Apple Computer has sharply criticized a pending French law that, if passed, would require all online music stores to open their services to any type of media player.
If Apple were to comply with the law, its iTunes store in France would have to be changed to allow downloads to
Posted by iNext on 2006-03-25
Article Source : InfoWorld
The specter of open source forces large software vendors to stay on their toes and nurtures innovation, an Oracle official said during a presentation at TheServerSide Java Symposium on Thursday afternoon.
Noting competitive pressures from open source, Oracle's Ted Farrell, chief architect and vice president of tools and middleware, said
Marketers on the hunt for ROI are increasingly using the same tools everyone else uses to search for stuff--Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
The most formal and high-profile effort so far has been by Pontiac, which in January took the unusual step of tagging its ads with a plea to "Google Pontiac," in
Web surfers may start noticing some unusual behavior from their Internet Explorer browser after installing Microsoft's next round of security patches, expected April 11. That's because the software giant is planning to make changes to the way its browser handles dynamic content like Flash or QuickTime--changes that were made necessary following Microsoft's highly publicized
Posted by iNext on 2006-03-25
Article Source : EE Times
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD Ovonics) has selected Greenville, Mich., as the location of its third solar cell manufacturing plant.
In February, ECD Ovonics (Rochester Hills, Mich.) approved a plan to expand the module manufacturing capacity of its wholly-owned subsidiary United Solar Ovonics to 300 megawatts (MW) by 2010. The
BANGALORE, India — Bangalore-based Mindtree Consulting has developed an advanced satellite handset for Norway-based Nera SatCom, aiming at users of Inmarsat land and sea services.
While meant to work with Nera WorldPro 1000, the handset is backward compatible with earlier terminals. The Nera WorldSet provides SMS text messaging, address lists, call logs as
Posted by iMark on 2006-03-24
Article Source : EE Times
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Driven by cards and small public viewing screens, the flexible display panel market is expected to grow from $5 million in 2006 to $339 million in 2013, or 83.5 percent a year, according to iSuppli Corp.
The El Segundo, Calif., market research firm expects the largest application for flexible displays
An exploit for a new zero-day bug in Internet Explorer appeared Thursday, causing security companies to ring alarms and Microsoft to issue a security advisory that promised it would patch the problem.
Just a day after anti-virus vendors warned of a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer – the second such alert
QuickLogic Corp. has optimized its QL5822 QuickPCI programmable bridge device to connect Intel Corp.'s PXA processors and wired Ethernet controllers.
QuickLogic continues to work with Intel to develop "companion devices" for the Intel PXA processor, fueling Intel's push into embedded applications. A companion device is a QuickLogic QuickPCI programmable bridge controller
Posted by inet on 2006-03-24
Article Source : EE Times
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Qualcomm Inc. and China TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology Ltd. have formed a company to develop application software for wireless devices. The company, TechFaith Software China Ltd. (TechSoft), will be based in Beijing and Hangzhou, China. It will receive $35 million in funding by Qualcomm (San Diego) and TechFaith.
