January 08 2004 -
Intel throws down the TV gauntlet - By Michael Kanellos, CNET
News.com, LAS VEGAS--Intel is making an integral component for
expensive televisions, but analysts say it could be a tough uphill
climb. At the Consumer Electronics Show here on Tuesday, the chipmaking
giant formally unveiled Cayley, a complex semiconductor designed to
produce images for projection televisions and displays measuring 35
inches or more across. The chip is expected to be released in the second
half of the year. Although relatively small now, the market for these
displays could hit 21 million to 45 million units by 2007, according to
various estimates. Because these types of chips now sell for $150 to
$300 apiece, the endeavor could become an attractive sideline for Intel.
It's already a $500 million market, according to iSuppli/Stanford
Resources. And Dell, Hewlett-Packard and other traditional Intel allies
are just getting into televisions...
January 09 2004 -
Adobe Helped Gov't Fight Counterfeiting
- nevadasurveyor.com, By THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS, WASHINGTON (AP) -- Adobe
Systems Inc. acknowledged Friday it
quietly added technology to the world's
best-known graphics software at the
request of government regulators and
international bankers to prevent consumers
from making copies of the world's major
currencies. The unusual concession has
angered scores of customers...
January 2003 -
Google vs. Evil - WiredMag, Issue 11.01, The world's biggest,
best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a
simple rule: Don't be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that moral
compromise is just the cost of doing big business., By Josh McHugh,
Life used to be so much easier for Sergey Brin. In the autumn of 1998,
he and Larry Page unleashed Google with a clear mission: Help computer
users find exactly what they want on the Internet. Newbies flocked to
the site, grateful for a simple search engine that was both powerful and
intuitive. More sophisticated techies came to appreciate Google's
computational elegance and its willingness to shun the "portal" model
that crammed ecommerce down their throats. Within months, Google became
one of the most popular sites on the Web - and not long after that,
"Google" became a verb. Today, Internet users spend about 15 million
hours a month on the site. Google.com logs more than 28 million visitors
each month, nearly as many as Yahoo! and MSN. Nearly four out of five
Internet searches happen on Google or on sites that license its
technology...
January 27 2004 -
Gloomy forecast for MyDoom fallout - By Robert Lemos, CNET News.com,
The
mass-mailing MyDoom virus has become the fastest spreading program to
date and the damage could continue for months or years. The virus,
also known as Novarg and Mimail.R, spread quickly across the Internet on
Monday, traveling as an e-mail attachment and infecting PCs whose users
opened the malicious file. When opened, the virus installs a stealth
program on the victim's computer that opens up a software "back door."
Attackers can then bypass the PC's security and turn the system into a
bounce point, or proxy, for any network-based attack...
January 16 2004 -
Search may be Microsoft's next target,
court told - By Declan
McCullagh, CNET News.com, Microsoft
may be unlawfully wielding its desktop
dominance to put the squeeze on search
engines and on document formats like Adobe
Acrobat, the state of Massachusetts
claimed on Friday. Massachusetts, the only
state government still pursuing antitrust
claims against Microsoft through the
federal courts, made its allegations in a
legal filing with U.S. District Judge
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C.
"If Microsoft is taking steps to hobble
the competitive effectiveness of these
rival products and thereby supplant them,
such serial killing of competing
technologies is a serious and troubling
prospect," read the three-page filing,
which offered no details. In addition,
Massachusetts charged Microsoft with
demonstrating "troubling business
behavior" that could run afoul of existing
court orders...
January 13 2004 -
Tech economy rebound, nano revolution coming
- ZDNET, According to
Phillip Bond, Under Secretary of
Commerce for Technology at the
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, the Bush
administration’s call to send
Americans to Mars and establish
a permanent human presence on
the moon is “one more extension
of pushing out the frontiers of
knowledge and seeing what we
find and seeing how it might
apply to other industries.” As
the tech policy point person for
the Bush administration, Bond is
at the center of debates about
nanotechnology, U.S. IT job
losses to offshore workers,
space colonization and other
policy issues. In our Face to
Face interview, Bond discusses
the Bush administration’s
science and technology
policies...
January 08 2004 -
IBM turns inward with Linux desktop
project - By Stephen Shankland,
CNET News.com, IBM's chief information
officer has directed the company to begin
an internal project to evaluate Linux for
use on desktop computers, a further
endorsement of the open-source operating
system. A November memo from CIO Bob
Greenberg said IBM Chairman Sam Palmisano
has "challenged the IT organization, and
indeed all of IBM, to move to a
Linux-based desktop before the end of
2005." IBM's actual plan, however, is not
so bold, spokeswoman Trink Guarino said...
