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US 'no longer technology king
The US is now ranked seventh in the body's league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations.
A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment in the US prompted the fall, the report said.
The top spot went for the first time to Denmark, followed by Sweden.
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Apartments Are Tougher Target for FiOS
A gray junction box, right, is the first sign that Verizon's fiber-optic system is being installed in the Eastchester Heights housing complex in the Bronx borough of New York on March 7, 2007. Verizon is pushing to get FiOS to apartment buildings, rowhouses and other shared dwellings, but for a number of reasons, the going is much slower than the rollout to single-family homes.
a rowhouse community in Doylestown, Pa., hasn't given Verizon approval to lay fiber-optic cables on the property for its FiOS service. The story should have said that the phone company has a long-standing right of way, but rejected that route because of the risk of damaging other utility lines.
Richard Michie, treasurer of the Westwyk Condominium Association, said it is looking into giving the company the right to dig another route.
Wikipedia Co-Founder Seeks to Start Over
The downside is that the free encyclopedia has its share of errors and juvenile vandalism, and sometimes the writing is incomprehensibly arcane. Through the stacks of reference books, Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia and former philosophy professor, is seen, Friday, March 9, 2007 in Columbus, Ohio. Sanger started a Wikipedia alternative, Citizendium.com, a go-to destination for general information online.
In just six years, Wikipedia has mushroomed into one of the Web's most astonishing successes, with 1.7 million articles in English alone. The downside is that the free encyclopedia has its share of errors and juvenile vandalism, and sometimes the writing is incomprehensibly arcane.
To Wikipedia fans, these blemishes are an unavoidable — and relatively small — price to pay for the dazzling breadth spawned by its “anyone can edit” open design.
Intel Plans $2.5B Chip Factory in China
A man stands near an Intel advertisement in Beijing Monday March 26, 2007. Intel Corp. announced Monday it will build a US$2.5 billion chip factory in China, giving the U.S. company a bigger presence in the booming Chinese market and boosting Beijing's efforts to attract high-tech investment.
Intel Corp. announced Monday it will build a $2.5 billion chip factory in China, giving the U.S. company a bigger presence in the booming Chinese market and boosting Beijing's efforts to attract high-tech investment.
The factory will supply chipsets to customers in China, which Intel expects to be the largest information technology market by the time the facility opens in 2010, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said.
Russia, China Urge Iran to Heed U.N.
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The presidents of Russia and China on Monday called on Iran to fulfill the U.N. Security Council's demands over its disputed nuclear program — a sign of impatience from Iran's two closest allies over its continued defiance.
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Oracle's SAP suit raises users' ethics concerns
The ripple effect of Oracle's legal action may cause consumers to be wary of the ethics of both companies
Oracle's surprise legal move against its main business applications rival, SAP, has raised questions again about the likely impact on customers of corporate scandals in the IT world. Whatever the outcome of the case, users are voicing their concerns about software vendors' ethics.
Microsoft security report card: passing grade for Vista
Jeff Jones, security strategy director in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group, authored the report — which is posted on his blog — that compares Vista's relatively short security track record to the early performance of other desktop and thin-client platforms including Mac OS X 10.4, Novell's SUSE Linux enterprise Desktop 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 WS and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.
Real-world IT security challenges: Doing away with passwords
It's RSA and Citrix to the rescue when a company wants to move to more secure login methods
Today's column starts an ongoing periodic feature where I'll be covering various real-world scenarios I've come across in my professional consulting life. We're talking about real-world solutions for real-world security problems.
When it comes to security enforcement, there appear to be two major types of companies that I run into regularly: Those who don't have a clue and seem bothered by even having to patch their systems, and those who routinely run their employees through retina scans and consider bomb-resistant shielding on the walls leading to the server room a necessary essential.
Tech tops the pop charts
Music-video paean to Web 2.0 burns up YouTube, puts machines at the center of personal expression
Remember the adrenaline rush when you first saw MTV in 1981? When they played “She Blinded Me With Science” in ’83? Well, if you want a fresh, geeky, thought-provoking video experience that gets your heart pumping, check out “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us,” one of the top-viewed videos on YouTube. It’ll appeal to the coder in you, as well as the futurist.
