On Wednesday, Cisco Systems reported a slightly lower quarterly profit due to the cost the company incurred from a newly regulated method of expensing stock options.

The company's net income for the fiscal first quarter of 2006 was $1.3 billion, or 20 cents per share, compared with $1.4 billion, or 21 cents

Arxceo Corporation announced a new addition to its line of network security appliances for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) that is designed to deliver affordable zero-day network security defense with anomaly-based intrusion prevention technology.

The Ally ip100T provides preemptive protection against both zero-day worm attacks as well as hackers. The inline Ally

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Communications semiconductor supplier Emcore Corp. has acquired the assets of Phasebridge Inc., a privately-held supplier of multi-chip, system-in-package optical modules and subsystems.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Founded in 200, Phasebridge (Pasadena, Calif.) has produced modules and subsystems for fiber optic gyroscopes (FOG) for weapons & aerospace

The microcontroller is moving rapidly into 16- and 32-bit universes, according to an In-Stat report released Wednesday.

The market research firm said the shift is being driven primarily by newer robust products including smart cards, PC peripherals, and hard disk drives. In-Stat predicted that by 2009, 16- and 32-bit controllers will account

Researchers at Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials claimed that they have made strides in improving the efficiency of organic or flexible solar cells.
Traditional silicon solar panels are heavy and bulky. They convert about 20 percent of the light that hits them to useful electrical power.
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Microsoft Corp. must change its business to better deliver software and services over the Internet to compete against new technology upstarts, Chairman Bill Gates said in a recent memo to executives.
 
Gates' memo acknowledged that Microsoft, which became the world's largest software maker by developing programs to be installed on

The Mountain View, Calif., search-engine giant is providing its ad publishers with a set of buttons that Web site visitors can use to download Firefox with the Google Toolbar, which is a browser add-in that takes a user directly to Google services, Mozilla said this week. Site operators using the buttons will be paid

The microcontroller, relegated for years to the 8-bit world, is moving rapidly into 16- and 32-bit universes, according to an In-Stat report released Wednesday.

The market research firm said the shift is being driven primarily by newer robust products including smart cards, PC peripherals, and hard disk drives. In-Stat predicted that by

SAN FRANCISCO — Denali Software Inc. announced support for the AMD Opteron processor and AMD64 architecture.

Denali (Palo Alto, Calif.) said it has deployed its MMAV and PureSpec verification intellectual property (IP) products with full support for AMD64 processor-based systems running 64-bit Linux.

"Many of our customers are now taping

Gates said in his e-mail that a forthcoming “services wave” will prove “disruptive”, and competitors will use it to challenge the company.

Microsoft launched a range of on-demand software initiatives last week, which covered web-based communications services for consumers and small businesses and on-demand business applications, including customer relationship management.

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