Archive for May, 2006
Japan’s Technology, Automaker Shares Rise; Retailers Fall
Bloomberg.com - May 29 9:14 PM
May 30 (Bloomberg) — Japanese technology-related companies such as Tokyo Electron Ltd. rose on speculation demand for their products will increase after Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said it will spend $2.5 billion to boost its production.Save to My Web
SiRF Technology to Present at Credit Suisse Securities Annual European Technology Conference
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - May 30 5:30 AM
SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. , a leading provider of GPS-enabled silicon and premium software location platforms, announced today that it will make a presentation at the Credit Suisse Securities Annual European Technology Conference at the Hotel Arts in Barcelona, Spain on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 4:30 p.m.Save to My Web
Quantech Develops New Blog-Based Marketing Technology
[Press Release] PrimeZone via Yahoo! Finance - May 30 7:50 AM
Quantech Electronics Corp. , developer of integrated web marketing solutions, announced today that it has completed development of innovative technology to support blog-based marketing campaigns.Save to My Web
Firms see technology as vital for growth
ElectricNews.net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - May 30 6:56 AM
European companies’ technology decisions are increasingly been made at senior board level, according to new research released on Tuesday.Save to My Web
Xinhua China Ltd. Acquires HDTV Editing Technology
FinanzNachrichten - May 30 1:16 PM
BEIJING, May 30 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — Xinhua China Ltd. ( Nachrichten ) (BULLETIN BOARD: XHUA) announced today it has acquired leading Chinese High Definition Television text-editing software company Bear Technology.Save to My Web
May 30th, 2006
Microsoft brings disk encryption to servers (Addict 3D)
Microsoft is incorporating its Bitlocker encryption technology into the forthcoming version of its server operating system codenamed Windows Longhorn Server.
ACA Pacific Technology to Distribute Private Post in Asia (SYS-CON Media)
Identum, developer of the Private Post email encryption range, continues to boost availability of its business products in the Asia Pacific region with the appointment of ACA Pacific Technology as its sole distributor for Hong Kong.
NSA Datamining Pushes Tech Envelope by Chris Barylick UPI Technology Correspondent Washington (UPI) May 26, 2006 (Space War)
Amid the political firestorm surrounding the National Security Agency’s use of wiretapping for domestic phone calls, inquiries as to technology as well as legality have become prevalent. Key to most of this is the question as to whether the National Security Agency has overstepped its bounds.
‘iPod bill’ could spread music and technology (Miami Herald)
All is not well in the French world of digital music, as Nicolas Paitre, a salesman at one of Paris’ largest electronics stores, hears from customers every day.
Rapid CSS (Jumbo.com)
Quickly and easily create and edit cascading style sheets of any complexity.
May 27th, 2006
AJAXWorld University Announces AJAX Developer Bootcamp to Take Place During the First Annual AJAXWorld Conference & (Linux World)
SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com)announced today that the first international ‘AJAXWorld(TM) Conference &Expo’ (www.ajaxworldexpo.com), taking place on October 3-4, 2006, at theSanta Clara Convention Center, California, will offer AJAXWorld University- Developer Bootcamp program. The AJAX Developer Bootcamp will take placeon Monday, October 2, 2006, one day before the conference opens.
The Secure Phone Miser Telephone Conversation Encryption Device (Gizmodo)
With all that’s going on in the world nowadays, you don’t to need to be wearing a tinfoil hat to understand that your privacy might not be as private as you would think. Perhaps a phone encryption…
CHINA S MATURING NAVY (La Nueva Cuba)
By Rear Admiral Eric A. McVadon U.S. Navy (Retired) Naval War College Review , Spring 2006, Vol. 59, No. 2 USA Infosearch: Jos Cadenas Bureau Chief USA Research Dept.
