WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marine Corps will beef up its battlefield communications network through a significant expansion of a high-frequency radio procurement contract.

Harris Corp. said Wednesday (Dec. 21) the Marine Corps Systems Command has approved a more than $500 million expansion of a procurement program to supply high-frequency radios for tactical,

LONDON — A Japanese fabless semiconductor company, Digital Media Professionals Inc., has launched a graphics processor called the Ultray 2000. Originally shown at the Siggraph computer graphics exhibition in Los Angeles the chip was expected to become available for sale in the fall of 2005.
The chip is intended to allow the

SAN FRANCISCO — For the second time this year, a truck carrying chips made by Maxim Integrated Products Inc. has been hijacked in Asia.
A transportation truck loaded with $565,000 worth of Maxim chips was hijacked in the Philippines Dec. 17, Maxim said Wednesday (Dec. 21).

According to Maxim (Sunnyvale,

Thanks to the Internet and television, poker exploded outside its U.S. homeland in 2005, and PartyGaming Chief Executive Richard Segal sees technology boosting that boom further in 2006.
 
Internet poker took a firm hold in 2005, sparking three big London stock market flotations, generating revenues of around $2 billion and

Computer users are seeing fewer unsolicited commercial e-mail messages in their inboxes two years after the U.S. Congress passed an antispam law, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday.
 
The antispam law, called the CAN-SPAM Act, has provided the FTC and law enforcement agencies a new weapon to fight

Terrorists reportedly have found a way to scam mobile phone companies by exploiting wireless phone vulnerabilities, some news reports say.

They cloned the mobile phone of a top mobile phone executive, along with some of his company's customers, and made thousands of dollars worth of international calls, according to Canadian news reports.

'Tis the season for adjusting online expectations and reviewing what has been hot on the Internet.

JMP Securities on Tuesday raised its global advertising forecast for not only this year but for next year and beyond. The firm now expects the global online ad market to grow at a 25% clip annually

LONDON — Leading chip maker Texas Instruments Inc. has said it plans to acquire Chipcon, a Norwegian developer of Zigbee and other radio frequency transceiver devices, for approximately $200 million.

Chipcon Group ASA (Oslo, Norway) is the parent company and holding company that controls the activities of its wholly-owned subsidiaries Chipcon AS

After years of being stuck in the mud technologically, Motley Fool Inside Value Microsoft finally announced that it will kill the Mac version of its Internet Explorer browser in early 2006.
 
Honestly? It's about time.

Don't get me wrong; I still think Microsoft makes good software for the Mac.

International Business Machines Corp. said Wednesday it agreed to acquire Micromuse Inc., which makes software that manages video and voice traffic on computer networks, for about $865 million in cash.
 
Under the definitive agreement, Armonk-based IBM is paying shareholders $10 for each Micromuse share, almost a 40 percent premium to