super-fast browser, a direct descendant of Netscape The Firefox project began about 19 months ago, and t...

Security firms are warning of a new e-mail worm that began infecting computers just days after the vulnerability it exploits in the Internet Explorer (IE) browser was made public The worm, which some information security experts say is a variation of the MyDoom virus that ravaged the Web earlier this year, is spread through e-mail but does not rely...

AMD Sets Chip-Making Course With CharteredJay LymanGearing up to supply a growing demand, AMD hassecured a microprocessor sourcing and manufacturing deal with Chartered Semiconductor,which will add capacity for production of AMD's Altlon64 and Opteron chips AMD said it will have its Dresden, Germany facility cranking out itslatest processors, but w...

In a boon for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today barred states from imposing telecommunications regulations on Internet phone providers "This landmark order recognizes a revolution has occurred," FCC Chairman Michael Powell said at the agency's monthly meeting....

In just the latest example of a technology company aggressively protecting its intellectual property, Toshiba has filed lawsuits alleging that Hynix memory chips violate Toshiba patents Japan's Toshiba filed suits in Tokyo and in U.S. District Court in Texas. The Japanese suit alleged infringement on patents relating to flash memory technology used...

Computer Associates yesterday announced the launch of its eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware r5. The new product integrates CA's eTrust Security Management software portfolio with a revised version of the PestPatrol anti-spyware application CA acquired in an earlier buyout The software, with a retail price of US$39, is backed by the CA Security Advisor...

In what has become a closely watched event in the world of high performance computing (HPC), the 24th edition of the Top500 list yesterday crowned IBM's BlueGene system the world's fastest supercomputer BlueGene set a record Linpack benchmark performance of 70.72 teraflops, or trillions of calculations per second. BlueGene offers peak performance o...

The information technology (IT) industry in Pakistan faces challenges that need to be understood by everyone preparing to send or receive IT services from that country Restrictions on funds transfers from the U.S. to Pakistan, implemented after 9/11, are causing problems for firms in Pakistan that need to receive funds from the U.S. Some U.S. clien...

Long known as a technology and hardware provider, Unisys has pushed to diversify, joining the ranks of large systems integrators just when many companies are drawn to the simple, low-risk offerings of hosted solutions providers. Unisys, however, sees that trend as temporary, and its CRM leaders feel confident that the firm's holistic, even complex business-intelligence overlays will put it at the top of a competitive set...