May 24th, 2006
Baby Boomers, Technology Push RV Ownership To Record High
WESH - May 20 7:41 AM
The Glines, both 43, are among a growing number of baby boomers pushing the number of RV owners to record levels. The generation has money, a sense of wanderlust and enough technology to run an office or stay in touch with family while on the road.Save to My Web
MIT student honoured with memorial scholarship
Scoop.co.nz - 48 minutes ago
Being awarded a scholarship that pays tribute to a woman whose life inspired many is a great honour for Manukau Institute of Technology student Katrina Tolomaki.Save to My Web
Micron prepares to sample 8Mpixel image sensor
Electronic Engineering Times Asia - May 21 2:11 PM
Micron Technology Inc. has made an 8Mpixel image sensor, claimed to be the world’s first, in a 1/2.5 inch optical format suitable for digital still cameras.Save to My Web
UVM faced with $4.5 million cost overrun on information technology project
The Burlington Free Press - May 20 1:20 AM
The University of Vermont’s $26 million information technology project to streamline the management and efficiency of the university’s finances and administrative functions is anticipated to run over budget by $4.5 million.Save to My Web
Motorola invests RM36mil in Penang lab
The Star Online - 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
PENANG: Motorola Asia Pacific Customer Solutions Centre (CSC) has invested RM36mil in the Advanced Communications Laboratory here to reflect the company’s continued commitment to customer support and technology innovation.Save to My Web
May 21st, 2006
Freeway 4.2 adds ecommerce option (MacNN)
Softpress Systems has released version 4.2 of Freeway Pro and Freeway Express. This update includes …
DHS Privacy Office Bashes RFID Technology To Track People (Government Enterprise)
The Department of Homeland Security’s Privacy Office has issued a draft report that strongly criticizes privacy and security risks of using radio frequency identification devices for human identification. Public comment on the paper is being taken until May 22.
May 18th, 2006
IT Confidential: Is Technology Evil, Or Just Naughty?
Information Week - Technology is A) good; B) bad; (C) both; (D) neither. I went to see the movie Mission: Impossible III (a.k.a. M:I:III ) with my son the other day. We saw the previous two installments together, and it was sobering to realize my son was 8 years old
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BusinessWeek - Hasso Plattner, the spark-plug co-founder and former chief executive of SAP ( SAP ), always held annual executive retreats in the dead of winter at his thatch-roof cottage on the island of Sylt, a Martha’s Vineyard look-alike on Germany’s seacoast
Assay: Proteomics Technology for Plasma & Serum
Genetic Engineering News - Yuqiao Shen, Ph.D., Li Li, Ph.D., Jian Liao, Ph.D. Fig.1: Immunoaffinity depletion of the high-abundance proteins removes many potentially important marker proteins. In addition to the 12 proteins that are designed to bind to the column, a large
What To Do With Ever-Changing Technology
WCSH - Rich Brooks owns Flyte New Media in Portland; it’s a web design company. He has to get the latest technology to stay competitive. He said most people shouldn’t feel pressured into upgrading, but some still choose to. “People who have an addiction to
Creative sues Apple for alleged patent violation
ZDNet - Singapore-based electronics maker Creative Technology said Monday that it has filed two legal actions against Apple Computer, charging the popular iPod infringes on its patented technology. In a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission
May 15th, 2006
CA extends tape encryption to mainframes
Infoworld - The launch comes in the wake of numerous highly-publicized incidents of lost or stolen media that exposed personal data and amid legislation from many U.S. states requiring companies to alert consumers when their personal information has been
Measuring PFF Against the Darknet
Electronic Frontier Foundations - Today the Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF), a DC-based “market-oriented think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy,” released a report entitled ” The DMCA Dialectic: Towards Constructive Criticism .” In
Sun s jMaki does mix-and-match AJAX widgets
Infoworld - Called Project jMaki , the technology features an open source JavaScript Wrapper Framework for the Java platform. Developers can take JavaScript widgets from popular AJAX frameworks such as Dojo and wrap them into a JavaServer Faces or JavaServer
Zix Corporation to Provide e-Prescribing for Statewide Collaborative
dBusinessNews.com - DALLAS — Zix Corporation (ZixCorp(R)) (Nasdaq:ZIXI), the leader in hosted services for email encryption and e-prescribing, today announced that another contract has been signed with a major health insurer. The collaborative program will fund the
Encryption Tool Maps Database Fields
