Cognos Inc. on Wednesday said it has partnered with IBM and Google to connect their enterprise search engines with its business intelligence software in order to expand its use among corporate workers.
 
The companies' software is being linked through the Cognos Go Search Service, software that makes it possible for

EarthLink has chosen Level 3 to be the VoIP provider for its new consumer service, EarthLink DSL and Home Phone Service. Level 3 will provide nationwide local voice service as part of EarthLink's bundled voice and broadband access package that includes caller ID, voicemail and three-way calling bundled with DSL.

Level 3

The IRS is making tracking a tax refund check online as easy as finding a ZIP code.
 
U.S. income tax filers who submitted their 2005 returns electronically and are expecting a refund may get a status on that payment by visiting the Get Refund Status page on the IRS website.Read More...   Category: Internet

Stock of San Jose-based semiconductor maker PortalPlayer tumbled on Thursday after news surfaced the company’s chips would not be used in future Apple iPods.
 
PortalPlayer hoped its new chip, which is the follow-up to its PP5021 System-on-Chip (SoC) expected to be available in the second half of 2006, would be

Data mirroring, the ability to generate an up-to-the-second mirror image of an operational database, will become part of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 as Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for its database Wednesday.

Data mirroring is an option with the Oracle database and IBM's DB2 database. SQL Server's Service Pack 1, as previously

PARIS — A meeting this week in Beijing is being staged by promoters of the Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) standard who have invested heavily in China and are now seeking to drum up market volume and a return on their investment after years of DAB technology development.
The World DAB Forum is

Microsoft Corp. plans to release in the third quarter a software toolkit for testing whether applications running on older versions of Windows are compatible with Vista.

On Microsoft's TechNet site, the Redmond, Wash., software maker said version 5.0 of the Application Compatibility Toolkit would identify applications that can run on Vista and

Sony is planning to sell two of five business jets it owns later this year as part of its ongoing company-wide restructuring, it said Tuesday.

Of the company’s five jets, three are in the U.S. The other are two are kept in Japan and Europe, respectively. Sony is planning to sell two

U.S. video game sales declined for the seventh straight month in March, falling 8 percent to $499 million, amid a rocky move to new console technology, market research firm NPD Group said Tuesday.

Sales of titles for Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Xbox 360 console, which was the first new console to be released when

The open-source project that first came up with a way to dual-boot an Intel-based Mac into either Mac OS X or Windows XP has published instructions on how to add Linux to the mix.
 
"Triple Boot," as the OnMac.net Web site calls it, relies on the newly-released Boot Camp, Apple