Monthly Archives: August 2005
Intel Plans a Chip-Set Shift
Intel is reprioritizing its chip set manufacturing, in an effort to keep up with demand for its most popular models, despite the potential for...
Speech Apps Wring New Revenues from Mobile Users
Speech applications with adaptive interactivity are becoming a profitable tool for upselling and extending relationships with current customers. At SpeechTek 2005 in New York,...
AT&T-Intrado E911 Deal Sign of Things to Come in VOIP World
Last week AT&T Corp. announced its selection of emergency solutions provider Intrado Inc. to provide some of its CallVantage subscribers with E911 services. Intrado...
Oracle to Buy Majority Stake in Indian Software Company
At least one of the rumors floating around about another Oracle Corp. acquisition has panned out. The company announced Tuesday morning that it plans...
Sources: Novell Plans to Open SuSE Linux Pro to Community
Novell will be launching a community-based Linux distribution, OpenSuSE, at next weeks LinuxWorld in San Francisco, according to sources close to the company.
Following in...
Oracle Acquires Assets of Context Media
Building on its content management and collaboration strategy, Oracle has acquired assets from content integration software developer Context Media Inc.In addition to acquiring Context...
MSN Search Is the Newest Dog in the Pile
Infospace announced Tuesday that it has added MSN Search results to its Dogpile metasearch engine.
Infospace announced in April that it planned to add Microsoft...
Voice Technology Enters the Mainstream
NEW YORK—When hearing terms like "voice integration" and "voice recognition," its hard not to think about Star Trek and other sci-fi shows, where speech-sensitive...
Competing IEEE Groups to Join Forces on 802.11n Standard
The groups competing to propose a standard for a faster flavor of Wi-Fi have agreed to join forces, IEEE officials have confirmed.
For months, the...
TimeLabs Chip Tunes PC Performance
Timing is everything when it comes to wringing the most out of a PC.
TimeLab Corp., a 4-year-old Andover, Mass., startup founded by researchers from...