During a recent question and answer session with Brad Brooks, corporate vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing, he gave his take on Windows 7 on netbooks, or mini-notebook PC's. ... More...

Microsoft will release a set of best practices for administrators running data centers, focusing on energy-saving strategies the company is implementing in its own operations, CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday. Those tips will covers... More...

Intel Corporation touts the Z-P140 PATA Solid-State Drive, the company’s latest product in the SSD market, as being “smaller than a penny” and weighing “less than a drop of water”. The devices are available in... More...

Western Digital has achieved record areal density in its Magnetic Head Operation labs in Fremont, California, using its perpendicular magnetic recording/tunneling magneto-resistive head technology, allowing the leading maker of hard disk drives to product 3TB... More...

IBM has released a slew of new products intended to underscore its commitment to 'information management'. Big Blue released version 8.4 of its Enterprise Content Management product at the Information on Demand 2007 conference in... More...

Indian technology firm NetAlter Software has unveiled details of what it claims is a virus and spam-free "internet alternative". According to the company, it has patented a "true P2P" system that offers a domain-less alternative... More...

Microsoft is using a Web-based comic strip to try to reach a broad set of consumers and convince them that they can benefit from the new Ribbon-based user interface found in Office 2007. While much... More...

Siemens Enterprise Communications on Dec. 11 will introduce a new line of IP phones for its IP PBXes that bring out a number of advances in user interface design. Siemens with the new OpenStage IP... More...

Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled more details concerning its forthcoming chips that will include both central processing and graphics processing capabilities. Apparently, the processors currently referred to as Fusion will still fit into AMD's open... More...

Buffalo Technology, a well-known supplier of memory modules from Austin, Texas, is expected to unveil memory modules at 1200MHz and 1250MHz in the near future, according to reports from Japan. The company already sells 1150MHz... More...

At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Boston July 11-13, the company again is hoping to go vertical via its massive Microsoft Business Solutions partner channel to become a bigger enterprise resource planning player. At the... More...

Intel Corp. may have another trump in its sleeves, which has never been discussed before. Apparently, the company has a feature called central processing unit (CPU) Core Multiplexing Technology, which is already supported by its... More...

Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for WindowsVista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts ofthe operating system or applications without having to reboot theentire machine. Microsoft officials have... More...

Speaking at a supercomputing conference in Seattle, Gates announced that the company has reached the Beta 2 stage for its Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. The product consists of both a cluster-optimized version of Windows... More...

Japanese boffins have succeeded in achieving what's touted as the World's fastest continuous quantum cryptography key generation. Researchers from NEC, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and the Japan Science and Technology Agency... More...

At the end of 2004, US retail giant Wal-Mart talked with leading manufacturers of optical disc drives (ODDs) in Taiwan concerning OEM production of entry-level DVD recorders, according to some Taiwan-based ODD makers. Wal-Mart wants... More...

Microsoft on Thursday is holding a summit with members of the E-Mail Service Provider Coalition to address the use of Sender ID technology as a standard to fight spam and phishing. The... More...

Press conference also reveals some new games and an innovative translation program for Sony's portable device. During its press conference today, Sony Computer Entertainment revealed that the number of third-party Japanese publishers... More...

Microsoft is looking at a ten-year strategy for success in Japan for its Xbox platform, key Xbox executive Peter Moore has told the official Xbox Japan website, with new strategies for the market set to... More...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced a few new developer tools but otherwise played a greatest-hits set before an audience of about 10,000 information technology professionals at the TechEd conference here Monday. Delivering... More...

Via Technologies this week revealed details on a new processor core. Via's C5J core, often referred to by the code-name Esther, will be capable of producing chips that run at 2GHz or higher. Despite being... More...

Intel, Adobe, Microsoft and more than 30 other companies have said they will co-operate to conjure up a standard for 3D graphics. Dubbed the Universal 3D (U3D) format, the intention is to create a way... More...

Open-source technology will force software vendors to create better products, but will not be its downfall, according to a Novell executive. Matt Asay, Novell's director of Linux business office, said Tuesday at the... More...

Nvidia today began shipping its latest mobile graphics chip, the GeForce FX Go 5700, to notebook manufacturers, who expect to offer product based on the part to punters early next year. The 130nm 5700 builds... More...

Information worker productivity is at a tipping point, becoming a workspace for innovation, integration and teams, with Microsoft itself making a major transition and working with its partners to make this happen, Jeff Raikes, Microsoft's... More...

PalmSource said the next version of the Palm operating system for handhelds will offer improved multitasking and graphics capabilities. Version 6.0, code-named Sahara, will be launched Dec. 29, PalmSource said Monday at... More...

Samsung yesterday unveiled a 1Gb DDR SDRAM chip that beats the size problems common in parts of that capacity by combining two 512Mb dies in a single package. The chip should pave the way for... More...

Consumers shouldn't be worried that Microsoft Corp.'s new security technology will wrest control of their PCs and give it to media companies, Bill Gates said on Tuesday. They can always choose not to use it,... More...

Linux software vendor Red Hat Inc. plans to officially announce Monday two enterprise applications it has been developing and selling for the past year: a content management system and a portal server. Red... More...

Cisco used this week's Broadband DSL Forum in Berlin to promote fibre-based Ethernet access as an alternative, far faster broadband technology for homes and businesses. It lined up telcos and ISPs from... More...

A PDF circulating amongst those HP partners that Carly's Thought Police have failed to stamp out, has senior research scientist David Mosberger going ecstatic over the performance of IA-64 Linux on the company's boxes. ... More...

Nildram the UK ISP has set up a migration service for BT ISDN users to upgrade to wires-only ADSL. The conversion process from Highway ISDN to Nildram Home, or Office, ADSL service... More...

Scalpers jump the queue to score tickets Touts have hacked into the World Cup ticketing computers to jump phone queuing systems and order seats, according to reports in Japan. The Yomiuri... More...

Ericsson is bringing to Australia a bundle of products and services that may provide carriers and would-be carriers with an economical way of delivering broadband services including telephony, video and high-speed Internet into the home... More...

Infineon today announced the release of engineering samples of 1GB DDR SDRAM modules. The company also says it has demonstrated working 2GB DIMMS last month at the Intel Developer's Forum. And it's giving another showing... More...

Sony claims it has developed the biggest notebook display in the land. The company on Monday introduced a new Vaio GRX notebook that sports a 16.1-inch display. Sony says it's the first... More...

Microsoft Corp.'s new Web services software will allow developers to create secure applications more easily and screen out the kind of unauthorized commands that are commonly used by malicious hackers, according to a review commissioned... More...

IBM is making security and wireless communications key design elements in its PC fall fashions. On Tuesday, Big Blue will officially announce three new lines in the Netvista family, A, M and X... More...