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Cisco Systems blew past Wall Street targets for revenue and earnings in its first quarter as telecommunications companies, government agencies and consumers helped power the Internet gear maker's sales to strong growth. The company said revenue in the quarter totaled US$5.1 billion, up from $4.8 billion in the same period last year, a gain of abou...

As everyone knows well, there was a time when you couldn't swing a hastily written business plan without finding someone so pie-eyed optimistic about the tech sector they'd break open their kid's piggy bank to help fund it. How things change. Today, you can't toss your underwater stock options out the window without hitting 10 die-hard skeptics sq...

The first installment of this two-part series explored the notion that despite consumers' increasing demand for strong multimedia capabilities, vendors' low-end notebook computers can be a suitable replacement for home desktop PCs After all, the days of hundreds of dollars' difference between laptops and notebooks have disappeared, Randy Ramirez, p...

Promoted as a way to foster digital television but derided as a halfhearted antipiracy measure that caters mainly to Hollywood, a new mechanism known as the "broadcast flag" has been adopted by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC will require the copy-control measure to be built into all digital television-capable devices by July 1, 2005...

Chip giant Intel claims to have cleared a major hurdle in the quest to maintain power and heat efficiency in computer chips by discovering a process to shrink the transistors on the chip smaller and smaller to atomic levels. The Santa Clara, California-based company said it has identified new materials that could replace those that have been used ...

Hoping to use cold, hard cash to crack two frustrating investigations, Microsoft has set up a US$5 million "reward fund" to pay bounties to those who track down writers of malicious code. The company launched the program by offering to pay two $250,000 bounties for information that leads to the capture and conviction of the authors of the SoBig an...

Reporters and analysts covering the technology industry have one thing right: The insecurities that lurk within software represent a legitimate threat to commerce and potentially even national security But it's time to stop blaming Microsoft....

Executive road warriors probably would not want to tote Dell's $849 Inspiron 1100 or Gateway's $699 M305S. However, while sub-$1,000 notebook computers may be bulkier and less technologically cutting-edge than their more streamlined siblings, they still pack a powerful punch for a consumer's buck Indeed, for average consumers, who generally need to...

MTV, which sat on the sidelines while Apple, Napster and MusicMatch rushed into the online music market, has finally decided to get off the bench and enter the game. The Viacom-owned company said it will launch its own online music download service to compete with a list of players that seems to grow almost daily....

In a move that could significantly alter the Linux competitive landscape, Novell has said it will buy privately held SuSE for US$210 million in cash. SuSE trails only Red Hat in the race for market share among users of the open-source Linux operating system As part of the agreement, Novell also will accept a $50 million cash investment from IBM whe...

The computer mouse has come a long way since Doug Englebart and his colleagues at the Stanford Research Institute invented the first one back in 1964. Consumers first started using the mouse on the Macintosh. Now almost every operating system relies on a mouse. But some in the technology industry think the days of the mouse could be numbered. Will...

As individuals and companies have become more aware of the dangers facing electronic data, demand for security products has skyrocketed. At Zone Labs, a company that makes personal firewall software both for consumers and enterprises, a little insecurity has gone a long way As a result of a surge in the consumer and commercial firewall markets, Zon...

As part of its 20th anniversary celebration, Borland announced Enterprise Studio 7 for Java, an application lifecycle management system designed to help unify development teams and speed creation of business applications The company's new software brings together three products into one unified environment with modules for designing, developing and...

Intel lost its Xbox contract as Microsoft and IBM announced a collaborative technology agreement for the silicon of the next-generation gaming platform, making Big Blue the semiconductor provider for all three major gaming consoles, including Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's GameCube Intel, however, did manage to score PC gaming wins with announce...

Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is a relatively unique event in the industry. Unlike other conferences of its type, this one is largely staffed by Microsoft programmers -- the same kind of people who generally attend these things. People tend to connect better with those who are similar to them, which makes this kind of conference vastly more powerful than those that are staffed by marketing types talking to developers about what the company will do for them in the future (but often having no actual clue about what is really going on at the company)...

Microsoft has released its first voice-control software for Pocket PC devices that run the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system. While there are many third-party applications available to control Pocket PC devices by voice command, Microsoft hopes its own Voice Command software will transform PDAs and mobile phones into "virtual personal assistants."

Claiming that its "education and enforcement campaign" involving more than 1,500 subpoenas and nearly 350 lawsuits is working, the Recording Industry Association of America has continued suing music file traders accused of copyright violation RIAA spokesperson Amanda Collins told TechNewsWorld that, in addition to the 80 new suits filed late last w...

Yahoo has discontinued its enterprise software division, which it initially set up to push its messaging and Internet broadcast offerings onto corporate desktops. The company laid off an undisclosed number of workers at locations in California, Dallas and Atlanta as a result of the division closing. Other workers found new jobs within Yahoo, as so...

Although a stereotype exists that the political sector is slow to change, once it embraces a new approach, it does so wholeheartedly. The presidential primary race of 2003 is a prime example of this full-speed-ahead mentality: Politicians have discovered the Internet The best example to date of the new, wired politician is Howard Dean, who harnesse...

Now that Apple's iTunes Music Store (iTMS) does Windows and Napster has been rehabilitated, more people are starting to change their music-buying focus, moving from old-school CDs to new-generation digital formats like AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) and WMA (Windows Media Audio) However, the onset of legal music download services has brought a new iss...