ASPEN, COLORADO — Technology and entertainment companies need to put aside past differences on how to address file-sharing using peer-to-peer software and work together on ways to protect digital content such as music and movies, the head of a major music label says.
Edgar Bronfman ... [read more]
April 30th, 2007
Advanced Micro Devices has challenged Intel to a public fight to see which company has the best-performing 64-bit dual-core server processors.
The company placed advertisements in major U.S. newspapers this week proposing a contest that would pit the fastest server based on a dual-core AM ... [read more]
April 30th, 2007
Yes, there are alternatives to Microsoft’s omnipresent Word text editing application.
One of them is little-known TextMaker from German software vendor SoftMaker Software, which announced this week the beta release of its newest version for the Windows operating system.
PC u ... [read more]
April 30th, 2007
There’s a famous scene in the classic movie
Caddyshack in which Bill Murray (playing demented greenskeeper Carl Spackler) says that in order to defeat the gopher that’s ruining his golf course, he must think like a gopher. Troubleshooting computers can be a bit like th ... [read more]
April 30th, 2007
Part 2 of a special five-part series.
As a teenager running his own online chat server in the 1990s, Barrett Lyon had no idea that the attacks routinely pounding his server would evolve into an Internet scourge that earned serious profit for online criminals.
Lyon says that ... [read more]
April 30th, 2007
The surprising strength of the PC market this year won’t give PC vendors a corresponding rise in revenue, according to a forecast released today by research firm Gartner.
After initially downplaying expectations for the PC market in 2005, Gartner and fellow research firm IDC have rep ... [read more]
April 30th, 2007
Google has improved its Google Desktop PC and Web search application by adding to it a panel that provides information from a variety of sources, the Mountain View, California, company announced Monday.
Google Desktop 2.0, which is in test, or beta, mode, includes a feature called Sidebar ... [read more]
April 30th, 2007
Speed and heat are out at the world’s largest chipmaker; power management and cool are in. This week Intel will reveal details about a new chip architecture that will allow the company to put a lid on the runaway power consumption of its Pentium 4 and Xeon chips and to create chips with mor ... [read more]
April 30th, 2007
