Articles by Tim Gray

AT&T, the nation's largest phone company, is stepping up its rebranding campaign aimed at consolidating its wireless services into a single unified name The company will shed the Cingular name and replace it with AT&T at 1,800 outlets throughout the country this week. The move to rename Cingular Wireless stores comes as AT&T tries to beef up its pr...

AT&T, the nation's largest phone company, is stepping up its rebranding campaign aimed at consolidating its wireless services into a single unified name The company will shed the Cingular name and replace it with AT&T at 1,800 outlets throughout the country this week. The move to rename Cingular Wireless stores comes as AT&T tries to beef up its pr...

AT&T, the nation's largest phone company, is stepping up its rebranding campaign aimed at consolidating its wireless services into a single unified name The company will shed the Cingular name and replace it with AT&T at 1,800 outlets throughout the country this week. The move to rename Cingular Wireless stores comes as AT&T tries to beef up its pr...

While the Internet is widely considered one of the most democratizing tools in history, there still remain countries where the free flow of information over the World Wide Web is restricted In fact, at least 25 countries block Web sites for political, social or other reasons, with governments controlling domestic networks, according to a new study....

In an effort to clear up some confusion over the ongoing debate regarding open source and what exactly it means, research firm Gartner is suggesting vendors figure out a consistent definition to ease confusion among many buyers An underlying current of confusion reigns among open source users, and the ongoing squabble among vendors has not helped r...

Microsoft will literally place its stamp on a new wave of qualified mobile phones that are designed to be compatible with its main communications products The software giant unveiled 15 phones made by a variety of vendors including Samsung, LG-Nortel, NEC, Plantronics, Asus, GN, Polycon, Tatung and Vitelix that come with stickers alerting customers...

Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled plans to replace its Athlon processor line with a new quad-core chip for desktop PCs in an effort to keep pace with chief rival Intel AMD will launch its quad-core desktop processors under the name "Phenom" later this year, shortly after the company unveils its quad-core Opteron processor, dubbed "Barcelona," for...

Microsoft has decided to slash several key features from its Windows Server virtualization software, code-named "Viridian," in an effort to meet quality goals and a release deadline The new hypervisor-based virtualization technology, available as part of Windows Server "Longhorn," will ship without live migration, and it will not offer the ability ...

Sun Microsystems is considering the possibility of releasing OpenSolaris, the open source version of its Solaris operating system, under the latest version of the GNU GPL (general public license), the primary free software license Up to now, OpenSolaris has been offered only under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), which is als...

Chip maker Intel is set to launch an overhaul of its Centrino laptop platform -- the first to use flash memory chips, which should mean faster performance and longer battery life The latest Centrino, dubbed "Santa Rosa," is the fourth generation of the company's successful laptop platform brand that helped popularize the WiFi technology that is now...

Samsung Electronics has unveiled the second generation of an ultra mobile personal computer (UMPC) it introduced a year ago with partners Microsoft and Intel The company unveiled the device, dubbed the "Q1 Ultra-V," at the Samsung Experience store in New York on Monday, touting it as a physical and functional improvement over the original Q1....

Parents are becoming more restrictive when it comes to regulating the video games their children play, according to a recent study commissioned by theEntertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) Sixty percent of parents with children under the age of 17 never allow their kids to play M-rated titles, the study found, while 34 percent sometimes permit ...

After more than two years of testing, Microsoft is launching Windows Live Hotmail, the successor to MSN Hotmail, making it available in 36 languages across the world The software giant has closed the public testing period and has started the process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its Web mail service....

Graphics technology leaderNvidia has released details of a new graphics card it describes as "the world's fastest." The Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra is expected to give gamers a boost in their never-ending quest to cram more state-of-the-art graphics onto PCs....

Research In Motion (RIM) has introduced a new model to its popular BlackBerry line -- the third addition in less then a year The new mid-sized smartphone, dubbed "Curve," is geared toward consumers who prefer a full keyboard for typing text rather than the abridged version on the popular Pearl....

Time Warner has reported first-quarter profits that outperformed Wall Street expectations, mostly on the strength of its rise in new cable, Internet and phone subscribers, as well as strong online ad sales Shares of the world's largest media company rose more than 3 percent as it reported a 40 percent increase in AOL advertising....

New York-based Cablevision Systems has agreed to sell itself for more than US$10.5 billion in cash to the family who founded the company The Dolan family, which founded the company in 1973, will assume Cablevision's debt on top of the $10.5 billion price tag, bringing the total to $23 billion....

Online advertising and marketing firm24/7 Real Media saw its shares soar to a 52-week high on the strength of reports that Microsoft was nearing a deal to buy the company for about US$1 billion Shares of 24/7 Real Media jumped more than 24 percent to a yearly high of $13 Tuesday on rumors that the software giant was gearing up to purchase the compa...

Corsair has launched Flash Survivor, a new line of rugged USB drives that are designed to withstand major shocks. The 4 GB version lists for US$59.99, while the 8 GB drive -- which incorporates higher-speed IC (integrated circuit)-paired memory and a faster controller -- costs $129.99 The new drives feature 256-bit encryption and are water-resistan...

Samsung has claimed to be the first electronics manufacturer to begin mass production of a 16 GB NAND flash memory chip to be used in digital music players, music phones and digital cameras The South Korean electronics maker said the new chips are being put into mass production using 51-nanometer process technology, which it claims is the smallest ...