Intel mislays its mail, ASUS batteries fail
Bad things happen when the elite delete
AMD says Intel loves the delete key a little too much. Several hundred e-mails from top Intel insiders have gone missing due to “inadvertent mistakes,” which, the company assures us, have nothing to do with AMD's antitrust suit against it. Sounds like Intel is stealing — I mean, inadvertently borrowing — a page from Microsoft, which mislaid 35 weeks' worth of e-mails after being sued by Burst.com in 2002. Intel spokesficials told The Wall Street Journal “there is no evidence … any relevant e-mails or documents have been lost.” Isn’t evidence supposed to disappear when you destroy it?
Mac sense and nonsense
A Windows professional finds the Mac to be irresistible until she launches applications
A couple of columns ago, I introduced you to a friend and lifelong professional Windows user who agreed to let me observe and document her trial run at switching to the Mac. I set her up with a can’t-lose bargain: She would swap her desktop Windows PC for a Core 2 Duo MacBook running OS X Tiger but retain her PC as a Parallels Desktop virtual machine. To switch or not to switch is entirely her decision to make; I’m just watching.
Recipe for disaster
Technology can help prevent food contamination — but only if IT gets involved
There have been so many food contamination episodes in the past several months — tainted spinach at the supermarket, bad green onions at Taco Bell, salmonella in our beloved peanut butter, courtesy of Peter Pan — that I decided to do a little digging and see whether technology can take a role in the prevention of future outbreaks.
Are you an open source user or joiner?
How a company engages the community matters more than its business model
In my previous column, I touched on the issue of what constitutes an open-source vendor. Ask Andy Astor that question, and his answer is a shrug. “Honestly,” he says, “who cares?” To Astor, there are really two broad categories of companies with respect to their relationship to open-source code. Some are users. Others are joiners.
Charges against Dunn dropped, others get community service deal
Judge dismisses case against the former HP chairwoman, rejects no contest pleas from three other defendants but offers to drop charges for community service
A judge dismissed the criminal case against former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman Patricia Dunn on Wednesday.
The California Attorney General's office stated earlier Wednesday that Dunn and three other defendants — Kevin Hunsaker, Ronald DeLia and Matthew DePante — would plead guilty to misdemeanor counts in the boardroom spying case.
At 25, Sun struggles to reinvent itself
In a bid to shape its future, Sun Microsystems must look to its past
Developers by the thousands flocked to the International Convention Center in Hyderabad, India last week as Sun Microsystems kicked off the second leg of its world-spanning series of Tech Days conferences. The theme of the event was “shape your future” — and indeed, no slogan could be more appropriate for Sun, its developers, and its partners.
Cisco-WebEx will define the future of computing
This is really a preemptive cannonball fired at Google.
Cisco had two choices. Either accept being the dumb pipe, a.k.a. network infrastructure supplier, for the coming age of SaaS and other Web 2.0 applications, or enter the fray and offer services as well as infrastructure.
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Disney Board Clears Current Pixar Execs
Federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission are looking into the backdated grants made to key Pixar employees several times since 1997, but before Disney bought Pixar in 2006.
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Israel Urged to Halt Archaeological Work
A UNESCO panel has urged Israel to immediately halt archaeological work at a Jerusalem holy site that has angered Muslims around the world.
Muslims fear the work will harm Islamic shrines on the hilltop compound, which is known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims. Excavations on a ramp leading up to the disputed holy site sparked clashes between police and Muslims in Jerusalem last month.
Europe Tech Show Loses Some Big Names
Hundreds of thousands of high-tech professionals are streaming to the annual CeBIT show this week, but the world's biggest information technology trade fair is not the draw it used to be.
Some of the industry's biggest names — Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Cisco Systems Inc. have all withdrawn from CeBIT, and this year's event is going on without Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Seiko Epson Corp., Symantec Corp. and China's Lenovo.
Google to Adopt New Privacy Measures
An exterior view of Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, Calif., in this 2006 file photo.Google is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them — a move it believes could prevent showdowns with the government over the often sensitive data.
