Sidense Corp., a startup formed by Polish engineers, has said it has developed a fuse-based one-time programmable non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP) core targeted at a standard logic CMOS manufacturing process.

Sidense (Kanata, Ontario, Canada) did not disclose on its website the underlying fusing technology but claims no additional programming voltages

On Monday Digital Video Recorder (DVR) pioneer TiVo Inc. announced plans to support the video iPod and the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) in an upcoming software update to its TiVoToGo solution. MacCentral spoke with Jim Denney, TiVo’s vice president of product marketing, to find out more.

TiVo’s DVRs enable television viewers to

Startup Pyxis Technology Inc. this week will announce plans to field a design-for-manufacturability (DFM)-aware IC router. Whereas other DFM startups are targeting analysis, said chief executive officer Naeem Zafar, "We are the only ones actually implementing and changing the design."

Pyxis (Austin, Texas) promises an IC router that can take in design

SMB security vendor SonicWall is expanding its portfolio to include backup and recovery with the acquisition of Lasso Logic.

San Francisco-based startup Lasso Logic’s continuous data protection appliance is billed as a “hands-free” solution to backup for small businesses. The product starts at about $2,000.

SonicWall CEO Matt Medeiros told

About 8.7 million Europeans will be watching television over the Internet by 2009, or 9.4 percent of a market currently dominated by cable and satellite operators, according to a forecast issued on Monday.

A 13-fold increase in demand for Internet protocol television, or IPTV, from about 658,000 subscribers currently, will be driven

Spending on Internet advertising rose 34 percent in the third quarter to $3.1 billion from a year earlier, setting a quarterly record and bolstering expectations that the market could exceed $12 billion this year, according to data released on Monday.
 
The quarterly report issued by the Interactive Advertising Bureau trade

TiVo Inc. on Monday said it will begin testing a feature in the coming weeks to let some subscribers transfer recorded television programming to Apple iPod digital music players or Sony's PlayStation portable devices, sending the company's shares up 4.5 percent.

The new feature will only be available to "stand-alone" TiVo subscribers

Apple on Monday announced that it has reached long-term supply agreements with five major manufacturers of NAND flash memory. What’s more, two of those companies — Micron Technology Inc. and Intel Corp. — announced the formation of a new company to manufacture NAND flash memory. The memory chips are used in Apple’s iPod shuffle

Executives who travel on corporate jets may soon be finding in-flight high-speed Internet a common feature.
 
Only Annapolis, Md.-based Arinc is on the market now with a broadband service for corporate jets. But competition is set to intensify in 2006.

• Radio equipment maker Rockwell Collins and aviation giant

Online movie download service Movielink on Monday said it has signed a film distribution pact with 20th Century Fox giving the Web site content from all of Hollywood's major film studios.

Movielink, a legal download service, previously offered films from six Hollywood majors, and it now adds more than 1,200 Fox titles