May 30, 2008
U.S. Laptop Copied in China?
Citing unnamed sources, The Associated Press reports that government officials are investigating whether contents of a U.S. government laptop were copied during Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutie... More >
Citi Awarded for Building Green
Citi's commitment to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent by 2011 has earned it the honor of being the first business to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ... More >
May 29, 2008
Mozilla Seeks Record With Firefox 3
For people who don't even need a reason to throw a party, Mozilla's offering one. It's started a campaign to get users to generate the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours on ... More >
May 28, 2008
Jury Deadlocks on Alleged Software Theft by Iranian Engineer
A federal jury in Arizona convicted an Iranian man of illegally using a computer in the United States to access software from the nation's largest nuclear power plant. However, they deadlocked on two... More >
May 23, 2008
Uneven Build-Out of Faster Broadband Could Create 'Haves' and 'Have Nots'
The build-out of super-fast broadband is uneven , likely creating a smaller group of "haves" and a larger group of "have-nots" in the United States, according to an Associated Press story in the S... More >
Samsung, HP Expand Green Efforts
Samsung is backing up its Greenpeace "Guide to Greener Electronics" ranking with the release of a new hard drive that the company claims will consume 50 percent less power than traditional hard dri... More >
May 22, 2008
Office 2007 to Allow Rival Formats
In a move to appease competitors and fend of antitrust scrutiny, Microsoft has announced that it will update Office 2007 to accommodate rival document formats beyond its Open Office XML, reports B... More >
Multiple Cable Cuts Slow Internet
Slow or inaccessible Internet service had many grinding their teeth Tuesday, including us here in the Louisville, Ky., offices at IT Business Edge. Cuts in fiber-optic cables were reported in ... More >
May 21, 2008
New XO Morphs to e-Book Design
The One Laptop Per Child project has unveiled its second incarnation of the XO laptop , which has a book-like design and no keyboard, reports BBC News , which includes a photo. The new version, due... More >
May 20, 2008
Race on for Virtualized Desktop
VMWare and Citrix are squaring off in a race to virtualize the desktop. Citrix on Tuesday unveiled its XenDesktop in five flavors , detailed by ZDNet 's Dan Kusnetzky, along with what he cal... More >
May 19, 2008
French Court Backs Windows Refund
In France, where bundled software is illegal and vendors are required to reimburse buyers for unwanted licenses, a court has backed up a buyer against computer maker Asus , reports The Register . &... More >
Ex-OLPC Exec Launches Sugar Labs
Walter Bender, former One Laptop Per Child president of software and content, has left that organization to launch another non-profit, Sugar Labs, devoted to development of the user interface origi... More >
Firefox 3 Release Candidate Unveiled
Mozilla's Firefox 3 Release Candidate is out, with bloggers comparing its merit against Internet Explorer 8, Safari 3.1 and Opera 9.5. It's easier to use, faster and more secure , writes eFl... More >
May 16, 2008
HP Joins Microsoft on Service Pack Reboot Issue
Hewlett-Packard has joined Microsoft in scratching heads over Windows XP Service Pack 3, which goes into endless reboots on machines with AMD chips, reports eWEEK . HP has warned users of... More >
Study Finds Comcast, Cox Most Likely to Block P2P Traffic
Though Comcast has been getting grief from users who allege it blocks peer-to-peer traffic and since has been under investigation by the Federal Communication Commission, a new study finds Cox Commu... More >
XP Coming to OLPC
Microsoft has committed to offering Windows XP for the One Laptop Per Child project , though it previously had expressed concerns about whether it could make XP work on the limited storage, repor... More >
May 15, 2008
Hairy Horde Attacks Computers
In what would seem to be the bad plot of a low-budget horror flick, hairy, reddish-brown ants are swarming across the Houston area, impervious to over-the-counter extermination methods, reports Th... More >
May 14, 2008
Music Groups Oppose Plan for 'White Spaces'
Groups including the Grand Ole Opry and MTV are petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to oppose plans by Google and Microsoft to use the so-called "white spaces" between broadcast channel... More >
DOE Report: U.S. Could Meet 20 Percent of Electricity Needs with Wind by 2030
The U.S. Department of Energy released a new report this week on the prospects of wind power. The DOE study says it would be feasible to generate a fifth of the country's electricity needs through ... More >
