Technology Today

• Does DRM guarantee Spore is destined for extinction?

  Will Wright's long awaited sim game Spore seems to have become the focus of a anti-DRM Internet flash mob who seem determined to sink the game on Amazon.com by dishing ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Digital-rights Management, Review, Games, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Spore

  Sep 08, 2008 5:25 AM PDT

• Intel rolls out low power server chips

  Intel on Monday said that it is now shipping four new low-power Xeon server chips. The chip giant noted that the lineup is the first halogen-free Xeons, which will lower ...

  Tags: Components, Servers, Chip, Semiconductors, Processors, Network Technology, Larry Dignan, Watt, Hardware, Networking

  Sep 08, 2008 5:04 AM PDT

• RealNetworks: Rip those DVDs (with a dash of DRM)

  RealNetworks on Monday launched RealDVD, an application that allows you to rip DVDs to your hard drive with limits set by digital rights management software. The company announced the software ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Digital-rights Management, RealNetworks Inc., Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan, DVD, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics

  Sep 08, 2008 4:42 AM PDT

• Are browsers the answer for the 3-D Web?

  Just got back from a camping trip in northern Israel when I saw this release announcing GoWeb3D, a new virtual world venture that will bring virtual offices, conference rooms, classrooms, ...

  Tags: Virtual World, 3D, GoWeb3D, Web Browser, Hardware, Thin Client, Thin Clients, Dave Greenfield

  Sep 08, 2008 4:37 AM PDT

• Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum

  Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in ...

  Tags: Data Center, Larry Dignan, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management, Google Inc., Computing Unit, Storage

  Sep 08, 2008 2:08 AM PDT

• The week ahead: Demo, TechCrunch 50, Apple; SAP TechEd; CTIA

  Programming note: We have a busy week ahead and it's truly a demo fiesta. Here's a look at the moving parts. Sam Diaz will be covering Demo; Andrew Mager will ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, SAP AG, Programming, Software Development, Consumer Electronics, Development Tools, Cellular Phones, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., TechCrunch

  Sep 08, 2008 2:08 AM PDT

• Video: Can Chrome give Internet Explorer a run for its money?

  ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the perks and pitfalls of the newly released browser from Google. Diaz also reveals why Sergey Brin is bugging ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Management, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Larry Dignan, Team Management, Video, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet

  Sep 08, 2008 2:08 AM PDT

• News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple

  Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: ...

  Tags: Game Players, Green IT, Personal Technology, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Google Chrome, Web Services, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Rootkits, Dana Blankenhorn, Marketing

  Sep 08, 2008 2:07 AM PDT

• Commercial development strategies

  For large scale, commercial, software development the right recipe starts with a Unix development and testing environment - even if you plan to sell mainly on Windows. The reason for ...

  Tags: Operating Systems, Strategy, Sun Solaris, Paul Murphy, Software, Environment, Microsoft Windows

  Sep 08, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Fortisphere Virtual Essentials 2.0

  As I'm clearing my desk to prepare for Citrix's event this week, I thought it would be good to post about Fortisphere's recent move. Fortisphere, a Kusnetzky Group Client, recently ...

  Tags: Virtual Machine, Dan Kusnetzky, Virtual Essentials, Fortisphere, Desktop Virtualization

  Sep 08, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

• Samsung, Sony in Wi-Fi Photo Frame Shootout

  One of the big holiday gifts over the last couple of years, digital photo frames are a convenient way to show off photos that might otherwise languish on your hard ...

  Tags: Sean Portnoy, Photograph, Sony Corp., Wireless LANs, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Frame, Wireless, Wi-Fi

  Sep 07, 2008 8:03 PM PDT

• 102 Minutes That Changed America: "Mesh" reporting comes of age

  This week, in commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the History Channel is releasing an unusual documentary, entitled "102 Minutes That Changed ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Event, Jason Perlow, Amateur, Marketing, Documentary, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics

  Sep 07, 2008 7:50 PM PDT

• Flipping the switch saves The Planet about $140K annually

  The results of The Planet's "lights out" pilot are in: By adopting a workday-hours lights-on policy and shutting off the lights after hours, the hosting company is saving roughly $140,000 ...

  Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Hardware, Heather Clancy, Data Centers, Data Management, Storage

  Sep 07, 2008 7:45 PM PDT

• What do you want me to cover at TechCrunch50?

  I'll be on the floor of the San Francisco Design Center this week, trying to liveblog the events of TechCrunch50. The list of companies for Day 1 will be released ...

  Tags: Floor, Andrew Mager, Online Communications, E-mail

  Sep 07, 2008 4:40 PM PDT

• Apple workers setting up for Tuesday's iPod announcement

  Workers have spent over a day tying down a new banner on Yebra Buena Center for the Arts right next to Moscone. I saw some big trucks with Apple security ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Andrew Mager, Worker, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Digital Media, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics

  Sep 07, 2008 2:06 PM PDT

• Media bias and vaccine compliance

  Reporters have been hyping a 1998 study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, claiming a link between vaccines and autism. Pediatrics found a direct link between the hype and non-compliance. by Dana ...

  Tags: Media, Healthcare, Vaccine, Dana Blankenhorn, Compliance

  Sep 07, 2008 11:50 AM PDT

• 1,500 ships to fight climate change?

  According to UK and U.S. researchers, it should be possible to fight the global warming effects associated with an increase of dioxide levels by using autonomous cloud-seeding ships to spray ...

  Tags: Ship, Roland Piquepaille, Vessel, Wiki, Online Communications, Droplet, Telecom & Utilities, Cloud

  Sep 07, 2008 9:58 AM PDT

• Looking forward to 2018, let's hear your predictions

  Google is now officially 10 years old, an impressive notion considering their rapid dominance over any and all things that get in their way. Even Microsoft is shaking in their ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Advertisement, Browser Landscape Google, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Phone, Garett Rogers, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Internet, Google Inc.

  Sep 07, 2008 9:02 AM PDT

• To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before

  Google's new Imaging Satellite aboard a Boeing Delta II Rocket. Source: GeoEye I don't know what it is about rockets, but I don't know a single man, hetero or gay, ...

  Tags: Network Technology, Jason Perlow, Networking, Imaging, Satellite, Search Engine, Google Inc.

  Sep 07, 2008 8:04 AM PDT

• Iceberg: cuts code, evolves your enterprise

  This is a dual post written and posted simultaneously. For the perspective of how Iceberg this benefits student, check the post over at iGeneration. Some bits are the same and ...

  Tags: Microsoft .NET, Web Site, Zack Whittaker, Iceberg, Collaboration, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Storage, Client

  Sep 07, 2008 7:48 AM PDT

• More Headlines »