Articles by Tim Gray

The Linux community is planning to improve the position of the open source operating system by addressing one of the more vexing barriers slowing mainstream adoption: Linux-compatible device drivers. Developers are now offering to provide hardware vendors with the necessary drivers for free Drivers create the necessary links between hardware device...

Oracle has released new versions of all five of the major application sets in its software lineup The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company announced the release of Siebel CRM 8, Oracle E-Business Suite 12, PeopleSoft Enterprise 9, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 and JD Edwards World A9.1 during its Applications Unlimited event in New York....

The first portable hard drives for mobile phones will soon be on the market, promising to spark a "multimedia revolution" by meeting increasing storage demands of smartphone users Seagate this week announced the Digital Audio Video Experience, or DAVE, a portable drive that connects wirelessly to mobile phones via Bluetooth and WiFi....

Microsoft's much-anticipated Vista operating system became available to consumers this week, and, as with many new technologies, the excitement was tempered by an atmosphere of caution So, Vista is finally here. Now what?...

Google has added new security and search features to its smallest search appliance, the Mini, which is designed for the small and medium-size business market The latest Mini, version 2.2, now has some features previously available only on the company's Search Appliance, Kevin Gough, enterprise product manager for Google, told TechNewsWorld, and its...

Some TomTom satellite navigation systems installed in cars might actually be steering drivers in the wrong direction -- at least when it comes to navigating their PCs That is because a "small number" of TomTom Go 910 satellite navigation devices were shipped last year with two Windows viruses preinstalled, the company has disclosed....

Social networking Web site MySpace and verification companySentinel Tech are teaming up to help protect children from online predators The companies announced on Monday that they will donate the Sentinel Safe database technology program, designed to let users identify and remove convicted sex offenders from online communities, to theNational Center...

Microsoft is set to begin consumer sales of its new Vista operating system at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, and the software giant is putting considerable marketing muscle behind the long-awaited launch Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer are expected to kick off U.S. sales of the Windows OS just after midnight on the East Coast, and retailers Comp USA...

Researchers say they've created the world's densest memory circuit, about 100 times denser than today's standard memory unit and as small as a human white blood cell Although mass production could still be a decade away and the chip contains only a modest capacity of 160,000 bits of information, the achievement points to the possible exponential gr...

Internet search kingpin Google is the most important brand in the universe, according to a new survey. The search giant edged out Apple for the honor of "most significant brand" for the second consecutive year Researchers asked 3,625 industry professionals and students to name the brands that had the biggest impact on their lives in 2006 for survey...

President Bush, trying to squeeze some political fuel from his State of the Union address, hit the road Thursday to campaign for an energy plan aimed at reducing Americans' energy consumption habits After signing an executive order Wednesday to cut down on the federal government's use of gasoline and increase its use of alternative fuels, Bush took...

AT&T reported that its earnings rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by strong growth in the company's wireless subscriber base and the continued development of its regional wireline businesses The largest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services in the U.S., AT&T increased its net income to US$1.94 billion, or 50 cen...

AT&T reported that its earnings rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by strong growth in the company's wireless subscriber base and the continued development of its regional wireline businesses The largest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services in the U.S., AT&T increased its net income to US$1.94 billion, or 50 cen...

AT&T reported that its earnings rose 17 percent in the fourth quarter, bolstered by strong growth in the company's wireless subscriber base and the continued development of its regional wireline businesses The largest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services in the U.S., AT&T increased its net income to US$1.94 billion, or 50 cen...

The number of Internet users in China increased more than 23 percent in 2006, topping out at 137 million with an estimated 104 million of those having some level of access to a broadband connection TheChina Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a government agency that has been tracking online usage since 1997, reported the number of Interne...

Intel has unveiled the next generation of wireless chips for its Centrino Duo mobile line used in many Intel-based laptops, which are designed to improve their ability to download music and stream high-definition video The Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N network connection, an upgrade to the wireless component currently used in Centrino Duo mobile techno...

Google unwittingly disclosed sensitive login and password information of more than a dozen users, opening up a can of worms for the search giant by exposing a flaw in its anti-phishing tool The security snafu was discovered in Google's anti-phishing extension for the Firefox Web browser, according to security vendorFinjan, which first discovered th...

After years of taking a backseat to big business, climate change has moved up the U.S. political ladder, and even Corporate America is providing ideas on ways to get the government involved Chief executives from some of the nation's largest corporations urged Congress this week to begin setting mandatory limits on the emissions of greenhouse gases,...