Microsoft is focused on improving its alternatives to the so-called LAMP stack, the combination of the Linux operating system, Apache Web server, MySQL database, and scripting languages PHP, Perl or Python. Microsoft’s anti-LAMP strategy is Continue reading “Microsoft looks to extinguish LAMP”.
Online search-engine leader Google Inc. is preparing to introduce an electronic payment system later this year in a move that would pose a financial threat to one of its biggest advertisers, Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. Continue reading “Google to start new payment system to compete with Paypal”.
SIRIUS gets the nod to go ahead with subscription-based satellite radio service in Canada. Canada has set really strict rules for radio broadcasting as 25% of the Canadian channels must be done in French. Another Continue reading “Satellite radio approved in Canada”.
Intel Corp. will present a paper Friday that will demonstrate its progress toward integrating the current Wi-Fi technologies with the next-generation 802.11n protocol. It is interesting to hear that Intel can integrate 802.11n into their Continue reading “Intel Research Merges Centrino with 802.11n”.
Samsung Electronics has informed several of its clients that its NAND flash chips are not to be used on SD cards but should only be used only in MMC micro cards, according to sources. Some Continue reading “Samsung Electronics has informed several of its clients that its NAND flash chips are not to be used”.
In the prior news post the cell phone giant Cingular is against airline cell phone use, but today Boeing is all for it. Boeing plans on introducing cell phone service in 2006 with or without Continue reading “Boeing unit sees airline cell phone service in ’06”.
The Nokia 770 is looking pretty interesting at this point in the game. The initial version will include a slew of applications including an Internet radio player, RSS reader, e-mail client, video player, a stripped-down Continue reading “Nokia’s 770 Internet Tablet Redefines PDA’s”.
Microsoft is continuing to drop new clues about what users can expect in Longhorn Server, the version of its Windows Server product slated to ship in 2007, and beyond. Pretty interesting info coming from the Continue reading “Longhorn Server Beta 1 to be Released August”.
The recent Nvidia price cuts are aimed to drive market demand during the traditional off-season of the IT industry. Good newsfor consumers as prices are going down. Nvidia recently lowered the price of its GeForce Continue reading “Nvidia cuts prices on entry-level and mainstream processors”.
So your GeForce 6800 Ultra just isn’t enough? Looks like nVidia is set to start selling their upcoming G70-based products at their LAN appreciation day on June 21. Nvidia confirmed with CNET News.com that it Continue reading “nVidia Graphics Chip to Debut at Game Bash”.
Three of the 12 were identified as “critical,” Microsoft’s most urgent alert level in its four-step warning system. On my personal Windows XP Pro system I needed to download 7 patches! Go patch up! Late Continue reading “Microsoft Issues A Dozen Patches”.
VIA expects rising sales from its embedded processor platform to help the company return to profitability this year, despite a loss of about NT$50 million for its 2004 operations, according to company president Chen Wen-chi. Continue reading “VIA looks to embedded market for profits”.
By the end of the year, spyware will have turned to RSS to distribute its key loggers and ad spawners, a security expert says. A vulnerability will be found in one of the big blogging Continue reading “RSS To Carry Spyware Before Year’s Out”.
On 14 June 2005 the Microsoft Security Response Center is planning to release 10 patches including 7 critical. Microsoft will also release an updated version of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool on Windows Continue reading “Microsoft to release 10 patches – including 7 critical on 14 June 2005”.
For 11 days in June, the U.S. military will test cutting-edge technology that could be used on the battlefield–and perhaps in business. Information security is the main technologies being tested and the results of these Continue reading “Armed Forces Ready Battlefield Technology Tests”.