TechWeb - Pennsylvania State University researchers say they have developed a software tool that dramatically improves the process of automatically mapping database fields. They say it also encrypts the information with access controls and tokens to share the
Bush Goes After ID Theft on National Level
InternetNews.com - Speaking at a Roosevelt Room gathering of ID theft victims, Bush said, “What we’re going to do is make sure that the 13 governmental agencies involved with identity theft have a well-coordinated strategy to help the victims and to put those who
May 12th, 2006
Survey: Security Hot, Paychecks Not
Information Week - It may sound like a blues song, but if you’re an IT security pro, you may know the refrain well. Because while security technology continues to reign as a top enterprise priority — and one of the fastest-growing areas of IT spending — a new Dark
GPS on Junior: Parents Tracking Children Through Cell Phones
TechNewsWorld - The future of GPS technology in locating children is anybody’s guess, said Lisa Rountree, director of marketing and strategy for Disney Mobile, but the same type of platform could be used for a variety of things. Families may use GPS technology on
EMC Acquires Disaster-Protection Vendor
Information Week - EMC has acquired Kashya, a highly regarded start-up vendor that offers data-protection solutions with key technology lacking in the storage giant’s own portfolio. Kashya is a supplier of appliances that provide disaster recovery and data replication
Qualcomm Pushes FLO Into European Market
TechNewsWorld - “What Qualcomm is doing in video is exactly what it did in cellular, which is to say it has superior technology and it thinks people should use that instead of DVH-B, which was designed in Europe. Many people have already said they are going to DVH-B
National oil meeting scheduled in Billings
Sidney Herald - The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, a 30 state government agency, is holding its annual Midyear Issues Summit, Technology: The Sky s the Limit, which is an open meeting in Billings May 21-23. A wide variety of topics will be
Cisco Reports Flat Earnings, Strong Revenue Increase
eWeek - Despite flat earnings in its third fiscal quarter of 2006, Cisco Systems was bullish on its quarter overall and in looking ahead into the next quarter. Cisco posted a net income of $1.4 billion or 22 cents a share for the quarter ending April 29
New technology company breaks ground in Decatur with the potential to
Herald & Review - DECATUR - A new state-of-the-art chemical manufacturing plant broke ground in Decatur on Monday, promising up to 60 new jobs and demonstrating the kind of economic development that could pave a bright future for the city and region. NSR Technologies
May 9th, 2006
Briefly: MovieFest Boston; mStation
MacNN - MacNN Windows Vista delay? Firefox, iWork ‘06 SpamSweep v1.3 released Jets’n'Guns released French law rewritten BeerAlchemy 1.2 released Daylite, Terminator, Wx PimpMyLaptop.com launches more iPodNN Sidewinder iPod case ships Creative faces tough
HTML Developer’s Guide
Australian PC World - HyperText Markup Language is the coding language for publishing HyperText documents on the World Wide Web. HTML code, or tags, tell your Internet browser how to display text and images. This PC World guide teaches you the fundamentals of HTML such as
Accessibility statement
Out-Law - OUT-LAW.COM has been designed using CSS . No tables or frames of any kind have been used in the design of this website. Our style sheets should accommodate any browser, including those used by mobile devices. Text sizes All text has a relative font
Opera 9 goes public 4:26PM
Mac User - Opera has announced the first public Beta of Opera 9, its forthcoming browser. Features of version 9 include support for widgets, thumbnail previews, site-specific preferences and improved pop-up blocking. By the term ‘widgets’ Opera means small Web
May 6th, 2006
TrueDemand Software Announces Collaboration with Alien Technology for Delivery of RFID ROI LaunchPad Program
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - May 03 8:58 AM
TrueDemand Software, a leader in next generation supply chain solutions, today announced that they have collaborated with Alien Technology to deliver the RFID ROI LaunchPad program.Save to My Web
Arab regional seminar to focus on latest trends in Internet technology
Khaleej Times - May 02 9:37 PM
MUSCAT The latest trends in Internet technology and the opportunities and challenges they pose will come under the spotlight at a seminar here next week.Save to My Web
Study: Alabama schools score a C on technology
WTVM 9 - May 03 2:34 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. A new study gives Alabama schools a C when it comes to technology with access to computers responsible for the state’s average grade.Save to My Web
Art Technology Group 1Q Profit Up
AP via Yahoo! Finance - May 02 8:59 AM
Art Technology Group Inc., whose software helps companies’ Web sites communicate with customers, said Tuesday its first-quarter profit jumped 88 percentSave to My Web
May 3rd, 2006