Skype’s Internet calling service will soon be accessible at The Cloud’s Wi-Fi hot spots across Europe, the two companies announced on Tuesday. Although normal online access to Skype’s voice over Internet Protocol services is free Continue reading “Skype lands deal for Wi-Fi access in Europe”.…more
IBM plans to crank up the speed on its Power6 server chip to 5.0GHz, far higher than competing processors from Intel and Sun Microsystems. Despite its high frequency, the chip will avoid overheating through its Continue reading “IBM cranks up speed of Power6 to 5.0GHz”.…more
eWEEK Labs was disappointed to find that a couple of well-liked search and cookie options have been changed in RC2. Privacy-conscious users will be particularly disappointed by the changes in cookie handling. We’ve always liked Continue reading “Mozilla’s Firefox 2.0 RC2 Is a Step ? Backward?”.…more
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will announce the Rev G Turion 64 X2 and Mobile Sempron CPU lineups, which will debut as the chip vendor’s first 65nm-made mobile processors, in 2007, according to motherboard makers familiar Continue reading “AMD schedules 65nm Tyler launch for 2Q 2007”.…more
Finishing off one of the tech sector’s worst-kept secrets, Google announced an agreement to acquire online media phenom YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. The companies announced after the bell Monday that the Continue reading “Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 billion”.…more
A recent SitePoint and Ektron survey of Web professionals suggests AJAX will soon surpass Flash as the predominant Web development model of choice. Increases in expected Microsoft-based endeavors, however, make it difficult to predict a Continue reading “AJAX to overtake Flash?”.…more
Hewlett-Packard has made an agreement with former board members George “Jay” Keyworth and Tom Perkins to pay “any reasonable expenses” that they have already incurred in connection with the HP board snooping scandal. Perkins is Continue reading “HP agrees to reimburse two for cost of snooping”.…more
The X-Prize Foundation is hoping the cash prize will inspire someone to sequence the hunam genome faster and cheaper than in the past. $1 million dollars will be given for decoding the genomes of 100 Continue reading “The $10 million genomics race”.…more