China is now requiring people setting up new mobile phone accounts to register with their real identities as part of a new government measure to reduce anonymity among the country's 800 million mobile users.
Additional details have emerged regarding the more than 800 patents Novell is selling to the Microsoft-led consortium CPTN Holdings for US$450 million, about two months after the deal was first announced.
Asustek Computer on Monday unveiled the Eee Note EA-800, an e-reader with a stylus for taking notes on its 8-inch touchscreen. The device will be available in Taiwan later this week for the suggested retail price of NT$6,999 (US$228), Asustek executives said.
San Francisco resident Bridget S. (she asked that her last name not be used) nearly fell out of her chair when she opened her T-Mobile wireless bill a few months ago and learned that she owed the company nearly $800--about 16 times her usual charge. "I couldn't believe it. I was just shocked," she told me.
Intel (INTC) expects WiMAX deployment to increase rapidly over the next year as the company expects that 800 million people worldwide will have access to the technology by the end of 2010
The cash portion of Intel's legal settlement with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) could shave as much as US$800 million off Intel's net profit in the fourth quarter, according to investment banking firm Credit Suisse.
Despite the recent lackluster employment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there's cause for optimism on the IT hiring front, according to Dice.com. In a poll of 800 IT-focused hiring managers and recruiters, the tech jobs site found 73% plan to increase hiring in the second half of the year compared to the first six months of 2012.
A U.S. Federal Communications Commission proposal to transfer 120MHz of television spectrum from broadcasters to mobile broadband carriers could require more than 800 TV stations to change channels and could drive more than 200 off the air permanently, according to a trade group.
About one-third of nearly 800 NYC retailers have "bulletproof" WLAN security, according to a new onsite survey by AirDefense during the National Retail Federation trade show. But the remainder have weak or non-existent defense, putting company, customer, and employee data at risk.
USB 2.0 is the most popular connection technology for external devices, with FireWire (either 400 or 800) a close second. However, if you really want extreme speed, eSATA is the way to go, as Seagate Technologies' new FreeAgent XTreme drive proves.
Adam Hansen is that rare bird in the small to midsize business (SMB) realm: He is a CSO. Hansen heads up security for Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal, an 800-attorney law firm in Chicago.
As I mentioned in previous columns, there’s a new set of draft documents from the Computer Security Resource Center of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In addition, SP 800-86, “Guide to Integrating Forensic Techniques into Incident Response” by Karen Kent, Suzanne Chevalier, Tim Grance and Hung Dang has reached final-version stage. The PDF file is available for download.
The iOSphere Ecstasy Index soared on reports that iPhone 5 will be announced on Sept. 12, but so did the Rage Index with the rumor that it will sell for $800.
Of all of the technology trends that have been important in the world of enterprise IT, there's one that stands out as the 800-pound gorilla - the pink elephant if you will - of the last few years: virtualization.