Symantec said Tuesday that it will acquire privately-held IMlogic to beef up its security and management of instant messaging. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The two have a history of cooperation, ranging from Symantec's participation in IMlogic's IM Threat Center to already-integrated products.
Adoption of data services over cellular phone systems is starting to grow rapidly as the price of data-ready smartphones decreases, according to a study released Tuesday by ABI Research.
The study noted that smartphone sales in the third quarter of 2005 increased 134 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago
Sequence partners with Korean foundry on power-aware flow
Posted by iNext on 2006-01-04
Article Source : EE Times
SAN FRANCISCO — EDA vendor Sequence Design said Tuesday (Jan. 3) that it is developing an advanced power-aware reference flow with South Korean foundry DongbuAnam Semiconductor Inc. for 130-nanometer and below process technologies.
According to Sequence (Santa Clara, Calif.) the flow addresses a range of critical issues, such system-on-chip (SoC) power analysis
Posted by iTech on 2006-01-04
Article Source : EE Times
LONDON — Miniature disk drive provider Cornice Inc. has added the “Dragon” series of micro hard drives to its range, available in 8- and 10-gigabyte storage capacities.
The company did not give the physical dimensions of the drive, but said it is 40 percent smaller than a previous hard disk drive and
Posted by inet on 2006-01-04
Article Source : EE Times
SEOUL, South Korea — Battling to preempt the world’s mobile broadcasting-enabled phone market, LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. simultaneously announced Monday (Jan. 2) they have developed the first handset models based on the DVB-H and Media FLO mobile broadcasting standards.
Posted by iTech on 2006-01-04
Article Source : Reuters
Sling Media is expected to announce Thursday that consumers can use a wide range of mobile devices to watch their home television from anywhere in the world. The company is set to unveil new software that adds this capability to its Slingbox hardware product this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Apple has released Bluetooth Firmware Update for Mac OS X 10.4.3, intended only for certain Macs — the iMac G4, iMac G5, 12-inch and 15-inch “Titanium” PowerBook G4 and Mac mini.
The description of a 12-inch Titanium model has left some Mac users scratching their heads, however, since Apple only
Starz Entertainment Group on Tuesday introduced Vongo. a new video download service for broadband Internet users. While the service is debuting for Windows PCs and Windows Media-based portable devices, Vongo “will soon be Mac compatible (really!),” promises the Web site.
Vongo is a subscription-based service that costs $9.99 per month. For that
Holiday shoppers spent more online in 2005 than they did in 2004, continuing to steadily steal market share from brick-and-mortar shops, according to a report released last week by Goldman Sachs, Nielsen/NetRatings, and Harris Interactive.
Holiday shoppers in the U.S. spent $30.1 billion from late October until December 23, a 30
A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows that allows hackers to remotely access PCs and install malware through an imaging-handling technology in the operating system.
Microsoft acknowledged the release of exploit code that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code when someone visits a Web site that contains