May 13, 2008
Microsoft Hikes Price on SMB Servers
Microsoft rolled out a public preview Tuesday of its Essential Business Server 2008 for the midmarket and said it plans a preview for Small Business Server 2008 by the end of the month, reports CR... More >
Office for Mac SP1 Arrives; VBA Support Promised
Microsoft has released its first service pack for Office for Mac 2008 with better Excel file-exchange capabilities between Windows and Mac, improved formatting for Word and more, reports ZDNet bl... More >
May 12, 2008
Microsoft Drops Price of XP on Low-End Laptops
Despite talk that the One Laptop Per Child program might switch to Windows , Microsoft apparently wants to fend off other vendors of low-cost laptops, announcing that it will drop the price of its... More >
Cell Phone Service Cut in China Quake
Cell phone service has been cut in the wake of the massive earthquake that hit China on Monday, but landline service remains available, reports PCWorld.com . The 7.8 magnitude quake in sout... More >
Mac Feature Helps Nab Laptop Thieves
A Macintosh feature is being credited with helping to nab two burglars. According to this news.com article, the Back to My Mac feature helped police catch two suspects in the burglary of an apart... More >
May 9, 2008
Supercomputer Dedicated to Weather Research
While weather scientists have been calling for more computing oomph dedicated to forecasting , IBM has built a new supercomputer for the National Center for Atmospheric Research, reports the Dail... More >
U.S. Warns China Against Developing Its Own Tech Standards
The United States has warned China that it risks "technological isolation" by ignoring international technological standards and developing its own, according to an AFP story in The Sydney Mornin... More >
May 8, 2008
Research Published After Recovery of Hard Drive from Shuttle Columbia
Five years after the breathtakingly tragic breakup of the space shuttle Columbia, which killed all seven crew members on re-entry, scientists have published research done during that space mission. &... More >
NASA to Launch More Supercomputing Oomph
NASA is enlisting Intel and SGI to help it boost its computing power to 10 petaflops , reports InformationWeek . The project, known as Pleiades, will be an update at the space agency's Ames Researc... More >
Weather Forecasters Call for More Power
With the devastating cyclone in Mayanmar fresh in the public's mind, climate scientists are calling for their governments to invest in a "Manhattan"-type project to improve global weather forecast... More >
Community for Hackers
With social-networking sites everywhere, even sites for the dead , it was just a matter of time before hackers had one, too. InformationWeek reports computer security company GnuCitizen has ... More >
State Department Laptops Missing
The State Department can't seem to locate hundreds of employee laptops -- some sites put the number at as many as 1,000 -- including about 400 that belong to the department's Anti-Terrorism Assista... More >
Tech Companies Proving that Climate Counts
Climate Counts released its annual scorecard yesterday. The organization seeks to educate consumers by ranking businesses based on the role they play in reversing global warming. GoodCleanTech rep... More >
May 7, 2008
911 System a Dinosaur in Wireless World, Industry Group Says
The United States' 40-year-old 911 system increasingly can't keep up with wireless consumer devices, according to the 911 Industry Alliance . In an interview with InformationWeek , alliance Execu... More >
Sprint, Clearwire WiMax Deal Back on
The off-again WiMax project between Sprint and Clearwire is on again, reports The Washington Post . It says the $12 billion deal will include $3.2 billion in cash investments from Comcast, ... More >
Sun Woos Rich App Builders with JavaFX
Sun Microsystems demonstrated its answer to Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight at its JavaOne conference this week. Its JavaFX technology for rich Internet applications is targeted for the 2.2... More >
May 6, 2008
Samsung Phone Runs on Water-Powered Fuel Cell
Samsung has announced the development of a hydrogen-powered cell phone . The handset, which is expected to be available in 2010, is powered by a micro fuel cell and hydrogen generator that runs on w... More >
May 2, 2008
'Electronic Barn-Raising' at Purdue
Purdue University plans what it's calling an "electronic barn-raising" Monday, when more than 200 employees will install a supercomputer on the West Lafayette, Ind., campus in a single day, accordi... More >
Corraling the Energy Hog Data Center
In a report on the worsening energy picture for data centers , consultants McKinsey & Co. and the Uptime Institute call for a new metric that combines energy efficiency as well as capacity used,... More >