Google Inc. is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them — a move it believes could prevent showdowns with the government over the often sensitive data.
Texas Instruments Tightens 1Q Outlook
The company said it expected operating earnings of 29 cents to 33 cents per share on sales of $3.07 billion to $3.22 billion in the quarter.
IBM's Palmisano Paid $18.8M Last Year
According to a regulatory filing Monday, Palmisano received $1.75 million in salary, plus $5 million in a bonus-like incentive payout.
He was granted stock options with an estimated value of $3.3 million, plus stock equivalents — valued now at $7.8 million — that represent shares he can receive in 2009 if the company meets certain performance targets.
Intel to release more efficient quad-core Xeons
Intel Corp. quad-core microprocessors that work at an energy-efficient 50 watts per processor will officially be on the market starting Monday, according to the company.
Each of the four cores in its new Xeon L5320 and L5310 will consume just 12.5 watts of electricity, according to Intel. The company claims the new Xeons use between 35 percent and nearly 60 percent less power than its existing 80-watt and 120-watt quad-core server products.
IBM's Handy on managing Linux
Scott Handy started with IBM in 1983 as a systems engineer and went on to sales, marketing, and strategy positions covering large accounts, channels, small and medium business, and IBM products for Windows NT, Sun Solaris and OS/2 Warp. Now as vice president for Linux and open source he is one of the main public faces articulating IBM's open-source strategy. IDG News Service Senior Writer Elizabeth Montalbano caught up with Handy at the sidelines of the recent LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit in New York. He talked about how the industry giant manages to support a vast product portfolio for Linux and open-source initiatives.
Cisco, IBM expand joint support to 46 countries
Through the offering, called Managed Maintenance Solutions (MMS) for Cisco Products, enterprises that use IBM as a systems integrator can get Cisco technical support by calling IBM. It is designed to simplify IT administrators' jobs and prevent them from having to choose between turning to Cisco or IBM for help, said Cisco spokeswoman Mandy Knotts. Cisco has a worldwide technical support organization but is not a systems integrator.
Microsoft moves closer to Dynamics platform
Connectivity is a key theme running through Microsoft's Dynamics development work as the vendor begins to meld its disparate business applications families into more of a single integrated platform.
Microsoft is due to release a flurry of announcements Monday at its Convergence 2007 conference in San Diego. “It will be the biggest news day we've ever had,” said James Utzschneider, general manager of Dynamics marketing at Microsoft.
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“What?” you say, “this is a just big blob of source RPMs. What the heck am I going to do with that?”
The French Parliament switches to Ubuntu
Following this recommendation two companies, Linagora and Unilog, have been selected to provide the members of the Parliament as well as their assistants new computers containing free software. This will amount to 1,154 new computers running Ubuntu prior to the start of the next session which occurs in June 2007.
Sony to Launch Virtual Universe
The concept is strikingly similar to Linden Lab's “Second Life,” a Web-based phenomenon with nearly 4.5 million residents. But Sony's world will feature heavy doses of video games for avatars to play, as well as virtual arcades, music, movies and other Sony-approved media downloads.
Yahoo Stock Dives on News of AT&T Loss
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If AT&T gets its way, Yahoo would have to be satisfied with whatever money it could make by selling its own online products, such as digital music or matchmaking services, to subscribers of the joint service.
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President Bush's program to help solar energy compete with conventional electricity sources will help fund Konarka Technologies' development of flexible plastic solar cell strips — material that could be embedded into the casings of laptop computers and even woven into power-producing clothing to energize digital media players or other electronics.
The technology, which received its first Pentagon funding three years ago, offers a lightweight, flexible alternative to conventional rigid photovoltaic cells on glass panels.
Microsoft Signs Up 1st Licensee for Code
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 7, 2007, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss American competitiveness.
Under threat of new multimillion fines, Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that it had signed up its first licensee for a scheme EU regulators told it to set up three years ago to share code that helps servers work with the Windows operating platform.
