The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has amended a settlement order in an antitrust case against Intel by exempting a planned chipset for netbooks from requirements that they include an interface with the open standard PCI Express Bus.
Those of us in the business of keeping an eye on new technologies wonder why the buzz about SATA 6Gbit/sec. (a.k.a. Serial ATA Revision 3) hasn't been louder than it is.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a redacted version of its decision not to grant an Intel request to disqualify FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch from the antitrust case against the company, saying it didn't express any reservations about Rosch until it became clear he would support action against the chip maker.
Microsoft's decision to make Internet Explorer 8 the default browser on computers where the user elected an express installation raises questions about the software giant's compliance with a 6-year-old antitrust settlement, a lawyer for some of the plaintiffs in the case said Thursday.
Apple appears to have downgraded the Serial ATA interface of at least two models in its new MacBook Pro laptop line, a move that could effect the I/O of internal solid-state disk (SSD) drives and external hardware.
A speedy successor to PCI data transfer protocols used in PCs and interconnects like Intel's Thunderbolt is being designed with tablets in mind, a standards-setting organization said on Tuesday.
The war is over and USB has won ... or has it? At CES this week a new wireless SATA interface will try to dethrone SuperSpeed USB by offering speeds of up to 6Gbps vs. USB 3.0's max of 5Gbps.
Intel is working to boost data transfer speeds with a faster pipe on Thunderbolt, a high-speed connector technology that link computers with peripherals, the company said on Thursday.
Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits management company based in St. Louis, Mo., late last week disclosed it received an extortion threat in October pertaining to patient records that it holds.
The air express industry, like many other businesses, has rapidly transformed the way it serves customers over the past few years, through the aggressive and ingenious use of the latest IT. FedEx spends more than $1 billion every year on IT. Frederick W. Smith, founder of FedEx, once said, "The information about the package is as important as the package itself."
Seagate's new Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 1.5 terabyte drive (model ST31500341AS) (US$225) packs a lot of performance into its 8-head, 4-disc drive, proving that you can have size and speed in a single internal hard drive.
Microsoft is suing U.S.-based cargo-delivery service DHL Express for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox game consoles because of a train derailment in Texas, according to court documents.
Microsoft has released six security updates for its products, fixing critical flaws in Word, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer and the Kodak image viewer that ships with Windows.
Microsoft Thursday slated seven security updates for release next Tuesday that target vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Word and SharePoint.
Salesforce.com, a pillow manufacturer and an employee of the pillow maker are caught up in a complex three-way legal battle, with a US$125,000 American Express bill and an allegedly failed software implementation at the center of the dispute.
Microsoft has acknowledged that a bug in its Windows Live OneCare security suite has been causing users' e-mail to vanish from Outlook and Outlook Express.
Five major credit card companies Thursday announced the formation of an independent body to oversee the development and maintenance of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard. American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International have thrown their weight behind the newly formed PCI Security Standards Council.
The Mozambican government has signed an agreement with the Southern Africa Telecommunication Association (SATA) to host SATA's headquarters, making the country the center of telecommunication in the region.