SAN FRANCISCO — IBM Research Division’s description of a two-chip, 60-GHz SiGe radio at ISSCC this week holds more surprises than just radio integration.

The research team developed antenna elements packaged on top of the silicon in standard chip-on-board or plastic LGA packages. It also includes dipole, Yagi and patch antennas integrated

Microsoft has released a test version of the next-generation Internet Explorer, providing the public with a closer look at the browser that Microsoft claims has much better security and usability features than Internet Explorer 6.
 
The software giant, faced with a history of regular patches to fix problems with the

A denial-of-service attack brought down the main Russian stock exchange for over an hour Thursday, a Moscow-based security company said Friday.

The Russian Trading System (RTS) was forced to stop trading on its three markets from 4:15 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. Moscow time Thursday after an infected computer connected to the markets'

LONDON — Quorum Systems, Inc., TTPCom Ltd and Analog Devices Inc. have collaborated on a GSM/Voice-over-Wi-Fi dual-mode handset reference design.

Dubbed the Sereno UM-1 and housed in a small form-factor clam-shell design, the reference design incorporates Quorum’s QS2000 single-chip bulk-CMOS multi-mode transceiver, ADI’s Blackfin SoftFone EDGE chipset and TTPCom’s protocol stack and

Graphics software giant, Adobe on Monday confirmed their commitment to bringing their Creative Suite applications to the Intel-based Macs. While the company did not give specific release dates, they did offer some more details on their newest Mac OS X beta release.
 
“Adobe is excited about Apple’s move to the

No. 1 U.S. video rental chain Blockbuster Inc. on Thursday said it was doubling the number of free in-store rentals given to subscribers to its online rental service, which it will promote with its second Super Bowl ad in as many years.
 
The offer, effective immediately, gives online subscribers one

Firefox 1.5 has been downloaded more than 20 million times since its late November release, Mozilla Corp. announced Tuesday.
 
The open-source browser, which has between nine and ten percent of the Web market, has also been localized for 35 different languages since its debut less than two months ago, the

A computer virus that was designed to start its malicious work on Friday did not cause the mayhem that was anticipated, computer security firms said.

The worm, known as "Blackmal" and "Kama Sutra," hides inside email attachments and contains a time-activated payload due to execute on the third day of each month, first

BANGALORE, India — The market for home networking chipsets will grow from $2.58 billion in 2004 to $6.65 billion in 2009, according to a Frost & Sullivan study.

The study said that interoperability among various wireless LAN products of different vendors will alleviate customer worries about technological obsolescence and improve revenue for

Seeking to offer an industry standard for report development, the open source Eclipse Foundation on Monday is releasing Version 2.0 of its Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project.
 
Version 2.0 focuses on report development and adds support of the PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) scripting language for Web development. Previously, BIRT