Jupitermedia Announces Sale Of Its Jupiter Research Division
NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 29, 2006—Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM - News) today announced that it has sold its JupiterResearch division for $10.1 million in cash and the assumption of cer...
Mac Os X 10.5 Likely To Have Virtualization, Windows Support
In a stunning move, BAPCo, the industry-standard Windows benchmarking consortium, announced that Apple Computer has joined up as a member. BAPCo is responsible for the SYSmark 2004SE and MobileMark b...
Internet Identity Workshop (IIW)
Computer History Museum — Mountainview CA — Workshop Wiki — The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on user-centric identity and identity in the large. Providing identity services between people...
Q & A thread: March 27, 2006
Okay, let's try tackling a few questions from the Grab bag thread. Just a hint for next time: if your question takes three paragraphs to ask, your odds of getting an answer go down. — Q: "Is Bigdad...
Brain cells fused with computer chips
Tests with neurons could lead to better computers, brain treatments — P. Fromherz / NACHIP / Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry — A neuron from a rat brain sprawls over a linear array of transi...
US group wants China 'spy' probe
A US agency is calling for an official probe into Chinese computer firm Lenovo's contract to supply 15,000 computers to the US State Department. — The US-China Economic and Security Review Commissio...
Is Facebook Worth $2 Billion?
BW Online is reporting that the Facebook is trying to sell itself for $2 billion. That sort of wishful accounting makes Ruoert Murdoch seem like a penny pincher for paying only $580 million for the m...
Handsets get taken to the grave
More people than ever are asking to be buried or cremated with their mobile phones when they die, say researchers. — The trend, which began in South Africa, has now spread to a number of countries, ...
Hive 7, An Ajaxian Virtual World
Max Skibinsky knows javascript. He knows it so well, that he was working on applications in what he "double-channel javascript." Thank god, that didn't catch on and instead we ended up with a more f...
Build Your Own Search Engine
Ever wanted to create your own search engine? Or use a search engine that's tailored to the specific topic you're interested in? Last Friday we released a new Live Search feature called Search Macro...
Sprint eyes mobile music subscriptions
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to boost its mobile music business this year with a new subscription scheme for downloading songs onto cellphones, and expand its partnership with Sirius...
BLUETOOTH SIG SELECTS WIMEDIA ALLIANCE ULTRA-WIDEBAND TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH SPEED BLUETOOTH® APPLICATIONS
Bluetooth technology and UWB solution enables wireless high speed and ad-hoc applications while maintaining low power — Bellevue, WA - March 28, 2006 - The Bluetooth SIG today announced …
When Your Mobile is Your Computer
I wrote last week comparing the mobile with the computer, concluding that for most things, the computer was still better. However, I also believe that our phones will turn into our computers and be o...
PANASONIC ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST HIGH DEFINITION BLU-RAY DISC PLAYER'S AVAILABILITY, PRICING
NEW YORK CITY, NY (March 28, 2006) - Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company today announced the upcoming availability of the company's first Blu-ray Disc player, the DMP-BD10, available this September...
News Corp. (hearts) MySpace
The media giant recently bought MySpace, the popular networking site for youth — and it looks like a grand-slam. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - When News Corp. (Research) paid $580 million for MySpace, an I...