BANGALORE, India — The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India issued its draft recommendations on Tuesday (Dec. 20) for India's transition to IPv6.
The agency said deploying IPv6 would expand the available IP address space and provide better service, mobility support and security. All are needed as Internet usage increases and, with it,

Leading PC and consumer electronics companies have announced they are developing a specification for a PC digital display interface that is also compatible with high-definition TV signals.

Penned the Unified Display Interface (UDI), the standard is expected to replace the aging VGA analog standard and provide guidelines to ensure compatibility with the DVI

Yahoo Inc. will make available to subscribers of its Web hosting services the open-source WordPress blog publishing software, both organizations are announcing on Tuesday.
 
The deal is similar to one Yahoo struck last week with Six Apart Ltd., maker of Moveable Type, and is intended to broaden the blogging software

Wi-Fi enhances personal relationships as well as productivity, according to 46% of Americans polled for a recent Wi-Fi Alliance survey.

Out of the 1,000 Americans surveyed from various incomes, 65% said Wi-Fi technology helps them stay in touch with friends and family through tools such as instant messaging and email. Wi-Fi also

Texans are poised to join a small but growing group of consumers and small business users worldwide who are accessing the Internet over electric power lines.
 
In a move aimed to increase competition among telephone and cable companies, Current Communications Group will provide broadband power line technology to the electricity

In a first, a worm has trapped a criminal rather than an innocent Internet user, a Reuters wire service report from Germany claimed Tuesday.

According to Reuters, a 20-year-old German man mistook a message bearing the Sober.z worm as a legitimate directive from German law enforcement, and turned himself in to Paderborn

Reporting and analytics vendor Actuate is expected to announce this week that it plans to package its analytics and reporting capabilities into technology from Quantum Secure that tracks companies' "physical" security.

Quantum Secure makes Safe Enterprise Physical Security Management, a suite that includes the mySafe Portal dashboard system, which lets users monitor

SAN FRANCISCO — Mixed-signal and structured digital IC provider AMI Semiconductor and top-tier EDA supplier Mentor Graphics Corp. have partnered to offer an analog/mixed-signal technology design kit containing comprehensive and proven building blocks at the device level, the companies said Monday.

According to the companies, the kit enables semiconductor companies and electronic

Japan-based NEC Corp. has announced it has developed a multicore processor technology capable of performing automatic parallelization of application programs, without modifying them.

The processor’s automatic parallelizing compiler utilizes profile information to aggressively exploit parallelization patterns, effective for accelerating the speed of application programs. The parallelization. though speculative, is almost always completely accurate,

IBM, the world's biggest computer company, said on Tuesday it bought privately-held Bowstreet Inc. to make it easier for business customers to gather and view business information from different sources.
 
Terms of the transaction weren't disclosed. Bowstreet of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, has about 75 employees and counts drugmaker Bayer AG and