The European Commission threatened the software giant with new daily fines of euro3 million ($4 million) last week for not obeying its March 2004 antitrust order, claiming Microsoft was overcharging rivals for “complete and accurate” documentation.
Yahoo Sees Smooth Sailing for Panama
Sticking with guidance given in January, Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker told a technology conference that a new advertising system dubbed “Panama” probably won't boost Yahoo's first-quarter revenue even though the improvements have been well-received since their Feb. 5 debut.
Microsoft Links Technology, Common Tools
Sticky notes. White boards. Videogame consoles. For a Microsoft Corp. event designed to show off cutting-edge software inventions, there are a lot of familiar tools on display. That's intentional, said Rico Malvar, the managing director of Microsoft Research's Redmond lab, at TechFest, the annual gathering of the software maker's international research department Tuesday.
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8 Confessions Of A Former Verizon Sales Rep
A former Verizon sales rep, let's call him ari, wrote to us recently offering insider advice to all Consumerist readers. We were excited because by knowing how the sales force at Verizon are compensated, consumers can get an edge when haggling over a new phone. What? Haggling!? Over a phone!? Yes, even you can do it. Verizon Ari confesses all he knows, from the simple to the sublime...:
Fires Worker Over Eavesdropping
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it has fired a Wal-Mart systems technician for recording phone conversations between the company's PR office and a newspaper reporter and for intercepting text messages without authorization.
AMD Won't Meet 1Q Revenue Outlook
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned Monday that it was unlikely to meet its first-quarter revenue guidance of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion, the latest in a series of disappointments for investors in the struggling chip-maker.
Chattering Chips Enliven Tokyo Stroll
University of Tokyo professor Ken Sakamura shows a portable device with an earphone plug and a screen showing a sample image of his wine store before the start of a test walk of the Tokyo Ubiquitous Technology Project in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district Monday, March 5, 2007. The 1 billion yen (US$8.7 million; 6.6 million euro) Japanese government-backed project, led by Sakamura, makes for a jabber-filled downtown stroll - getting deluged by chatter over earphones from some 1,200 tiny computer chips embedded in lampposts, subway-station ceilings and road cement, beaming maps, tidbits of history and store guides.
Downtown strollers looking for directions, store guides or historical tidbits will be able to get an earful without talking to anyone — thanks to 1,200 computer chips embedded around Tokyo's Ginza shopping district.
Sun releases Java Enterprise System 5.0
Sun Microsystems has released a new version of its Java Enterprise System (Java ES) set of subscription-based enterprise middleware with the emphasis on making the offering more modular.
The vendor unveiled Java ES 5.0 Thursday, the first major release of the bundle since October 2005. The offering brings Sun's infrastructure software, support and training together into a single product and is aimed at companies looking to purchase the vendor's middleware at a gradual, predictable rate. Java ES is also available in the form of individual software suites known collectively as Java System Suites.
IBM lands HR outsourcing deal with American
IBM reported on Mar. 2 that it has signed American Airlines as its latest major human resources outsourcing customer, announcing a $217 million deal to take over much of the airline's personnel operations.
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Oracle to Buy Hyperion for $3.3 Billion
Oracle Corp. chief executive Larry Ellison gestures at his keynote address at Oracle Open World Conference in a San Francisco file photo from Sept. 21, 2005. Business software maker Oracle Corp. will buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, renewing a shopping spree aimed at toppling rival SAP AG. The deal announced Thursday, March 1, 2007 will give Oracle control of Hyperion technology that help companies track their business performance — tools that are widely used by many of SAP's customers.
Business software maker Oracle Corp. will buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, renewing a shopping spree aimed at toppling rival SAP AG.
Dell 4Q Earnings, Revenues Drop
Dell Inc., which is the subject of a federal probe into its finances, said Thursday that fourth-quarter profits plunged 33 percent due to weak sales of laptops and notebooks, which account for the lion's share of its revenues.
Microsoft Threatened With EU Fines
Microsoft said the EU Commission's demands were not reasonable. “We believe we have been fair in setting” prices for the information, said Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith. “It is hard to see how the Commission can argue that even patented innovation must be made available for free,” he said in a statement.
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