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TGDaily reports that YouTube is close to a deal with the William Morris Agency that would enable specific "straight to YouTube" content using the talent agency's clients. William Morris represents... More >
Users of the classic version of Yahoo Mail are being granted the gift of gab, reports Internetnews . The company has begun rolling out integrated instant messaging and SMS text messaging to i... More >
The $6 billion allotted in the House version of the federal stimulus package to expand broadband Internet access to all Americans won't be enough , providers say in a story in The Wall Street Journ... More >
The third and likely final beta of Firefox 3.1 is being delayed again due to ongoing issues with its TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, says The Register . As a result, the browser's release will probab... More >
A recent research note from Gartner warns that the rapid development of multicore processors is surpassing the advancement of software configurations, reports ZDNet.co.uk . Gartner's Carl Claunch sa... More >
Cox Communications , the nation's third largest cable operator with over 6 million customers, announced it will begin throttling bandwidth, says vnunet . The company plans to slow bulk data transfer... More >
Google is once again touting the energy efficiency of its data centers. The company claims that cooler weather and its ongoing optimization efforts allowed it to improve its power usage effectiveness... More >
Microsoft's delayed Internet Explorer 8 is inching closer to its release with the announcement of IE8 Release Candidate 1. However, IE8 has broken from the gates a bit slowly in a different ... More >
Six billion dollars is a lot of money, even when it is just a fraction of the $825 billion emergency stimulus package to be voted on by the U.S. Congress. In its current revision, The American Recove... More >
Sun Microsystems' newly opened Bloomfield, Colo. data center saves the company $1 million in energy bills without sacrificing performance, reports Wall Street & Technology . To accomplish this, ... More >
The industry's first 2 terabyte internal hard drive comes courtesy of Western Digital. The WD Caviar Green 2-TB hard drive only consumes 7.4 watts during read/write mode and just 4 watts when ... More >
Anytime, anywhere could be the motto of Symantec's new secure hosted workspace called GoEverywhere. Currently in beta , the company is trialing the service in the U.S. According to vnunet , ... More >
Brocade is targeting the small business market with its introduction of a multi-blade switch. A version of the 384-port, 8Gbps DCX chassis switch, the 8Gbps DCX 4S Backbone has four slots and offers ... More >
Cisco Systems is launching EnergyWise , an energy management architecture that leverages Cisco's network to aid companies in tracking and managing their energy consumption. The new architectu... More >
HP could be preparing to take on Cisco's AXP and the rest of the data center optimization market contenders with the launch of its ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem (ONE), says IT Business Edge's Ar... More >
Ephraim Schwartz at InfoWorld writes that the rise of cloud computing will require more data centers to comply with Article 708 of the National Electric Code for backup power for systems that affect... More >
Technology being developed at Louisiana Tech is aimed at preventing sinkholes from forming when soil washes away from buried pipes by using robotics to inspect them, reports The Ruston Daily Lead... More >
IT Business Edge blogger Loraine Lawson recently noted in a post that CIOs and governments are increasingly exploring the idea of open source solutions. Lawson also referenced Tijs Rademaker, a sy... More >
AMD launched its latest 45 nanometer quad-core "Shanghai" Opeteron server chips today. According to ZDNet , the new family of Opteron HE chips run at 55-watts at speeds between 2.1 GHz and 2.... More >
Seagate has promised a second fix within 24 hours for the issue causing Barracuda drives to fail, reports The Register . The firmware patch for Barracuda 7200.11 hard disk drives addressing... More >
According to Venture Beat , Research in Motion is gearing up to challenge Apple's App Store with its Blackberry Application Storefront . The company is planning a spring launch and is accept... More >
IDC and Gartner reports confirm the slump in the global PC market. IDC put global shipments down 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter, while Gartner showed that number up a slow 1 percent over ... More >
The House Appropriations Committee on Friday OK'd $6 billion to build out broadband networks in rural and underserved areas of America, reports MediaPost.com . The appropriation is part of a n $8... More >
New York Gov. David Patterson's office terminated the multi-billion dollar contract it had with M/A COM to build a statewide wireless network for public safety use due to a number of delays, technolo... More >
Salesforce.com is taking customer service to the cloud with a platform it's calling Service Cloud, reports Venture Beat . The company says two-thirds of conversations about service take pla... More >
Travelers on United Airlines will soon have in-flight Wi-Fi service from Gogo , reports vnunet.com . According to PC Magazine , the service will be on 13 Boeing 757 planes in the second... More >
According to InfoWorld , the first patch for Windows 7 beta has been released to fix a bug that causes any edited MP3 file to lose some audio. However, Microsoft failed to fix the Server M... More >
IT Business Edge blogger Ralph DeFrangesco hit the nail on the head when he said the security free ride is coming to an end for Mac users . Open source software developer Brian Mastenbrook h... More >
Microsoft's solitary critical security update for this Tuesday patches three holes in all supported versions of Windows , according to The Washington Post . All three vulnerabilities relate ... More >
Advanced Data Centers announced last year that its Sacramento data center would be the first LEED Platinum-certified facility in the United States. The company announced Tuesday it is the re... More >
Those trying out Windows 7 Beta might run into trouble if they're also using McAfee virus protection, reports Ed Moltzen at ChannelWEB . But InfoWorld reports that's not the only antivir... More >
Dell unveiled its new line of G-Series LED monitors. Endgadget suggests the "G" stands for "green" since widescreen LED flat panels typically use less than half the energy of comparable displays. &... More >
Skype COO Scott Durchslag announced a new beta version of its popular VoIP software. Skype Lite will work with Android handsets and over 100 Java-enabled phones, reports PC Magazine . The company al... More >
New York isn't the only state having problems with its electronic unemployment system . Issues also have been reported this week to frustrate the jobless in Ohio , Kentucky , North Carolin... More >
Nokia announced Thursday it has ditched production of its only mobile device using the U.S.-centered WiMax technology, the N810 WiMax Edition tablet , reports Reuters . It's only been aroun... More >
Sony's got "the lightest 8-inch notebook in history," or so it said at at the Consumer Electronics Show. dbtechno.com reports that the Sony VAIO Lifestyle PC weighs in at 1.4 pounds and fea... More >
Verizon announced that Microsoft's Internet search will be the default for its cell phones' search services, reports Network World . Verizon is set to surpass AT&T as the largest U.S. car... More >
New Forrester Research analysis purports that the blossoming netbook market is driving the worldwide adoption of Linux, reports vnunet.com . According to Forrester's Netbooks Are The Third P... More >
According to the results of ComScore research, Americans have become a lot more comfortable viewing videos online, reports CNET News . The data revealed that 77 percent of U.S. Internet users... More >
Comcast told the Federal Communications Commission in filings Monday that its new network-management program is in place in all markets, reports Ars Technica . The company had come under fi... More >
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy have signed off on the build of Cray's XT5 supercomputer, giving the company an additional $100 million in revenue at the end of 2008, ... More >
Portland, Ore., is set today to become Clearwire's second WiMax city, following Baltimore . The Portland launch will be the first since the official completion of the Sprint Nextel/Clearwir... More >
The blog Open for Business is reporting that AT&T is sacrificing 2G signal strength to build out its 3G network. Apple's original and costly iPhone, BlackBerry and RAZR models are amon... More >
Lenovo announced a trio of additions to its family of IdeaPad laptops before the official start of CES 2009, reports PC Magazine . Lenovo's Y-series of laptops target mainstream consumers an... More >
Internet Explorer continued to lose market share to Firefox, Safari and Chrome in 2008, with a big loss in December, reports Computerworld . IE lost 1.6 percentage points in December, and w... More >
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